Chapter 62: Bribery... I Mean, Lobbying

First, the welfare and benefits within the chat group have been increased.

Every month, the chat group will send a welfare treasure chest to each member. Inside these chests are items originating from the members' respective worlds, as well as "world traversal permissions" that allow them to visit other people's worlds.

Choosing to use the world traversal permission to travel to someone else's world requires the consent of the group members residing in that destination. Once successfully arrived, there is no time limit; users can stay as long as they wish, unless they voluntarily choose to return to their own world.

However, there is a restriction: when using the world traversal permission, time in the user's original world will still continue to flow.

At the same time, the chat group will establish a "benchmark time." This benchmark time is set according to the time of the world where the first administrator resides. Currently, time flows at the same speed across all worlds. However, once an administrator is elected, their world will become the benchmark time, causing differences in the rate at which time flows in the worlds of other group members.

The monthly welfare treasure chests will also be distributed based on this benchmark time. For example, if member A's world serves as the benchmark time, and member B's world experiences time faster than member A's, then when a month passes in the benchmark time and member A receives their welfare chest, more than a month might have already elapsed in member B's world.

For any group member who uses the world traversal permission to visit another world, the rate of time flow in their original world will synchronize with the rate of time flow in the world where they are currently staying.

In addition to these, the chat group has also updated other types of welfare programs. For instance, everyone's lucky draw attempts have been increased by one due to the group update, and a mall system and a title system have been newly introduced.

Administrators themselves will enjoy even greater benefits and privileges. For example, being an administrator grants the authority to issue quests and summon group members into relevant worlds to execute them. When summoned group members are engaged in a quest, the flow of time in their original worlds will be frozen until the quest is completed and they return to their original worlds, or until the participants themselves perish.

Becoming an administrator will grant an additional lucky draw attempt, the rarity of the items contained in the monthly welfare treasure chests will be enhanced, and both the items redeemable in the mall system and the titles conferred by the title system will be intimately tied to the administrator... One could even say that these features require the administrator's operation in order for the group members to enjoy these benefits!

In other words, becoming an administrator means enjoying the most abundant benefits and wielding greater authority within the chat group.

[When the number of group members reaches twenty, the maximum limit of administrators can be expanded to three, at which point the chat group will be updated with even more functions.]

Currently, there is a vacancy for one administrator in the chat group, which requires a vote by all group members. Each person has only one vote and may vote for themselves. The administrator election will end after 24 hours, at which point the group member who receives the most votes will obtain the current administrator permissions within the chat group.

"Hmm... There are quite a few updates... But it feels like it hasn't completely updated either?" Chen Mo looked at the newly updated content in the chat group and raised an eyebrow slightly.

Although the administrator lacked the absolute power of life and death over group members such as the ability to kick people out, if group members wished to use the mall and title functions, they would have to go through the administrator. This could be considered a disguised form of control over both the chat group and its members.

"So, should I strive for this position of chat group administrator... Since there's a 24-hour voting period, does that mean we have the option to offer bribes... or rather, campaign for votes?"

Chen Mo was deeply tempted, yet he also had reservations.

While becoming an administrator would bring tremendous benefits, the issue lies in the adjustment of this benchmark time... What if, after I become this administrator, the time flow in my world becomes much faster than everyone else's?

For instance, if a year passes in my world while only a month passes in everyone else's, wouldn't that completely cut me off from enjoying the benefits of cultivating heavenly treasures like Han Li and Kaguya?

No, wait, the standards for time flow across various worlds haven't even been strictly defined yet. Even if I don't become the administrator, this worst-case scenario could still happen. Besides, what on earth does "world" even refer to? Is it the plane we currently reside in? Our multiverse? Or something else entirely...?

Just as Chen Mo's thoughts were falling into a state of confusion, a private message popped up before his eyes. Chen Mo clicked on it and discovered it was sent by Houraisan Kaguya.

[Houraisan Kaguya: Are you there, are you there? (｡ò∀ó｡)]

[Chen Mo: I'm here. What's up?]

[Houraisan Kaguya: Isn't there an election for the chat group administrator coming up? I'm here to canvass for votes,ψ(｀∇´)ψ]

[Chen Mo: Oh~ I see, understood...]

[Chen Mo: But what a pity, I don't intend to give up the opportunity to contend for this administrator position either.]

[Houraisan Kaguya: Hehe, I guessed you'd say that.]

A red envelope was sent over by Houraisan Kaguya.

[Chen Mo: This is...]

[Houraisan Kaguya: This is this princess's bribe. It's my first time doing something like this... Open it and take a look, the things inside should satisfy you (^ω^)]

Chen Mo clicked on the red envelope, and a small porcelain bottle appeared before his eyes. Attached to the bottle was a small slip of paper with four prominent characters written on it.

[Hourai Elixir]

[Houraisan Kaguya: According to the terminology on your side, an existence of my strength should be at the fourth-order advanced tier. Yet, having consumed this medicine, even beings who are likewise at the fourth-order advanced tier, or even the peak of the fourth-order advanced tier, or an even higher existence, are entirely unable to kill me.]

[Houraisan Kaguya: Whether through physical attacks, magical attacks, conceptual attacks, or rule-based attacks... At least among the people in my world, no one has yet managed to kill me after I took the Hourai Elixir. Even if I were thrown into the sun, I probably wouldn't die.]

[Houraisan Kaguya: According to Eirin's words, even she has no way to kill a Hourai person, not even my father, or that goddess of hell...]

[Houraisan Kaguya: Of course, having witnessed those magnificent scenes in other worlds, I won't claim that eating the Hourai Elixir grants absolute immortality. There is always someone better, and there are always ways to bypass the immortal body of a Hourai person.]

[Houraisan Kaguya: Even so, this is an extremely precious medicine. Even the current Eirin cannot brew this batch of Hourai Elixir; it is of a purer and stronger grade, extracted by me from the chat group's lucky draw function.]

[Houraisan Kaguya: I just wonder if this gift can make Mr. Chen Mo change his mind and choose to give your vote to me? |ω・)]

Possessing an absolute immortality capable of withstanding battles at the fourth-order advanced level, and even applicable in even higher-tier combat, with no restrictions on consumption—even an ordinary little girl who takes it would completely acquire the immortal body of a Hourai person.

Perhaps the immortality provided by this medicine wouldn't work against the onslaughts of immortals or sages—after all, Kaguya's world definitely lacks such existences—yet the medicine still possesses such an astonishingly high baseline...

Chen Mo looked at the Hourai Elixir in his item space, his gaze flickering slightly.

In other words, this is a divine medicine comparable to an S-rank, or even 2S-rank, branched storyline redeemed in the Main God Space!