Chapter 374: Source Creature? Pet!

Source Creature,

refers to a creature created by consuming Reward Points and mixing in a portion of pollution materials dropped from Pollution Monsters.

This is Fang Yi's new idea.

The previous five pieces of 【Silver Armor】 were Source Equipment created using the same method.

These items containing Pollution Energy cannot be used directly, as they would cause the player to be eroded by the Pollution Energy and enter a corrupted state, just like those life forms that were turned into Pollution Monsters.

Just like inlaying gems into 【Equipment】, the Source Equipment needs to be inlaid into the world currently controlled by Fang Yi, using the world's vast vitality to filter and purify the pollution.

The 【Magic Ocean】, 【Dark Elf】, 【Ten Thousand Qi】... that players are currently redeeming,

are all projections of Source Equipment.

And now, the Source Creature Fang Yi speaks of is a life form with slight consciousness and intelligence, created using various Source Materials dropped by Lord Monsters in the 【Qingguo Guishi】 world, along with a large amount of Reward Points.

【Zombie Baby】.

Silver quality, with super high growth potential, powerful four-dimensional attributes, and various zombie-type skills; it has no flaws other than slightly poor intelligence.

A Fu asked in confusion: "Master, I understand your idea."

"Although players have very strong willpower and can serve as the vanguard against the Polluted Continent, they also have a flaw: they are uncontrollable."

"Even if guided by Main Quests, there will still be players willing to suffer huge penalties to abandon the quest."

Four-Nation Ninja, Navy, adventurers, Revolutionary Army, ghosts, Demon Slayer Corps, Yoma...

These players are too scattered, and the conflicts between some factions cannot be easily reconciled.

It is difficult to work together to resist the pollution.

Master creating Source Creatures is clearly to build an army that can perfectly obey orders and commands.

It's just that...

A Fu hesitated and said: "Master, if you are not in a hurry..."

"We could completely wait for the players to break through the 【Qingguo Guishi】 world, and then redeem the high-level zombie soul materials in the players' hands to make up for the Source Creature's lack of intelligence."

An army with intelligence that is too low is easy to control, but it is too rigid and cannot exert effective combat power.

"No... completely wrong."

Fang Yi shook his head repeatedly and laughed: "Who told you I wanted to create an army of monsters?"

Source Creatures can indeed be used as an army,

but the disadvantage is... the Reward Points consumed are astonishing.

Various high-level Lord materials, plus a large amount of Reward Points, are required to create a single Source Creature, and after inlaying it into the core of the world one controls, purifying the pollution energy also requires drawing on the source.

A single 【Zombie Baby】 requires 500,000 Reward Points.

Although called a projection, it is exactly the same as a Source Creature, so the Reward Points required to manufacture it are also exactly the same.

An army of one thousand 【Zombie Baby】 monsters would require consuming 500 million Reward Points.

Fang Yi has been working himself to the bone,

and after successively scraping the ninja world and the Pirate World, that is all he has, not counting the Reward Points consumed for purifying pollution.

A Fu was even more confused and asked: "If it is not to create an army, then for just a few, Source Creatures with such low intelligence are even less worth creating; it is a complete waste of Reward Points."

Spending 500,000 to create one Source Creature is not as good as creating an Invitation Letter to the Myriad Worlds to recruit a New Player like Esdeath.

Not only does it not require consuming Reward Points, but it can also collect the source from the items redeemed by New Players, earning money for the Samsara Game.

Furthermore,

powerful life forms like Erza and Kikyo have potential and combat talent that far exceed the cost-effectiveness of a 【Zombie Baby】.

"To me, low intelligence is not a flaw, but a perfect advantage!"

Fang Yi curled his lips and said: "If the intelligence is too high, they will have free will and will not be easily bound by others; they cannot be kept as pets at all."

"Source Creatures with low intelligence like this will be loyal just by being given food and played with..."

"As long as they are listed, they will definitely be the apple of the players' eyes!" After the game version update, a pet tab has already been added to the Player Panel.

It is a gift Fang Yi had long prepared for the players.

"Pets?"

A Fu thought for a moment and asked: "Are you talking about the kind of pets kept by some summoner players or Hunter players?"

The supernatural abilities in the Samsara Game are diverse, and among them, there are many whose own strength is relatively weak, with most of their combat power residing in the monsters or Summoned Beasts they have contracted.

So A Fu quickly understood what Fang Yi was saying.

Fang Yi shook his head gently and said: "Very similar, but not quite the same."

"Players' contracted beasts and summoned objects can help in battle, but they cannot strengthen the player's own body."

"And the Source Creatures that can be put into the pet tab after being manufactured by me are like equipment; wearing them can enhance the player's four-dimensional attributes, and they can also have 【Main-Pet Fusion Skill】."

Speaking of this,

Fang Yi's smile became even brighter as he said: "In other words, it's not just summoner-type professions that need to keep pets!"

"Once a Source Creature appears in the capacity of a 【Pet】, no one will be able to sit still."

"【Zombie Baby】 is just the juvenile form of a Source Creature; after you keep feeding it, it can undergo a metamorphosis and reach the Mature Stage."

"A 【Zombie Baby】 in the Mature Stage begins to appear in a thousand different forms!"

"Physical type, Magic type, Strength type, Agility type, Physical Defense type, Magic Defense type, Constitution type, Water type, Fire type..."

"Different types correspond to different attribute enhancements."

"No matter what your game profession is, you can find a corresponding pet; there is always one that suits you."

"Tell me, can the players sit still?"

Gulp...

A Fu swallowed involuntarily, feeling a sense of shock.

She had previously worried that after the Samsara Game version update, some measures for extracting money from players had been abolished, fearing it would cause an imbalance in the source revenue and expenditure, making it impossible to maintain the operation of the Samsara Game.

She never expected that her master would strike a fatal blow so quietly.

The Reward Points that players had worked so hard to accumulate would likely be emptied out again, and they might even end up in debt.

Is this what the master is like?

As expected, having been born for two hundred trillion years, she was still too young.

Not as old and cunning... as deep and calculating as the master.

A Fu thought of the key point and was immediately discouraged, feeling the bitterness of being unable to squeeze oil from the players, and sighed: "However, 500,000 Reward Points is still too expensive; most players cannot come up with this amount of money."

Unknowingly, she also began to lean toward the master's mindset, no longer thinking of the players as she had before.

"Who said I was going to sell the complete version of the 【Zombie Baby】 directly to the players?"

Fang Yi smiled very coldly, making the White-haired Loli shiver, and he said: "If they can't afford the complete version, they can surely afford pet fragments, right?"

"Collect two hundred pet fragments, and you can exchange them for one Pet Egg."

"Then, consume some high-level materials to add into the Pet Egg before it can be hatched."

"Once the hatching is complete, the player will be able to own the pet they have been longing for."

"The price of the pet fragments, the price used to hatch the Pet Egg—all these various Reward Points, each sum is not much, so even a New Player who just entered the game can afford it."

"As long as you have the thought of buying a pet, you cannot remain indifferent."

"By then, even a pauper with only a few thousand Reward Points in their inventory will pay for the Pet System."

"No one can escape!"

It seems like my younger brother made an operational error and the order was reversed, sob sob.

(End of this chapter)