Chapter 379: Marine Headquarters: Get Me Five High-Grade Pets

"Everyone, do you have any thoughts on the announcement issued by the game merchant?"

Marine Headquarters,

Fleet Admiral Sengoku sat at the head of the table, scanned the surroundings of the conference hall, and said with a solemn expression: "Is there any difference between Pet Eggs and the Contract Battle Pets of Hunters and Summoners?"

These two types of items are very easy to associate with one another.

Tsuru, the staff officer in charge of the game's Information Department, nodded slightly and said: "It can be said that Pet Eggs and Contract Battle Pets are two completely different things."

"Contract Battle Pets and Summoned Beasts are both skills belonging to the players themselves, where they contract or summon a monster to fight."

"But Pet Eggs, according to our analysis of the pet interface information, are more like a type of Living Equipment!"

Living Equipment?

Sengoku listened with some confusion, and the high-ranking Marine officers present also cast looks of bewilderment.

Staff Officer Tsuru nodded and said: "Game pets have a strong correlation with the player's own attributes."

"Every time they level up, the pet gains 10 potential points, which can be distributed among the four main attributes. The stronger the four main attributes of the game pet, the more they can boost the player's own attributes, at a ratio of ten to one."

Sengoku and the others suddenly realized.

So this is what 【Living Equipment】 means? Shock followed immediately.

If this is the case, a game pet that can continuously level up can provide a player with dozens of points in their four main attributes.

Furthermore, it is said that game pets can also unleash 【Main Pet Fusion Skill】 and carry high-level skills themselves.

The gap in combat power between a player without a pet and a player with a pet will be widened infinitely.

Calculating the comprehensive values,

the importance of game pets far exceeds the difference made by a single piece of equipment.

"It's not just that..."

Staff Officer Tsuru sighed and said helplessly: "The potential points gained by game pets each time they level up are related to 【Comprehension】. Game pets with higher comprehension can even gain 20 or even 30 potential points per level-up."

Sengoku gasped in shock; is the strengthening effect of one game pet on a player almost comparable to an armor set?

"Therefore, hatching game pets is an inevitable trend for the future."

Poison Dragon Smoker nodded slightly and said: "Just like at the beginning of the Samsara Game, everyone followed their usual habits, pursuing powerful skills and ignoring the importance of equipment, only to end up being beaten back step by step by the set-wearing players who were the first to take the risk."

In the Pirate World, skill systems like Devil Fruit and Three-Color Haki are mainstream. Even Sword Masters strive to cultivate Haki and Jiangji. Although a Supreme Grade Sword is very strong, to be honest, it is not of much help to the strong.

Therefore, everyone ignored the strengthening capabilities of equipment and only blindly enhanced their skills.

As a result, when many Pirate players with blank or scattered equipment encountered ninja players, the battles were often one-sided.

It took a great price later on to make up for the gap in this area.

There is no help for it; this is the limitation of the world. If it were the Diju Shijie, Teigu Users like Esdeath would easily know the importance of equipment.

To them, equipment is actually the same as a Teigu, both being manifestations of extraordinary power.

"If possible, does anyone have any objections to giving Aokiji, Akainu, Kizaru, Poison Dragon—the four Marine Admirals—as well as the Marine Iron Fist Hero, one high-comprehension 【Zombie Baby】 each?"

Fleet Admiral Sengoku also understands that now is not the time to save money. Every time the game updates or a new game announcement is issued, what players must do is strive to keep up with the pace.

They must not fall behind; otherwise, they will only have to pay a greater price to make up for it later.

"Seconded."

"Agreed."

The high-ranking Marines in the meeting, including Vice Admiral Jonathan who had already agreed to submit, mostly held favorable opinions.

The current Marine Headquarters Alliance does not have the vast assets of the World Government to plunder the world; it relies on the funds of the Branch Fortress Commanders present. These fortresses are spread across the Si Hai, much like regional governors, managing local financial power, and have all been included in the scope of the Navy Alliance.

Therefore, Sengoku cannot act like a dictator as he did before.

He must seek the opinions of the commanders.

"The backbone of the Navy is the most powerful among all factions in the entire Samsara Game; what we lack is top-tier combat power."

Jonathan has a very flexible mind and is good at strategy.

The Navy's ability to grow rapidly after breaking away from the World Government is inseparable from his planning. He suggested: "Not only should we give each of the five Marines a pet, but the Reward Points consumed for subsequent hatching and cultivation should also come from the Navy Alliance's treasury."

"However, a contract must be signed. Once any of the five betrays the Navy or loses their combat capability, these pets will be reclaimed by the Navy Alliance and redistributed to those in need."

In other words,

the Admirals only have the right to use these five game pets; they do not have the right to sell or own them privately. Everything belongs to the Navy Alliance.

In this way,

the Navy Alliance can spare no effort to strengthen the pets and form combat power as quickly as possible.

Fleet Admiral Sengoku did not object. He looked at Akainu and the others; this proposal was not excessive and was very suitable for the current Navy.

Akainu and the others shook their heads, indicating they had no objections.

"Good, since that's the case, the proposal is passed. Now let's start discussing the 【Game Village】..."

"Wait, Sengoku, don't think of things too simply!"

Sengoku's words were interrupted by Staff Officer Tsuru. As the person in charge of the Information Department, she had carefully studied the detailed information in the pet interface.

Staff Officer Tsuru said: "High-comprehension game pets cannot be purchased directly."

"Only after fusing two hundred pet fragments into a Pet Egg and hatching it can one observe the quality of the 【Zombie Baby】."

"From F-Grade quality all the way to SSR-Grade quality, the higher the quality of the Zombie Baby, the stronger its comprehension."

"Everything is completely random."

"Furthermore, even if a high-quality Zombie Baby is hatched, it still requires countless Reward Points to feed until the Zombie Baby reaches the 【Mature Stage】, at which point it will evolve various attributes."

"This is also completely random."

Having said this, Staff Officer Tsuru did not continue. Looking at the expressions of Fleet Admiral Sengoku and Commander Jonathan, they must have already understood.

Sengoku's face was very ugly, and he asked uncertainly: "In other words, to get a high-quality Zombie Baby with compatible attributes, we need at least dozens of Pet Eggs to screen through?"

"Dozens?"

Jonathan gave a bitter smile; his mind was very agile, and he quickly reached the conclusion that the dozens of Pet Eggs were likely just an appetizer...

A single Pet Egg cost 500,000 Reward Points; wanting to rely on buying pet fragments to hatch a high-level baby would likely be impossible even if the Navy Alliance were sold off.

It was simply a disadvantage of never having played pay-to-win online games.

In whose family does one not smash through hundreds or thousands of Pet Eggs to get a high-level pet?

Even with this, Fang Yi was already being very restrained, only bringing out two random attributes: 【Quality】 and 【Attribute】.

If he were truly like those greedy online games and brought out 【Personality】, 【Talent】, and 【Specialty】, these miscellaneous random attributes, the players would really have to sell everything they own.

Fang Yi was still very clear on the principle that too much is as bad as too little; leeks must be harvested crop by crop, and if cut too deep, it is easy to kill the leek seedlings.

(End of this chapter)