My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

When you’re out and about, your identity and background are whatever you say they are.

He was now very glad he’d changed his username in time and narrowly dodged a disaster.

He really hadn’t expected there were still a bunch of worlds out there wanting to beat him until he was on his knees, then drag him into a secret room for some hardcore "training."

Xue Dili had no idea what kind of thoughts were swirling around in these World Consciousnesses’ POV.

After all, raising your own Guardian takes time and effort, and even when you finally raise one you might not be satisfied; but for many things, hiring the Interstellar Corps costs way too much, and then you just happen to run into a kid that’s exactly your type...

It’s like some pet-raising Pokémon-style game: all your own babies have trash qualifications and lousy stats, the ones with middling aptitude might not have the right mindset either, and you have no clue if dumping resources into them will pay off.

Then suddenly you see a baby that’s full-body SSR stats plus a whole stack of top-tier Skills. Sure, this baby belongs to someone else, but you can still catch it!

So just catch it! Even if it’s someone else’s, catch it! Isn’t that just NTR? Taking something that’s already been raised is the best!

If you don’t have a kid of your own, or your kid is kind of useless, you have no choice but to spend money hiring mercenaries (the Interstellar Corps). But hiring the Interstellar Corps costs money, and if you run the numbers, the money for a few trips could’ve raised a Mythic Level baby already.

So you’re stuck either way. Mainly, once you’ve laid eyes on an SSR baby, plus the fact that your standard Interstellar Corps member is usually an SR baby, after you get used to seeing that and then look back at your own yard full of junk cards, N-cards, and you’re already burning incense if you even get an R-card, everything just feels boring and tasteless.

Commonly known as: having eyes bigger than your skills.

Besides, some worlds are self-aware enough to know they can only raise someone up to Quasi-Tier Five at best. At that level, they can’t offer their kid any more growth, they can’t handle many real threats, and there’s even a chance the kid they raised ends up going rotten and tries to rebel.

Cases like the Witch Demon King and Zeus aren’t rare.

Spending that much and only raising a Quasi-Tier Five—why not go catch a better one?

Once greed flares up, the world suddenly seems wide open.

As for this show-off parent, odds are their kid has become a mid-level officer in the Interstellar Corps, at least drawing an SR-level card, so they’re feeling super proud and just have to flex a bit.

Other worlds: Once I nab that SSR brat, I’m gonna show off in the group chat every single day!

For some reason, Xue Dili kept feeling like his mom was already humming smugly in the group.

Blue Star: @Great Sage (Second Gen), come on, kiddo, tell everyone about your current results so our friends here can get to know you.

Great Sage (Second Gen): I can still recall back then, tears not yet dry, when Zeus that Old Deng rebelled against the sky...

...

Xue Dili instantly went lurker mode, his avatar grayed out. He felt like in a little while his alt identity was going to be blown.

Blue Star: Sigh, the kid at home won’t listen. Now he can only be "business partners" with the Interstellar Corps and be all buddy-buddy with the Mimic Venerable King. It’s killing me with worry.

Other worlds: ......

But after this little interlude, they still went back to discussing how to design the [Group Quest Board] feature.

And that was when a strange nickname spoke up.

Evil Eye: Can we add a material exchange function to the group? Over here... I’m really short on stuff, short on everything... whether it’s Spiritual Energy density, power sources, or water resources, I’m lacking it all. Is there any way to do exchanges?

Those words made Captain Xing Jia’er fall silent. He knew Evil Eye—this was the brand-new consciousness born from a Venerable King Fragment, now the World Consciousness of Tita Star—but judging from this, Tita Star’s situation was not looking good.

Which was actually normal. After all, Tita Star was nothing more than a man-made planet Xue Dili created with Genesis, by absorbing and compressing the surrounding asteroids and all kinds of small meteorites, then having the Interstellar Corps install a planetary core.

Compared to a normal planet, this fairy-tale-creature-filled Tita Star was basically born with congenital defects, like a premature baby; even its water resources were very tight.

So it was different. What it was thinking about now was how to make money (resources).

This was a problem that even the Interstellar Corps and Xue Dili’s group couldn’t fully solve...

At most, the Interstellar Corps could act as a transport team, helping it move resources and taking a cut.

Vice Captain Stanley: True. I think a [Group Mall] function is also necessary. A lot of planets have really uneven resource distribution, where what one side desperately lacks might be so abundant on another that it’s literally buried in the crust. So material exchange is very necessary. I think Squad Five can take on the role of the trading caravan for these exchanges.

The other planets also thought that made sense. After all, whenever they were short on something, chances were some other world had that thing in such excess it was rotting away. This way they wouldn’t need to worry—it’d be a win–win cooperation.

Holy Magic Star: Then can we also support baby acquisition? Over here I’d like to purchase a child who is humble, honest, compassionate, brave, just, self-sacrificing, honorable, unyielding, and has an unparalleled great love for the world. Long-term acquisition, fair prices.

Captain Xing Jia’er: ......

Vice Captain Stanley: You’re making this sound like we’re running a human trafficking ring... Even if you buy one, how do you plan to deliver?

Holy Magic Star: Relax, I’ve thought about this in advance. I’ll DM the other world, then send a big truck to run them over straight into the Otherworld.

Captain Xing Jia’er: ......

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Xue Dili was actually starting to regret dragging Earth Consciousness into the group. It suddenly felt like some elder from home had joined his gaming group chat—pure social awkwardness.