I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 442 - 154: Humph, Tycoons Are Always One Step Behind Me!_2

Chapter 442: Chapter 154: Humph, Tycoons Are Always One Step Behind Me!_2

Whatever you play, you’ve got it.

And on my side, I’m copying homework all the way.

Meanwhile, God Nick keeps developing new strategies.

Once Ekko Carter’s Double Thorns System quickly spread, many players started to pick it up after adjusting its speed.

God Nick then came up with an even newer and more extreme system!

Four-star Headshake Cannon!

The main Chess piece turns out to be a one-cost unit that nobody used to value—Tristana.

Because of the trait of the Yordle bond.

Having three 3-star Chess on the board allows one of the Yordle Chess to be upgraded to 4-star.

Both the skill set and personal attributes receive an incredibly strong boost!

This was covered in the Cloud Top guide for beginners.

The moment a 3-star Chess is sacrificed, it can turn the tide of battle!

And what about the system-breaking 4-star? Wouldn’t the appearance of one cause a killing frenzy?

However, the Yordle bond was not popular among players at the start.

Everyone thought the requirements were too outrageous.

That’s a 3-star Chess piece we’re talking about!

To get a 3-star Chess piece, you need to collect 9 identical ones.

Especially Chess pieces costing four or more, there are only 12 in the entire card pool, and you have to compete with the other 7 players to get them.

Even if you settle for less, there are only 18 pieces of 3-cost units in the entire card pool, like the trendy Ekko, Katarina, and Ice girl at this stage.

Everyone desperately wants to hold a 2-star in their hand.

Those who don’t play this system will deliberately hold one or two pieces to annoy other players.

This is also a kind of underhanded tactic: if I can’t win, neither can you! Damn it, I’ll blow you all up with Ekko Carter!

Moreover, that’s real cash we’re talking about.

A 3-cost card costs 3 Gold Coins, so 9 cards cost 27 Gold Coins, but you also need money to reroll cards and buy other Chess pieces.

Normally, having 50 Gold Coins in hand already means you’re quite wealthy.

What kind of financial background do you have to be able to sustain such a build?

So now, let’s turn back and look at the requirements for the Yordle bond.

You need to have three 3-star Chess on the board... to upgrade one of the Yordle Chess to 4-star.

Look how absurd that is.

In a society where birthing a single 3-star is so hard, you want me to produce three?

Cloud Top designers! Look what a crap bond you’ve designed!

Yordles?

Even dogs wouldn’t play it!

It’s useless!

And yet!

Nobody expected.

God Nick actually refined this system.

He leveraged a Hex called Luck of Star Rising.

Its effect is: each time a Chess piece is starred up, you get a free shop refresh.

This one Hex allowed God Nick to shine with the Yordle system, kicking the perpetual motion machine into gear!

The principle of operation is that Chess pieces not needed in Cloud Top can be thrown back to the shop for a full refund.

However, selling combined Chess pieces incurs a one Gold Coin fee.

That is, your 4-cost card, bought but not needed, is still worth 4 Gold Coins when thrown back to the shop.

But if you combine three 4-cost cards into a 2-star, which is worth 12 Gold, you’ll be charged one Gold fee when selling back, leaving you with only 11 Gold Coins.

This rule applies to costs from 2 to 5.

But only the 1-cost is different!

The price of 1-cost remains the same, so a combined 2-star made of three 1-costs still sells for 3 Gold.

At this point, the standards of a perpetual motion machine have already been met.

In the early game, God Nick madly collected various 1-cost cards, accepting all comers and grabbing any that appeared in the card pool.

Then after combining them into 2-stars, he would directly sell them to the shop to reclaim his capital.

And because of the passive from Luck of Star Rising, as long as a Chess upgrades, the shop gets refreshed for free.

From there, the entire cycle was born.

Combine low-cost 2-stars, get a free shop refresh the moment they star up.

Then sell the low-cost 2-stars to the shop, recover your capital, and continue purchasing other Chess pieces.

Keep going until you’ve gathered enough low-cost Chess pieces you want.

With this approach, in God Nick’s fastest game, it took only a few rounds.

By the 2-5 phase, he had already assembled a formidable lineup.

Namely.

3-star Tristana, 3-star Hammerform Tristana, 3-star Maokai, with Timo as a mere accessory, just to make up for the Yordle census.

According to the Yordle bond passive, as long as there are three 3-stars, the strongest Yordle Chess piece in your team automatically advances to 4-star.

That is to say.

God Nick rolled a four-star Tristana right at the 2-5 phase!

The entire live streaming room was about to explode!

A flurry of ’What?’ filled the screen, and even He Xi, who rarely commented, couldn’t help but join in the madness when he saw the scene, repeatedly typing ’What?’

The other players matched against God Nick in the game were all dumbfounded, a string of question marks almost covered God Nick’s board.

On the spot, two ran away, surrendering instantly, and without looking back, the last message left in the public chat was ’F*ck this game!’

The remaining players who persisted didn’t witness any miracles.

What they got was a four-star Tristana’s demonic attack speed, skills rotating almost every two seconds, Fire Arrow launchers spraying flames frequently, hammering them in the face with big fiery balls.

Hit full in the face, they couldn’t hold on.

Your Spiritual Wind Lux may be badass, Ekko Carter’s threat to the back row is significant as well.

But what if I pull out a four-star Tristana at the 2-5 phase when, at this stage of the game, your Spiritual Wind Lux system is missing its Lux, and the Double Thorns System lacks both Ekko and Katarina, how will you deal with that?