Although Li Peifeng felt a pain in his wallet, thinking Huang Tianxuan’s 100,000 and Xu Manning’s 130,000 rewards were quite a waste—not only would 30% go to the platform, but taxes also needed to be paid. After all these deductions, the 230,000 they spent might only leave him with 150,000. What these two girls did was really extravagant, it would’ve been better to just give him 50,000 privately for an extra chance at the lottery...

But Li Peifeng also had to admit that being extravagant wasn’t without its benefits. In fact, having two Golden Alliance leaders greatly helped in promoting the novel "Sword and Magic".

Because on the Endpoint platform, if a reader rewards a novel over 10,000 all at once, becoming a Silver Alliance leader, the Endpoint app will broadcast a small announcement for the book on the platform for the next four hours.

"XXX spends a fortune, rewarding 1,000,000 Endpoint Coins to ’XXXX’..."

Every user of the Endpoint app will see this broadcast during that time, which acts as a site-wide advertisement.

The broadcast time for a Silver Alliance leader is four hours, while for a Golden Alliance leader it is eight hours.

Besides the advertisement, both the Golden and Silver Alliances offer two treasure chests. Readers can enter a draw by adding the novel to their bookshelf. Prizes include Endpoint Coins, monthly tickets, experience points, and audiobook passes, etc.

So, many readers, for the sake of the draw, will add this novel to their bookshelf. Most people will draw the prize and then remove the novel from their bookshelf.

But there will be a small number of readers who, because of the ’reward treasure chest’ traffic, see the novel, get attracted by the title or summary, and start to read it seriously, turning into genuine fans of the work.

In other words, the Silver and Golden Alliance are equivalent to a very effective recommendation with high exposure. Because of the benefits from adding the book to the bookshelf, the increase in collections is even stronger than the best recommendation spots on the Endpoint platform.

Thanks to this, some authors even spend out of their own pockets, shelling out 10,000 to reward their own work for the sake of traffic, to attract more readers to their books.

And "The Chronicle of Sword and Magic" had just been published for ten hours, yet it already received two Golden Alliance leaders, enjoying the attached Endpoint app announcement, and the collections kept surging nonstop.

"78,292?!"

Late at night around eleven, Li Peifeng finished a new Chapter, logged onto the website, took a glance at the author’s backend, and was slightly surprised to see the collection nearing eighty thousand.

This terrifying number of collections was the benefit brought by the two Golden Alliance leaders. Meanwhile, "The Chronicle of Sword and Magic" with just three Chapters had already topped the ’New Signed Author New Book Chart’ and the ’Bestseller Chart’, achieving No. 1 honor!

The other surges of over ten thousand recommendation tickets and monthly votes were also the effects of the Golden Alliance, as each Golden Alliance leader would receive 6,666 monthly votes. Just Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning alone cast over thirteen thousand.

"Impressive, on the first day of posting the book, it instantly crushed all the veteran Platinum Gods in the male category, becoming the top of the bestseller chart for the day. Is this a grand slam start?!"

"With two Golden Alliances every day, twenty thousand sales a day, my monthly manuscript fee will at least be 4.2 million!"

Li Peifeng smiled self-mockingly. Although a bit joyous, he understood in his heart that if it weren’t for Huang Tianxuan’s and Xu Manning’s rewards, the over twenty thousand daily sales for "Sword and Magic" would have never reached the bestseller chart, maybe only making it to the top five on the new book chart, with collections estimating not to exceed thirty thousand.

Currently, the number of uploaded Chapters in the novel is too few, the story hasn’t unfolded, and it doesn’t match its performance.

The review section of "Sword and Magic" had also increased by quite a few posts, totaling over seven hundred. Some are fans led over by TikTok’s popularity expressing their infatuation; some are "A Feather of Two in the World" old fans aimlessly posting; more are clueless haters and readers passing by because of the lottery leaving comments; and some questioning why this book with only three Chapters received so many rewards; wondering why they’d never heard of this Platinum writer "A Feather of Two in the World" before and similar comments.

The comment section was a mess. After uploading two Chapters and adding in the ’Author’s Note’ section an extra Chapter for the two Golden Alliance leaders, Li Peifeng decided to open up TT, planning to recruit some people in the book club group to form an operation team for "Sword and Magic" to manage the comments section and establish character cards for the book, among other tasks.

However, the moment TT logged in, editor Xia Sheng’s chat window, along with several other group chats, popped up, so naturally, he first checked what his editor had to say.

Xia Sheng: "Amazing work! Not even twenty-four hours since the book was published, two Golden Alliances, three Silver Alliances, eighteen Alliance leaders, amazing, amazing!"

Oh, just two Golden Alliances and it’s such a big deal? You’ve never seen the world!

A Feather of Two in the World: "It’s just average. The Golden Alliances were rewarded by two acquaintances. The other Silver and small Alliance leaders are old fans, maybe some are fans from short video platforms, some registered just a few days ago, and some only rewarded me to start a live broadcast, perhaps they weren’t even drawn in by the work."

Xia Sheng: "That’s still great, triple six! Are you writing right now? Can I chat with you for a bit without interrupting?"

Oh, ho ho ho ho ho~

The attitude change is a bit quick, huh?! Are you being a bit humble now?

Li Peifeng’s smile grew bolder, thinking to himself that he finally experienced what it felt like to be a master. Previously, when signing a Platinum in the female category, Xia Sheng wasn’t this polite. It seems like the female category still had a small audience, and the ceiling was too low. Now, transitioning to the male category, with "Sword and Magic" achieving such a successful start, the future looks promising with limitless potential, Xia Sheng immediately became more courteous...