Dragon King Spits Water: Looks like Rimuru went offline.
Camera Girl: By the way, doesn't the admin have recruitment privileges now? Can you invite new members?
Dragon King Spits Water: Oh right, I do have that function.
Gu Ruoli shifted her focus from the chat interface to the information panel the group had provided.
Navigating effortlessly to the admin privileges section, she found that aside from the mute function, a new option had appeared—Recruitment.
A light mental tap expanded the details:
[Privilege: RecruitmentDescription: Removes the one-person-per-month limit. The admin may now send five invitations per month across the multiverse. Recipients may decline.
Restrictions: Once per month, five invitations max; invitees retain the right to refuse.]
Gu Ruoli sighed. While the quota had increased, there was no guarantee of success.
What if I send out all five and no one accepts? That'd be a total waste.
She promptly screenshotted the information and shared it in the group.
Dragon King Spits Water: Good change or bad?
Truth-Seeker: Probably good… if you're lucky.
Passerby: Just try it. See what the odds are.
Tsukasa Kadoya frowned slightly before typing.
Dragon King Spits Water: Fair point. Should I go for it?
Camera Girl: Do it! Newbies hype!
Sky-Founding Queen: +1
Shameless: +1
...
Gu Ruoli ignored the ensuing copy-paste spam—after all, humans were essentially repeater machines, a truth she'd learned well in her past life.
Focusing, she activated the recruitment function.
"Group system, use recruitment privilege."
Five invitation cards materialized before her.
Each was the size of a playing card, crafted from an enigmatic black material—neither metal nor stone, yet smooth to the touch with a matte finish.
One side bore the group's emblem: a white ring against void-black, symbolizing the infinite cosmos, while the interior resembled a starry nightscape, representing the connected worlds.
The reverse side was blank.
After a brief inspection, Gu Ruoli tossed them into the air.
The cards vanished instantly, piercing dimensional barriers like black lightning as they streaked through the void.
Their mission: locate worlds, seek out individuals of great fortune, and deliver their invitations.
Within moments, three cards found their marks.
The remaining two dissolved, eroded by the endless void.
...
Tree-Sea Multiverse.Teyvat Continent.Liyue.
The retired Geo Archon, now going by Zhongli, sipped tea at a storyteller's pavilion.
"—And so, the great demon of the sea assailed Liyue—"
Whoosh.
A black card appeared on his table.
Zhongli's pupils contracted. Divine energy surged within him before he reined it in.
"An object… not of Teyvat. From beyond the false sky?"
The card thrummed with otherworldly energy. Sensing no immediate threat, he reached for it.
As the Archon who had weathered millennia, he feared little.
The moment his fingers made contact, script flared across the card's surface, accompanied by an ethereal voice:
[Esteemed One of Great Fortune, do you wish to mend your fractured world? To reclaim lost loved ones? To wield power beyond measure? Join us—all is possible. —The Dimensional Chat Group.]
"An invitation? How… unconventional."
Images flooded his mind—a saint resurrecting fallen warriors, a planetary titan shielding realms, a golden-haired savior sacrificing himself to halt annihilation.
The sheer scale left no doubt: this was no deception.
"A variable indeed. Would joining benefit Liyue?"
Temptation warred with duty. The promise of restoring fallen comrades tugged at him, yet his people's welfare gave him pause.
"Rex Lapis—"
A mourner's sob snapped him back. The storyteller had reached the Archon War segment, stirring fresh grief over his "passing."
Watching his people mourn their "departed" guardian, Zhongli's gaze softened with bittersweet pride.
"…Very well. Perhaps it's time I lived for myself."
Thoughts of fallen friends and his own erosion tipped the scales. With a final glance at Liyue's thriving streets, he accepted.
The card dissolved into light and merged with him.
...
[Ding~ New member "Vagrant of the Mortal Realm" has joined!][Ding~ New member "Crimson Phoenix Sage" has joined!][Ding~ Invitation rejected by "Forsaken Heavenly Emperor"!]
The chat group fell silent for a heartbeat—then exploded.