This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 93: Gaming? Or Following Anime Series!
[Shocking! With the help of my NPC teammates, I’ve actually started living off a sugar mama...]
A post on the Tianba Community quickly caused a stir, with countless Divine Grace Continent players flocking to take a look.
This included Chen Ba.
As the instigator, he himself didn’t expect that after increasing NPC autonomy, players could come up with so many tricks, leaving him absolutely stunned.
The player who made the post was none other than Qian Xin.
In his post, he mentioned that his team had an NPC called Clark. Although his potential value wasn’t high, he had an extremely rare "pretty boy" talent.
After the new version of Divine Grace Continent was updated and NPC "Free Action" mode was introduced, he decided to let Clark act freely, just to see what would happen.
Originally, he thought the outcome of letting the NPC go would be poor, since leveling and equipment attributes wouldn’t keep up, and it would be just a temporary novelty.
His only hope was that Clark wouldn’t die in the wild, wasting the resources invested early on!
But little did he know...
In Free Action mode, Clark brought him a huge surprise.
At first, he hooked up with a Countess and obtained a bound Legendary Level ring. Then he dumped the Countess and hooked up with another wealthy woman, handing over a total of twenty thousand gold coins.
And that’s not all...
In the post, Qian Xin mentioned that after squeezing the value out of the wealthy woman, Clark seemed to have set his sights on a new target, this time a Sword Master in the Elf Kingdom.
Pictures as proof!
Watching a regular NPC climbing to level 64 by being pampered by a series of wealthy older women, fully equipped with luxury attributes, the onlooking crowd was left speechless.
Chen Ba was also at a loss.
Oh my!
He had guessed that setting NPCs free would likely lead to plenty of jokes, but he never expected such an oddball NPC to exist!
A pretty boy potential?
Clark is the pretty boy being pampered by wealthy women, so what does that make Clark’s Hero, Qian Xin?
The man behind the pretty boy?
Besides Qian Xin, other players also started sharing stories they’d encountered after switching their NPC teammates to Free Action mode.
Some NPCs, after entering Free Action mode, went off to fight monsters and level up, doing so even more efficiently than when the Hero took them along...
It’s quite reasonable!
After all, a Hero is just a player and can’t be in the game 24/7; they need to eat, work, and sleep.
But these NPC teammates, even during offline times for players, diligently grind monsters and gain levels, directly leading to Free Action NPCs being higher level than those following a Hero.
On top of that,
Some NPCs, during Free Action, went off to fall in love, spending the Hero’s money, leaving the player who made the decision fuming.
Of course, that’s all minor stuff.
The real case that made everyone realize that the nature of the game had quietly changed was when a player stopped checking on their NPC teammate after switching them to Free Action mode.
As a result, when this player felt strong enough and decided to attack a Demon King Army outpost, they unexpectedly found that the dungeon had already been cleared.
Who did it?
Of course, it was the autonomous NPC teammate who, with the NPC followers he recruited, swept through the surrounding Demon King Army outposts without the Hero knowing.
This process was even turned into a video by this player and posted on the Thunderbolt website.
Unsurprisingly, the video went viral.
Having viewed this video, players all had a question pop into their minds.
Who is the real Hero?
Shouldn’t you just assist the Hero obediently as an NPC teammate? You’re hogging all the Hero’s tasks—what is the Hero supposed to do?
"True Idle Game!"
After glancing at the recent forum community, Lu said, dumbfounded, "NPCs are so capable, doesn’t this make the players seem stupid?"
Wasn’t it supposed to be Heroes fighting the Demon King, with Heroes being saviors saving Divine Grace Continent?
How did it get to the point where NPCs are saving the world, and all the Hero does is ’take paid restroom breaks’?
"Ugh!"
Chen Ba’s expression was quite stiff upon hearing this.
He didn’t expect the NPCs to be so capable either! Initially, he came up with the Free Action mode just to turn "NPC romancing NPC" into a game mechanic.
Who knew these autonomous NPCs could be so competent. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Some even put together a team as competent as the Hero Squad to defeat monsters, completing all the tasks meant for the Hero.
And what’s the Hero doing?
The Hero is on a paid restroom break, and when they return, they find that all the materials and the gold coins they needed have been obtained by the NPC teammates.
It really proved Lu’s point—when NPC teammates are too capable, the Hero just seems quite foolish and useless.
Should we just kick out the Hero?
...
The changes happening in Divine Grace Continent initially made many players uncomfortable.
After all, at the beginning, everyone was supposed to be the Hero, immediately faced with the heavy responsibility entrusted by the King, bearing the safety of the entire continent on their shoulders.
But since discovering this bizarre phenomenon of NPCs being able to romance other NPCs, the game seemed to have little to do with the Hero.
Every NPC is filled with tricks up their sleeve!
Like Rudy, an NPC skilled in all sorts of deceit, once recruited as a teammate and put into Free Action mode, the Hero doesn’t need to do anything but wait around to "split the loot."
"No way, I am the Hero!"
Many chose to buck up, thinking that as a mighty Hero, how could they be inferior to a bunch of NPCs? Surely, it must be because they were too slack!
"Oh come on, why work so hard?"
Others chose to just relax, seeing as the NPC teammates are all reliable and skilled, isn’t it nice to just live off others?
