Chapter 373: SSRs Prepared for Pay-to-Win Players
Afuku was dumbfounded.
Wasn't this just a worthless IOU? Spending thousands of reward points to exchange for a pet shard with no actual value—were players really going to fall for that?
She quickly voiced another concern,
"But Master, even if players buy pets, won't they also have to spend their own points to purify the corruption energy? Will they actually agree to that?"
Origin equipment was inanimate, so it didn't have this problem.
But [Origin Creatures] were living beings, and each time they evolved, they generated new corruption energy that had to be cleansed with reward points.
Would players really be willing to keep paying?
If they grew dissatisfied, they might just abandon their pets, causing corrupted lifeforms to leak into the world.
"What else could we do?"
Fang Yi beamed.
"The game is selling players pet eggs—just like any creature-raising game. Even if a player caught a baby dragon themselves, raising it into a true dragon would still cost tons of resources, right?"
"Not just the hatching. Even evolving from a juvenile to an adult takes loads of rare materials.
And those materials are infused with enough reward points to purify the corruption."
If you asked players directly for reward points, they'd feel cheated.
But Fang Yi didn't show his face. Instead, he thought like a player.
"How could raising a pet be free?"
The purification cost would be split into things like:
[Pet Food] to raise hunger,
[Pet Snacks] to improve mood,
and [Pet Bone Marrow] to increase evolution success rates.
Once repackaged this way, players would subconsciously feel like they weren't being exploited—
they were just spending money on their pet.
Afuku mumbled nervously,
"But… that's a massive drain of points. Most casual players won't be able to afford it…"
Her whole body felt cold—like falling into an icy lake.
She hadn't expected her master to have this many diabolical tricks up his sleeve.
Still…
Most casual players would probably go broke just trying to gather enough pet shards.
Where would they get the points to keep raising it?
Cut the grass too often, and it won't grow back.
Fang Yi's smile didn't fade.
He seemed completely unbothered, like he had expected this line of questioning.
"That's why the Reincarnation Game is thoughtful about casual players."
He continued,
"After collecting all the shards and exchanging them for a pet egg, hatching will yield a baby zombie of varied quality."
F, E, D, C, B, A, S...
Ten total tiers. F-tier was the weakest—
its stats and growth potential would be low, and even after evolving, it wouldn't generate much corruption.
So for casual players,
just feed an F-tier zombie baby with the cheapest materials.
This way, all players could raise a pet according to their budget—no waste at all!
From the start, Fang Yi had this planned.
The pet egg would hatch into a random-quality [Zombie Baby].
The higher the quality, the greater the cost—and vice versa.
SSR-tier?
Those were for the likes of Navy HQ, Orochimaru, and the Celestial Dragons—
the big spenders.
Even though the stat difference between an F-tier and SSR-tier zombie baby wasn't astronomical,
the top-tier whales would still chase that extra power, and that shiny rarity.
It wasn't just about strength—
it was about [perfect builds].
Fang Yi had been laying the groundwork for that idea since the beginning:
Skill prefixes, Enlightenment Pills, Gem Refining Liquid, and now ten pet tiers—
All pushing players toward one mindset:
Perfect everything.
Once all top-tier players started obsessing over perfection,
Fang Yi wouldn't need to guide them anymore.
They'd become addicted themselves,
hunting down corrupted monsters like madmen to improve their gear, skills, and pets.
"Master…"
Afuku moved her lips, hesitant to speak.
She was already used to Fang Yi's exploitative ways,
but this still made her feel a little sorry for the players.
The three-step trap of the pet system—
even the wealthiest players would eventually get bled dry.
"Speak your mind."
Fang Yi glanced at the white-haired loli and ruffled her head.
After fully conquering the Shinobi World, the Pirate World, and several purified fragments of the Corruption Continent,
not only had his own power soared—
even Afuku's body had strengthened. She had grown taller and lost her baby fat, looking more like a beautiful girl next door.
The only problem?
Her eyes still had that same dumb look.
As for Fang Yi's current combat power—
according to Reincarnation Game's system, he was fifty times stronger than a max-level Tier 2 Dark Gold boss.
The very Evil God that nearly wiped out the player base?
He could squash it with one finger.
If the players could see HP bars,
Fang Yi would be the one and only [World-Class Boss].
At his level, only the rulers of the Corruption Continent,
the highest of polluted beings, could even trade blows with him in an even match.
Which meant—
As long as he kept up this momentum,
Fang Yi could eventually become a lifeform strong enough to challenge the Corruption Continent itself.
But he didn't let his guard down.
Time was running out.
The Evil God's arrival was proof enough—
as players kept growing stronger, they would inevitably clash with the Corruption Continent.
The Reincarnation Game's existence would be exposed.
So Fang Yi had to seize this window and completely control the Qing Kingdom Ghost Story world—
fortifying the foundations of the Reincarnation Realm.
…
Qing Kingdom Borderlands
A funeral procession wound its way through a misty mountain trail, ghostly fog lingering in the air.
"Anya, take this glazed orb."
Dressed in a silk headscarf, the effeminate chamberlain Wu stared helplessly at his young prince.
Usually too precious to sit in a swaying sedan chair—
now the little prince was following behind the guards who'd just been recruited for the funeral procession.
Even worse—
He handed a precious snack to a lowly pink-haired peasant girl.
Scandalous!
"Your Highness!"
Wu couldn't hold back when he saw the prince about to give the glazed orb granted by the Qing Emperor to that filthy child.
But the prince only gave him a sideways glance
and continued happily skipping behind Anya.
"She's just a peasant! You're the noble heir of the Qing Empire—how could you be so bewitched by her?!"
Wu could only comfort himself:
The prince had seen too many refined noblewomen.
Of course this wild pink-haired girl seemed "refreshing" for now.
Once the novelty wore off, things would return to normal.
[Dragon Corpse Glazed Orb (Quest Item)]: Unlocks Tier 2 map — Dragon Corpse Underground Palace (Lv.35–49). Required for access.
Note: This underground palace is the Eye of the Dragon Vein, where Qing Emperors' corpses are buried. It was meant to bless the empire's future. But recently, rumors from the palace guards speak of seeping corpse energy and a terrifying transformation.
Just as Anya was thinking the prince was being as clingy as her brother,
her amber eyes widened.
She quickly signaled Erza and Kikyo to gather around
and pointed at the Dragon Corpse Glazed Orb with her lips twitching excitedly.
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