Chapter 384: Pet Lottery
Luffy quickly opened his pet interface
and found a pet egg slowly rotating at the center, allowing him to view its attributes.
[Pet Egg (Zombie Baby)]
Quality: E-Rank
Hatch Progress: 0/100 (Fill with zombie materials to increase hatch progress)
Note: The higher the quality of zombie materials, the higher the chance of improving the pet's final quality.
"We're doomed. All that money down the drain. E-Rank probably means it's a pretty lousy pet, right?"
Seeing the low-tier classification,
Nami felt her heart sink. She sighed and threw most of the zombie materials from her inventory into the hatch furnace, praying the pet egg's quality would improve.
After tens of thousands of contribution points' worth of materials were consumed—
*[Hatch successful. Congratulations! You have obtained a game pet: (Zombie Baby) 1]
At Luffy's feet,
a short figure suddenly appeared. Round and chubby, dressed in an official uniform from Azure Nation, wearing a magistrate's hat, and bright red lips—it didn't look scary at all. In fact, it looked kind of dopey and cute.
Usopp stared in disbelief. "You spent five hundred thousand contribution points… and bought this?"
His words hit Nami like a sledgehammer to her fragile sanity.
"Let's test its ability!"
"Understood!"
Luffy felt an instinctive link with the Zombie Baby. Without making a single move, he simply looked at it.
The Zombie Baby seemed to understand perfectly.
A yellow-green aura suddenly radiated from its body.
[Corpse Poison Aura Lv.1]: Applies [Corpse Poison] to enemies within a 50-meter radius. Deals 20 HP damage per second. Effect stacks up to five times.
In an instant,
Nami and the others felt a burning pain on their skin, as though they were being scorched.
They quickly told Luffy to cancel the skill.
Nami gasped, "This… this is its skill?"
The pet system had mentioned that hatched pets would naturally come with one to three innate skills, unless you were unbelievably unlucky.
"That's right!"
Luffy laughed proudly and displayed the pet's info.
[Luffy's Zombie Companion (E-Rank)]
Level: Lv.1 (Due to quality attributes, gains +8 free attribute points per level)
Attributes: Unknown
Stats: Strength 23, Agility 25, Constitution 25, Spirit 21
Skill Slot 1/3: Corpse Poison Aura Lv.1
Growth Phase: Juvenile 1/100
"So strong… No wonder it costs half a million contribution points."
Nami's opinion of the pet egg started to shift.
If it continued leveling up, this pet's potential could easily surpass that of most players.
Not to mention,
Corpse Poison Aura was already one of the stronger aura-type skills out there.
From her earlier despair, Nami now found herself considering whether the whole Straw Hat crew should get their own pets.
That thought took root instantly.
She sighed internally. "Still, raising a pet takes time. Zombie materials are too rare, and they don't drop easily."
Every corrupted zombie killed would drop contribution points,
but not necessarily materials.
Raising a pet to maturity in a short time? Unlikely.
Just then,
Luffy suddenly popped into the Reincarnation Game's public chat, asking: "Hey, Mister Game Merchant! Can't you make pet fragments a bit cheaper?"
The chaotic game chat,
as if in perfect sync, followed Luffy's message with a flood of replies, all urging the game merchant to lower the price of pet fragments.
This kind of thing was fairly common.
Players often left suggestions in the chat, and occasionally, the game merchant would take them seriously.
When a suggestion was accepted, the player who made it might even be rewarded.
So many players made a habit of leaving messages based on their own desires.
That said,
such feedback rarely got a response. For the most part, it was just players entertaining themselves.
But this time…
the game merchant replied quickly.
[Game Merchant]: "In light of player concerns about the high cost of pet fragments, and to encourage everyone to own a pet, I have decided—after careful consideration—to launch the Pet Lucky Spin event."
[Pet Lucky Spin]: Each spin randomly awards one prize from the wheel.
Spin Cost: 500 Contribution Points
Possible Rewards: F to SSR-rank zombie materials, pet fragments, skill book shards, skill slot piercers.
Note: A 10x Spin guarantees at least one A-rank reward.
The moment this announcement dropped,
the already-hyped player base reached peak excitement. Everyone's desire for pets was now completely ignited.
Fang Yi hadn't originally intended to unveil the pet lottery system so soon.
But since players had practically begged for it, he had no choice but to "reluctantly" fulfill their wish.
Worried about pet fragments being driven to absurd prices by profiteering merchants?
Frustrated by low drop rates on zombie materials?
Lacking faction support, strapped for cash, but still want a high-tier pet?
No problem.
As long as your luck holds, you could spend very little and walk away with one—or even several—SSR pets, complete with growth materials and skill books.
Even if your luck was terrible, it didn't matter.
The game merchant had thoughtfully added a failsafe:
Spend 5,000 points in a ten-spin batch,
and even with the worst luck, you were guaranteed at least one A-rank reward.
It was a no-loss deal.
Unless you were extremely unlucky, the pet lottery offered a fast track to obtaining your own pet egg.
And this wasn't just a gimmick to drain contribution points—
it was also a way to rapidly boost the collective strength of the players, aiding in conquering Azure Nation: Specter Chronicles.
Luffy laughed with his usual carefree spirit, "Nami! This is great! Now everyone can get a pet egg!"
Nami didn't respond. Something felt off.
Her instinct for money told her this pet lottery might cause players to spend even more than before.
"We're here—the Jiang estate."
A towering compound, dark red gates firmly shut, two crimson lanterns still hanging from the bridal ceremony.
Zoro and Sanji exchanged a look.
Zoro drew his sword.
With a ghostly slash, he broke down the Jiang family's door.
Boom.
Thick gray corpse energy oozed out like flowing water, reeking of decay.
[Town favorability requirement met. Interaction with informed beggar confirmed.]
[Side Quest Triggered: (Jiang Family Wax Corpses). Complete the investigation to earn 50,000 contribution points per person.]
Note: This scene is part of the [Zombie Era] storyline. Failure will prematurely awaken the dormant Dark Gold Zombie (Ghost General) in the General's Tomb.
Elsewhere…
Tsunade sat atop a residential rooftop, surrounded by cleared zombies. The air reeked of rot.
Yet her expression was electric, as if she'd just downed a shot of adrenaline.
"Ten pulls!"
She spent 5,000 contribution points and spun the pet wheel.
The disc split into numerous wedges, each marked with a different prize.
"One A-rank pet fragment?"
Tsunade took a deep breath, trying to stay calm.
Pet fragments bought from the shop would hatch into a pet egg of random quality, following the standard principle: the higher the quality, the lower the odds.
But—
fragments won from the spin had defined ranks.
The higher the quality of the fragment, the better the resulting pet egg.
For example, her A-rank fragment—
if she could collect 200 of them, she was guaranteed an A-rank pet egg, with a chance of getting S or even SS-rank.
Even with just 100 A-rank fragments, she still had a decent shot at an A-rank egg.
The lottery's built-in guarantee
was a godsend for "unlucky" players like Tsunade. She immediately decided to spend all her saved points.
Upgrade her Holy Light skills?
That could wait.
Silver armor set?
No rush.
Right now, the lottery was her number one priority!
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