Following the announcement, other low-level spirits at the Lower Sky looked up at the sky with wide eyes.
—An F-rank spirit got promoted to E-rank? Really??
—When was the last time a low-level spirit like us got promoted?
—Who is this spirit? The name is strange…
—No matter what, this spirit is the pride of us, the Lower Sky spirits!
—Ah...I doubt the spirit can be promoted beyond E-rank and come to the Middle Sky residence, but hey, this is big news!
—I'm curious about how this spirit got promoted when most of us will never be promoted for life.
Right, how?
Castra was also questioning the "world-wide" notification.
He never received a notification about Fame points and Faith points increase—
Wait.
Castra looked at Poo and Poo nodded with sparkling eyes.
[Yes, host! It must be the magic orbs!]
Just like what Poo and Castra expected, back at the Human World, right after Castra left, the twin owners of the Ares Arena watched video in the four crystal balls together with the reinforcements.
A few moments later...
Guard A: "Wow...is that really just an F-rank spirit? Even if people said that this is a C-rank spirit or higher, I will believe it!"
+1 Fame Points
+ 0.01 Faith Points
Healer B: "This spirit...I want it!"
+1 Fame Points
+0.01 Faith Points
Guard C: "You are not even a summoner! But if I'm a summoner, I will do anything to be able to summon this spirit!"
+1 Fame Points
+0.01 Faith Points
Arena manager: "Young miss Ruwa! This spirit is perfect for you! If you can summon him— "
+1 Fame Points
+0.01 Faith Points
Arena staff: "Young Master Roid is also suitable for this spirit!"
+1 Fame Points
+0.01 Faith Points
Roid and Ruwa, the twin owners of the Ares Arena that had just opened, stared at Castra's image on the magic projection with feverish eyes.
"Brother, this spirit is mine!"
"No, sister, this spirit is mine!"
"Brother, you already signed a VIP contract with another spirit! You can't sign a new VIP unless you break that contract first!"
"Sister, same with you!"
"Then we..."
"Hehehehehehehe— "
The twins looked at each other and laughed menacingly while plotting things in the dark.
"Brother, should we make this spirit popular so that he will be grateful to us? Then, he will definitely accept us to be his VIPs!"
"Good idea, sister. Let's start with promoting him around the arena."
The twins immediately put up a huge magic projection screen in the arena, just like a Billboard LCD.
Then, they played Castra's carefully edited highlight actions on loop for all the audiences to see.
The audiences who came to the arena, both summoners and non-summoners were attracted by the promotion video and they all contributed another wave of points for Castra.
+100 Fame Points
+100 Fame Points.
The summoners were even more excited than the non-summoners audience.
"Hey, we have to buy this spirit's video and...yes yes, if the video is popular, we will also get money!"
"Good idea! Let's go, buy the video!"
A few summoners bought the video from the twins and they opened their Summoner Forume Magic Book, a thin book that looked like your regular book.
When the book was opened, a virtual panel shot out of the paper with a line of words:
[Please enter your Natal Spirit's Source Code]
The summoner's natal spirit put their paw, feather, b*tt, or whatever part of their bodies onto the password box and the words on the virtual panel changed.
[Login successful!]
[Enjoy your time]
Row after rows of posts, texts and articles immediately scrolled pass in the blink of an eye.
If Castra saw this, he would definitely scream:
Isn't this a forum?!
Yes. The Summoner Forume Magic Book was actually a magic-style forum!
The two clever summoners submitted the recorded video using a complex magic circle and hand seals as well as paying a certain sum of deposited money.
They didn't forget to make sure that the video was monetized.
As expected, once the video was posted and updated on all summoner's Forume Magic Book, the video immediately went viral among low-level summoners!
[Sum-O-Ner]: Who is this spirit?? A new one?? Is this really just an F-rank spirit?? His skills are top notch!
[Sumo-Nerf]: Does anyone know how to specifically summon this spirit? What's his element and the offerings he likes the most?
[No.Money]: Take all my money! I want to know all things about this spirit in one minute!
Even when each comment and new posts cost a sum of SUMO money, a special virtual currency for summoners, these summoners still squeezed their savings just to get first-hand information about Castra.
Castra's basic information on the Spirit Encyclopedia was soon dug out and many more summoners silently paid attention to this unusual spirit.
However, the twins felt that the popularity on the forum was not enough.
The twins went as far as writing an article about Castra in a popular newspaper.
"Flamme Summoner Daily! Flamme Summoner Daily! There's a new low-level spirit with high-level specs!"
"Exclusive article only for Flamme Empire's region! Other Summoner Daily editions don't have this article!"
"Low-level summoners must buy this edition! Limited to 1000 copies!"
Thanks to this new marketing trick, few F-rank summoners were reeled in by the video in the Forum and the newspaper's articles, eventually falling into Castra's embrace.
At the same time, after the news was marinated for some time, the long-awaited beeping noises from the Spirit Administrator flooded Castra's brain.
BEEP.
+10 Fame points
+20 Fame Points
+5 Fame Points
...
...
[You have gained a total of 400 Fame Points]
+0.01 Faith Points
+0.01 Faith Points
....
....
[You have obtained a total of 1 Faith points]
[You have obtained 1 Faith Point] × 4
BEEP. [You have received a transfer of 3 Faith Points from Spirit "Gem-Mini"]
BEEP. [You have received a transfer of 3 Faith Points from Spirit "Libra-ry"]
[Your total Faith Points is 15! You have leveled up to E-rank!]
[E-rank to D-rank level up progress]
• 500/1000 Fame Points
• 15/30 Faith Points
Castra's fame points soared like crazy, but the most important thing for Castra was the Faith Points.
He immediately noticed the strange 0.01 faith points.
These should come from non-summoners who could put their faith in many spirits at once.
Of course, that 0.01 points from one non-summoner was a negligible amount, but he actually collected enough to get 1 full point, which means he got faith points from 100 non-summoners!
Not to mention the other 4 faith points from 4 different summoners...
Is it finally his time to shine??
And the other six faith points...
Wait.
What's with these words [transferred faith points from other spirits]?
Castra suddenly had an ominous feeling.