Chapter 349: Official Settlement, Graduation Imminent

Fate City.

The lottery results were finally settled, and all 99 game pods now had clear owners.

The members of the Fate Clan who had drawn the qualification to use a game pod could barely conceal their joy on their faces, some even laughing aloud in unrestrained excitement.

As for the clansmen who had not drawn a game pod, their expressions were filled with disappointment.

Yet deep in their hearts, hope had already been ignited.

Unlike the excruciating wait where every day felt like a year when they first arrived on Earth, the waiting now suddenly held a clear meaning.

The arrival of the next batch of equipment would bring new opportunities.

Those clansmen who had previously speculated in private about the Fate Lord's decisions now looked at the Fate Reasoning Tower with a few extra degrees of gratitude in their eyes.

Their leader of the Dragon Sparrow lineage, while seeking an opportunity for transcendence, had not forgotten to bring them along toward a shared future.

The future of fate had completely transformed from uncertainty into a fixed trajectory.

Just as the clansmen returned to their rooms one after another to continue checking player-related information on the Star Net, Ming Hou attempted to contact the Star Net from atop the Fate Reasoning Tower.

One hundred game pod units were simply not enough.

The Eclipse Clan engineers who delivered the game pods had stated clearly that these one hundred latest-model units were merely part of a support project.

To obtain more, they would have to wait for the next round of the support project to launch, which required him to file an application for approval.

Alternatively, they could directly spend money to purchase them from other races.

However, there were two problems here.

Currently, the Eclipse Clan only produced the latest model of game pods; apart from the one hundred units given as support gifts, any remaining pods available for purchase required reservation and custom ordering.

The only purchasing method that could bypass the reservation system was to spend the currency of the player system: Sacrificial Power.

But he did not even possess player qualification, so how could he have any Sacrificial Power to pay the Eclipse Clan?

It would not be difficult to exchange the resources he had brought or other assets with races capable of producing game pods for older-model equipment.

However, the production lines for game pods in those races were outdated, tailored for races from before the Earth Alliance, and there were no game pods specifically adapted for the Fate Clan.

After all, every race differed in body shape and life characteristics.

In terms of physical adaptation, the most perfected units were still the latest-model game pods provided by the Eclipse Clan.

Therefore, he could only choose to contact the Star Net, hoping to exchange spiritual resources for game pod equipment, preferably with delivery as soon as possible.

After a brief flicker, the communication device in his hand successfully connected with the Star Net.

Facing his request, the Star Net did not agree directly but instead presented a list of resources.

Many of the items on the list were types of resources they had gifted to the Earth Alliance upon their arrival.

The Star Net's behavior was practically no different from outright robbery.

But with no other channels available, Ming Hou still chose to agree.

Most of the resources he carried had been gifted to representatives of various races during the descent phase to accelerate integration into the Earth Alliance.

Asking him to produce such a massive quantity of resources at this moment was clearly impossible.

With no other choice, Ming Hou could only seek assistance from his clansmen.

Before following him to descend upon Earth, they had also carried quite a few reserve resources.

Upon learning of Ming Hou's difficulties, the clansmen's attitudes were completely opposite to what they had been before.

Although game pods were essentially trash smelted from a pile of non-spiritual materials, exchanging high-quality spiritual resources for them was no different from giving them away for free.

If they had learned this news a day earlier.

They would inevitably have raised objections, or even imprisoned the Fate Lord and taken him back to the Monster World to find a way to treat his mental-level illness.

But after learning the hidden truth of Earth, game pods had already acquired a special meaning in the eyes of the Fate Clan members.

This was a crucial link to becoming players.

Let alone using spiritual resources; even if it required exchanging their life intensity, they would be willing.

Facing the difficulties Ming Hou mentioned, without him even needing to state them explicitly, the clansmen actively took out the resources they had carried, only hoping to receive their own game pods as soon as possible.

After gathering enough resources, Ming Hou directly tore through space to descend upon the Moon, delivering the goods to their doorstep.

In response, the Star Net received him in the form of a projected descent.

After summoning robots to pack and take away the resources, it provided a solution:

In twenty days, it would provide the Fate Clan with thirty thousand units of the latest-model game pods, customized according to the life characteristics of the Fate Clan members.

The distribution of the next round of qualifications could arrive at any time; Ming Hou had originally wanted to ask the Star Net to speed up the process.

But the Star Net stated that it had to prioritize orders from players who had already paid with Sacrificial Power, with the Fate Clan coming second.

Being able to settle the matter within twenty days was already granting the Fate Clan priority status.

Although helpless, Ming Hou had no choice but to agree.

At this moment, the initiative was completely out of his hands.

The resources he gifted were certainly of high quality, but if one truly compared quality, they obviously could not be mentioned in the same breath as the quality of Sacrificial Power.

The only shortcoming of Sacrificial Power was that it could not be applied in "reality."

But in the foreseeable future, the ascension of all people would eventually arrive, and the importance of real-world resources had already significantly decreased in the eyes of the Star Net.

After handling the follow-up arrangements, Ming Hou returned to Fate City.

Next, just like his clansmen, he returned to his room and began frequently refreshing the forums and watching live streams.

Having completely broken free from the shackles of life, the entire Fate Clan suffered an outbreak of internet addiction.

They measured the land of the Monster World through the perspective of players.

This feeling was extremely strange.

When they were in the Monster World, every wisp of wind might carry deadly intent, and every shadow hid fatal danger.

They had to keep their nerves constantly tense, maintaining full vigilance throughout the exploration process.

No one could predict whether, in the next second, a terrifyingly powerful race would suddenly tear through space, bringing catastrophic disaster.

But at this moment, their hearts were filled with an absolute sense of security.

Because behind this world, there were high-dimensional gods guarding it.

Although they had not yet obtained player qualification, they could watch through screens as players in the live streams charged recklessly through the Monster World.

This experience made them feel it was very interesting.

Dangerous areas that once required risking their lives to probe could now be watched with smiles while lying on a sofa.

Those regional traps they had only clarified after paying a heavy price were now being repeatedly demonstrated, solved, and even used for entertainment in player live streams.

What fascinated the Fate Clan members the most was the culture of bullet comments.

The real-time floating inspiration hints were akin to priceless treasures in the Monster World.

It was as if countless hidden hints were guiding them on what to do during exploration, adding much companionship and fun to the process.

During this period, new discoveries within the Ming Hun Library also sent the members of the Fate Clan into ecstatic joy.

There were three special Ming Hun in the testing library, namely: Great Luck, Auspicious Luck, and Blessed Fate.

Although these three Ming Hun had not yet been contained, their reputation within the player camp was considerable.

They were one of the options used for Star Vein testing combinations when the Monster World launched the testing function of the Test Tower.

However, the characteristic effects of these three Ming Hun were despised by players.

Whether it was Auspicious Luck or Great Luck, their characteristic effects were to passively enhance the fortune of the person in whom they were embedded.

But this manifestation of fortune would not be reflected in the short term.

According to research-oriented parties who consulted data and asked the Guidance, the effects of Ming Hun that enhanced fortune required time to manifest, and this time might be very long.

Whenever a player died, this fortune buff would reset to zero and recalculate upon re-entering the Monster World.

The reason was that players who died and entered the Black Room were no longer within the framework of the Monster World, so they could not receive the continuous blessing of fortune.

The only ones interested in this type of Ming Hun were the Kindergarten Group who had embedded the "Infinite Ming Hun."