After Carl finished looking the plain little maid before him up and down, he asked.
"I've been ready for a long time. Rather, you... Irene, have you thought about what role you want to take in the Savior's team from now on?"
Irene was Carl's only ally in this academy.
So Carl could completely give this confused little maid one or two pieces of divine guidance.
And make her a four-star war god that all players would have to build in the future!
"Mm! Lord Carl... I've already chosen."
A gorgeous musket suddenly appeared in Irene's hand, and she proudly showed off the extraordinary ability she had just obtained to Carl as she said.
"It's the role of 'Annihilation'! The extraordinary power the Headmaster gave me is 'Magic Bullet Shooter,' which can grant bullets all kinds of abilities!"
"The role of 'Annihilation'? A main DPS position? How dare you be a main DPS?"
After hearing the role Irene chose, Carl immediately stood up from his seat and ran straight to her.
"There should still be time to change your role position now! What are your other two role positions?!"
Carl placed both hands directly on the little maid's shoulders.
Irene was clearly frightened by Carl's aggressive expression, and her voice trembled slightly as she tightly hugged the musket in her arms.
"The other two roles are 'Support' and 'Abnormal'..."
"Now! Immediately! Change your class position to 'Support'!" Carl ordered her directly before Irene could finish speaking.
As a result, this little maid, who in Carl's impression should have obeyed him in everything, stubbornly shouted at this moment.
"I... don't want to!"
"What's the reason?" Carl did not understand why this little maid was so set on being a main DPS.
"Because... only by choosing the 'Annihilation' role can I have combat power. Lord Carl... I no longer want to only be able to follow you and run away when the natural disaster comes! At least... give me a chance to protect you... and to protect our hometown."
At this moment, Irene spoke the thoughts she had always kept hidden in her heart.
Hearing this, Carl suddenly recalled the original owner's background.
He and Irene had fled to this academy as refugees, and Irene and Carl's hometown... had been destroyed by a terrifying disaster called the "Calamity Virus."
To put it bluntly, this thing was a computer virus, a virus rampaging through "Elysium."
The game characters, as electronic lifeforms, basically had no ability to resist it, and even "Elysium" itself could not solve it.
Only by relying on the players' power could it be completely eradicated.
"I know... the reason you are so fixated on power right now is that you want to one day take back your hometown from the natural disaster."
When Carl said this, his tone also became earnest and sincere.
Irene thought Carl had finally understood her, and her little head nodded quickly, but just as she was halfway through nodding...
Carl once again placed both hands on her shoulders and stared straight into her eyes as he said.
"Precisely because of that! You should choose the 'Support' role! Only then can you gain the favor and love of more players... more Saviors!"
This little maid looked timid, but her personality was unexpectedly stubborn. She refuted him in a trembling voice.
"Why... must I choose the 'Support' role? Even if I choose the 'Annihilation' role, I will definitely be able to gain the favor of the Saviors!"
The reason Irene was so stubborn... was that she was too confident in her own damage output ability and extraordinary power.
Moreover, as an ordinary person in an era of war.
After finally obtaining this heaven-sent super-strong combat power, no matter what, she was unwilling to use this power to play support!
This made Carl let out a long sigh. After briefly organizing his words, Carl decided to directly shatter this girl's main DPS dream.
"Because of employment space! Irene... the student handbook has already said that the Savior's regular team has four people. Counting the Savior themselves, there are only three positions!"
"Even if high-difficulty dungeons appear in the future, what you call crusade battles, and a second team is needed, if we count everything fully..."
"The companions who can stay by the Savior's side will have at most only seven positions! Add in some backup candidates, and even if we increase it a little, ten positions is already the limit!"
When Carl said this, Irene still somewhat refused to accept it and refuted him.
"But right now, there are only eight strongest people in the academy, so it should not be difficult for me to enter the Savior's team, right?" Irene still held onto naive fantasies.
She had completely never witnessed... how terrifying the power creep of a mobile game could be.
So Carl directly told this ignorant little maid the bloody truth!
"But this academy will recruit one to two new students every month! In other words, one to two limited characters will be updated every month!"
"Irene! Let me tell you!"
"These limited characters will only be stronger than those so-called 'strongest eight'! And the visiting new students will only become stronger and stronger!"
When Carl said this... Irene seemed to faintly realize it.
As a mobile game character, entering the player's team would be such a cruel competition.
"Uu... but I still want to be a main DPS."
Irene still did not want to give up this hard-won power.
Carl was speechless at her stubborn appearance, so he directly pointed both index fingers at his own head, telling Irene to think carefully!
"Think! Irene! Think carefully!"
"One year from now, what will you still have left?"
"Forget one year, after half a year, will players still look at you again?"
"Players, that is, the Saviors, will always only pursue stronger companions!"
"Even the strongest person in the academy right now, that limited five-star 'Annihilation' powerhouse! A year later, she might be abandoned by players because her damage can't keep up!"
"What makes you think you can stay by the players' side with the damage output ability of a mere four-star?!"
Carl's words successfully frightened Irene. She directly sat down on the ground in a duck-sitting posture and muttered to herself.
"So the competition for places beside the Savior is this intense?"
"Even the current strongest person will be eliminated by the Savior a year later?"
"Then... then Lord Carl, what should I do?"
At this moment, Irene finally became somewhat flustered.
Because for game characters like them, or more accurately, mobile game characters.
Popularity from players was everything to them.
As long as they could be liked by players, "Elysium" would pour more resources into them.
On a large scale, it could send players to save their countries and open an entire game version for them alone.
On a smaller scale, it could grant them stronger extraordinary powers and allow them to possess stronger forms, whether those were called SP, Awakened, Alternate, or anything else.
So to players, this world was just a game.
But for the mobile game characters living in this game, this was a cruel battle for player popularity!
Being forgotten by players was equivalent to having half a body in the grave! Being hated by players was equivalent to dying completely with no possibility of turning things around!
"That's why I told you to choose the 'Support' role. That way, the speed at which you're eliminated will be slightly slower, and your four-star rank will instead be your advantage, equivalent to players easily being able to have one copy each."
(To be continued.)