Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Invincible’s plan to show his prowess using the high reward was undermined and turned into a farce by an ‘outsider’ like Flying Tiger King.
Under Flying Tiger King and Qingfeng Pavillion’s touting, Invincible had no choice but to block the national channel in humiliation. However, Invincible—who could not take it lying down—had already made up his mind. Once all the major guilds had built their residences, he would get his president to declare war on Ferocious Tigers Guild first.
He thought, I can defeat Floating Cloud and deal with those b*stards from Qingfeng Pavilion and that tiny Ferocious Tigers Guild!
However, it would take at least a month or two for Guild Residence Tokens to appear en masse. Since God Domain had only just started, nobody was certain what kind of changes would happen in a month or two.
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In the midst of the farce, Liu Ming—the existence whom Invincible hated the most at first—was not too affected.
After Liu Ming entered the main city, he headed straight to the main city’s pet store to hand over the Purgatory Nightmare Egg to the store’s NPC so it could be hatched.
The only thing that Liu Ming wanted to criticize was that the pet store’s hatching service was not free.
The hatching service was priced according to the difference in pet egg qualities. Hatching the lowest-level White pet egg would cost 50 Silver Coins. The price increased by ten-fold with every increase in quality.
After making some calculations, Liu Ming realized that hatching the Purple Purgatory Nightmare Egg would cost him 500 Gold Coins. According to the current exchange rate, 500 Gold Coins was equivalent to more than 40,000 yuan.
However, Liu Ming thought about it again and realized that God Domain had probably recognized the fact that those who could afford to use Purple pets would definitely not be short of those tens of thousands of yuan.
As for the players who just wanted to make a decent living in God Domain, like Liu Ming did in the beginning, they would probably just sell the Purple pet eggs even if they managed to get any.
Soon, the Purgatory Nightmare Egg turned into a pitch-black foal that had bits of bluish-black Hellfire on all four of its hooves.
Purgatory Nightmare (Unnamed)
Level: 1
Quality: Leader (Purple)
Health Points: 350/350
Magic Points: 100/100
Attack: 20
Defense: 10
Talent: Body Of Hellfire (S)
Skill: Underworld Assault (Blue), Purgatory Spike (Blue), Underworld Path (Purple)
Growth Value: 1.5
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The Purgatory Nightmare was only at Level 1, and its Stats were at the same level as an average player that was around Level 3.
Besides, the Purgatory Nightmare’s growth rate was 1.5, which meant that the Purgatory Nightmare’s Stats would increase by 1.5 times its base every time it leveled up. This was the most terrifying part.
In other words, for every increase in the Purgatory Nightmare’s level, its Health Points would increase by 525 points, Magic Points 150 points, Attacking Power by 30 points, and Defense by 15 points.
According to that pattern, a Level 10 Purgatory Nightmare would have 5,075 Health Points, 1,450 Magic Points, 290 Attacking Power, and 145 Defense points.
The Attacking Power and Defense on the Purgatory Nightmare’s panel would be inferior to Liu Ming’s when he was Level 10. However, its Health Points and Magic Points were basically higher than Liu Ming’s back then.
The Stats on the Purgatory Nightmare’s panel were enough to prove that it was undoubtedly a Purple pet.
The Purgatory Nightmare also came with a talent—Body of Hellfire—which was also an impressive Skill.
Body of Hellfire (S): This talent comes with 20% Darkness and Fire Resistance and a certain probability of absorbing certain Darkness and Fire Damage to regain Health Points. When in a mounted state, 50% of the effects will be shared with the rider.
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Underworld Assault (Blue): Ignites the Hellfire around the user’s body and launches a sudden assault on the target, causing 190% damage to the target with a certain probability of making the target unable to restore their Health Points. Cooldown Duration: 60 seconds.
Purgatory Strike (Blue): Depletes 50 Magic Points to spit a large amount of Hellfire at numerous targets, with a certain probability of making the target to enter a burning state. Cooldown Duration: 60 seconds.
Underworld Path (Purple): Depletes 50 Magic Points to increase movement speed by 300% for 60 seconds and allows the surroundings to be in flames. Targets who touch the Hellfire will enter a burning state. Cooldown Duration: 5 minutes.
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The S-Grade talent, Body of Hellfire, naturally had excellent effects. It increased the Purgatory Nightmare’s resistance to Darkness and Fire attacks by 20%. Even if only half of its effects could be shared, Liu Ming could still enjoy 10% dual resistance.
As for the ‘certain probability of absorbing certain Darkness and Fire damage,’ Liu Ming could use Darkness and Fire attacks to heal himself after activating Blessing of Lady luck.
In addition to its talent, the Purgatory Nightmare’s three Skills were also impressive. Needless to say, Underworld Assault and Purgatory Spike were offensive control-type Skills. Besides, Underworld Path was clearly a Mount Skill.
After looking at the Purgatory Nightmare’s Stats panel, Liu Ming nicknamed it ‘Little Dark’ and put it into the pet space. He then headed to the Leveling Point outside the city.
As a mountable pet that was not purely a Mount, the Purgatory Nightmare could only become a Mount at Level 10. After all, apart from being able to give the player a certain increase in Stats, ordinary Mounts could not assist the player during battles.
Only mountable pets would have individual attack Skills. However, this was also the reason why mountable pets could not be ridden until they were Level 10.
Fortunately, God Domain was not too harsh when it came to the requirements for pets gaining EXP. EXP was not distributed to pets according to output but according to the player’s wishes. The player could give some of their EXP to their pet.
Otherwise, Liu Ming would have to find a safe place for the Purgatory Nightmare to level up.
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Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the second batch of players had already entered God Domain.
Gods Group had launched a total of 100 million pairs of virtual glasses this time. However, it was still in somewhat short supply in a place where the population numbered in the billions. However, the situation was much better compared to when millions of people were vying for a pair of virtual glasses.
Of course, the most important thing was that the major guilds could finally start recruiting members without restraint since a massive influx of newcomers had entered God Domain.
Although there were a million players in the first batch, there were actually only a few hundred thousand top-tier players. The rest were low-tier players who could only make a decent living.
Only 80,000 to 90,000 players were qualified to enter the first-tier and second-tier guilds.
However, according to assumptions and calculations, at least over 100 guilds in the national gaming world had a strong footing in God Domain.
In this situation, each of the major guilds—like the Twelve Major Guilds—had only recruited 2,000 to 3,000 players. Some less famous guilds had less than 100 members.
However, at least tens of millions of new players were entering the top ranks now, even though the second batch of players was generally not as good as the first.
With such a huge player base, the major guilds were able to recruit sufficient members even if they only selected one in a hundred.
This also meant that God Domain had officially entered the next stage.