章 114: Chapter 114

After hearing those words, Axel couldn't help but be surprised, as he didn't expect the bartender to be one of the leaders of "The Weapons of the Gods".

"I guess this is the kid Mark has recruited to participate in some rifts, right?" John, the bartender, asked from behind the bar.

"Yes, he is," George replied as he sat on a stool in front of John.

"What is your name?" John asked while looking at Axel.

"I'm Axel. Nice to meet you," he replied smiling while sitting by George's side.

"Well, let me tell you, Axel, that if George has brought you here, you have performed better than he expected." John said before looking at Axel for a few seconds." Have we met before?"

At that question, Axel could only react with surprise.

"Not that I remember. Why do you ask?"

"I don't know. Your face is familiar to me. But don't pay too much attention to what I say. After all, I spend most of the time here and see tens of faces each day. I may be confusing you with someone else." John said."Well, are you three going to drink something?"

"Give me a beer," George said.

"Me too," Jacob said.

"I will have orange juice," Axel said.

Hearing that, the three other people turned toward Axel.

"What? I don't like alcohol. It makes me feel sick the next day," he said, justifying himself.

"I guess there's nothing we can do about that then," George said while bursting into laughter.

At the moment, there wasn't anyone else in the establishment other than them, so after serving them their drinks, the four continued talking about worldbuilding.

"I must admit that your world is much better than I expected, but I haven't changed my mind yet. To become a good worldbuilder, you need to deepen your understanding of your world and how it should evolve." George said after taking a sip of his beer.

"I know. In fact, lately, I've been spending more time looking at my world and interacting with it. I have even made plans and preparations so some of my add-ons advanced in the directions I wanted and placed limitations on others so they wouldn't become something I didn't want." Axel explained.

"That doesn't sound all that bad," Jacob said." You are definitely much better than the customers from today."

"It was me, or their troops tried too hard to be overpowered but failed while trying?" Axel asked when he heard that.

"Yes, you are right," Jacob said.

"That's because their foundation is weak, and their worlds aren't able to create such powers." John explained." If you try to create an add-on that lets your troops destroy worlds with a single punch from rank one, what you are going to do is force your world to invest more energy in that add-on, which would make your world, in general, weaker, so your troops would be able to do as you wanted."

"The problem with that comes when you are fighting outside your world. Not only would your troops have less energy than before to make their powers work as they are not in your world, but they would also find that their enemies and the matter around them, in general, are much stronger, making them look even weaker than they were in their world." George explained." That's why it is better to create your power systems step by step, and instead of aiming to destroy worlds with a single punch at rank 1, maybe you will be able to do it at rank 6."

"I see. I guess until now I've been doing well then." Axel said.

"You did well, but you could do better," a voice said from behind while laughing.

When Axel turned, he found out that it was Mark who was talking.

"Oh, Hi Mark," Axel said as he saw him."Why are you saying that?"

"Well, as far as I know, you could have a better configuration for your add-ons right now." He said as he sat next to the others." A beer, please."

"What do you mean by that?" Axel asked confused.

"I mean that you could have another add-on if you make a few changes to your world," Mark replied.

"Really?"

"Have you got any loot on today's rift? Or have you chosen the contribution points?" Mark asked.

"He has chosen the points," George replied.

"Then I suggest you use them to get a convergence gem," Mark said.

"What's that?"

"It is an item found on rifts from time to time." George replied."It lets you fuse two compatible add-ons into a new one with most of the functions of both."