Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 807: Chapter 766: The Console with Long Legs?

Leo had a bunch of question marks in her head.

However, this didn’t stop her from picking up the ancient-looking [Copper Bell] first.

“How do I use it? Shake it?” She tentatively shook the bell at Fuzhu lying on the ground, looking helpless.

“Ding-a-ling~”

With the crisp sound of the copper bell, the white deer on the ground finally moved, lifting its head to look at the bell, then at Leo and the little white tiger.

“Roar~” Little White growled menacingly.

Fuzhu finally resigned himself to his fate, dejectedly dematerializing his body and floating into the copper bell, slowly fusing with it.

The copper bell lost a thin layer of green rust. In the gentle white light, a deer-shaped symbol appeared on its surface.

The name of the copper bell and System Introduction also changed:

[Possession Copper Bell (Fuzhu)]: Fuzhu’s possession item, which can be used to summon Fuzhu, offering sacrifices to the [Mountain and Sea Scroll], or selling it to the [Spirit Beast Store] in exchange for Copper Coins.

Looking at the slightly glowing possession bell, Leo thought for a moment and handed it over to Captain Strawberry who had been lost in thought for a while.

Captain Strawberry was surprised: “Ah? For me?”

“Yes,” Leo nodded, “You found it, and you seem to like it a lot too. I just don’t know if we can trade this… ”

Although Captain Strawberry was a little embarrassed, she liked it so much that she finally reached out excitedly and carefully picked up the intangible copper bell, placing it in her hand.

“It seems we can.” Leo was somewhat happy.

The little white deer was indeed cute, but she already had a little white tiger. She needed to be content and happy with what she had.

Besides, she hasn’t even seen any trace of things like the [Mountain and Sea Scroll] and [Spirit Beast Store]. Who knows if they’ll appear before the game is released…

“Ding-a-ling~”

The copper bell rang again, and with the crisp sound, Fuzhu was summoned back.

He shook his head, looking unwilling, but still rubbed against Captain Strawberry’s leg, recognizing her as his master.

Captain Strawberry became even more excited and bent down to touch it.

Seeing this, Leo reminded her, “When you get home, open the Mirage and you’ll be able to feel its real touch. It feels great!”

As she spoke, she bent down to pick up the little white tiger and put it back on her shoulder, planning to say goodbye to Captain Strawberry and go to the park to look for more magical creatures.

Now she felt: her little white tiger needed some character growth and education.

If “Pokémon” was purely a pet-raising game, then of course you’d want to raise a well-behaved baby.

But if it’s a pet battle game, as a Daxia mother, she couldn’t let her child lose to others.

And so began the “tutorials”!

Little White Tiger would win the race right from the start!

However, Captain Strawberry stopped Leo, insisting on treating her to dinner to express her gratitude. Leo kept saying it wasn’t necessary.

Finally, after a few minutes of tugging, the two reached a consensus: to go together to the park and bully wild spirit beasts.

*

Although the audience saw the sisters’ “non-physical performance” from start to finish, their conversation made it so they were not entirely in the dark.

Thanks to Captain Strawberry’s diligent explanations, everyone finally understood that a “fierce” battle between spirit beasts had just taken place:

The little white tiger beat up the little white deer.

The little white deer was beaten so badly that Copper Coins burst out, along with a copper bell that included itself. It lost its dignity and freedom at the same time.

It sounded terrible, and it actually was.

But the audience couldn’t see it, so they couldn’t sympathize. Instead, they focused on learning the new key information:

Spirit Beast battles, leveling, capturing, the shop, scrolls, master levels…

This information quickly spread.

Players got busy once again.

The “Pokémon” game section went online silently, followed closely by major game forums. They opened dedicated sections for the game.

However, as things stand now, the Cloud Dream forum’s features have become more and more complete, and when it comes to international communication and interaction with players around the world, it has an unparalleled advantage.

So gradually, player’s main battlegrounds have shifted from traditional gaming forums to Cloud Dream Gaming Forums.

Even the oldest [Whirlpool Game Forum] saw a significant decline in popularity.

Only when discussing content that they didn’t want foreign players to know about would players return to these old forums.

For example, the special training content of Daxia players before [Peak War] was exposed in the [Whirlpool Game Forum]’s Battlefield section, and until now, it has not been discussed in the Cloud Dream Forum.

Obviously, they didn’t want to leak critical information, so as to maintain an advantage in the next [Peak War].

— Although Daxia players also know this is not very realistic, hiding it for one more day is still one more day…

In any case, on Thursday, everyone officially realized that “Pokémon” was a game that combined pet raising, collecting, and battling.

So, players without pets tried to find wild Spirit Beasts to tame, while those with pets went to find wild Spirit Beasts to battle.

Some people were inspired and arranged online meetings with other Masters, wanting to try out “Pet Beast Battles” between Masters.

— Of course, that was possible.

However, before finding the [Spirit Beast Store] where they could buy healing medicines, injured Spirit Beasts could only be slowly nursed back to health.

If they were battling wild Spirit Beasts, they could get some coins and drops after the fights, so it wasn’t a loss even if they got injured.

But when doing PVP with other players, they could only gain some combat experience, which was a bit losing…

As expected, some people soon posted questions about the location of the [Spirit Beast Store], and some even anxiously asked if there was a place like a [Spirit Beast Hospital] where they could treat their Spirit Beasts.

Of course, some people wanted to go to the store to buy Spirit Beasts.

They believed that the [Spirit Beast Store] likely had pay-to-win options.

Unfortunately: The [Spirit Beast Store] hadn’t updated yet.

Because the specific items had not been designed.

The “Pokémon” development team was still discussing whether to make the items as rich as possible or to simplify them.

Moreover, it would take a few days to set the item prices based on the actual data collected from players’ testing.

It was estimated that it wouldn’t be launched until next Monday at the earliest.

*

Meanwhile, as the number of players grew, so did the number of people with drawing skills, and pictures of mythical creatures were drawn and posted online.

There were not only sketches and portraits but also some in comic and stick figure styles.

But no matter the style, each time a new image of a mythical creature was revealed, the player community would rejoice.

“Pokémon” strictly controlled the refresh rate of mythical creatures, and asides from releasing eight species at once on the first day, two new Spirit Beasts were released daily to constantly satisfy the players’ novelty and anticipation, ensuring the continuity of excitement.

However, since it is still in the promotional stage, not all mythical creatures will be revealed.

— To ensure that the game, when released, could still bring players enough freshness, only 28 Spirit Beasts would be released before the launch.

Not all of them would be mythical creatures, as some would also involve legendary creatures outside of the “Classics of Mountains and Seas.”

However, even though currently only 10 mythical creatures were released, and players couldn’t see their pets’ attribute panels, they were still passionately discussing their properties, skills, and strengths and weaknesses on the forums.

This passionate atmosphere continued until the afternoon of the next day.

— In the meantime, as the new mythical creatures [Golden Toad] and [Whistling Snake] appeared, it stirred up another wave of heated discussions.

Until some new posts suddenly emerged—

[Just now when I was shopping, suddenly my little fox on my shoulder gained some weight!]

[I suddenly felt Vineshidhi hit my leg, I felt it! But I’m in a restaurant eating, there isn’t a console here, is there?]

[I just felt my pet’s heat and weight for a moment, but it disappeared after a few seconds. Does anyone know what’s going on?]

…

Many players posted, and their only commonality was that they were all in Xiajing City.

But they were not in the same area and were actually far apart.

Some people initially suspected it was a prank and thought these posts were made-up stories, but the posters immediately came forward to swear and vowed that it was true.

This inevitably made everyone puzzled—

“Isn’t it possible that they encountered a ghost console?”

“Is there a console walking around Xiajing City?!”