Chapter 288: Chapter 288: Close Friends and Public Aren’t the Same

City of Alchemy.

The Alchemy Guild President’s face showed a huge smile. "Talk about perfect timing! I was just worrying about how to promote the alchemy competition so most people would pay attention. With Pages, basically no need to worry anymore."

He already realized that Pages and the upcoming alchemy competition would form a perfect complement.

During the alchemy competition, they could get participating alchemists and audience members to follow the Page. The Page could push the next stage’s competition schedule. They’d complement each other perfectly.

If nothing went wrong, both offline and online people would develop higher engagement and attention toward their Alchemy Guild.

He immediately called a high-level meeting.

Since the alchemy competition was starting soon, the Alchemy Guild’s top brass had almost all gathered in the City of Alchemy. Very quickly, everyone assembled—even more than usual.

The Alchemy Guild President quickly shared his ideas, immediately winning support from several executives.

"Definitely, with this new feature’s help, our competition will definitely do better."

"Actually, I think Feed is also crucial. Nobody’s a loner—every alchemist represents a huge relationship chain behind them. After all, people are always coming to ask for favors. If we can get most alchemists to share on Feed, the effect would definitely be even more amazing."

"Makes sense! Never mind anything else, I personally have six legendary contacts in my private chats, over 800 high-ranking magicians, over 3,000 mid-ranking magicians. Though I don’t have any low-ranking magicians."

"We really don’t care about such small business, but entry-level alchemists do. Basically, Feed should be able to reach everyone."

The Alchemy President’s mind raced.

He’d only thought about what the guild could do, but he forgot what each member could do.

Yes, Pages were definitely impressive.

They’d complement their upcoming competition perfectly and definitely attract quite a bit of attention.

In the future, if they regularly published some little knowledge bits and tips—these fragmented things—maybe they could also attract lots of people to keep following and even buy their courses.

But could they only do that much?

The guild had so many members!

Two-thirds of alchemists were their members, and each one represented huge connections...

"We can’t just have them share for free either."

The Alchemy President’s mind raced, quickly weighing the pros and cons. "After all, this requires them to contribute their personal resources."

"How about this—we’ll use our guild’s points as rewards. For every person invited to follow our Page, the inviter gets at least 10 points... As for verification, it’s simple—after the invited person follows, they just input the member’s guild number."

"Of course, to ensure most of these invited people will reveal their inviters, we need to give them some rewards too... Same as the inviters, but minus a zero. Minimum reward of 1 point, maximum 10,000 points, depending on their supernatural level."

The Alchemy Guild had its own internal "currency system" that they called points. Complete various internal guild tasks to earn points. Work in the guild and you could also get points as salary.

The biggest use for these points was naturally purchasing goods.

Alchemy materials that were hard to find outside were basically available for everything in the points shop.

For most alchemists, the appeal was huge.

As for those invited people... they could let them exchange points for courses or for services from alchemists.

The more the Alchemy President thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

With so many users following them, points could really be used like currency instead of being like shopping coupons between the guild and members like before.

Soon, the executives present understood the Alchemy President’s meaning.

In the future, those invited people and guild members could directly trade with points. Points could be exchanged for various rare materials, forming a perfect closed loop.

As for how these invited people would get points, of course they’d send over rare materials, or help their members do things, or directly fork over enough gold coins. They’d only get some points at the start.

"Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! This activates our points all at once, and it also lets all members willingly use Feed to promote our Page and Magic Net videos for us."

"The President is indeed the President—coming up with so many good ideas all at once."

"I feel like, if nothing goes wrong, we’ll soon become the Page owner with the most followers in this world. Our Alchemy Guild will also become more efficient... Of course, if the guild could launch some official courses, the effect would definitely be even better."

"Exactly, let points be exchangeable for more advanced techniques and materials, and get legendary alchemists moving!"

"Actually, we could also start a ground promotion mode, but whatever—once word gets out, every alchemist will desperately want points. They’ll definitely find ways to promote. Camping at Dragon Bank entrances and recommending to everyone they see would be totally normal."

Some people even felt that soon there’d be members using gold coins to pave the way, watching as people followed the Page.

After all, gold coins have a price but points are priceless.

Alchemists were famous for not lacking money.

They actually loved seeing this scenario—spending members’ money to do their own work.

In their discussion, the plan became more and more complete. In just a few hours, the venues around various locations preparing for the alchemy competition made the first moves, inviting everyone to follow and stating that competition schedules would be released through this Page...

In Magic Space, discussions were everywhere.

After these few hours, gradually, Magic Net users figured out what these two new features did.

"So many people are already using Feed to show off their stuff."

"Actually, I feel like it’s kind of unnecessary. They could just film a video and show off the same way, right?"

"The main thing is the audience is different, I guess. Showing off on Magic Net videos, everyone sees it, but nobody knows anybody. But Feed is really all close friends—the feeling is completely different."

"Just now our boss required all of us to follow the Page. Not sure what they’re planning to do with it. But if they can share some stuff for free, I’d be pretty happy about it."

"It’s probably just to pad the numbers. The real target is definitely outsiders anyway."

"Not necessarily. We’re having people follow so we can post announcements. Before, we had to send to dozens of group chats one by one. Nothing like now!"