Chapter 384: Pet Gacha

Luffy hurriedly opened the pet tab,

and discovered a Pet Egg slowly rotating in the center, which allowed for its attributes to be viewed.

【Pet Egg (Zombie Baby)】

Quality: E-Grade

Hatching Progress: 0/100 (Fill with zombie materials to increase hatching progress) Hint: The higher the quality of the zombie materials, the higher the probability of enhancing the quality of the hatched pet.

"It's over, all the money went down the drain. E-Grade must be a pretty lousy pet, right?"

Looking at the low quality displayed,

Nami felt hopeless and sighed, throwing most of the zombie materials from her inventory into the incubator, praying that the quality of the Pet Egg would improve.

With tens of thousands of Reward Points worth of materials invested,

【Hatching successful, congratulations on obtaining game pet (Zombie Baby) *1】

At Luffy's feet, a short figure suddenly appeared; it had a round, chubby body, wore a Qing Guo official uniform and an official hat, and had bright red lips. It didn't look fierce or menacing at all; instead, it had a sort of silly, adorable charm.

Usopp asked in surprise: "Fifty thousand Reward Points, and this is all you bought?"

His words were like a heavy hammer, striking at Nami's fragile heart.

"Try out its ability!"

"Understood!"

Luffy felt that he and the Zombie Baby were connected in thought; without making any movements, he simply looked at the Zombie Baby.

The Zombie Baby understood instantly, and a yellow-green halo lit up from its body.

【Corpse Poison Halo Lv. 1】: Inflicts the 【Corpse Poison】 effect on enemies within a 50-meter radius, causing a loss of 20 HP per second. This effect can be stacked, up to a maximum of five times.

In an instant,

Nami and the others all felt a stinging sensation on their skin, as if they were being burned.

They hurriedly told Luffy to cancel the skill activation.

Nami said in shock: "Is this the Zombie Baby's skill?"

The Pet System had prompted that pets hatched from Pet Eggs would come with 1~3 innate skills, unless one was extremely unlucky.

"That's right."

Luffy nodded with a laugh and displayed the pet's information.

【Luffy's Zombie Partner (E-Grade)】

Level: Lv. 1 (Due to quality attribute interference, each level-up grants 8 free attribute points.) Attributes: Unknown. Four Dimensions: Strength 23, Agility 25, Constitution 25, Spirit 21. Skill Slots 1/3: Corpse Poison Halo Lv. 1. Growth Progress: Juvenile 1/100. "So strong, no wonder it sells for fifty thousand Reward Points."

Nami's opinion of the Pet Egg changed slightly,

if one continued to level it up, the potential of this game pet and the gains from each level-up were actually higher than most players.

If nothing else,

the Corpse Poison Halo was already a relatively powerful existence among halo-type skills.

From her previous feeling of collapse, Nami now even wanted to equip the entire Straw Hat crew with a pet.

The shift in her mindset happened in an instant.

Nami sighed inwardly: "It's just that the time to raise a pet is quite long; after all, zombie materials are too hard to drop, making them impossible to collect quickly."

Every polluted zombie killed would reward points, but it wouldn't necessarily drop zombie materials.

It was likely impossible to raise a pet to the Mature Stage in a short time.

Just then,

Luffy suddenly popped up in the Samsara Game channel, asking: "Game Merchant uncle, can you sell the pet fragments a bit cheaper?"

Within the chaotic game channel,

people followed Luffy's message with tacit understanding, starting a continuous trend of following suit, all speaking up to ask the Game Merchant to lower the price of pet fragments.

This kind of thing was quite common,

players in the game channel often proposed various suggestions, which were occasionally adopted by the Game Merchant.

Once a suggestion was adopted, the Game Merchant would even proactively reward the player who made the suggestion.

Therefore, people often left messages in the game channel according to their own wishes.

It was just that,

adoptions and replies from the Game Merchant were ultimately rare; in most cases, it was just the players amusing themselves. But this time,

the Game Merchant actually gave a reply very quickly.

【Game Merchant】: In view of the issue raised by players regarding the excessively high price of pet fragments, and to encourage players to own their own exclusive pets as soon as possible, the Game Merchant has decided after careful consideration to launch the Pet Lucky Roulette event.

【Pet Lucky Roulette】: Each time the roulette is spun, you can randomly obtain a prize from the wheel.

Activation Price: 500 Reward Points.

Contains Prizes: F-Grade to SSR-Grade quality zombie materials, pet fragments, skill book fragments, skill slot punchers. Hint: Opening the pet roulette 10 times at once guarantees an A-Grade prize.

Once this game announcement was released, the already excited players' enthusiasm for obtaining pets was pushed to its peak.

Fang Yi hadn't originally intended to bring out the big weapon of pet gacha so early, but since the players had begged repeatedly, he had no choice but to reluctantly satisfy the players' demands.

Dislike that pet fragments are being hyped to sky-high prices by profiteers? The drop rate of materials from hunting polluted zombies is too low? Without the help of a major faction, you're short on cash, lack money, and still want to buy a high-grade pet?

It doesn't matter,

as long as a player's luck is good enough, they can spend a very low cost to own one, or even several, SSR game pets, with all the raising materials and skill books provided.

Of course, it doesn't matter even if your luck is bad.

The Game Merchant has thoughtfully provided a safety net for the players; as long as you consume five thousand Reward Points at once,

to perform a ten-pull,

no matter how bad a player's luck is, they can still get an A-Grade prize as a guarantee, a steady profit without loss.

For the Pet Egg lottery, as long as one isn't too unlucky, players can fully and quickly obtain a Pet Egg.

All of this is not just to hoard Reward Points, but also to rapidly raise the collective strength of the players, so as to better clear 【Qingguo Guishi】.

Luffy laughed heartlessly, "Nami, this is great, we can all redeem Pet Eggs!"

Nami did not respond, feeling that something was not quite right.

Her sensitivity to money made her realize that the pet lottery would very likely lead to even greater spending by the players.

"We've arrived, the Jiang family residence."

A high-walled compound with dark red gates shut tight, and two bright red lanterns at the entrance still maintaining the appearance from the wedding procession.

Zoro and Sanji exchanged a glance, the former drawing his blade from its sheath.

A Jiangji, eerie with Ghost Qi, shattered the gates of the Jiang family residence.

Boom—gray corpse aura, thick as flowing water, poured out, emitting a heavy, foul stench.

【Detected that town favorability is satisfied and contact has been made with a beggar who knows the inside story.】

【Triggered Side Quest (Jiang Family Wax Corpses); after the investigation is complete, all members will receive 50,000 Reward Points.】

Hint: This scene's plot is 【Zombie Great Era】; if the mission fails, the Dark Gold Zombie (Ghost General) sleeping in Jiangjunzhong will be awakened prematurely.

On the other side, Tsunade sat on the roof of a residential house, surrounded by cleared-out zombies, the air permeated with the smell of rot.

Yet her expression was exceptionally excited, as if she had been injected with adrenaline.

"Ten-consecutive draw!"

Tsunade spent 5,000 Reward Points to activate the pet roulette.

The disc was divided into countless areas of varying sizes, each marked with information about the prizes.

"A Pet Fragment (A-Grade)?"

Tsunade took a deep breath, calming her agitated emotions.

Pet Fragments sold in the Mall hatch into Pet Eggs of a certain quality, which is completely random and follows the principle that the higher the quality, the lower the probability.

However,

Pet Fragments drawn from the pet roulette have quality differences.

The better the quality of the Pet Fragment, the better the quality of the pet that can be redeemed.

For example, the Pet Fragment (A-Grade) in her hand—if she could collect 200 of them, it would guarantee the redemption of an A-Grade Pet Egg, with a chance to get an S-Rank, or even an SS-ji Pet Egg.

If it were 100 Pet Fragments (A-Grade), there would also be a very high probability of redeeming an A-Grade Pet Egg.

The pity mechanism of the pet lottery is simply too friendly for an unlucky player like Tsunade; she decided to take all the Reward Points she had accumulated during this time and go all in.

Upgrade Holy Light skill? Put it on hold for now. Silver Armor set? No rush either. The lottery is the number one priority right now! (End of chapter)