Chapter 1388: 457. Invest in the future_2


    “Water friends, yers, and those still in the dark, are you curious why people continue to buy Angel Crystals in bulk, regardless of how high the price goes?”


    In the video, Cucumber Slice pinched a crystal model of an Angel Crystal between his fingers, facing the camera with a serious tone:


    “Today, let’s reveal the truth.”


    The scene shifted to a group of “Artificial Angels” attacking a space station.


    The voice-over of Cucumber Slice came through:


    “Don’t doubt your eyes. A team of Artificial Angels isying siege to a logistics space station belonging to the Guardian Angel Group.”


    ...


    “Boom, boom, boom—”


    The “Artificial Angels” firedser beams three meters in diameter, violently bombarding the space station’s defense outposts.


    The video moved closer to the “Artificial Angels.”


    Apart of the sharp-eyed audience had already noticed that there were no Angel Enterprises Alliance emblems on the helmets and chest armor of these “Artificial Angels.” Instead, there were emblems of the “Golden Dragon” guild.


    “Yes, you saw that right. These ‘Artificial Angels’ are not truly artificial in the full sense of the word. They are actually Magic Pets from the ‘Golden Dragon’ guild. Thanks to everyone’s continuous supply of Angel Crystals to the ‘Golden Dragon’ guild, the guild leader ‘Golden Dragon in the Sky’ sessfully hatched the first angel-shaped Magic Pet earlier today, which is the group you’re seeing now! Angel Pets.”


    Cucumber Slice emphasized the word “group.”


    Earlier he mentioned that Golden Dragon in the Sky hatched the first “single” Angel Pet, so why say “a group” now?


    Cucumber Slice knew the audience would be puzzled, and immediately brought up the Magic Pet attribute interface.


    …


    [Name]Swarm-Type Combat Angel


    [Type]Magic Pet


    [Quality]Purple


    [Feature]


    1. Swarm Combat


    This Magic Pet can split into ten, engaging in swarmbat as ten separate individuals.


    2. Life Sharing


    Ten Swarm-Type Combat Angels share life. It is only by killing all ten Combat Angels at once that this type of Combat Angel can be rendered dead.


    3. Road of Advancement


    By continually consuming Angel Essence, they can slowly increase their quality, and there is a possibility of advancing to a higher-qualitybat angel-type Magic Pet in the future.


    …


    Cucumber Slice did not reveal information such as the skills, health, attributes, etc., of the Swarm-Type Combat Angels on the disclosed panel data.


    But just the introduction in the “Feature” column was enough to stun the viewers.


    “Wait, wait. Are we mistaken about Magic Pets?”


    “Aren’t Magic Pets supposed to be just pets? Why can they fight like real Artificial Angels?”


    “Damn, we’ve been tricked. These should be calledbat pets, not Magic Pets!”


    “So, after getting a Magic Pet to help with battling monsters, does the owner even need to lift a finger?”


    Some yers had already managed to hatch white-quality Little Pets through their efforts.


    At this moment, looking down at their Little Pets rolling and acting cute in their arms, they felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness flowing from within.


    Can’t you show a little spirit?


    While others’ Magic Pets are helping their owners battle monsters, why are you still here, rolling around for cuddles and begging for Magic Feed?


    A barragement scrolled across the video:


    “Is there a possibility that only Magic Pets of purple quality and above can be consideredbat pets? Are white, green, and blue Magic Pets really just for petting purposes?”


    Thisment strongly resonated with the yermunity.


    Some hoped that they, too, could draw a purple-quality pet;


    Someined that the game was unfair, the existence of the pet system widened the gap betweenmon yers and wealthy yers;


    Others furiously criticized the nners and operators for not exining the strength of magic pets clearly, ming them for selling away many lottery chances and missing out on the opportunity to draw orange quality magic pets;


    Some cursed the boss for being foolish, arguing that it’s just a game after all and even if one could trainbat pets to help in battle, it wasn’t worth investing so much money;


    And still others said the game had lost its vor and was no longer the shape remembered by the old yers.


    All sorts ofments flew by.


    Cucumber Slice in the video seemed to have anticipated the flooding barrage ofments at that moment and paused for a few seconds before saying:


    “I think everyone must find it iprehensible that ‘Golden Dragon’ guild has invested a huge sum of money in training purple quality magic pets. It’s just a game, is it worth spending so much money on? I, too, had the same question when I first heard the news. But all my doubts quickly vanished. Golden Dragon in the Sky gave me a detailed introduction to the guild’s strategic and development ideas, which are as follows…”


    Cucumber Slice narrated the process of interviewing Golden Dragon in the Sky.


    Firstly, the registered location of the “Golden Dragon” guild was under the United Military Academy, a subsidiary of the United Bureau. The entire guild focused on improving its reputation within the United Bureau and dedicated itself to carrying out the team-basedbat missions issued by the United Bureau.


    Secondly, the funds for training magic pets for “Golden Dragon” guild didn’t alle from its own capital. Arge part came from appropriations by the United Bureau.


    Third, the significance ofbat-oriented magic pets wasn’t limited to better plundering Angel Crystals but also taking on harder team-basedbat missions.


    For example, the often-discussed “Great Expedition” series of missions by yers over the past year.


    At this point, Cucumber Slice provided some exnation about the “Great Expedition” series of missions for yers who might not have heard of it.


    The ultimate goal of these series of missions was to allow yers to establish a forward base in unfamiliar star systems filled with cosmic monsters on behalf of the United Bureau.


    In other words, any yer or group of yers who participated in the “Great Expedition” series of missions and sessfully defended the forward base would gain a piece ofnd.


    In the eyes of many gaming guilds, the “Great Expedition” series of missions served as a way to acquire guild territory, or even a guild space station.


    However, due to the extremely high difficulty and the powerful strength of the enemies, the “Great Expedition” series of missions remained upleted to date.


    Now, with the help ofbat-oriented magic pets, the “Golden Dragon” guild might be able to expand territory for the United Bureau and obtain its own territory.


    With territory, subsequent profits woulde as easily as water flows along a channel.


    From the small earnings of monster spawn point rents within the territory to therge ie from territory trade, resource extraction, and Star Gate toll fees, and so on.


    All ie derived from territory would ultimately cover the expenses of nurturingbat-oriented magic pets.


    When the moment came to break even, the guild would see better figures on its ledger and realize long-term stable profits.


    So, to summarize in a sentence:


    Investing inbat-oriented magic pets might seem like a money pit but is actually an investment in the future.


    The content narrated by Cucumber Slice in the video made yers sigh in amazement.


    It wasn’t that ordinary yers couldn’t think of the “territory” aspect, but rather, “territory” was something too remote and high-end for them.


    If one wasn’t part of a Great Guild, it was indeed difficult for an ordinary person to associatebat-oriented magic pets with “territory.”


    It made sense when you thought about it.


    What was most needed for the Great Expedition?


    Manpower.


    And where does manpowere from?


    Buying ships, renting ships, buying insurance, buying missiles, buying supplies; all these things required money.


    If one could train arge number ofbat-oriented magic pets that could continuously revive and grow, would this not equate to saving a massive amount of mary expenditure?


    With a pointer from Cucumber Slice, the vast majority of yers finally understood the real value ofbat-oriented magic pets and Angel Crystals, and it was not an overstatement to call them strategic resources.


    Of course, there would still be a small number of yers who went against the tide, unabashedly criticizing the setting ofbat-oriented magic pets.


    But no matter what, a massive movement had formed, aiming for territory as the ultimate goal, umting capital for the Great Expedition as the driving force, and using money, lottery chances, and Angel Crystals to bind all yers together.


    Under the influence of multiple factors, the number of Angel Crystals within the ck Hole Magic Academy soared.


    Behind the scenes, Nnd Lee estimated that in no more than three months’ time, he would have gathered enough Angel Crystals to rescue the Assassin Angel.


    By that time, yers’ overall strength should have reached a new level, enough to help him assault the space station where the Assassin Angel was sealed.