I am the God of Games (Part 2)

Chapter 240

Chapter 240: Working as Intended

After the difficult battles, the Players celebrated their harvests in joy, while others cursed the whales who were bragging and flaunting.

That being said, neither the Dead Red Dragon nor the Undead Orks dropped anything impressive aside from the dragon scales some of the Players had pried off with Life Skills, the reason naturally being that Xi Wei was dumping every reward indiscriminately into the Personal Prize Pool and Global Prize Pool as he had originally planned.

At first, Xi Wei had assumed that dividing the Global Prize Pool into three categories in gold, silver, and bronze would upset the Players—and it turned out to be somewhat true: one of them did see the imbalance of such a setting and had their words about it, even complaining on the forums anonymously and getting almost 50 likes for it.

Still, would being anonymous on the forums matter to Xi Wei? He could see the essence from the phenomenon, immediately realizing that it was Marni running his mouth. Hence, he sneakily lowered the lottery success rate in the Global Prize Pool by 20% for him and the other Players who liked his post, and have them understand the pain of society…[1]

Either way, Xi Wei realized that he was worrying too much—the Bronze Prize Pool actually contained many useful items (such as strong forging stones), and many Players who had drained out their Personal Prize Pool and pooled enough Global Tickets started to draw from the Global Pool.

And right after their fellow Players managed to draw something, other Players who had been saving their tickets began to invest their tickets in envy as well. It was basically the same thing as smartphone games, where impulsive Players assumed that the chance of success is high when they saw the System information of ‘XXX managed to draw an SSR’. Believing that they could do it as well, they would then throw their money in the game as if having lost their minds.

Moreover, since Xi Wei did not put out a preview, the Players only knew about the rewards in the Bronze Pool and nothing about the other two. Therefore, to prevent a situation where something like ‘the rewards in later pools are rare but not as useful as strong forging stone’, most Players—aside from the stingy ones—began to draw from the Prize Pool.

And when most of the top prizes were taken, Xi Wei generously unlocked the Silver Pool even though there were still some junk left in the Bronze Pool.

Items in the Silver Pool were naturally more enviable to the Players compared to Bronze Pool items (Purple-rare items, buffer stones that prevented items from breaking in failed forging), which in turn ignited greater reaction and competition amongst the Players.

And just like he did for the Bronze Pool, Xi Wei unlocked the Golden Pool after most of the top prizes were taken.

Hence, when the legendary weapon Happy Flames showed up, the Players all went mad and tried as hard they could to find any Undead Ork still on the loose to earn any RIP points they could get their hands on, bent on going for one last try.

The border patrols of the Silver Eagle Duchy were all moved to tears by their actions…

Not only had the Players saved them in their darkest hour and handled the greatest of calamity, they simply had no intention to stop and continued searching for any enemy that remained, extinguishing any tinder of calamity that could reignite the calamity in its crib!

Even if the patrol guards would try to stop the Players and attempt to reward them with food or even coins for their actions, they would merely shake their heads in disdain. Claiming that they were not fighting for gratitude, they would turn and continued onwards to chase after the undead!