Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 682 - 295. Gold coins explosion~

Chapter 682: 295. Gold coins explosion~

Li Aozi glanced at the time. After his afternoon of mess and contemplation, it was already seven in the evening.

Time to clock out!

Li Aozi turned off the terminal, pressed a button to call the maid to deliver food, and leisurely lay down in the president’s chair, opening the forum to observe the latest trends.

Due to the upcoming version update, players at the level cap were running wild, using resources and ammo that they usually would save.

The most notable change was the ’Red White Faction Battle’ in Sky Ring.

Thanks to Li Aozi’s support, the Red Team government of Gretto saw a significant boost, with a large number of Sky Ring players attaining mysterious Red Arrow powers, leaving the Royalist Party’s White Army questioning their lives.

They never expected that a place like Sky Ring, typically lacking Spellcasters, would now have battlefield traces full of Arcane Energy, and Azure Star was not like Baizhu Star; as a tech civilization, it practically had no native magic resistance gear.

The Mutants who upgraded to Gamma Rank (3) followed Li Aozi’s pathway plan, with many opting for the Blood Demon Style build. Using Gravity as an output control method, these Arcane Users appeared invulnerable and stubbornly annoying to the Royalists.

In simple terms: tough as nails and dealing high damage.

Li Aozi had invested much effort in developing the pathways, and now the rampant spread of the Blood Demon Style had transformed players’ team compositions.

In the past, in a six-player team, there had to be at least two Redemption players, one Judge to tank, and one Doctor or Priest to handle resurrection and healing.

But now, Judge mentor Gretto was busy with military and political affairs, leaving little time for players. The few competent Judge players were all cultivated by major guilds.

During this time, the Blood Demon Style quietly rose to prominence.

People were surprised to find: Blood Demon Style Mutants not only provided substantial magic damage but also took on reconnaissance roles. Most importantly, despite low armor, they were remarkably durable!

Death Link helped to share damage and deal high output at the same time.

Severing Life enhanced bloodsucking and percentage-based magic damage, leading to more health being gained as they fought.

This addressed the shortage of Judge players, almost replacing them, if not for Mutants being unable to set respawn points.

The Blood Demon Style’s impressive performance quickly drew attention from a large number of players. In the high-intensity battlefield of the Sky Ring civil war, high durability meant a greater chance of survival.

Remember, Sky Ring was a vast nation with a population of six hundred million. Spanning around 42.6 million square kilometers, conventional weapons couldn’t effectively enforce blockades.

Thus, Sky Ring residents chose a blunt method: nuking various areas, leveraging the blizzard and snow in the Outer World, creating expansive radiation wastelands, forcing enemies into designated encirclement zones for brutal urban warfare.

Pollution? The Outer World was already uninhabitable with rampant blizzards and deserts, so who cared about a bit of nuclear fallout?

Though it sounded grim, players growing accustomed to receiving 200,000 shells daily and occasional hydrogen bombs at times meant adapting to it over time.

In such an environment, the Blood Demon Style became one of the most crucial units.

The Mutants skyrocketed from T3 ordinary background occupation to T1, even reaching absolute dominance in T0 in nuclear radiation zones!

If this development had not shown apparent benefits,

then in just half a month, the registered Dominator System pathway players under the White Obelisk continuously surged, with many players choosing to team up with Mutants to tackle the brutal war.

Li Aozi noted that the numbers were still increasing.

Currently, the Light Monument Church had registered 400,000 believers.

And for Gamma Rank Mutant players?

"1,712,000."

Li Aozi clenched his fist.

These were players who had reached Gamma Rank!

In fact, the number of players who had become Mutants, including mortals who hadn’t reached Alpha Stage, was over ten times that of Gamma Rank players.

This didn’t even count NPCs.

According to rough estimates, native Azure Star people who reached Gamma Rank exceeded 300,000.

This explosive number convinced Li Aozi even more: the awakening of Lord Entropy was imminent, compelling Azure Star’s will to seek self-preservation.

For planetary wills, lacking precision operational abilities most of the time, currying favor with powerful residents was not demeaning.

Li Aozi earned his Star Charmer title this way.

With over two million Ascenders in the Dominator System at Gamma Rank. The actual number of Dominator System members surely exceeded tens of millions.

And Li Aozi’s profession, Star Realm Echoer, as a pathway occupation, had a unique exclusive talent.

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[Pathway Professional Talent - Stellar Rhythms]:

"You are a guide through the stars, a listener of the cosmic song. Those who follow you will be bathed in the same starlight as you."

When you guide more people to join the Echoer pathway, you gain attribute bonuses.

Azure Star: For every 100,000 additional Echoers, you gain 1 point of a random attribute value.

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"Once the version updates, these 2 million Gamma Rank Dominator System players will only have one pathway to choose—Echoer!"

Li Aozi was the only Dominator System tutor on Azure Star.

And the inheritance he left for the pathway was the Echoer.

This was monopoly.

Each 100,000 players provided 1 random attribute point. Azure Star alone could give him 20 points for free.

What about the next version? When those ten million Dominator System Ascenders also advance, that’s at least 100 points.

Don’t forget, the population could increase. After resolving the issues of Ersha and Lord Entropy, Azure Star would see a population boom, reaching a billion people was entirely possible.

Then, with Li Aozi’s near-dominant influence on Azure Star and the vast Dominator System group, even with the most conservative calculations, the future Dominator System Ascender group on Azure Star would reach over 100 million.

Combined with interstellar connections, once the population reaches Gamma Rank... How many attributes would those 100 million Gamma Rank Dominator System players provide?

points.

This was the pathway occupation... the Path to Divinity.

Li Aozi was even conservative in his estimates.

For now, Azure Star was still small in scale, and he only controlled the Echoer pathway.

Those Narrative-level civilizations directly occupied an entire pathway!

Once on the pathway, what awaited was extreme numerical inflation.

"This is the core interest of Narrative-level civilizations, with tens of trillions of people supporting the pathway. Even a pig could become a stats monster. Not to mention the carefully nurtured Ascenders of Narrative-level civilizations, who were exceptionally nurtured and trained to ascend, along with the returning Underwater Abyss Team members from lower star abysses..."

Li Aozi felt an instant suffocation.

For the first time, he sensed the overwhelming crushing power of Narrative-level civilizations’ foundation.

Under the monopolistic control of the pathway by Narrative-level civilizations, the strong naturally clustered under a single narrative, and over time, their thinking gradually aligned with the grand narrative of their civilization.

Even if they didn’t ultimately ascend to godhood, they provided high-end populace support for the grand narrative, continually enhancing and passing down the superior genes, with ever-increasing success rates...

Absurd, simply absurd to the point where absurdity opened the door for its mother; absurd to the core.

"In the future, establishing a solid bond between Azure Star and Baizhu Star, uniting them into one civilization, will be essential."

Li Aozi immediately spread his hand, and two invitations popped up in the Autonomous Space-Time band.

Hunter’s Gathering Invitation

Tracy Exhibition Hall Ticket

"I still haven’t found any news about Zhi Xiang. Once I handle these matters, I should head down to Submergence Starry Abyss."

Li Aozi did not think further:

"Wealth luck has just started to turn around, and I don’t have much foreign currency at hand. Given that, I might try my luck at Hunter’s Gathering first."

The Hunter’s Gathering itself was a place for information exchange. Besides disclosing information to the Secret Society, Li Aozi also planned to inquire about Zhi Xiang.

Speaking of which, there were a few old grumpy Ascenders among the hunters in Layer Abyss who were notorious for scamming players in the previous life game.

However...

Li Aozi opened the Mall and exposed a malicious smile at the plethora of goods.

As the Mall of version 14.0, Li Aozi had a diverse and rich inventory, buying low and selling high. If an old Ascender happened to show up this time.

Li Aozi could only make a killing, even if grudgingly.

Old geezer, it’s time for some Gold Coins to drop!