Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 834: Chapter 793 Let’s Enjoy the Fun of Probability Together!

“What’s the deal with that Kraken?”

Camille Victoria quickly realized there was a loophole.

If all the spirit beast cubs arrived in the “New World” in hopes for survival, thanks to the sacrifices made by the elders during the end of the world.

What about the [Kraken]?

It appeared as a fully-grown adult right from the start!

Also, this creature of the North Sea doesn’t seem to be a part of Daxia’s myths and legends. If anything, it sounds more like it’s from Northern Europe?

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So what’s up with it? A native creature? Or from another continent?

“Wait, another continent? A DLC for ‘Pokémon’?”

Camille Victoria’s eyes widened in an instant!

‘I think I might have discovered something incredible!’ she thought.

Next to her, the previously despondent White Luster, who has been held by Connar, suddenly became excited and started to roar anxiously at the adult White Luster on the continent in the sky.

Underneath the mountain built from energy, a giant white tiger lifted its head, looking at a myriad of light points, unable to penetrate the world’s barrier, casting its gaze towards Camille Victoria’s side.

“Is that your mom?” Connar gently patted the little white tiger’s head, comforting it.

Camille Victoria snapped out of her shock and reached out to pat Connar’s purple head with one hand and the white tiger’s head with the other, once again feeling like she was on top of the world.

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The “Light Rain” gradually stopped. The tired, adult beast kin sat down on the ground exhausted, watching the light gathering into a mountain, fading little by little with sad and hopeful eyes.

In the end, this illusory continent also dissipated quickly like fog, leaving no trace behind.

The sky regained its peace. @@novelbin@@

The opening cutscene of “Pokémon” had finally ended.

And the game had officially begun.

The first step was to catch the Spirit Beast cubs that had just landed!

Players from all over Daxia began to take action.

Of course, some people were quick to realize the shortcut –

Chasing Wind briskly opened the game panel, searching for pay-to-win channels.

If “Pokémon” was a paid game, it would be fine. However, if it’s offered for free to players, then there must be pay-to-win channels.

There had to be!

Without them, wouldn’t it be like “Traveler of the Wind”, once released, it’s left to its own devices?

That was unacceptable.

“Spirit Beast Store??” Chasing Wind looked at the newly appeared interface, feeling as though he was about to lose it.

——For the last two weeks, he had gone around every park in Xiajing City in order to find the Spirit Beast Store, only to come up empty-handed.

Are you telling him now that the Spirit Beast Store isn’t a building that spawns in specific locations, but an “online store”?

That was too much for him!

——Actually, not exactly. The [online store] was designed to improve player experience, mainly selling basic items. If players wanted to buy valuable items, they would still need to search for stores randomly appearing in the wild.

“Pretty lame if you ask me…”

Chasing Wind grumbled while he efficiently clicked open the store.

The first page that caught his eye was [Weekly Special Offers], which only contained a single monthly card.

Even though this thing was officially called [Spirit Beast Nutritionist Certificate], the holder, aside from receiving a one-time reward of 1000 copper coins upon certificate issuing, could also receive a daily subsidy of 300 copper coins and a weekly premium nutrition supplement.

Apart from this, all investments made towards nurturing spirit beasts received a 20% discount.

Its price was 30 RMB (20% off during the promotional period, 24 yuan), valid for 30 days.

As long as it had these features, regardless of what Cloud Dream said, Chasing Wind insisted it was a [Monthly Card]!

Without bothering further with the fine print, he directly bought up to the limit ——12 cards, valid for a whole year, with any shortfall of 5 days automatically compensated by the system.

After turning to the next page, there were more items ——

[Spirit Beast Stat Test Card]: A portable retail stat testing tool.

—— This item was prepared for players who did not want to publicly give their Spirit Beasts a physical examination.

[Copper Bell]: Basic Spirit Beast capture tool.

[Feed]: Basic Spirit Beast food.

[Spirit Grass]: Increase Spirit Beast potential. (Sold Out)

[Spirit Fruit]: Increases Spirit Beast’s growth value. (Sold out)

[Peach]: Increases Spirit Beast’s lifespan. (Sold out)

[Weak Water]: Resets Spirit Beast’s attribute. (Sold out)

[Immortal Dew]: Prevents a Spirit Beast from losing its star level when failing to upgrade stars. {Current stock: 2}

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The variety of products is dazzling, their prices differ widely, the cheapest ones are just a few dozens of Copper Coins, while the most expensive ones need hundreds to thousands.

Here’s the good news: There’s no need to spend real money.

Bad news: You can’t spend real money.

But what drives the players crazy is: Normal items are fully stocked while the valuable ones are almost all sold out.

“Isn’t there a subsidy? Where’s my money?” Chasing Wind wants to buy some stuff, but looking at the [0] balance in his account, he’s a little confused.

While he was still puzzled, there was a clear bird song overhead, a green bird with a red top and a long tail whose feathers were blue and green landed on his shoulder and handed him the [Spirit Beast Nutritionist Certificate] in its mouth.

Chasing Wind took the certificate with an bemused expression. The green bird then spread its wings and flew away, disappearing from his view.

“Just like shopping online, but delivered to your doorstep, huh?”

“That’s kind of progressive, isn’t it…”

With the certification obtained and the subsidy money in, he got a one-time reward of 12,000 copper coins for owning a 12-month certified badge, plus today’s 300 copper coin subsidy, he suddenly felt rich with 12,300 copper coins.

But a bottle of [Immortal Dew] is worth 2000 copper coins…

Despite this, Chasing Wind still planned to buy [Immortal Dew].

Unfortunately, by the time he looked again, {remaining stock: 2} had already become {sold out}.

“?” Chasing Wind had a question mark over his head. Whose hands are so fast?

Unwilling to admit defeat, he swept across a batch of common goods to fill his backpack, and then set off on his hoverboard in search of his lost Spirit Beast.

— There’s now a map interface on the panel. At present, besides the arrows on the map indicating the direction of wild spirit beasts, there were also three green dots moving slowly in the distance. Clicking on them indicated [Lost Spirit Beast].

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On the other side, Camille Victoria bought a half-year monthly card in one go, then used her subsidy to buy an attribute testing card.

After the “Opening Cutscene” ended, the little tiger returned obediently to her, its owner. However, the attribute was back to the undetermined state, Camille Victoria had no choice but to identify it again.

But she didn’t rush to use it, instead, she looked at the introduction of [Immortal Dew] in the shop with a sense of foreboding.

Clicking on the word [Promotion] in the commodity introduction, a new introduction popped up:

After a player obtains the [Mountain and Sea Scroll], he can hold a [Promotion Ceremony] in the [Pool of Spirit Beasts], and merge three of the same kind and star level Spirit Beasts into one. Two [Vice] Spirit Beasts will be consumed, and [Main] Spirit Beast has a chance to increase its star level.

The specific probabilities are as follows:

Upgrade from one star to two stars, 80%.

Upgrade from two stars to three stars, 40%.

Upgrade from three stars to four stars, 20%.

Upgrade from four stars to five stars, 10%.

Upgrade from five stars to six stars, 5%.

Note 1:

During the promotion process, there is a certain probability that a special event will occur-

3% probability of [Auspicious Star]: Increase a Spirit Beast’s star level by two in one promotion ceremony.

0.5% probability of [Great Fortune]: Increase a Spirit Beast’s star level by three in one promotion ceremony.

0.05% probability of [Immense Good Fortune]: Ignore ceremony level and instantly upgrade the Spirit Beast to the highest star level.

Note 2:

During the promotion ceremony for a Spirit Beast under three stars, only the loss of two vice beasts and coins occurs when a failure happens, the star level of the main beast will not decrease.

For Spirit Beasts that are above three stars, a failure in promotion not only results in the loss of coins and vice beasts, the main beast will also lose one star.

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Originally, Little Chun wanted to adopt something similar to a Chinese-style level classification like “Heaven Earth Profound Yellow” or “Big Dipper”. But considering there will be a lot of pets with different cultural backgrounds to be developed later, and also in order to lower the game’s threshold, they finally chose the simplest and clearest star level classification.

But Camille Victoria had no time to pay attention to these details.

She just looked at these probabilities and started calculating the expected cost of upgrading a Spirit Beast from one star to six stars. But as soon as she calculated up to five stars, her face turned pale and her legs went soft.

After swallowing hard, she asked the audiences in her live stream: “What do you guys think… Can this ceremony be hosted by someone else?”