The Follower System wasn't something Xi Wei came up with on the spur of the moment when he was spying on his believers.
In fact, he had already thought about this problem when he was modifying the Pantheon Brain.
Because the frogmen still worshipped the Aquatic Lord, even if Xi Wei absorbed the Aquatic Lord's divinity, without inheriting his divinity and Divine Domain, the amount of faith he could receive from the frogmen was still very little.
For the same reason, the channel through which he could bless the frogmen was also very narrow, to the point where he couldn't even show the entirety of his divine grace to the frogmen.
To put it simply, if Xi Wei and the other players' channel of faith was like 5G, with all sorts of videos and pictures being transmitted instantaneously, then his connection with the frogmen was like dial-up internet, where he would have to wait for half an hour just to see an obscure picture, and there was a fifty percent chance that it would turn into a red cross.
Although he could also use his divine grace without the channel of faith, it would cost him extra divine power, and using it on the normal frogmen was not worth it.
So in order to better harvest faith, Xi Wei chose to use his own believers, which were the players, as a transfer point.
As long as the frogmen swore loyalty to the players, a contract would be automatically formed, the general content of which was that their faith would be transferred from the Aquatic Lord to the God of Games, whom the players worshipped, for safekeeping.
The notaries of this contract were naturally the two gods mentioned in the contract, the Aquatic Lord and the God of Games.
The Aquatic Lord's divinity was currently in Xi Wei's possession, so the contract was naturally judged to be valid.
Some people might think that if it was so easy to obtain the faith of the believers of other gods, then as long as one defeated a god weaker than oneself, and then did the same thing, they would be able to obtain all of their faith?
The answer was no.
In truth, the process of taking advantage of the loophole was very troublesome.
First and most importantly, the Aquatic Lord had no enmity towards the God of Games, and the relationship between the two was completely unrelated, so there was naturally no need for him to be particularly guarded against him.
Then there was the fact that the Aquatic Lord had to 'voluntarily' swear loyalty to Xi Wei's believers. Faith was an idealistic power, and one's own will was very important. Forcing the other's faith would be useless in the end.
Finally, the Aquatic Lord's current state was very coincidental, just before his divinity was about to be restored. If Xi Wei had obtained the divinity later, it might have developed self-awareness, and the contract would not have been formed. If he had obtained it earlier, and the divinity had not been restored to this state, he would not have been recognized as a 'god' by the contract, and the contract would not have been formed.
In short, it was through a series of coincidences and Xi Wei's deliberate use of loopholes that he was able to obtain the complete divine energy from the frogmen through this method of stealing a beam and replacing a pillar with a pillar.
On the other hand, the divine energy from the frogmen would be used by Xi Wei to digest the Aquatic Lord's divinity. It felt like he was lending money to someone else to buy a rope to hang himself. In a way, the Aquatic Lord was really pitiful …
After the Follower System appeared, the players who participated in the Extinguish Expedition were naturally very interested in it. They wanted to entice a frogman to become their Follower.
Although the frogmen's combat power wasn't that great, and they had a fifty-fifty chance of winning a one-on-one fight against the weakest humanoid skeletons, they could only ensure that they wouldn't drag the party down in a fight. However, just like the Elu cat, they didn't take up a party slot, so they could at least be used as meat shields and bait in a dungeon. After all, they could be resurrected if they died, so at most, it would just cost a little money …
Not to mention that the frogmen's levels weren't very high. Even Croakatoa was only Level 5. Perhaps they would become very powerful in the future?
Even Princess Leah, who had been hiding in a corner out of shyness after regaining her rationality yesterday and did not even attend the banquet, could not hold back from running out to persuade Croakatoa to become her follower when the System notification appeared.
He was extremely disappointed when he found out that Croakatoa had become Eleena's follower.
And so, she tried to persuade the Elder of the Frogmen.
Although the Elder of the Frogmen looked old and weak, he was actually the one who dealt the most damage in the battle against the Society of the Secret Eye yesterday. He was swinging his cane with great vigor, and did not look as weak as he usually did. In fact, he was almost as strong as some of the players who were slacking off.
In the end, after a long silence, the Elder told Leah that he had been chosen by the gods to be the leader of the Frogmen Tribe, and that he had obtained a 'Village Leader System' to entrust quests to players who wanted to farm reputation. After that, the girl could only hide her face and leave … Having such a management system meant that the Elder of the Frogmen was already recognized by the God of Games, just like Angora and Old Vanke. Naturally, Leah would not be able to kidnap the Elder of the Frogmen Tribe.
After the players' unremitting efforts, they finally failed in their attempts to persuade him.
And after so many failures, the players concluded that there were two problems:
First, their reputation was not high enough. The Frogmen Village's reputation system had just been activated, and all the players' reputation was' Friendly 'by default, which fulfilled the requirements to recruit followers. However, Eleena, the only one who succeeded, had a reputation of' Worship 'among the Frogmen. After all, she was the Saintess of the Frogmen, and her reputation was already off the charts …
That was why the players believed that the higher the reputation, the higher the chance of success.
The second problem was the language barrier. Croakatoa, who was successfully persuaded, and the Elder of the Frogmen were the only two who could speak Shamanic. The other frogmen were not very intelligent, and without Croakatoa and the Elder of the Frogmen to translate for them, even if the players added gestures and movements, they would still have to dance every time they spoke, which made communication very difficult.
When the players tried to recruit followers, not only were the frogmen not persuaded, a large group of them even gathered around and started to dance around as if they were looking at idiots.
If it wasn't for the fact that friendly units could not attack, some of the hot-tempered players would have drawn their swords and started to PK in the Royal City …
Fortunately, the solutions to these two problems were not difficult, and could even be said to be very simple. In short, they could be summed up in two words …
Carrying bricks.
Not enough reputation? Carrying bricks, of course.
Carrying bricks would more or less reward some reputation, and as time went on, their reputation would eventually rise to 'Worship'.
Language barrier? Carrying bricks, of course.
Once they had enough reputation, they would be able to receive special quests from the Elder of the Frogmen, and after completing them, they would receive a special accessory called 'Frogman's Accent'. It was a frog pendant about the size of a fingernail, and when equipped, they would be able to understand and speak the Frogmen's language.
All in all, when the players opened the system page, they felt that it was densely filled with the benefits and functions of a follower. But after looking at it carefully for a long time, they realized that the entire page was filled with the words "carrying bricks."
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