"Strengthen all attributes by six or seven points again."

Li Ang frowned slightly, "Why?"

"The script tasks set by the Killing Ground Game are personalized, and the game seems to dislike ’forced growth’ tricks like taking shortcuts,"

Xing Hechou explained, "If a newbie Lv1 player, instead of relying on self-training but on the generosity of others, attains a physique akin to Lv10,

or acquires one or two pieces of Perfect Level equipment,

then the difficulty of their first task might reach the level of Lv8-Lv12 in a normal process.

Moreover, this difficulty increase is comprehensive,

strength, disposition, willpower, wisdom, skills, alertness, all indispensable.

Newbies elevated through ’forced growth’ are like buckets made of uneven planks, capable of holding less water than players following normal procedures.

And if further strengthened,

such as boosting physique to Lv15 or receiving more Perfect Level equipment,

then the script task difficulty will likewise rise, continuously abiding at a harder, more demanding, higher mortality rate level."

"I see."

Li Ang nodded; his Immaculate Furnace Shop in the Game Square generates a substantial amount of Game Coin daily,

and through Luo’s channels, he could easily procure high-quality equipment (though Perfect Level items have a low drop rate at this stage and might require premium purchases), gifting Wang Congshan a few would be no issue.

However, starting out with Perfect Level items at Lv1 indeed seems a bit risky.

Xing Hechou slowly said, "This information comes from members of major organizations who’ve explored at the cost of their lives.

The second downside of early strengthening is that the efficiency of the attribute points granted by level upgrades decreases.

In the Killing Ground Game, due to various factors like race, ethnicity, physique, gender, past experiences, and personal foundation,

everyone’s attribute point improvements indeed exhibit slight differences.

Take the Strength Attribute as an example,

points equate to an ordinary person who hasn’t exercised,

points pertain to a self-trained fitness enthusiast,

points correspond to a professional weightlifter under long-term rigorous training,

points represent the physiological limit an ordinary human can reach; it’s the level of the world’s apex athletes.

If an Lv1 player starts with all attributes at 5 points, their best strategy is to first train themselves, using diligent physical training in the real world to enhance attributes to 7 points.

Once they upgrade to Lv2, they can directly push their Strength Attribute to 8 points, reaching the mortal limit.

This improvement efficiency is far better than wasting precious attribute points on flaws that can be compensated through effort from the start."

Xing Hechou patiently explained, "However, if external power is used in advance to strengthen,

then the efficiency of attribute points granted by level upgrades will plummet.

Say you help her boost her strength to 10 points at Lv1,

then when she uses her freely given attribute points upon upgrading to Lv2 on Strength again,

the results will be rather poor, perhaps no improvement at all.

The portion of strength displayed at 11 points is still scarcely different from the 10 points strength of a procedurally player.

As her level catches up,

the efforts she put in offsetting most external benefits,

attribute points can be effectively utilized again.

This counts as a kind of hidden rule designed especially to restrict excessive forced growth behaviors.

For those players urgent to gain power,

The system’s hidden penalties aren’t as clear or as visible as the threat of death, and temporary gratifications by poison are no big concern.

But if the intention is to build a solid foundation and minimize related hidden penalties, following the sequence is indeed better."

"Exactly."

Liu Wu Dai nodded calmly on the side, "These contents are actually ’implied secrets’ tacitly understood by major organizational entities.

Moreover, there’s a more critical point — hidden penalties affect subsequent Guild Team System."

"Team up?"

Li Ang frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

"After the last Gate Battle ended, the Killing Ground Game updated many contents, including the Guild System,"

Liu Wu Dai introduced, "The new Guild System relaxed the team-up limitations between low-level and high-level players,

As long as both parties willingly consent, a team can be formed within the same guild.

Once teamed up, both parties can undertake real-world regular tasks or script tasks together.

If there’s a substantial level and power disparity between the two, the system’s hidden penalty mechanism will trigger, simultaneously elevating task difficulty, reducing instances of malicious leading — though the difficulty elevation is relatively dynamic.

It’s not exaggerated to the extent of a newbie entering certain death.

With careful calculation and planning, 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

the difficulty uplift can precisely remain at a level that challenges the seasoned slightly,

while not overly burdening the newcomer with risks.

Since the Task difficulty along with the Experience Points reward will still depend on the highest level player in the team,

the low-level newcomer might need only three or four tasks to rapidly level up and alleviate hidden penalties.

For ordinary Lv20 players, naturally, there’s no desire to bear the burden of leading novices, forcibly heightening their own difficulty, and increasing risk — even if risks are avoidable.

But given your power and character, these should not pose an issue."

"Mhm."

Li Ang pondered for a moment and nodded, "The Cold Crow Guild should still be valid, right?

I have at hand a one-time-use Departure voucher, and even if teaming up raises difficulty, the voucher could be used to let her leave, serving as extra insurance."

"That’d be perfect."

Liu Wu Dai smiled faintly. Her Cold Crow Guild had yet to disband, just right to serve as a team-up platform.

"If you confirm team-up plans for the future, the early strengthening scheme can be slightly adjusted."

Nearby, Xing Hechou consulted with the coaching team before asking Li Ang, "Brother Li, what’s your current level..."

"Lv25."

Li Ang responded; the last Long Night is Coming script task contributed quite a bit of Experience Point, upgrading him one level.

"Lv25..."

Xing Hechou contemplated, consulted with the coaching team, and devised a plan, "Considering this, our suggestion is first to train our comrade Wang,

to go through regular tasks in the real world and raise her level to roughly Lv3-Lv5.

Our River Map Formation scattered throughout Kyushu, along with the Skynet System,

can monitor anomalies in real-time, automatically assess anomaly threat level, and emit alerts.

Once our comrade Wang completes the first stage of training, we can assign her individually some suitably challenging regular tasks,

while others stay in non-mutating anomaly ranges, observing from afar, as backup.

Let her independently handle abnormal events to accumulate Experience Points.

After reaching Lv5, either we or you can choose the Strength system for her, then use external forces to pre-strengthen to Lv10 level.

Thus, she’ll likely bear hidden penalties from the system,

but the penalty coefficient won’t escalate to an unbearable extent.

If luck is favorable, upon smoothly completing the first and second script tasks, pre-strengthening further to Lv15 becomes feasible.

By then, the penalty burden from teaming would lessen significantly."

"Hmm..."

Li Ang attentively absorbed Xing Hechou’s advice, then, after some consideration, extracted the [Remnant Spark of The Traveling Mage] and [Axis Cube] from the inventory.

"Suppose I have two unconditional extraordinary power systems here, can the whole process be shortened?"