Chapter 385: Luffy: Have I Become an Enemy of the People?

Tsunade is very wealthy; among the entire Konoha village, her assets likely rank in the top five.

Those who can rank ahead of her are all Ninja Clan Heads; although their assets appear substantial, they cannot be easily mobilized, as most must be consumed for the sake of their clan members.

Therefore, Tsunade is the wealthiest player in Konoha.

She was already a top-tier Medical Ninja with a solid foundation, so after becoming a Knight, mastering healing and support-type abilities came very naturally to her.

Furthermore, she also possesses powerful close-quarters combat capabilities.

Holy Light is, moreover, the bane of Pollution Monsters.

With buffs fully stacked,

a player like her is a hot commodity that dominates the Mercenary System rankings year-round.

Whether it be the Four-Nation Ninja, the Navy from another world, adventurers, the Revolutionary Army, or even Pirate crews, all will pay massive amounts of Reward Points to hire Tsunade when hunting Golden-level monsters or tackling difficult dungeons.

【Qingguo Guishi】 has no resurrection mechanism;

once dead, one disappears completely.

How highly sought after a Knight who can heal teammates while in a near-death state is, goes without saying.

When the first pet appeared, the 【Pet Ranking】 appeared simultaneously.

The first pet belongs to the Pirate World, from the Clan Head of the Desert Circus, Buggy.

Tsunade thought for a moment, a vague outline appearing in her mind, and mused: "I have some impression of him; he seems to be an ammunition-type Sharpshooter whose strength barely manages to squeeze into the first tier."

The reason she says "barely" is that she had a conflict with the Desert Circus when she was hunting a Golden-level 【Snow Giant】 in the Ten Thousand Year Snow Mountain.

A deputy clan head who piloted a yellow sand mecha was very strong.

In contrast, the red-nosed man who was the Clan Head,

had very poor combat ability, not even as good as a second-rate player, yet he possessed a set of high-quality equipment that forcibly elevated his strength.

"Could it be that his luck is very good?"

Tsunade frowned, her gaze fixed on the top of the Pet Ranking,

First place: 【Zombie Baby (B-Grade)】, Owner: Buggy.

Rating attributes: B-Grade quality (100 points), Pet skill (100 points), E-Grade Zombie Hat (30 points), E-Grade Zombie Robe (50 points).

Total score: 280 points.

"A B-Grade quality pet, and it actually has pet equipment?"

Tsunade widened her eyes sharply, and after clicking to open the detailed information, she looked at the pet's rating attributes in disbelief.

She had spent fifty thousand Reward Points and only obtained the pity-timer of ten pet fragments (A-Grade); the rest were all junk and relatively cheap materials.

The pet lottery had only just begun, and as an old gambler, she did not delay in the slightest; she was confident that she was the player who had spent the most money on the lottery.

But...

The other party had actually already drawn a B-Grade pet and pet equipment? Tsunade's expression turned gloomy,

looking at the junk in her inventory.

【Zombie Leg Bone (F)】: A broken zombie leg bone, can be used for Forging F-Grade pet equipment (Zombie Leg Guard).

【Zombie Nail (F)】: A nail stained with dried blood, can be used for Forging F-Grade pet equipment (Zombie Gauntlet).

【Rotten Zombie Right Arm (E)】: A section of a rotten severed arm, can be used as material for feeding zombie-type pets; after use, pet experience +30.

【Damaged Zombie Heart (E)】: A broken zombie heart, can be used for Forging E-Grade pet equipment (Zombie Staff).

All are low-level materials.

A single finished piece of pet equipment, even the lowest 【F-Grade】, requires one hundred Zombie Leg Bones.

Making a rough estimate, in the worst-case scenario for luck, it would take hundreds of draws.

"Damn it!"

Tsunade's face flushed red, feeling a sense of frustration.

Everyone is using the same prize pool, so why is another player's luck that good while she can only get the pity-timer? Looking at the ten pet fragments (A-Grade) she had already accumulated in her hand,

her heart was restless.

If her luck was good enough, the ten fragments would increase the success probability, and she would have a great chance of winning the gamble and exchanging them for an A-Grade Pet Egg.

Should she try?

Originally, Tsunade wanted to adopt a safe tactic, draw until she had dozens of pity-timer A-Grade fragments, and then exchange.

But after seeing the situation on the Pet Ranking,

she could no longer control her gambler's mentality and chose to exchange.

【Exchange for Pet Egg (Zombie Baby) successful!】

Accompanied by the game text, a slowly rotating Pet Egg appeared in the pet slot.

【Pet Egg (Zombie Baby)】

Quality: F-Grade

Hatching progress: 0/80 (Fill with zombie materials to increase hatching progress) Bang! The roof collapsed, and dust filled the air.

Tsunade was full of anger; with one punch, she smashed the thick roof and landed on the ground.

The lowest grade.

"Continue!" Tsunade squeezed two words through her teeth, then continued to open the lottery; five thousand Reward Points were deducted.

【Congratulations to the player for drawing 【Zombie Leg Bone (F)】*1!】

【Congratulations to the player for drawing 【Inferior Zombie Heart (E)】*1!】

【...】

Tsunade's face turned from red to black, and she silently continued to spin the lottery wheel.

The lottery continued,

and again, a large amount of low-level zombie materials appeared, until after spending 700,000 Reward Points, a single 【Pet Egg (F)】 finally appeared.

"Fortunately, the game merchant still has a conscience; otherwise, I would really go and settle the score with him!"

Veins bulged on Tsunade's forehead, and her exquisite face was covered in gloom.

She carefully put away the Pet Egg,

not hatching it.

Because the 【Furnace】 within the Pet System can smelt materials of the same grade, Pet Eggs, and various items together.

If three 【Pet Eggs (F)】 are thrown into the Furnace, there is a probability of smelting them into one 【Pet Egg (E)】.

Likewise,

fifty rotten leg bones (E) have a probability of being smelted into a rotten leg bone (D).

In other words,

even a player with terrible luck like Tsunade, a "non-chief" player, can successfully obtain rare pets through constant accumulation.

Tsunade opened the game channel and glanced at the messages from other players,

"It's so heartbreaking. I finally saved up one hundred C-Grade pet fragments, thinking there was a fifty percent chance to exchange them for a C-Grade Pet Egg, but I never expected to get a D-Grade trash egg!"

"Same here. I had already saved up two hundred C-Grade pet fragments, but if I exchanged them directly for a C-Grade Pet Egg, it felt like too much of a loss, so I mixed in ordinary pet fragments and exchanged them in two batches, hoping to get two C-Grade Pet Eggs, but I ended up with two E-Grade Pet Eggs. Can you say your losses are as miserable as mine?"

The one speaking was a player in the Pirate World named Fujitora.

He also liked gambling,

and after becoming a Reincarnation Game Player, he exchanged for the game ability of 【Ashura】, possessing the strength of a top-tier player.

He was a powerful and high-potential lone-wolf player who originally wanted to join the Marine Headquarters Alliance,

but was intercepted halfway by the Adventurer Guild and recruited by Shanks, who possessed the same game ability, becoming a member of the Adventurer Headquarters.

These Reward Points used for the roulette wheel,

were the salary given to Fujitora by the Adventurer Guild, or one could say, his "selling-out" money...

As a result, the entire army was wiped out.

He only got two low-level Pet Eggs in exchange.

The blind Fujitora was so frustrated he almost opened his eyes.

"Pet lottery is a pit. Who exactly took the lead in saying we should make the game merchant lower the price of pet fragments?"

"I knew the game merchant had no good intentions!"

"Pet fragments are cheap, but they tempt everyone to draw for even rarer fragments; it's simply like falling into a giant trap!"

Looking at the messages in the chat channel,

Tsunade's brows relaxed slightly, and she felt less distressed inside.

Humans are just like this;

if only they themselves are scammed, they find it completely unacceptable, but if everyone is scammed together, they feel they can keep going.

After being guided by the players' messages,

Tsunade also noticed the key point and muttered to herself: "That's right, if the pet fragments hadn't dropped in price, the difficulty of exchanging for high-level pets would be too high, and I definitely wouldn't have tried it so easily. It's all the fault of the person who took the lead in bargaining with the game merchant!"

Her thought,

was also the unanimous thought of all the players whose Reward Points had been drained by the pet lottery.

Without prior agreement,

they all began to denounce the culprit in the game channel.

Inside the Qin family residence, the Straw Hat crew, having just finished cleaning up the wax corpses in the front yard, all felt a chill down their spines.

Robin, who was always steady, felt a headache after seeing the denunciations in the game channel and whispered: "Luffy, it's best not to show yourself for a while to avoid being..."

There were already players putting a bounty on Caomao Lufei's head on the Mercenary System.

Fifty thousand Reward Points.

The number of players accepting the mission accumulated to four digits in the blink of an eye.

He could be called a public enemy of all.

Hearing Robin's worried explanation, Luffy laughed non-stop and said: "Isn't it expected for a Pirate to have a bounty?"

In fact, when it comes down to it,

this matter didn't have much to do with Luffy; it was just that the players had lost too many Reward Points and wanted to find a target to vent on.

If it were other players, they might feel wronged and angry.

However,

the Pirate King would not! (End of chapter)