Facts have proved that girls really only care about appearance.
After replacing the transformable weapons that Fang Zheng had made for them, the entire team exerted 120% of their strength and almost swept through the second, third, and fourth floor lord bosses. Those lords that seemed extremely terrifying to most players were completely killed by Fang Zheng and his team.
"Oh my, the Dark Moon Sword is so powerful..."
Argo, who was sitting on a chair, looked at Fang Zheng in front of her and couldn't help but sigh. She took the record file about the characteristics and attack patterns of the monsters on the fourth floor from Fang Zheng's hand and looked at him with a smile.
"Thanks to you, most of the players who are still in the Starting Town have relaxed a lot. They are no longer as tense as before. Some of them even have the leisure to enjoy the fun of the game..."
"Really..."
Hearing Argo's sigh, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly.
"By the way, I came to you this time for two very important things that I need your help with."
"No problem. What's up?"
Argo took the battle record handed over by Fang Zheng and put it away, then looked at Fang Zheng curiously.
But what Fang Zheng said next surprised Argo.
"First, please inform the leaders of other guilds that we, the Dark Moon Sword, will not be involved in the strategy for the Lord Boss on the fifth floor. They can do whatever they want. If they can't get through the fifth floor, they can just stay stuck here."
“Hey…Hey hey hey?!”
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Argo screamed immediately. She slammed the table, stared at Fang Zheng with eyes wide open in surprise.
"W-why?"
"It's time for them to do something."
Facing Argo's surprised question, Fang Zheng took a sip of juice without taking it seriously.
"You also know that our Dark Moon Sword strategy team only has fifteen people, and including substitutes, there are less than twenty people. It's okay for now, but in the later stages of the game, it is definitely impossible for us to defeat all bosses by ourselves. We must need the cooperation or joint battles of members of other guilds. If they don't accumulate experience in fighting bosses in the early stages, they will suffer more and more in the later stages. And... I don't want to be a hero who saves the world, and those children don't want to either. For them, the burden of saving 10,000 lives is still too heavy."
"Oh... that's true..."
Argo was not stupid, she certainly understood what Fang Zheng meant. He did not want Dark Moon Sword to think that he was the only one who could save the people trapped in the game world. This would certainly bring pride, but it would also bring pressure. Some people yearn for glory, and some people might be dissatisfied with it, but for Fang Zheng, he obviously did not want this kind of glory.
After all, completing the entire game is the common task of all players trapped in the game. You can't just hand over this heavy responsibility to a dozen little girls and then sit back and watch the show.
Being a magical girl saving the world is not an easy job.
Fang Zheng was not worried about the strength of other guilds. Ever since the frontline strategy team started using homemade weapons, most of the equipment and weapon items they found after killing the lords, as long as they did not have particularly outstanding attributes, were basically all sold by Fang Zheng to the combat teams of other guilds to enhance their strength.
By the way, until now, no one has found a two-handed sword in the maze copy.
But Fang Zheng no longer cared about this.
It’s up to you whether you want to make it or not. If not, I’ll make it myself!
snort!
"So what's the second thing?"
"Hmm...it's simple."
Facing Argo's question, Fang Zheng pondered for a moment.
"Have you ever thought about...changing your career?"
"...If you want me to join the Dark Moon Sword, forget it."
Argo was obviously not interested in Fang Zheng's recruitment. In fact, she didn't hate Fang Zheng or the Dark Moon Sword. It was just that as an intelligence dealer, she preferred a free and unrestrained life.
"That's not what I meant."
Fang Zheng waved his hand and continued speaking.
"As you know, the survival manual has been out for several issues. Now almost every player in the game has a copy."
"Yes, thanks to you. I still remember the conditions for activating hidden skills you wrote a few issues ago... That almost drove many players crazy..."
Recalling the scene at that time, Argo couldn't help but shudder.
"There's a guy who stays up late at night practicing singing outside my window. It's driving me crazy!"
"Then you can move to another place. Well, I'm not here to discuss this with you today. What I mean is..."
Fang Zheng stared at Argo and spoke word by word.
“I hope we can publish a publication based on the Survival Manual.”
"publication……?"
"That's right. I've already written most of the content in the survival manual. As for the types of monsters, skills, and ranges on each floor, you can't always ask us to investigate. The main task of the Dark Moon Sword strategy team is to conquer the lord. There are so many maze copies in each map, and we don't have time to deal with them one by one."
"Hmm...what you said makes sense."
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Argo nodded. Indeed, Dark Moon Sword is a strategy game, which is the hope for all players to escape from the sea of suffering. They can't let them keep doing such a waste of time.
"We have no way to contact the outside world in the game, nor do we have any means of communication, so I think the best way is to publish a newspaper or journal. We can publish a journal once a week and call on other players to submit all the monster types and numbers they encounter in the game, maze features and strategies, as well as questions in the game. Then we will select them and publish them."
In the Internet age, paper media has declined, but Fang Zheng still remembers the magazines such as "Popular Software" and "Electronic Game Software" that he subscribed to when he was a child. They published game guides in every issue and also had special columns to answer other players' questions about the difficulties and problems they encountered when playing the game.
"Will this... work?"
Argo was also a person of the Internet information age. She had no idea about paper media. In her mind, she had already formed a fixed way of contacting people through websites, forums, and social software. As for magazines...? It seemed that these things were almost extinct.
"How can we know if we don't try? Besides, we need some manpower to do the typesetting and processing. It just so happens that you can hire some players in the Starting Town who don't dare to go out to fight. They can't hold swords, so it should be no problem for them to do the typesetting, document processing and proofreading work."
“This will cost a lot of money.”
Hearing this, Argo suddenly looked bitter.
"It's very simple. You can tell readers in this issue of the Survival Manual that the Survival Manual will be revised starting from the next issue. At the same time, tell them that we will add new columns and categories, but they will also need to purchase a subscription - 50 Cole for a Survival Manual. This should not be expensive. There are currently more than 9,000 players in the game, and this number is not a small amount. You can take a portion of it as a reward for hiring. In addition, you can also find other guilds and ask them to spend money to advertise in the Survival Manual. Isn't this all money?"
"...This seems to be really possible?"
After listening to Fang Zheng's words, Argo thought about it carefully, and then she felt more and more that Fang Zheng's suggestion was very useful, so she immediately stood up excitedly.
"I'll go back and try it now! If I don't understand anything, I'll come back to you!"
Looking at Argo's back as he left in a hurry, Fang Zheng's mouth curled up slightly. This was why he had decided to release the survival manual through Argo. The flow of information channels was very important. However, as an intelligence merchant, Argo only focused on the intelligence itself, which Fang Zheng thought was too petty. With such a channel, how could he not make good use of it?
However, what Fang Zheng did not expect was that two days later, he received news from Argo.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, the Dark Nebula and the Red Knights have decided to jointly attack the Lord Boss of the fifth floor. However, they have a small request."
"ask?"
After hearing what Argo said, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows.
"What request?"
"They hope that you, Mr. Fang Zheng, can also join the Raiders and provide them with on-site teaching guidance."
"oh?"
Hearing this, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
"No problem, I agree."