Chapter 374: Origin Creatures? Pets!
Origin creatures—
lifeforms created by consuming reward points and combining them with materials dropped from corrupted monsters.
This was Fang Yi's new idea.
Previously, the five [Silver-Grade Armors] had also been created this way—through crafting origin equipment.
Items imbued with corruption energy
couldn't be used directly—they would corrupt players and cause a descent state, just like lifeforms turned into corrupted monsters.
So, just like socketing gems into gear,
origin equipment had to be embedded into the core of a world controlled by Fang Yi,
so that the world's natural vitality could filter and purify the corruption.
The [Ocean of Magic], [Dark Elf], [Ten Thousand Qi] sets players currently used
were all projections of origin equipment.
Now,
what Fang Yi called origin creatures were made by taking origin materials dropped by lord-level monsters in the Qing Kingdom Ghost Story world,
adding in massive amounts of reward points, and crafting semi-sentient beings.
[Zombie Babies].
Silver-grade. Extremely high growth potential.
Strong in all four base stats. Lots of zombie-type skills.
Their only real downside was poor intelligence.
Afuku asked, confused,
"Master, I understand your reasoning."
"Players have strong willpower and can serve as the vanguard against the Corruption Continent,
but their biggest flaw is that they're uncontrollable."
"Even with main quests guiding them, some are willing to suffer huge penalties just to abandon missions."
Four-nation shinobi, navy, adventurers, revolutionaries, demons, Demon Slayer Corps, yokai…
These player factions were too scattered. Their rivalries couldn't be easily resolved.
It was hard to get them to unite against the corruption.
Creating origin creatures, it seemed, was Fang Yi's way of building a perfectly obedient army.
But—
Afuku hesitated and said,
"If you're not in a rush... we could wait until players conquer the Qing Kingdom Ghost Story world,
then use the high-grade zombie soul materials they collect to fix the creatures' intelligence flaw."
A mindless army was easy to control—
but too stiff, lacking combat efficiency.
"Wrong. Completely wrong."
Fang Yi shook his head with a smile.
"Who said I was trying to make a monster army?"
Sure, origin creatures could be used as troops.
But their biggest downside? The ridiculous reward point cost.
High-grade lord materials plus tons of points just to make one origin creature.
Even after embedding it into a world core for purification, it still consumed origin power.
Just one Zombie Baby required 500,000 reward points.
Even if it was just a projection, it was identical to the original—so the cost was exactly the same.
A 1,000-monster army would cost 500 million points.
Fang Yi had worked his ass off—
scouring both the Shinobi and Pirate worlds—and only just scraped that amount together.
And that's not even counting the extra cost of purifying corruption.
Afuku looked even more confused.
"If it's not an army, and you only make a few, then low-IQ origin creatures are even more pointless.
It's a total waste of reward points."
500,000 points for one origin creature?
Why not just make a Universal Invitation and recruit someone like Esdeath?
That didn't even cost reward points.
Plus, you could reclaim the origin energy from whatever that new player exchanged.
It was pure profit for the game.
Not to mention,
beings like Erza and Kikyo had talent and combat potential that far outstripped any Zombie Baby.
"To me, low intelligence isn't a drawback—it's the perfect trait!"
Fang Yi grinned wider.
"If their intelligence were too high, they'd develop self-awareness and couldn't be kept as pets."
"Low-IQ origin creatures?
Feed them, play with them a little, and they'll be loyal to the death…"
"Once it hits the market, they'll be every player's favorite!"
The latest game update had already added a pet slot to the player UI—
a gift Fang Yi had long prepared.
"Pets?"
Afuku thought it over and asked,
"You mean the kind that summoners and hunters use?"
The Reincarnation Game had all kinds of supernatural powers.
Some classes were weak individually and relied entirely on summoned beasts or contracted monsters.
So Afuku quickly understood Fang Yi's point.
Fang Yi shook his head gently.
"Similar, but not quite the same."
"Contract beasts and summons can fight, yes,
but they don't buff the player's own body."
"But the origin creatures I make—the ones that go in the pet slot—
are like equipment. They enhance your base stats. And they even unlock Pet Fusion Skills."
He smiled even more brightly.
"Which means it's not just summoners that need pets!"
"Once origin creatures are sold as pets, no player will be able to resist."
"Zombie Babies are just the juvenile stage.
Feed them enough, and they'll evolve into their mature form."
"At that point, they branch into dozens of categories—!"
"Physical type, magic type, strength type, agility type, physical defense, magical defense, constitution, water, fire…"
"Each category corresponds to different attribute boosts."
"No matter what class you play—there's a pet for you."
"Tell me—how could players possibly resist?"
Gulp…
Afuku swallowed hard, visibly shaken.
Just a moment ago,
she'd worried that the new update had removed all monetization options.
Without income from players, the game's origin flow might collapse.
But Fang Yi… had silently dropped a game-breaking move.
The reward points players had finally saved up
were about to be drained dry.
Some might even go into debt.
That's her master for you.
Even after two hundred trillion years of existence, she still felt like a child compared to him.
She sighed with envy and a tinge of helplessness.
"I guess I'll never be able to milk players like he can…"
Then she frowned and said,
"But still—500,000 points is too much. Most players can't afford it."
Unknowingly, she was starting to adopt Fang Yi's mindset—no longer worrying about the players, but about profit margins.
"Who said I'm selling the full version of Zombie Babies?"
Fang Yi's smile turned cold, and the white-haired loli shivered.
"I'll sell fragments. That's affordable, right?"
"Collect 200 fragments to exchange for one pet egg."
"Then, spend some high-tier materials to incubate it."
"When the egg hatches, you'll finally get the pet you've dreamed of."
"The price of fragments, the cost to hatch the egg—
every charge is small.
Even a newbie with just a few thousand points can afford it."
"But once they bite—there's no going back."
"Even a broke player with nothing but crumbs in their inventory
will still pay for the pet system."
No one escapes.
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