Pay-to-Win, Gacha, White Light, and Dead Ends

  “I still 't give up the arrogance of being a pyer... Sigh, so to ge the whole industry, I have to start with myself.”

  Li Aozzi secretly warned himself, avoid arrogano more arrogance.

  Adjust your mi, adjust your mi.

  It was arrogahat destroyed the Starfall Masters unity.

  They should have had a warm, inclusive, and diverse unity culture, with many people creating sedary works, hand-writtes, video edits, fanfis, and even offliups—simir to the gatherings of Martial Artists and Mages.

  This profession is definitely not inferior to others.

  If pyers are willing to join, Li Aozzi would certainly build this profession into something great.

  “Of course, I ’t think like that. Even without pyers, so what? I’ve ied my youth, effort, and love into this profession, gaining money, streaming ine, and the audience's love. ging the iable dee of the Starfall Master is my duty.”

  After all, he gaioo much from the Starfall Master in his past life: bes, fame, many friends. These brought more than just material ges.

  “Whether pyers arrive or not, I must be prepared to establish a new order. Rebuilding the glory of the Starfall Masters is our duty!”

  Start with the Blood Magic path, paving a stable route.

  , sider how to simplify the job threshold, making the Starfall Master accessible and popur.

  The unity is too small. Even if it increased by hundreds or thousands, it wouldn’t be oversaturated, and the universe is too vast.

  On a ic level, numbers are crucial.

  The universe is too big; too few people means no ce or justification to occupy territory.

  Mages easily cim rge swathes of spaagical research,” essentially izing ps.

  Martial arts masters with many disciples and thriving industries expaory and aodate poputions naturally.

  But Starfall Masters are awkward. They live long lives, have few numbers, and ck the anizational scale to utilize much space, making any justification shaky.

  “Besides increasing numbers, personal strength is the main factor... Nothing is more reliable than strength.”

  “Li Aozzi, Li Aozzi—you must stay calm. Arroganly makes me weak and inpetent. I must not start this bad habit.”

  He muttered to himself.

  On refle, since crossing over, he seemed to have always maintained a pyer’s style, iently revealing his disregard for others, hindering his progress.

  Humility fosters progress is not just empty talk. Li Aozzi realized he was too restless, not correg his mi.

  He no longer had the pyer’s capital—the three revival ces, and even if exhausted, one could respawn with memories and bound equipment.

  Low-profile, humble, steady, calm.

  These should be his current qualities.

  After his self-refle, Li Aozzi looked at Yavanna, uo suppress his jealousy.

  Damn, I still really waalent.

  “If I get this talent, I asd to Bishop in version 3.0, and from level 90 to 180, no o the same level will be my oppo! No one!”

  Hehis troublesome woman couldn’t be killed just because of a bad mood.

  Seemingly sensing Li Aozzi’s gaze, Yavanna looked up, their eyes met, and Li Aozzi immediately gred at her in displeasure.

  He was holding a grudge over losing a specialization.

  “I o think... how to get her talent or replicate it.”

  Li Aozzi had the Energy Capsule, not g abilities, but personal talents were bound to people, making them hard to obtain.

  His first thought was to open the [Game Store].

  —As the saying goes, problems that money solve aren’t real problems.

  “This is the final patch version store, and I remember there are some taleed items…”

  Li Aozzi searched for keywords, finding three items.

  The first was [White Wax Fantasy Crystal], a magical item. With a retionship level of 500 (respect) her with the target, it allows mutual sharing of racial, personal, and css talents.

  This item, introduced in version 3.7.1, was cheap, costing only 168 points.

  Li Aozzi recalled it was used by spellcasters for mutual exges. Two mages with a good retionship would share talents.

  Sihe magic side mainly relied on academiowledge and skill accumution, this served to prove their unbreakable friendship.

  However... the prerequisite was quite challenging.

  Achieving 500 respect points was hard enough, and after sharing, if one killed the other, they’d lose the ability to share.

  Not viable, Li Aozzi turo the item.

  The sed was a tech-side item, [Gene Mirror Replicator], ridiculously expe 19,288 points, allowing direct replication of all talents, skills, specializations, knowledge, and memories from a defearget.

  This owerful item, but Li Aozzi hesitated to use it on Yavanna.

  The [Gene Mirror Replicator] was a oime purchase, with no level restris. Using it on a low-level target would be a waste.

  He wao save it fh-level bosses like [Annihition Demon Lord] Scarvey, [Moon Maiden] Jasmine, or [Death Recorder] De Annie.

  These three had talents and specializations truly worth the cost, with high cost-effectiveness.

  [Objective Resonance] was a god-tier talent, but pared to these three version bosses, it cked cost-effectiveness... Li Aozzi had to sider carefully.

  He didn’t want to sacrifice future development potential, especially for version 8.0 [Song of Despair], a version demanding individual strength over teamwork.

  That period was supposed to be the prime time for solo csses, particurly the Starfall Master, but its small numbers prevented any signifit impact, causing Li Aozzi endless heartache.

  “Better to save it for space.”

  To find a breakthrough, he looked at the third item.

  The third item had no purchase limit but was not cheap. It was a random draw from the target’s skills, items, specializations, or talents.

  Si was a draw, not a copy, the extracted skills or items would adapt to the new user.

  For example, a skill suitable fes would adjust its attributes if extracted by a warrior, avoiding a sense of loss for the warrior pyer.

  This sounded good... but the ck of guarantees made it risky.

  Li Aozzi recalled a professional pyer’s stream, where he spent a fortune on 1,000 draws, swearing to extract a demon warlock’s [Summon Succubus] skill.

  After spending all the draws, he ended up with 986 [Human Amber] skills, swearing off gambling and spending ever again.

  One draw cost 648 points. Li Aozzi worried about bad luck, fearing he’d spend all his points and end up extrag Yavanna’s underwear without getting a specialization.

  After all, he was no longer a pyer and couldn’t use the power of money.

  Most of his points o be traded for rare resources, making exges more worthwhile.

  However, if he gambled on luck, there was a way to temporarily increase his ‘luck.’

  Although the cost was high, it table for now.

  Thinking it over, Li Aozzi felt his luck wasn’t too bad. He could try his luck before doing that task.

  With that in mind, he clicked the purchase firmation.

  [Do you want to purchase ‘Ticket to the Trekie Exhibition’?]

  [Purchase successful]

  Li Aozzi drew a meticulously crafted card from his pocket. The regur card had a slight resilience, feeliy. The froured a dragon with resple gemstone scales, and the back bore a gold-foiled phrase:

  ‘Enjoy the grand exhibition.’

  Qiu Ran and Yavanna immediately noticed the high-end item Li Aozzi took out, sparking their i.

  “What’s this? It looks beautiful,” Qiu Ran asked curiously.

  Tear—

  The moment, Li Aozzi poihe card at Yavanna and tore it apart.

  [You used the item ‘Ticket to the Trekie Exhibition’ on target “Yavanna Haskisin.”]

  [Drawing in progress…]

  [You obtained ‘Signal Transmitter.’]

  “Damn it!”

  Li Aozzi pulled out a signal transmitter the size of a beetle. Yavanna’s eyes widened.

  “How did you get that?”

  Li Aozzi didn’t answer, now hating talking to women. He held the signal transmitter between his fingers, p.

  Clearly, his luck was bad today, drawing such trash… but perhaps not pletely useless.

  “This might e in handy.”

  Li Aozzi remembered his task, whivolved infiltrating the White Fang gang’s camp without beied.

  Acc to pyers’ uanding of ‘infiltration’ as defined by izens (the developers and operators of*Star Abyss*), as long as his information wasn’t exposed, it was sidered successful.

  With this perspective, even wiping out the camp ted as infiltration.

  Using a nuclear bomb would also t as infiltration.

  Even luring eo kill each other could be infiltration.

  The key was whether information was exposed! If his information wasn’t exposed, it didn’t t as failure.

  “I’m struggling with how to deal with Nimotin, fighting her would waste time, but I’ve already provoked her, and being chased is annoying—so let the White Fang gang deal with her for me.”

  After all, I’m not a bad guy. What bad iions could a little mutator have?