Chapter 62: Lottery Event

The Primordial Sacrifice Altar.

Multiple glowing orbits surrounded Qi Sheng, upon which countless complex characters danced; he lowered his head to carefully examine the connection nodes between the characters and the orbits, as well as the path changes of energy flowing through the trajectories.

The energy orbits and characters were the materialized analytical structure of the "Heavenly Rune Combat Technique" gifted to the players by Duan Xing.

Wielding sacrificial power capable of transforming the characteristics of all things, Qi Sheng could completely replicate the operational trajectory of the Heavenly Rune Combat Technique, craft it into a commodity, list it on the shelves, and supply it for players to purchase and use.

However, a problem existed here: the cultivation system of the Heavenly Rune Combat Technique was not suitable for humans.

The physical structure of humans differed from that of the Heavenly Rune Clan, including the layout of internal meridians and organs.

When the operational trajectory of the Heavenly Rune Combat Technique ran within the simulated test human bodies he created, the results were far from ideal.

External energy entering the test human bodies would run rampant through the meridians uncontrollably, causing severe pain and discomfort; if the energy was not guided away in time, it could burst blood vessels, threatening the lives of the test subjects.

The reason Zhou Xiao could safely use the Heavenly Rune Combat Technique was that he had absorbed a special type of energy stored within the Information Stone; it would help Zhou Xiao digest externally absorbed energy, nurture and transform it, before exhaling it to nourish Zhou Xiao's body, enhancing his physical attributes.

It was equivalent to Zhou Xiao having an additional simple energy-absorbing organ within his body that simulated the physical structure of the Heavenly Rune Clan.

This discovery instantly sparked Qi Sheng's interest.

Replicating this simple organ seemed difficult to him, nor was replicating the cultivation operational paths that had already been fully analyzed; as long as the detailed structure of a thing was analyzed, he could perfectly replicate everything by consuming sacrificial power.

He could even implant the replication process into the Challenger System in the form of an automated program.

For instance, the Spirit Stones sold in the mall were crafted after he had meticulously analyzed their internal structure.

During this process, to simplify the production workflow, he had set the procedure for transforming sacrificial power into Spirit Stones to be automated.

As long as a player clicked to purchase Spirit Stones in the mall, the program within the Challenger System for transforming sacrificial power into Spirit Stones would activate, and then transmit the converted Spirit Stones to the player's hands via the spatial system.

With the Guide providing detailed analysis, replicating both the simple organ and the Heavenly Rune Combat Technique was no difficult task.

The difficulty lay in his desire to create a universal absorption and conversion organ.

The Heavenly Rune Clan was merely one among billions of racial forces in the Monster World, hardly a top-tier race, and their cultivation techniques held little value in Qi Sheng's eyes.

But beyond the Heavenly Rune Clan's body-tempering combat techniques, the Monster World also contained various powerful cultivation combat techniques.

All these combat techniques could seize a wisp of heaven-and-earth energy into the body by adapting to the world's operational trajectories, nurture it within the body, and then feed it back to nourish the physique, achieving the effect of strengthening the body.

Among them were many excellent body-tempering combat techniques with extremely high efficiency in seizing heaven-and-earth energy.

Qi Sheng's purpose in studying body-tempering combat techniques was precisely to craft a "Universal Cultivation Organ" for the players, allowing this organ to perfectly adapt to all cultivation combat techniques, so that regardless of which race's technique a player learned, they could operate it perfectly through this special organ.

Furthermore, the organ could automatically record the operational paths of the combat techniques learned by the player; once a player mastered a body-tempering combat technique, they could activate its operation with a single click.

This would keep players in a constant state of cultivation, allowing them to gain body-tempering experience whether hunting or mining.

Of course, he would not offer this Cultivation Mode to players for free; driving this universal organ would definitely require charging sacrificial power above the cost price.

It was equivalent to adding a pay-to-play cultivation Cultivation Mode for players within the built-in mall system.

However, at the current stage, there were no physical objects available for analysis and reference; relying solely on the Heavenly Rune Combat Technique provided by Duan Xing, Qi Sheng temporarily had no way to proceed.

Just as he was pondering how to solve this problem, the Guide's water sphere emerged from the void and hovered beside him:

[Boss, hyper-dimensional connection established.]

Upon hearing this, Qi Sheng stopped contemplating the issue of crafting the universal organ; in the blink of an thought, a light screen appeared before him.

In the image, Hyper-Dimension sat with vacant eyes amidst lush, growing greenery, merging into one with nature.

"Boss, we've encountered some trouble developing the armed vehicle function."

"Not enough sacrificial power?"

Hearing this, Hyper-Dimension scratched his head with a silly smile:

"Building this system requires implanting a new energy conversion framework on top of the existing one, so it needs sacrificial power support; the previous batch of recruitment consumed 2 million sacrificial power, and adding the income from these past few days while subtracting my production costs, you have 390,000 sacrificial power remaining; if I continue consuming at the current speed of developing new functions, it will likely affect your ability to distribute rewards."

Hearing Hyper-Dimension's explanation, Qi Sheng frowned slightly.

After a brief moment of thought, he looked at Hyper-Dimension in the light screen and nodded:

"Don't worry, continue your research and production; I will find a way to solve this problem."

After ending the connection, Qi Sheng had already figured out how to fill this gap in sacrificial power.

Although he only held 390,000 sacrificial power, the total amount in the sacrificial power pool was 2.48 million, of which 2.09 million belonged to the players.

Although he would not easily touch this portion of the players' sacrificial power, it had to be used when critical moments arose.

Directly taking it seemed inappropriate to him.

If, for some reason, the player base needed to consume a large amount of sacrificial power, it would lead to an inability to fill expenditures from the inventory of sacrificial power, severely impacting the players' gaming experience.

Therefore, the most correct method was to find a suitable reason to have the players voluntarily hand over a portion of their sacrificial power; doing so would avoid the potential risk of a run on sacrificial power.

As for exactly how to implement this, Qi Sheng already had a clear plan in mind.

He had conceived this plan while building the Challenger System, waiting for a time of sacrificial power shortage to bring it out.

That was a lottery draw!

Before transmigrating to the Monster World, Qi Sheng had played many games on Earth.

When creating the Challenger System, he had referenced settings from many games.

He discovered that various types of games generally featured a pay-to-win model, using lottery forms such as blind boxes, card draws, spinning wheels, chest openings, and flying chess to encourage players to spend money.

This type of pay-to-win gameplay had three advantages.

First, it satisfied players' psychological needs; humans inherently possess a gambler's mentality, generating curiosity and expectation towards unknown results, and the pay-to-win lottery mechanism leveraged this point, allowing players to experience the fun of "betting small to win big" through payment.

Second, when players obtained rare or precious virtual items through the lottery, they would feel intense joy and satisfaction; this positive feedback would urge them to continue participating in the lottery.

Finally, lottery mechanisms usually included multiple types of rewards, ranging from common to rare; the diversity of prizes gave players more expectations and surprises during the drawing process, satisfying the needs of different types of players.

It was precisely these three advantages that led game manufacturers to choose lotteries as the mainstream model for obtaining cash top-ups from players.

But he differed from game manufacturers; he did not need players to provide cash, only the sacrificial power in their hands.

Launching a probability-based lottery could solve this problem very well; as long as the prize probabilities were adjusted correctly, he could guarantee steady profits without loss.

Once this model was opened, the stock of sacrificial power in the players' hands would inevitably continuously convert into revenue for him.

Compared to other pay-to-win games, the Monster World opening a lottery model also possessed an inherent advantage.

Players would not harbor suspicions regarding probability issues, nor would they consider the lottery event in the game to be an act of the officials forcing or deceiving them into spending.

Because the game Monster World had no cash top-up channels; what was consumed was merely currency produced within the game.

With the idea formed, Qi Sheng immediately contacted the Guide to begin crafting a virtual lottery event.

That afternoon, the Challenger notification rang in the minds of all players, and related information was simultaneously published on the official forum:

[Random Event Activated: This event is the "Lucky Wheel"; players can activate the Lucky Wheel Cultivation Mode via the function panel; this function will disappear after the event ends.]

Poster: Guide (Official Verified)

Event Introduction: This round of the event is triggered at random times; during the event period, players can activate the Lucky Wheel by consuming 20 points of sacrificial power to produce random rewards; there is no pity guarantee.

Event Duration Countdown: 23 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds.

Event Rewards are as follows:

The prizes for this event are divided into six tiers, distinguished from low to high by white slots, green slots, blue slots, red slots, purple slots, and golden slots.

The golden slot prizes are as follows:

1. Body-Tempering Level +2 (Only obtainable if Body-Tempering Level is below 10; if Body-Tempering Level has already reached level 10, 20,000 points of sacrificial power will be directly refunded instead)

2. Grand Sacrificial Power Gift Pack (Upon opening, directly obtain 18,000 points of sacrificial power)

3. Star Vein Growth Gift Pack (Upon opening, obtain Star Vein Level +4)

4. Power of Growth (Upon opening, Hunting Monster Evolution Points and Sacrificial Power Yield +15%, lasting 30 days) (Note: Power of Growth only amplifies hunting yields; sacrificing resources or items will not receive extra yield feedback)

The purple slot prizes are as follows:

1. Infinite Pickaxe (Mall price 5,000 points of sacrificial power, infinite durability, automatically repairs when damaged)

2. Grand Ration Gift Pack (Mall price 3,000 points of sacrificial power, contains 3,000 canned rations of various flavors)

3. Earth-Splitting Slash (Mall price 3,500 sacrificial power, Quality: 39)

The suddenly appearing game notification instantly attracted the attention of a large number of players.

They flocked to leave messages under the official post to discuss.

Night Approaches: Hiss~ I smell a strong scent of scamming spenders... oh, it's the Land of Darkness, then never mind, this game has no top-up channels.

Cherry Little Calf: Looking at the event introduction stating there's no pity mechanism, doesn't that mean in cases of extremely bad luck, every draw could be a white slot? I was just about to start cursing, when I suddenly remembered this game has no built-in cash top-up channels; could the Eclipse Clan officials possibly scam me out of my sacrificial power? (awkwardly scratches head.jpg)

Sleep After One Death:

Brothers, after my analysis, we can go all-in on this event; here are the reasons.

1. In other games, the lottery mechanism exists to obtain cash top-ups from players, but the Land of Darkness does not have this issue, so the winning probability must be reliable.

2. Aside from scamming spenders, lottery mechanisms also commonly exist when in-game currency is flooding; this is a means for game officials to recycle game currency and ensure normal prices, but the sacrificial power output in the Land of Darkness is terrifyingly low, so there is absolutely no issue of currency inflation; on the contrary, I feel the currency output is too low and needs to be increased, so this event is definitely not for recycling sacrificial power either.

3. The Eclipse Clan's previous game also launched a lottery event; judging by past conventions, the probability was very fair and reliable, giving everyone a chance to win the grand prize... of course, there are also players with exceptionally bad luck; without a pity system, having bad luck is truly no one's fault but their own.

Most Annoyed by Usernames: Watching you all analyze back and forth, why don't you just draw first, then come to the forum to talk about your feelings? (wry smile.jpg)

Regarding this lottery event, players expressed their own views.

Although the vast majority of players believed there were no issues with the lottery, some players still maintained a cautious attitude towards it, not daring to try easily.

They were not suspecting the officials of cheating, but rather worrying about the loss of sacrificial power.

Although sacrificial power was produced within the game, in the eyes of all players, it was an important game resource that could be exchanged for cash.

The price for a single draw was too expensive, so they dared not act rashly.

Just then, a notification rang across all channels, sparking heated discussion among the player base.

[Lucky Wheel Event Notification (All Channels): Congratulations to player "Don't Tell Mom Your Troubles" for drawing a Golden Reward, obtaining random content: Grand Sacrificial Power Gift Pack.]

This notification instantly caused an uproar in the voice channels.

"No way... bro, you're way too fast, the event was only up for less than 5 minutes and you already drew a Grand Sacrificial Power Gift Pack, 18,000 points of sacrificial power; are you playing this game with your lifespan? You really deserve to die!"

"Watching this made me clench my fists; if this game didn't block cash top-ups, I'd definitely curse you as a lucky dog scamming us out of our money. My good mood for the day is ruined by you. I'm going to spin too, and if I don't win, I'll come back and curse again."

"My green-eyed sickness is probably incurable. Why can't this chance to get rich include me? Admin, please disable the global channel notifications, or change the content to 'A player lost X Sacrificial Power due to Y action.' Stop announcing everyone else's good news; I don't want to hear it."

"I originally planned to save up for a Taunt Soul Soul, but seeing the lottery event, I knew I couldn't save anymore. Here I come, gambling wheel of joy! Give me a gold drop!"

"Frustrated! Seeing the notification, I immediately opened the wheel and spun twice. I spent 40 Sacrificial Power and got two cans of food sold in the Mall for 1 Sacrificial Power each. Damn Eclipse Clan, you're losing money! Refund me 38 Sacrificial Power (rolling on the ground throwing a tantrum.jpg)."

"Hahaha, lucky me! One spin hit the blue prize pool and awarded a weapon worth 120 Sacrificial Power (Attachment: Frost Sword)."

Qi Sheng had added a setting to this lucky draw event.

Whenever a player won a purple-quality reward or higher, a pinned notification would pop up in the global voice channel for three seconds.

He did this precisely to attract those players who were still hesitating.

Not long after the lottery event launched, everything unfolded exactly as anticipated: more and more players joined the draw.

Although some players were extremely lucky and won high-value items during this period, the winning probability Qi Sheng had set ensured he remained profitable.

The total Sacrificial Power had not decreased; it had merely shifted from nominally belonging to the players into his own account through legitimate means.

For Qi Sheng, who completely controlled the Sacrificial Power pool, he could indeed use the portion belonging to the players at will; even if payment issues arose, he could fabricate an excuse to explain them away.

But in his view, such behavior to deceive players was utterly foolish.

Even if players accepted his excuse, he would still need to fill the overspent Sacrificial Power deficit as soon as possible, which would ruin the players' gaming experience.

So, since he could rely on deception, why resort to robbery?

(End of Chapter)