Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 406 - 154: The Tragedy of Earth-Eating, Bone Fire Mission

Chapter 406: Chapter 154: The Tragedy of Earth-Eating, Bone Fire Mission

Primordial Altar.

Based on feedback from Guidance, Qi Sheng obtained a set of data.

Since the pet feature went online, 223.92 million pets have been adopted.

According to the ranking by adoption numbers, they are:

First place: Fat Peach (12,594)

Second place: Light Spirit Feather (5,923)

Third place: Treasure Hunting Mouse (2,594)

Fourth place: Colorful Fruit (799)

Fifth place: Pollution (482)

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Fat Peach, with its low price and financial attributes, is adopted more than the other four combined.

The growth trend of Fat Peach’s adoption numbers continues to expand.

However, the setting that pets require constant investment of sacrificial power makes many players hesitate. Many players are more willing to spend resources on their own strength improvement, rather than dividing some sacrificial power to nurture pets, hoping for future rewards.

Qi Sheng’s next plan is to develop the cultivator feature and seek the second batch of pet templates.

Additionally, through the Guiding Avatar’s perspective, he constantly monitors the war between the Ascension Clan and the Shuyan Clan.

This war has changed since players appeared.

The two clans fight fiercely within the scene, while players lie in wait around the misty edges, ready to launch surprise attacks.

Through efforts in these days, the number of Shuyan Clan Warriors controlled by Life Souls outside has expanded to 103, and 38 Ascension Clan members have been slain by finishing moves, making the harvest quite abundant.

Especially the Shuyan Warrior.

This freely customizable pet is the dream target for countless control-oriented players.

The warriors of the two clans exhaust each other’s foundations, while players profit from it.

Through data feedback over these days, Qi Sheng also discovered that during the war phase between Ascension Clan and Shuyan, the embedding number of Controlled Life Soul has surged by 127.5%.

This Life Soul, always regarded as Spiritual Strength Level 4, became a popular choice during the two factions’ war phase.

The popularity only slightly declined after the pet feature went online.

At this moment, both Ascension Clan and Shuyan noticed the presence of players.

From the perspective of both factions, they clearly cannot comprehend the actions of the players.

Lurking in the mist shrouding the scene, the players observe the war’s progression, and whenever a dying warrior falls near them, they swarm out and launch a fierce offensive until they slay the near-death warrior.

Or drag the dying Shuyan Warrior away from the scene.

Initially, these strange behaviors did not draw much attention from the two clans; they just found this daring life form unexpectedly bold to dare to seize food in the shadow of their war.

But as the number of players increased, both clans realized something was off. _{fre eweb\(n)ovel(.)co(m)}

This group of opportunistic attackers was getting close to sticking their chopsticks into the battlefield.

They already launched several waves of charge toward the center of the battlefield.

This kind of suicide-style attack baffled them but caused more anger.

Yet both clans focused solely on each other, having no heart to deal with the interference from these ants.

In their eyes, the players couldn’t affect the war’s trajectory, just made it uncomfortable for them.

Through observation these days, Qi Sheng also conducted an in-depth investigation into the tens of thousands of projection connection worlds established by Shuyan, broadly understanding why Shuyan descended in this area.

During the decomposition observation, he found that small worlds connected by Shuyan’s projection actually included the Cultivation World under Ascension Clan’s control.

Hence, their interests likely conflicted.

Through storytellers and scholars, Shuyan collects Ink Power yield in these small worlds.

The stronger the power, the higher the Spiritual Strength of the reader, the more Ink Power generated during reading.

But during this process, Shuyan discovered problems with Ink Power generated by projection-connected small worlds; high-quality (high Ink Power output) readers mysteriously disappeared frequently.

With curiosity, it investigated through projection connection, entered the small world consciousness for an inquiry.

Gradually, it discovered the truth behind these small worlds: high-quality readers didn’t just disappear, but were possessed by the upper world Ascension Clan.

In fact, Shuyan didn’t care if readers were possessed, as long as possessed Ascension Clan members could become loyal story readers, it wouldn’t care about the life safety in the Cultivation World.

But the possessed Ascension Clan members don’t read its stories, and this issue became significant in Shuyan’s view.

Each lost high-quality reader reduces a portion of Ink Power revenue.

To protect the small world’s readers, and to gain more Ink Power output, Shuyan was already prepared to start a war with the Ascension Clan at this point.

The first step in the war plan wasn’t actually to directly start the war but rather a preliminary probing.

That is, the first clash between Shuyan Clan and Ascension Clan.

If the initial clash reveals that Ascension Clan’s battle strength is simply undefeatable, Shuyan would likely cut loose and run, starting a new book in another region.

After all, this is not Shuyan’s first time cutting loose.

Records in the Rulebook can prove that Shuyan always cuts if it can’t fight, never lingering.

Except for the first two descents of Black Tide swallowing its cutbook gains, other times cutting loose could reclaim most of the benefits.

This time, after the initial clash, Shuyan affirmed that it could contend with Ascension Clan’s battle strength.

Thus, it started step two of the plan, which is the ongoing prolonged war following the cutting off of battle strength supply.

So the seemingly sudden war actually follows traceable logic behind it.

Simply put, Shuyan’s chopstick reached into Ascension Clan’s breeding farm to pick vegetables and upon discovering a smaller vegetable quantity, prepared to grab it aggressively.

This is Qi Sheng’s speculation based on known clues.

But he’s also too lazy to spend sacrificial power on a deep investigation for the specific truth.