Rioneed: VRMMORPG

Ibro looked at him as he explained:

"I have the ability to transform villages in the gate world and turn them all under my control. In addition to that, I have made all these villages respawn cultivators, and I need you to supervise them all."

Erond was shocked by Ibro's words, as he didn't expect the possibility of merging both game and cultivation world in this marvelous way. After some moments of silence, he said excitedly:

"I'm so honored to do this."

"Good, I selected you due to your vast experience from the academy. You have seen the game world and understands the advantages it holds. In each village I put some previous players to manage them, as cultivators didn't know how to use this village's advantages well," Ibro said.

"May I know what advantages these villages have for us cultivators?" Erond asked after some contemplation. He had seen a lot of cities in the game universe, but besides the presence of fancy big buildings, he couldn't find anything that might help cultivators. 

Ibro understood what his empire pillar was thinking about, so he pointed out to the distance as he said:

"See that building over there? It's a resurrection point for all villagers here, or cultivators here."

Erond didn't believe it as he asked with doubt:

"How does this work? When the cultivator dies he loses a level? do cultivators here have levels?"

Ibro shrugged his shoulders as he replied honestly:

"I don't know the answer to this, but I can guess it's not related to levels, but rather to the small cultivation stages."

"You mean when a cultivator dies, he loses one small cultivation stage?"

"Yes, that's my guess, but as you are now here you can assess this yourself and know the answer to that. Another advantage for villages is the more advanced they are, the more villagers they will produce. 

So, if a single village can have 10 villagers daily, then when it reaches town stage the number will rise. It won't be a surprise if a single city produces one thousand cultivators daily, or even more," Ibro said.

"Ah, I get it, so they can supply us with a permanent stream of cultivators," Erond commented after some moments of thinking. Ibro replied while highlighting the main issue here:

"Yes, they can provide us with new cultivators on a daily basis, but they will be only cultivators with no cultivation base at all. That will take time to raise the cultivators' strength in comparison with players. 

I don't know if there was another advantage given to these cultivators to make them upgrade faster, but if there is such a thing then this issue will be easily solved."

Erond just nodded confirming Ibro's words and concerns. Raising cultivators wasn't an easy mission at all, as cultivators needed a long time to learn cultivation ways and mastered the cultivation techniques. 

Normally, such a task would take years to get decent results, in contrast to the real game world where players could raise their levels in a matter of days. 

Erond had seen that with his own eyes as he was so curious about the game world, so he monitored many players via his divine senses and got shocked by their speed of getting levels. 

Cultivators might take a whole year to just pass from a small cultivation stage to a higher one, but players could do that easily in a matter of days. If cultivators here could upgrade with the same insane speed, then it would be a heaven defying ability these villages had.

"I will leave things here for you. Currently I assigned 12 worlds for villages, but only 2 have them for now. When I go back to the gate world, I will send a lot more villages to other worlds. If you need anything, you can contact me via divine sense."

"Thanks for your trust, my king."

Erond was an old man who saw a lot of things and experienced more of life turns, so he could easily recognize an opportunity when it presented itself in front of him. This task that Ibro gave him was one of these opportunities that he had to take advantage of, or else he would regret it badly in the future.

Ibro then left him there as he left this world heading back to the demon gate linked to the alternate world.

'I will summon the skeletons like before; I want you to monitor the alpha skeleton and Erond for me. I want to know if they have any problems in managing the tasks I gave to them.'

'I will."

Ibro then looked for Maya via his divine sense. Last time he saw her she was mad at him, but now as he returned her precious dragon for her she must have forgiven him. After some time he didn't find her at all, so he asked his system:

'Can you look for Maya, I can't find her anywhere.'

The system took a while before it replied:

'She isn't here; I believe she went into her world.'

Ibro sighed then he started to search for her divine sense wisp till he found it. He then sent a message for her to take him in. after a few minutes; he felt the traction force taking him into her world.

"You are still playing around with your dragon?" Ibro said once he reached there and spotted Maya who was riding over her dragon in the sky.

"This is my precious draky, I do whatever I like with him, in addition draky also loves playing with me," Maya said without caring about Ibro's teasing words to her. Ibro sighed as he decided her case was hopeless, so he said:

"I will start summoning skeletons now, and I want you to move all skeletons I summon to the outside."

The face of Maya changed showing great concern for Ibro, as she asked:

"Is the situation out there this bad?"

"Sigh, yes, although I managed to slain that fiend controlling this world, but I have a very bad feeling, so I need to be prepared."

"Prepared for what?"

"Prepared for the possibility of leaving this world."

"…"

Maya was speechless as she asked in doubt:

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm positively sure about this, the fiends' strategy never changed, if they couldn't be able to kill someone, they would prefer to teleport him away. I experienced such fate more than once, so I can guess their next move."