My Players Are So Fierce-Chapter 412

Chapter 412: Game Designers’ Daily Work – Face Customization System Official Testing

Lumina had previously seen sensitive players on the forum describe in touching words the wonderful feeling of transforming from human to vampire.

According to their descriptions, the whole process seemed fantastical but actually didn’t have much impact on individual gameplay experience. During the process of the spirit projection body being transformed, the player’s consciousness observed as if from a third-person perspective.

It both ensured the gaming experience while increasing immersion.

Put simply, it was like watching a CG animation with yourself as the protagonist.

But when it was actually Lumina’s turn to undergo this race change functionality test, the situation was different. She felt dizzy as if she hadn’t slept for 3 days and 3 nights, groggily like a patient after being injected with anesthesia.

She could feel Lady Tris pouring the strange-tasting potion into her mouth.

That slightly bitter potion flowed down her throat and was quickly absorbed by her body, but this process wasn’t operated by Lady Tris, but rather by Lord Murphy on the side.

Soon, Lumina arrived at the “third-person perspective” state that others had described.

Her consciousness seemed to leave her body, floating beside watching herself lying on the spirit energy platform slowly “melting” – this isn’t just a figurative description, it was actually happening.

Lumina’s player projection, under the finger movements of Lord Murphy who had his eyes closed, was intertwined with the purest spirit energy vision, looking exactly like when the little players were first summoned to Transia.

She became “light” and this was just the beginning.

After Lumina’s projection completely lost its human form, Murphy, who was presiding over this race change ritual, activated the race template conversion function in the admin system, and subsequently received the expected warning:

【Target setting conversion to ‘Elf Template – Moon Elf’, current template information collection rate is 20%, this operation has no failure penalty, however with the current information collection rate a perfect conversion to standard Moon Elf cannot be completed, target conversion progress can only reach the incomplete form of ‘Half-elf’.

Continue this operation Yes/No?】

Murphy ignored the warning.

His current appearance was exactly like those adolescent children who stubbornly chose to continue accessing while looking at the red warning message on the screen with their rooms locked, showing both defiant and restless demeanor.

The racial information belonging to Moon Elves was rolling in Murphy’s mind, that was the information extracted from the drop of blood given by Lady Lainnia.

It wasn’t just descriptions of Moon Elves’ appearance and body form, but more of an in-depth study of this race’s spirit energy characteristics.

The little players don’t have physical bodies in this world, they are spirit energy simulated projections, therefore simulating the target race’s spirit energy characteristics is much more important than simply converting appearance for their projection forms.

This was also Tris’s previous reminder to Murphy.

If it was just converting the little player’s appearance without changing their racial traits, Tris could do it effortlessly, but when it came to internal conversion involving life forms, it wasn’t something a Spirit Sovereign could handle.

It’s not that Tris wasn’t powerful enough, but rather that little players as “unique creatures” were “unprecedented” even in the history of the entire continent.

Having no reference samples made this “pioneer attempt” become dangerous.

“Moon Elves’ spirit energy characteristics are related to the symbol of the ‘bright moon’, this race possesses not only the racial talents of ‘elves’, but also the unique powers of ‘moonlight concealment’ and ‘bright moon’s blessing’.

The information feedback from Lady Lainnia’s blood was quite limited, I can only simulate it to a very basic level.

However, combining the racial information from Lainnia and Adele, we can basically summarize several racial talents common to all elves.”

Murphy squinted his eyes, beginning to try reshaping Lumina’s body form according to his understanding of the elven race. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

This was his first time executing a race conversion operation, it was much harder than the previous operation of performing “spirit energy embrace” on little players to turn them into vampires.

When watching Tris complete the entire ritual before, she seemed to handle it with ease, but when he actually tried it himself, his hands went numb.

Why did this feel almost the same as when a kid plays with clay for the first time?

It really was “face sculpting”!

“Move more gently! Slower! Don’t be so hasty, weaving spirit energy forms is work that requires delicate craftsmanship, you can’t manipulate spirit energy weaving the same way you grip your sword.”

Beside Murphy, Tris, who was assisting this ritual, frowned and reminded:

“It seems you haven’t spent effort on spirit energy manipulation during this time. I can’t understand, when you have such high talent in swordsmanship and inherited part of my power characteristics, why are you so clumsy in spirit energy related matters.

It’s not that you don’t understand these!

You can’t use ignorance as an excuse, it seems I’ll need to give you some ‘special training’ next, Murphy. As a regional leader you can’t have such an obvious power weakness.”

“But I’ve been trying very hard.”

Murphy, with his eyes closed, while clumsily helping reshape Lumina’s form, weakly retorted:

“I just learned to summon astral spirit energy to temporarily strengthen my summons a few days ago, George said I’m progressing very quickly, that astral direwolf claimed it had seen other pack members of its wolf pack being summoned by summoners.

It boasted that never had an astral wolf received such preferential treatment as it did.

I think I’m a decent summoner, you can’t disparage my dedication to the path of summoning like this”

“Oh, so you’ve already lowered your standards to enjoying the flattering nonsense from your sycophant summon?”

Tris played with her Nocturne Scepter, saying very disdainfully:

“Let’s not even mention George’s pitiful rank that doesn’t even reach ‘pack alpha’, but you actually believe what a wild beast with no experience says?

Want to compare the progress between you and your apprentice on the path of summoning?

Although Feel You Poor is limited by the manticore’s oppression and cannot summon more astral creatures, he only spent a bit over a month to deepen the spirit energy connection between himself and the manticore Stinky Treasure to a degree far surpassing the spirit energy bond between you and George.

From this point, your disciple is much more excellent than you.

Murphy!

Laziness is just laziness.

I can understand that you might not be interested in or even be wary of spirit energy mysteries, but this isn’t reason for you to deliberately create weaknesses by spending all your time on sword training.

I don’t care!

Starting from tonight, you must make time to accept my spirit energy special training, at minimum you need to improve your strength in summoning and spirit energy formations to a level equal to your swordsmanship!”

“Sigh”

Murphy let out a sigh.

The handsome vampire lord’s demeanor had now switched from a kid watching adult videos in a locked room to a troublemaker whose parents were called by the teacher due to poor grades.

He felt like he was truly screwed.

If he had known this would happen, he shouldn’t have borrowed that spirit energy manual from the young lady, specializing in physical professions like Kudel and Maxim could also be a path to becoming powerful.

This hybrid profession sounded cool, but in reality having two completely different power paths meant Murphy needed to put in twice or even multiple times more effort than normal people to push both professions to the level of “profound attainment”.

“Focus! You need to focus now.”

Seeing Murphy’s look of resistance, Tris became quite angry. She reached out and smacked the back of Murphy’s head to make him focus on the spirit energy reshaping ritual before him.

But actually this process was automatically advanced by the admin system, Murphy only played the role of spirit energy provider and cooperated by making some spellcasting gestures.

The 20% success rate meant this matter wouldn’t go so smoothly.

Lumina’s new body was quickly woven together, first creating the Moon Elf’s more slender and elongated overall form compared to human females using Lady Lainnia as a blueprint, then making “fine adjustments” to the limbs and main trunk. In Murphy’s perception this was like a “3D spirit energy printing” process.

Not just sculpting the exterior, but also internal conversion.

Things progressed quite smoothly up to this step, but then came the trouble.

Murphy’s insufficient racial information directly led to him being indecisive about many details when shaping Lumina’s new form, like a painting missing most parts, no matter how much Murphy exercised his imagination he couldn’t complete this complex painting to perfection.

But he soon relaxed.

From a “dog game designer” perspective, he actually didn’t need to make this form change 100% perfect on Lumina’s first race conversion experiment.

This wasn’t him being lazy!

Rather, such an important race conversion function would be unreasonable not to create a dedicated quest chain for little players in the game.

Since there needed to be a long quest chain, then Lumina’s new form didn’t need to be made perfect.

Unlocking new talents and skills step by step better matched this kind of “progressive” game plot experience, which could nicely make up for his poor craftsmanship.

This idea popping up made Murphy exclaim that he was truly a damn genius!

So he immediately gave up on sculpting the details of Lumina’s form. After fully applying his 20% understanding of Moon Elf racial information, he turned to tell Tris softly to take over fine-tuning Lumina’s body shape, with the internal aspects missing, at least the external conditions should be simulated to perfection.

Tris gladly agreed.

She also saw little Murphy’s predicament, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to give his warrior a 100% surprise, but that he couldn’t do it yet.

Spirit energy weaving was far too simple for Tris.

As soon as she took over, she worked boldly and decisively like a sculptor’s fine carving of stone, quickly shaping Lumina’s appearance into the classic Moon Elf image through adjusting the spirit energy weaving frequency, casually “fine-tuning” the chest area portion.

Tris was very “traditional” vampire spirit mage in this aspect.

In her understanding, there were no truly meaningful “big bouncy commanders” in the elven race, at most C+. No matter which lineage of elves, they all pursued agility and dexterity, too large buns would undoubtedly affect their quick movement in the woodlands.

This detail didn’t escape Murphy’s eyes, the vampire lord’s eye corner twitched, hey! Doing it this way will make Lumina curse the game’s realism!

Tris didn’t pay attention to Murphy’s resentful gaze.

After she completed the sculpting of limbs and torso, she was about to start working on Lumina’s facial features but was stopped by Murphy’s extended hand.

“Let her do the final step herself.”

The vampire lord looked at this projection body that had been reshaped but whose face was a blur of spirit energy light and shadow, saying softly to Tris:

“You’ve seen those nitpicky folks on the forum constantly requesting to open up the ‘face customization’ function, they don’t want to start their second life in the game with their own face that they’re already tired of looking at.

They hope to craft beautiful faces with their own hands.

Moreover, I’ve thought about it, this ‘function’ is also an effective supplement for personal information privacy. Currently players using their own faces in game can easily lead to them being recognized by others in the real world.

You need to understand, not everyone hopes to bring relationships from the game into reality.

Can this ‘function’ be implemented?”

“It’s not as difficult as you think.”

Tris pondered for a moment, answering:

“Their form of existence determines that as long as they grasp the basics of spirit energy weaving, and are within the range of this formation specialized for weaving spirit energy, they can fine-tune their own facial features and even body characteristics.

However, a Spirit Master needs to be present to preside over the ritual, I can even give them some ‘reference templates’, like your face and my face.”

“Paid features!”

Murphy’s eyes lit up, saying as if struck by inspiration:

“This kind of unique NPC similar face template can also serve as a special ‘reward’!

For example, only your warriors and my warriors or those who grind our ‘favor’ to a certain level can unlock these unique faces and figures.

We can even make these ‘appearance templates’ into spirit energy messages, and sell them in Dorothy’s black market.”

“Murphy!”

Tris couldn’t listen anymore.

She screamed in Murphy’s mind using voice imitation technique:

“I don’t understand why you always become so scheming when it comes to exploiting your warriors, why even faces can be sold?

I don’t want to see all the female players in Crimson Citadel parading around with my face.

That’s too shameful!”

“Don’t worry, don’t worry, your midnight countenance that is so graceful and charming cannot be handled by ordinary women, they wouldn’t bring shame upon themselves.”

Murphy soothed:

“Of course, Adele will probably feel troubled by this later, but this is also the responsibility and pressure she must bear as Murphy’s descendant.

What I mean is, let Lumina try.

She is your first warrior, naturally she should receive a reward of sufficient weight, right?

Trust me, such a rare appearance reward is much more precious to her than giving material objects, she will be grateful to you for this and become more loyal.

Give it a try.”

“Hmph”

Tris rolled her eyes, switching her spellcasting gesture quite unhappily. As she delegated the final authority of spirit energy weaving, Lumina’s consciousness, which was currently observing the race conversion in “ghost” form, was quickly pulled back into her “new body” like being extracted and tugged, but didn’t immediately wake up.

【Ding! Race conversion complete! Your race has been converted from ‘Human’ to ‘Half-elf – Human/Moon Elf’, racial talents have been updated!

Initial character attributes adjustment complete!

Before you wake up in your new form, please take some time to choose a face for your new form.

Note!

This function is a test function, currently very few character templates are available, you can choose to complete the sculpting with your real appearance, or make adjustments to facial features and body type according to your preferences.

Note!

Because your race conversion used the character blueprint from Lady Lainnia Galanord Cappadocia, you have obtained the special character appearance template ‘Moon Priestess Lainnia’.

Because you have completed the first link of the ‘Tris’s Warrior’ quest chain and obtained the title ‘Cavendina’s Warrior’, you have obtained the special character appearance template ‘Beautiful Alcoholic Tris’.

Because you are the first player to try this function, the development team has prepared for you the rare unique appearance template ‘Historian Tris’.

Because your birthday is approaching, test team member Xiao Cui specially prepared for you a birthday gift – special unique appearance template ‘Fantasy Timeline – Countess Murphy of Kadman’.

You can use your obtained special character appearance templates as blueprints to upgrade and customize your own appearance and form. To ensure game authenticity and immersion, all appearance templates have some differences from the original character.

To ensure correct progression of game plot, the development team currently does not allow players to set their appearance exactly the same as certain NPCs.

Please try more channels in game to obtain more rare appearance templates.

Development Team Note!

This function is a test function, players need to reach Respected reputation in Crimson Citadel and obtain permission to enter Blood Vulture Halls Spirit Energy Chamber No. 4 to unlock this function.

Additionally, a considerable fee needs to be paid to Lady Tris who presides over this ritual.】

This series of prompts shocked Lumina at how breathtaking the development team’s hidden big feature was, but at the same time a surge of wild joy rose in her heart.

This development team was truly a good civilization that listens to advice!

They really implemented the face customization function, hell yeah! Long live!

Faced with the three rare character appearance templates she already owned, all of Lumina’s depression had been swept away. She eagerly pondered, then resolutely made her choice.

Hehe, let’s craft a beautiful appearance with my own hands as a birthday gift to myself!