The circular elevator they are inside, just like the others, both ascent and descent elevators, is made of transparent glass, like its column which is the hoistway its rises inside by floating. Moreover, it has a diameter of about fifty meters and a height of about seventy maters, making it very spacious and grand.
Meanwhile, inside this ascending elevator, only the three of them are in it, since the whole sky terminal practically look deserted because of its huge size which might be able to fit a million people easily. Moreover, inside it, Skylar stood in front, with Starboy beside him, and the madame like their guide stood behind them.
While the elevator continues its steady ascent, Starboy who has been busy with his glyph mobile turn his focus to Skylar and passed it to him.
"Big bro, see. Is this everything?" He asked Skylar. Thrn Skylar turned his face in his direction and took the mobile from him.
Skylar after taking the mobile starts looking at what's display on the screen.
Hmm, class one... COMMON BEAUTY OR AVERAGE BEAUTY, class two... RARE BEAUTY, class three... GREAT BEAUTY, class four... STUNNING BEAUTY, class five... WORLD-CLASS BEAUTY, class six... GENERATIONAL BEAUTY, class seven... LEGENDARY BEAUTY, class eight... HEAVENLY OR MYTHICAL BEAUTY, class nine... DIVINE BEAUTY.
"That divine beauty, Abbas... we will not include it for now."
"Why big bro?" Starboy replied Skylar. He came closer to his side.
"Its because, it will be almost impossible to find one. The ones I have seen and thought are in that class won't make it anymore. My understanding of that word divine is not there yet, and I don't want to make a mistake of using that word wrongly... so I will be putting all of them in the heavenly class." Skylar replied. Then he passed Starboy his glyph mobile.
He continued, "Another thing is, I have notice a little problem in our plan. How do we get good pictures or even videos of the beauties we choose to feature weakly? And I am starting to think we might have to add little information about them to it—most beauty magazines include something like that after all. So the problem will be, how are we going to get their information?..."
"I am sure some will be easy, I mean the ones in our half, but what about the ones from the other half? The information we have about them here might not be accurate since they are far away, so how are we going to verify thier information if we are going to include them? And its the same for the users too..."
Skylar's words made Starboy sank into contemplation, then a moment later, after thinking through, his focus returned to Skylar.
"Big bro, how about we hire an information gathering faction to do that for us. We will just pay them for the information they provide..."
Skylar chuckled. "I have thought about that too. But the issue is... which faction should we hire. And can we trust them to work with us honestly with us without getting greedy and stepping out of line in the future? I hope you have not forgotten how big our target is?"
Skylar turned to look at the very faint reflection of the madame in the shameless glass, and seeing her still looking at him from behind, but not his ear anymore, he thought jokingly she might be done with analyzing his ears.
"You are right, big bro. And another thing is... its not easy to get indepth information about users... unless the faction gathering the information is a user faction." Starboy agreed with Skylar and made his addition.
"That user faction thing, I don't understand much about it. Is it like a player faction but for users only?" Skylar asked when the elevator reached the third layer of skybridges.
However, before Starboy could respond, the madame beat him to it, saying:
"Lord player, user faction is not like a player faction. Although they are strictly users only like players factions that are also strictly players only... they don't expect their members to put them first and die for them like a player faction, since they operate only within the safe zones where every users is protected by the tower. Lord player, you can look at a user faction like a corporation that hire users as workers just like in the real world..."
"You are saying user factions are like the private sector of the safe zones?" Skylar interrupted. He has already turned around to look at the madame when she started explaining.
"Yes lord player. User factions are production and service oriented only, since thier primary target are the users within a safe zone. Very few players and player faction care about them, since some of them can do what a user can offer and even do them sometimes better." The madame added, after which she gave Skylar a professional smile.
"I get it! Its like an hospital run by users won't expect players to come to them since there are healing factions run by players, and most players might prefer player healer?" Skylar responded, looking at the madame.
"Yes lord player." The madame flashed Skylar a professional smile. She continued. "And in the case of treating injured players, an average player healer is by a lot better than a user, since they are more familiar with player injuries. Its one of the few non-combat related matters where players are a lot better than users, and its because healing involves players far more than it involves users."
"I kind of get everything to some extent, but, there is still this one thing I don't understand. Can't players starts a business inside a safe zone that will compete with users? And since players on average can generate more capital than any user faction, won't they just take over everything and leave nothing for the users?" Skylar asked the madame. He appeared confused, and because of his question, the madame flashed him a professional smile before she replied.
She shook her head and said, "No lord player. That is where the tower comes in."
"Oh... Tell me." Skylar was intrigued.
"Its not that players can't own a business inside a safe zone, lord player. But there is this one rule they must adhere to if they want permission from the tower, and that rule is... the business they start must be run only by users."
"Oh..." Skylar eyes widened in realization after he heard the madam's reply.
"Yes lord player." The madame flashed a professional smile as she continued. "They themselves are not allowed to run the business, so they either contract a user CEO that will contract other users, or they contract a user faction that will run the business for them... they can also form there own user team, but its less common."
"However in most cases lord player; most players don't start businesses inside the safe zone, but invest in already existing ones, because the risk of starting one is too high... some of the user CEOs and the user factions they contract can be paid to intentionally sabotage their operations by another rival faction." The madame added.
"I get it. No matter what's written on the contract of a hired user, there would still be a loop hole to exploit if they want to cause trouble for the business, and it will be even easier to sink the business if the user is a higher up." Skylar concluded with a smile behind his skin tight mask.
"Yes lord player, most players and player factions only invest in an existing user faction business in most cases. And the most likely exception is when the user faction or user CEO they want to hire has a close relationship with them... and they can be trusted." The madame added.
"I see. So the only difference between a player faction and a user faction aside their members is in where they operate and the privilege given to them by the tower?" Skylar concluded with a question.
"Yes lord player. A user faction primarily operate within a safe zone since they are given support by the tower which as a result prevents players faction from oppressing them. Thus, one can say, user factions dominate in the safe zones and player factions dominates outside the safe zones." The madame responded with a professional smile.
"But lord player, there are some rare cases of users functioning outside a safe zone—players call them wild users. And when they are discovered outside the safe zone, players always attack them without mercy, and no other player or player group is expected to help them unless they choose to become the common enemy of the majority of other players and their factions." The madame added.
Skylar chuckled, "I understand why the players will be sour. They are not allowed to hold a job inside the safe zone except within their faction safe base, so why will they allow the users that are protected like a baby and given special privilege by the tower to mess around in their territory. And I am also thinking some of the raw resources, users depend on are from the player factions, so thier is no way they will allow a user to find a foothold outside and become independent of them, not talk of competing with them."
"And another problem is when a lot of users starts functioning outside the safe zone safely, where will the player factions get new recruits to increase their numbers since users and new people joining the simulation at that time will rather remain a user if they can enjoy both the benefits of a user and a player." Skylar chuckled amusingly, "If the player factions where ever to allow that, they should just forget about expanding their faction..."
"Lord player, you are right." The madame responded with a warm smile. She has been smiling genuinely without a care as Skylar talked.
With the genuine smile still on her incredibly stunning oval face, she continued, "lord player, most people have only been thinking the reason the big factions including the government faction don't allow any user to function outside the safe zone is because they are not happy that the tower forbids them from functioning freely inside the safe zone like users, but only very few people like you lord player, have been able to think that far and see the matter from every angle..."
"Nahh... don't flatter me. Its common sense." Skylar interrupted, waving his hand.
"I see... You are modest lord player." The madame broke into a genuine giggling laughter that seemed to stun Skylar for a while before he turned around.
Her real charm will be overwhelming if she doesn't hide it. Where are we?
Setting his thought asides, Skylar starts looking through the elevator glass wall in front to see where they are.
"Abbas, don't you think this thing is kind of very slow?" He questioned. He realized they are just reaching the fourth layer of skybridges which is respectively the fourth floor, with the next layer of skybridges leading to the fifth floor—there final destination where the elevator should stop.
"Lord player, its because we are moving at the normal speed..." Saying this before Starboy could respond; the madame walked past Skylar, and as she did, one of her huge soft breast hit his arm, deforming in the process and bouncing back right away. However seeming not to mind, she moved closer to the glass wall of the elevator with her hips swaying ryhmically from side to side. And then she stood in front of it and in front of Skylar with her incredibly curvy and voluptuous back to him.
Tapping once on the glass wall, she continued, "We can increase the speed here."
Meanwhile, when she tapped the glass wall, a series of glowing characters and function symbol appeared on it. She tapped one of this symbol—a green glowing triangle—three times, and in response, the speed of the elevator increased.
Then done with this, the madame turned around and meet Skylar's stunned eyes. Then she smiled and starts stretching her body, emphasizing her curves and bountiful proportions. Then after she was done stretching, she waddles towards him, her hips swinging from side to side, and meanwhile, Starboy who is standing beside Skylar with a forced expressionless face brings out his glyph google from his messenger bag and put them on. Then at the same time, the expressive madame reached in front of Skylar with a genuine excited smile she tried to hide but couldn't.
"Lord player, this types of mask are not good for the skin." Saying this as she stands about 196cm tall in front of Skylar, the madame proceed to peel of the black skin tight mask on his face with a slow cautious motion, like the face underneath is the most precious in the world.
Look at this woman, first you barge your cow tits into me, now you have the audacity to remove my mask. Aren't you getting too overly familiar?
Skylar's face and micro expressions subtly expressed is exasperation as the madame finally remove the mask from his face, revealing his peerlace dark bronze face that made her cover her mouth like she ate a fly and froze her, rooted to the spot.
Skylar ignoring the stunned madame, turned his face to Starboy who seems not to be aware of what is going on between him and the madame, as his googled face his looking right in front of him like it can't turn in their direction.
Look at this one, who are you trying to fool.
Skylar almost snickered after concluding Starboy is acting like the event has nothing to do with him.
"Abbas is it true? The mask is harmful?" He asked Starboy while he still look at him. However Starboy did not reply right away, until about two seconds laters, when he suddenly remove his newsie cap and draw up the google covering his eyes over his head to reveal a stunned questioning face after turning it to look at Skylar.
"Huh? big bro. You are talking to me?" He inquired. He looked with his big brown eyes at Skylar, seeking confirmation.
Meanwhile, the madame having regained clarity, starts looking at the two with an intrigued expression, like what she did earlier never happened.
And at Starboy's action, Skylar chuckled, "Yes, is the mask bad?" He rephrased his question.
"Ah! the mask big bro!" Starboy showed a look of realization, acting like he is just registering Skylar face that is looking at him without a mask. And while Skylar look at him, thinking his acting is pretty convincing, Starboy continued:
"Yes, big bro. They trap residual ether under the skin, and cause the skin to become itchy and swollen. That's why they are cheap and not popular." Starboy smiled as he concluded, watching Skylar nod his head.