In reality, most players would be hesitant about something like [Organ Mutation].
But the virtual world is different.
Little Xili was talking about "inheriting the abilities of prey."
What is the prey in the Hunter world?
Ancient Dragons!
If you can inherit the power of an Ancient Dragon, no matter what kind, it's practically being a Dragonborn!
Power-hungry players can't refuse that!
Of course, the first batch of players to choose this option weren't purely power-hungry.
After all, in the hearts of pure power-hungry players who believe in "power is king," there's only combat and getting stronger.
Raising children is just too much of a hassle.
They'd rather push the main storyline and farm materials to enhance their equipment.
Not to mention Credit Points, wouldn't it be better to browse gun stores and buy weapons, or go to the Remington Tactical Experience Center to practice shooting?
Feed them to an NPC?
What a waste!
So, the first batch of power-hungry players to "raise children" were either not pure power-hungry or were into silver-haired characters.
That's exactly what Illusory Moon was.
Full-time gamer, maxing out the time.
Well-known whale, with Credit Points he couldn't spend all of.
Cyber渣男 (scumbag), wanting to collect any interactive female NPCs as wives.
And finally, a power-hungry heart.
Buffs maxed out.
After Fire Knife announced that the key point was Xili's favorability, he immediately took Little Xili on a crazy shopping spree.
Likes to eat?
Then eat! Eat until you're full!
Not interested in anything else?
No! You must be interested!
Clothes, snacks, dolls, pistols… Illusory Moon bought like crazy, forcibly skipping the missing "companionship time" option with his钞能力 (money power).
Little Xili, holding a huge unicorn doll, gave him a three-way choice.
"Organ Mutation!" Illusory Moon said without hesitation.
So Little Xili gave him a piece of parchment and a small, shimmering silver dagger.
"Take this, this is the recipe for the potion that induces [Organ Mutation]."
"In addition to herbs, the most important thing is to add monster materials that you personally hunted."
"This dagger can help you collect special materials from your prey."
"Remember to start with low-level materials to let your organs slowly adapt."
"If you use Ancient Dragon materials to induce organ mutation right from the start, the rejection reaction may be fatal!"
Illusory Moon took the recipe and dagger and immediately set off to start refining the medicine, planning to show the audience in his live broadcast the process of him "becoming inhuman."
"'Might'! Understand?"
"Doesn't that mean it 'might' not be fatal?"
When the audience members heard this, what was there to hesitate about?
They immediately encouraged him to go for it!
At worst, he'll just die, no big deal.
So Illusory Moon really went for it.
Carrying the 【Frost and Flame】 dual blades, he went straight for the Ancient Dragon-level 【Silver Rathalos】.
After a fierce battle.
A narrow defeat.
Amidst the overwhelming ridicule in the live broadcast room, Illusory Moon changed to the 【Gold Rathian】 in frustration, fought for 30 minutes, and successfully took it down.
After collecting the normally dropped materials, he took out the silver dagger given by Xili and began to collect mutation materials—
[Special material being collected….]
[Special material being collected….]
[Proficiency is low, success rate of collecting high-level materials is reduced (current success rate 22%)]
[Proficiency is not enough, collection failed]
[Special material has been damaged]—
"???"
Illusory Moon looked at the red text prompt of [Collection Failed] and was dumbfounded.
"Collecting materials can also fail??"
"Proficiency is not enough? At least give me a progress bar!"
The audience members burst into laughter.
Illusory Moon didn't give up.
In anger, he directly called for someone, and even brought in Dragon City Flying General, a top expert.
Stubbornly continuing to hunt Ancient Dragons!
With the addition of an expert, the hunting speed was much faster.
This time the luck was good, although the collection failed once, fortunately the material was not damaged.
After trying again, he successfully obtained the mutation material.
And he collected three copies in a row:
【Gold Rathian Mutation Inducer: Tendon (Ancient Dragon丨Common)】
【Gold Rathian Mutation Inducer: Nerve (Ancient Dragon丨Common)】
【Gold Rathian Mutation Inducer: Dragon Wing (Ancient Dragon丨Rare)】
One potion only needs one material.
Worried about failure, he first tried it out with common materials.
As a result, Dream Weaving didn't cause any trouble here, and it was easily successful in one try.
Illusory Moon directly gulped it down!
The effect was immediate—
The character vomited blood on the spot, and the health bar dropped steadily, until it stopped at one-third of its original value.
Illusory Moon initially thought it was a deduction of health points.
After waiting for a long time without seeing any recovery, he finally realized: it wasn't deducting health points, but the maximum health!
Good news: He wasn't killed by the rejection reaction.
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Bad news: It's worse than death!
If he died, he could be resurrected, it would just be a waste of a material.
He didn't die, but the maximum health was deducted by a large margin, and if he couldn't remove this abnormal state, the account would be ruined!
Illusory Moon tried it, and after death couldn't remove this state, he had no choice but to go to Xili.
The silver-haired girl was easy to talk to and gave him another recipe for resetting the organ mutation effect.
Illusory Moon spent a lot of effort to wash away the mutated state.
After tossing around for most of the day, he returned to the starting point.
Only then did Illusory Moon accept his fate and honestly started from the lowest-level Dragon Beast, collecting low-level materials for initial mutations.
After things returned to the right track, valuable information was finally slowly sorted out—
Dragons drop three types of materials: common, special, and rare.
Common materials can only strengthen basic stats such as [Attack], [Defense], [Stamina], [Health], and [Resistance].
It will not affect the player's appearance.
Special materials, in addition to covering all the enhancements of common materials, also have extra special enhancements such as [Vision], [Jump], and [Speed].
Moreover, this level of material will already cause changes to the player's character model—
Thicker thighs, stronger physique, mutated ears, sharper head, growing dragon horns, dragon scales, tail…
This change is not obvious at the "Dragon Beast" stage.
Once it reaches the "King" level, it begins to become obvious.
Going further up to the "Ancient Dragon", "Super Ancient Dragon", and even "Forbidden" levels, these characteristics will be strengthened step by step!
As for the final rare material.
It is more special.
In terms of attribute buffs, it is not stronger than special materials, but it can give players the power of ice, fire, wind, and thunder.
These powers are insignificant in terms of damage buffs—the additional attribute damage of 【Frost and Flame】 is stronger than this buff by an order of magnitude.
Its true value lies in—
You can show off!
Especially since this effect can be brought into Mansheng Metropolis!
This alone has attracted a large number of players.
In the safest case, players only choose one [Organ Mutation].
After confirming, they keep farming the same higher-level materials to make potions that induce mutation, and upgrade step by step.
Although the materials dropped by the BOSS are random, this also takes a lot of time and effort, but at least it can improve steadily.
If you are willing to take risks, you can choose two [Organ Mutations].
—Although Little Xili does not recommend players do this, and the system prompts also do not recommend it.
But players can still do this.
In the eyes of gamblers, "high probability of failure" is equal to "there is hope of success."
In the end, someone did succeed and obtained the power of "dual mutation"—this old brother even claimed that he had obtained the "power of dual dragons."
It's just that the probability of failure is greatly increased on the road to increasing the mutation level.
And every failure means starting over from scratch.
The time and effort required will increase exponentially!
But the power-hungry don't care.
The power-hungry + gamblers care even less, they even dare to challenge three mutations at once!
In their opinion: Since Dream Weaving has not blocked this path at the system level, then the rest is a game of probability.
Just gamble!
Take a gamble, and a bicycle becomes a motorcycle!
This is not just playing梗 (meme), but it can really make a fortune!
As long as you become stronger, you can go to the [Sky Arena] to challenge the higher floors!
Reaching the higher floors will make you famous, and being famous can make money!
—There are now real-world businesses sponsoring [Sky Arena] high-level players.
The stage built by Dream Weaving no longer needs Xu Meng to pay for it himself to maintain its ecosystem.
So—
Gamble it!
In order to reach the top of the [Sky Arena] and become a highly anticipated king.
What are two or three mutations?
Five or seven can also be gambled!
If you can complete nine mutations and achieve the great achievement of "Nine Dragons Body Refining", then reaching the top of the [Sky Arena] should be easy!
