Chapter 437: Increasing the Stakes One After Another

Terumi Mei reacted quickly and hurriedly said, "Suoxiya, I want to increase the stakes!"

"Miss Suoxiya, I also want to increase the stakes."

"I want to as well."

The top-tier players spoke up one after another.

Even Shanks and Whitebeard, who were usually easygoing, could not help themselves, their eyes reddening as they watched the black-haired youth who had revealed such astonishing talent.

Increasing the stakes.

This is a behavior where players who have placed bets pay out of their own pockets to provide benefits to newcomers.

They can consume Reward Points to purchase monsters and throw them near a New Player; these monsters purchased by players are guaranteed to drop a treasure chest.

After hunting the newcomers, they can grow faster.

It is considered a means of interfering with the leaderboard.

However,

Under normal circumstances, no player is willing to increase the stakes.

Because the cost is too high.

When purchasing a Pollution Monster to gift to a newcomer, the game does not float the price according to the monster's strength, but instead sets the price based on the highest-strength monster matched to the newcomer in the current trial.

In other words,

Even if Terumi Mei wants to buy the weakest goblin, she must pay according to the 【Polluted GBL Jiaotu】 matched to Shengzhu.

Anyone who is not mentally ill would never do such a losing business.

But there are exceptions, just like now.

When encountering a newcomer with enough potential to move everyone, it will cause top-tier players from all factions to spare no effort in snatching them up, just to secure the right of priority recruitment.

Terumi Mei increased the stakes to ensure that Ying Zheng, whom she had bet on, could win the championship.

And the others increased the stakes to prevent Ying Zheng from winning, which would cancel out Terumi Mei's priority recruitment right.

Terumi Mei said in a cold voice, "Everyone, the black-haired youth is a newcomer I, Terumi Mei, bet on first. Do you all intend to make an enemy of my Kirigakure?"

"Your Kirigakure is not yet qualified to be an enemy of the Navy Alliance. If it weren't for maintaining the balance of the various worlds, the Navy would have already executed Kirigakure."

In Akainu's eyes, Ying Zheng was already someone destined to become a great weapon for the future Navy, and he could not be handed over.

Moreover, although the Navy Alliance had lost Aokiji, it still had the confidence to look down upon other factions.

Tsunade looked at the busty Mizukage and teased, "Is there something wrong with just wanting to support the target one has bet on?"

"Very well."

Terumi Mei was so angry her teeth itched, but she had no other way.

This behavior of increasing stakes to snatch people was not blocked by the game, which meant the game merchant tacitly approved of it.

Players compete with each other, and the money used to buy monsters flows into the game merchant's wallet. The Samsara Game's style of ruthlessly gouging money is something all veteran players are well aware of; even filing a complaint with Fang Yi would have no effect.

Having finally encountered such a newcomer, Kirigakure would never let go.

Since that is the case, then let's see whose assets are more abundant.

"The Konoha Hokage broke the contract, giving me the opportunity to shift the internal conflicts of the Ninja Clans within Kirigakure to the front-line battlefield and completely govern the rear."

Terumi Mei was not afraid at all to compete in assets with these people. During this time, with the assistance of Kanshi Lang, Haku, and Zabuza, Kirigakure had long been forged into an iron bucket by her.

It was no longer the Kirigakure of the past that had to look at the faces of Yuan and the Ninja Clans.

As for the other factions, although the Whitebeard Pirates and the Demon Slayer Corps under their command were united, their overall assets were limited.

The adventure group of Shanks and Aokiji was more like a coalition with various countries in the Pirate World, a grassroots team similar to a joint headquarters, and their assets were also insufficient.

The Konoha that had the strength to compete had tense relations between the Hokage faction, the Ninja Clans, and the Mobile Unit.

The Navy Alliance had the most abundant assets, but like Konoha, the various Navy commanders were not of one mind.

Terumi Mei sneered in her heart, "Hmph, don't think that only the Navy Alliance has an Information Department; our Kirigakure's Anbu is no pushover either."

However,

She could not laugh for long.

Because the other top-tier players actually temporarily set aside their grudges and united to simultaneously increase the stakes for one newcomer, teleporting monsters into the arena.

There are no permanent enemies, only eternal interests.

Clearly, the shock brought by Ying Zheng had already allowed the various factions to briefly abandon their hatred.

"Venom Fang Pierce..." Laipishe bit through the throat of a demon and injected the Venom in a brutal manner.

The demon's body fell heavily to the ground, and a treasure chest appeared.

"Another treasure chest?"

Laipishe was pleasantly surprised; why did it suddenly feel like the drop rate of treasure chests had increased?

Previously, it would take killing several, or even a dozen, demons to potentially drop one low-level White Treasure Chest.

But now, it was almost like an insider buying a lottery ticket; every demon could drop a treasure chest.

"Could it be that even the fallen True Dragon is favoring me, knowing that I, Laipishe, am the future Lord of the Sea Race?"

Absorbing the Dragon Qi released from the treasure chest, Laipishe only felt comfortable all over.

Suddenly,

A thick scale the size of a fingernail appeared on the snake tail in its soul state.

Laipishe was instantly excited and let out a long howl toward the sky.

Its true form was a snake; even if it cultivated for a thousand years, it could not cross the Life Tier. This was the rule of the Sea Race world; only by crossing the Longmen could one become a True Dragon.

And now, its snake body had actually grown a scale because of absorbing Dragon Qi.

Dragon Scale!

Every True Dragon has its own unique Dragon Scale.

Just like the former superior of Laipishe, the True Dragon who has already fallen, it possessed five Dragon Scales.

Paopao's golden Dragon Scale, the Seahorse's gem-blue scale, the Jellyfish's emerald Dragon Scale, the traitorous Green-Haired Turtle's flame Dragon Scale, the Vine Dragon's life Dragon Scale...

They correspond respectively to the True Dragon's strength, Agility, spirit, flame, and life force.

As for the Dragon Scale growing from Laipishe's tail, for now, it can only be called an ordinary scale containing Dragon Qi; to grow into a true Dragon Scale, it still needs more Dragon Qi.

But it can already be predicted that if Laipishe can evolve into a True Dragon, the attribute of this Dragon Scale of its will be 【Venom】.

"A Poison Dragon is also a dragon, a True Dragon; back then, you did not choose me to be your successor, one day you will regret it!"

Laipishe twisted its body crazily, swimming toward the deeper parts of Rongyan Diyu.

The desire to absorb Dragon Qi had already reached its peak.

This time,

Laipishe encountered a Commander Level demon captain and was almost split in two by the demon's axe, but relying on its desire to become a dragon, Laipishe counter-killed the Commander Level demon captain.

Hum.

A treasure chest emitting a blue halo dropped.

Laipishe opened it impatiently; inside was not Dragon Qi, but a broken Dragon Crystal.

【Tier 2 Poison Dragon's Dragon Crystal (Broken)】: The essence of Dragon Qi condensed into a Dragon Crystal after the death of a fallen Poison Dragon; after merging, there is a probability of possessing Poison Dragon bloodline.

"Poison Dragon... with wings and a big belly, does it deserve to be called a dragon?"

The excited expression on Laipishe's face came to an abrupt halt the moment it touched the Poison Dragon's Dragon Crystal.

It looked at the precious Poison Dragon's Dragon Crystal with disgust, a sense of contempt.

In Laipishe's eyes, a Dragon Crystal emitting the aura of a Western dragon could only be called a big lizard; only a dragon with a snake body like its own could be called a True Dragon.

Although it longed to become a dragon, it was not some stinking fish or rotten shrimp with weak Dragon Qi.

In its view,

Western dragons are just like the old Vine Dragon that stole the True Dragon's Dragon Scale, merely mixed-blood dragons, not worthy of being accepted by it.

Bang.

Laipishe swung its tail, and its tail, like an iron whip, smashed the Dragon Crystal.

It did not choose to merge, but simply absorbed the Dragon Qi and Venom inside.

【Venom Dragon Scale (Lv. 1)】: A core that has barely transformed into a Dragon Scale, capable of granting the master the power of Venom.

"It's done!"

Laipishe screamed crazily.

(End of this chapter)