Chapter 117: Assessment
At the same time, a questionnaire appeared before his eyes.
Three seconds later, the system notification sounded.
[ Ding! ]
[ You have a pending questionnaire waiting to be completed! ]
Joo Joowon: "..."
What kind of absurd reality was this?
Had he really lived long enough to witness the game handing out surveys to players?
Joo Joowon opened the questionnaire.
...
[ 1. [Single Choice] What are your expectations for your territory? ]
A. Conquest
B. Commerce
C. Agriculture
D. Livability
[ 2. [Single Choice] Which style do you prefer? ]
A. Ancient architecture
B. Technology
C. War fortress
D. Nature
E. Magic
[ 3. [Multiple Choice] Which of the following are more important to you? ]
A. Strong city walls
B. Abundant resources
C. Unique local specialties
D. Comprehensive life professions
E. Loyal subordinates
F. Mutual support between territories
G. Other (please specify)
[ 4. [Multiple Choice] Which activities are you more interested in participating in? ]
A. Strategic thinking
B. Personal growth and becoming stronger
C. Social interaction
D. Collection and exploration
E. Emotional interaction
F. Competition and confrontation
G. Destruction and demolition
...
There were a total of one hundred questions in the questionnaire.
It took Joo Joowon an entire hour to finish filling it out.
The scope of the survey covered practically everything imaginable.
From the various directions a territory could develop in, to the player’s personality tendencies and preferences, almost nothing was left untouched.
Single choice questions, multiple choice questions, and matrix style questions each accounted for roughly one third of the survey.
Approximately thirty percent of the questions focused on the player himself.
The remaining seventy percent were all related to territory management and development.
Although none of the questions asked for information such as age, gender, or profession, Joo Joowon assumed that perhaps the game simply did not need a questionnaire to obtain that information in the first place.
To be honest, considering the overwhelming power displayed by the game system so far, Joo Joowon felt that it probably did not need a questionnaire to know the answers to any of these questions either.
If the game truly wanted to, reading the thoughts hidden inside a player’s mind probably would not be a particularly difficult task.
He carefully reviewed every answer he had filled in before nervously pressing the submit button.
He had no idea how much influence this questionnaire would actually have on the content of the quests generated by the system.
After all, games tended to behave in remarkably similar ways.
They handed out surveys frequently enough, but when actual updates arrived, it could not be said that the content was completely unrelated to the survey responses.
Rather, it was more accurate to say that the developers were masters of reading comprehension.
On the surface, it looked as though they had fulfilled exactly what the players had requested.
In practice, however, the actual experience ended up being worlds apart from what the players had imagined.
The result was that players often found themselves wondering whether the feedback they had originally submitted had really been interpreted in such a bizarre way.
The developers somehow always seemed capable of understanding things in reverse.
Joo Joowon was genuinely nervous.
He immediately grabbed Byeol and buried his face into the cat’s fluffy stomach, taking a deep breath.
Please, good boy, bless me.
Let the difficulty of this quest be as low as possible!
Although he loved challenging difficult content in games and sometimes even spent money on equipment upgrades just to achieve higher damage numbers, in reality he sincerely hoped that the game would be as easy as possible.
Byeol did not resist at all.
Clearly, it had already grown accustomed to this behavior.
Displaying excellent feline virtue, it lowered its head and gently licked Joo Joowon’s hair in return.
The two of them truly embodied the spirit of mutual affection.
Roughly half a minute later, Joo Joowon finally heard the sound of the system notification ringing out.
[ Ding! ]
[ You have accepted the series quest [Path of the Lord]. Click for details. ]
Joo Joowon raised his head and clicked open the panel to take a look.
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[ Path of the Lord • I ]
[ Quest Description ]: Every lord who starts from nothing must gather enough followers to help build their territory before establishing it.
[ Quest Requirements ]: Recruit at least four residents who willingly choose to follow you. Their level must not be lower than Level 1, and their current favorability toward you must be at least [Trust]. Click here to submit the list.
[ Remaining time for this quest ]: 29 days, 23 hours, and 59 minutes.
[ Failure Penalty ]: There is currently no penalty for failing this quest.
[ Note ]: Based on the questionnaire completed by the player, residents are not limited to players or NPCs. Only level and favorability requirements apply.
...
After reading the quest description, Joo Joowon could not help wiping the sweat from his forehead.
His emotions had experienced an enormous rise and fall as though he had just flown directly from hell to heaven.
Thankfully, the system did not restrict the identities of residents.
Otherwise, using the Lord Qualification Token would have been completely pointless and he would have failed at the very first step.
Admittedly, one month was a rather tight deadline.
Still, as long as someone was not stupid and possessed decent communication skills, it would not be impossible to persuade several people to temporarily follow them within such a period of time.
In the worst case, one could always abandon those followers afterward once the quest was complete.
What was truly terrifying was the possibility of not being allowed to abandon them afterward.
And Joo Joowon had no intention of doing something like that anyway.
If forced into such a situation, he would simply choose to give up on the quest entirely.
There was no complicated reason behind it.
He did not want to weigh the pros and cons.
He simply had absolutely no desire to interact closely with other people, much less allow them to enter his private territory.
If obtaining a territory truly became impossible, Joo Joowon would rather live the same way he had before the apocalypse, together with Byeol in a rented house or purchased apartment within someone else’s territory.