Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 837: Chapter 796: Boss Lin Teaches You How to Do Business

“No wonder ‘Pokémon’ is a free game, all the items in the shop can be bought with copper coins…”

Camille Victoria believes she has seen through Lincoln’s “evil” intentions:

“The Eight Sides Headband plus the Mirage Console, they’re selling two sets of hardware for one game, which is nearly twenty thousand yuan.”

“Business genius, Boss Lin!”

Can you play ‘Pokémon’ without spending money?

Absolutely, you can earn copper coins by defeating monsters, the shop sells all the rare items, and you don’t even need to buy a monthly card.

But the Eight Sides Headband is a mandatory investment, it’s a must-buy.

After buying it and starting the game, anyone who plays it for a long time, and raises a virtual pet for a while, will develop feelings for it.

Once you have feelings for it, and watch it running around you every day, who wouldn’t want to pick it up and give it a squeeze?

That’s when the Mirage Console comes in handy!

——Although the Cloud Dream experience stores are opening at a rapid pace, they still have a long way to go to cover the whole country.

Now with the addition of this Scroll of Mountains and Seas, it further enhances the players’ need for the Mirage Console.

Camille Victoria wants to go home immediately, enter the virtual world, and experience the virtual environment version of this scroll painting.

Go to 𝘰𝘃𝕘𝗼.co

But before that…

Camille Victoria followed the system prompt and wrote her game ID– “Camille Victoria” with her index finger on the scroll.

As the last stroke was completed, the font lit up, the scroll also shimmered with a soft light, then disappeared.

But Camille Victoria wasn’t alarmed, she opened the panel, and under the [Map] option, found the new [Scroll of Mountains and Seas] option.

After some consideration, she linked this map to the quick hand gesture of “thumbs up”, and opened the scroll again.

This time the scroll directly unfolded in front of her, no need to hold it with both hands anymore.

Therefore, Camille Victoria lowered her head and started to examine the scroll bit by bit, looking for another important location:

“Where’s the Spirit Beast Pool?”

The entire scroll is over three feet long, with the main color scheme being bright green. It’s not that easy to find a pool on it.

But hard work pays off. After patient searching, she finally found the pool under a small mountain.

In the landscape painting, the pool looks mundane, just at the foot of a lovely small mountain, surrounded by shady green trees, and a small path extending from the edge of the pool leading to a small cabin in the forest.

At the edge of the pool, there are four characters written in small traditional script:[Pool of Spirit Beasts].

Camille Victoria curiously touched the pool, and a disc interface with an inscribed equilateral triangle popped up on the scroll. The top corner box is for the main spirit beast, the bottom two boxes for the secondary spirit beasts, and there’s also a box in the middle for inserting the Immortal Dew.

“So, this is the upgrade ceremony? Just put the pets in and they can merge?”

“What about the ceremony process? It can’t just be drawing this triangle shape by hand, right??”

“Isn’t that a bit too haphazard…”

Camille Victoria is having trouble accepting this.

But she doesn’t have three of the same kind and same star level spirit beasts, so can’t test it herself, she can only check online to see if anyone else has tried it.

Turns out, it really is that way━

“Successful promotion! The so-called ceremony is essentially a one-line drawing game!”

“Seems like as long as you complete the circle and triangle in one go, the ceremony can start normally, but the specific trajectory isn’t fixed, any way of drawing works. Will the trajectory affect the success rate?”

“Shit, let me remind you seriously, you must carry out the promotion ceremony in an undisturbed environment! I was in the middle of drawing for my three-star promotion to four-star ceremony when someone tapped my shoulder, my finger trembled, and I veered off slightly, causing the ceremony to fucking fail! Thank god it doesn’t downgrade the star level, or else, I’d cry myself to death!”

…

“Alright then.” Camille Victoria nods her head, “Saving some energy is also nice, next step is to try it out myself.”

“Let’s go, Connar! Let’s go catch some little tigers!”

Her ideal target, of course, is to find two more four-star White Lusters, and raise the star level for her oldest pet, the little tiger.

“Mm-hmm.” Connar, holding the little tiger, follows Camille Victoria’s footsteps.

━She’s been running around outside with Camille Victoria all day, although she didn’t participate directly when the White Lusters were fighting, she was always at the side cheering on Little White Tiger.

*

By nighttime, Camille Victoria finally gathered three spirit beasts of the same attribute and race after running herself ragged━unfortunately, they were only two-star.

She spent the entire day capturing all the spirit beasts she encountered, as long as she could defeat them, she took all of them down, not letting a single one go.

Excluding the few spirit beasts that got lost and she had to find again, she encountered 52 spirit beasts in total, and successfully captured 44 of them.

Taking into account the time spent fighting, resting, and eating, she encountered a spirit beast about every 10 minutes on average.

It’s quite impressive.

The most memorable one for her, was a very uniquely shaped [Chenghuang].

The color of its body is quite gorgeous━not the common mixture of white and gray, but a blend of silver, blue, and pink, harmonious yet dazzling.

It’s a pity that all three of her spirit beasts were defeated, allowing the rare, differently colored Chenghuang to get away.

Afterward, an unsatisfied Camille Victoria lingered around the area for a while, but couldn’t find it again.

As for the arrangement of these 44 spirit beasts… all kept for now! They’ll be considered for sale in the shop in the future.

In the northern winter, the sky always darkens very quickly.

Camille Victoria took leave from the live streaming audience, agreeing to return to the virtual world for continued streaming after dinner, then tidied up and went straight home.

She ordered takeout on the way, and it arrived almost as soon as she got home.

But it was only after she had finished her meal that she realized: I’m not full!

– Today’s physical activity was too high, and my usual food intake was simply not enough.

Helplessly, she had to order another portion, and then while waiting for the food, she was browsing through posts.

…

By the time she started live streaming again, it was an hour later, and the audience was growing impatient.

Camille Victoria didn’t delay any longer, she chose to log in through the virtual house, and from the many login points, found the newly appeared [World in the Painting].

After the familiar login process and opening her eyes again, she found herself in a field of mountains and wilderness.

But this wild scene was different from the wilderness outside the [Paradise] amusement park, or to be more precise, different from any previous virtual world wilderness–

This place… is too delicate.

From every mountain peak, to every tree, to every cloud in the mountains, it all seems to be carefully designed.

Front and back, left and right, no matter which direction you look in, the scenery is very beautiful.

This gave Camille Victoria a strange feeling: rather than natural surroundings, it looks more like a meticulously maintained giant ecological box.

An ecological box specifically designed for hermits, legends, and rare and exotic beasts.

Camille Victoria stood in front of the house, controlled the camera to turn around, and let all the audience see clearly.

Then, while walking towards the Spirit Beast Pool, she chatted with the audience:

“No wonder this place is called [World in the Painting], look, no matter which direction you look in, it looks like a landscape painting.”

“Cloud Dream must have put a lot of effort into making that painting and this world.”

“I’d like to move my house from the metropolis to here.”

…

The Spirit Beast Pool wasn’t far away. Camille Victoria arrived quickly and found some strange phenomena:

A layer of mist is always floating on the pool. When she bent over to look, her reflection was all she saw on the mist-covered water.

But, brought by her to join the fun, Little Connar’s reflection appears as a silver dragon’s head!

And the little white tiger’s reflection in the pool changes into a majestic adult form.

“Well, let’s get started then.” Camille Victoria opened the panel and found the “Pokémon” page.

“First step, I’m going to bind all the spirit beasts to the scroll!”

She shook a copper bell.

With a “ding”, Chenghuang was summoned, ran a few steps on the grass, and began to curiously survey his surroundings.

Then the next one was summoned.

“Ding~”

Another White Luster appeared, it rolled around on the spot, rolled to Chenghuang’s side, squeezed in and began to wrestle with Chenghuang.

“Ding~”

Fuzhu appeared and started grazing at one side, really enjoying it.

“Ding~”

Chi Long appears and starts swimming in the air, flying towards the river not far away.

“Ding~”

“Ding~”

…

Camille Victoria kept shaking the bell, calling one spirit beast after another, “releasing them into the wild”.

– Although operation through the panel can quickly allow spirit beasts to enter the painting, Camille Victoria hopes that the process is more ceremonial, so she chose to summon them one by one.

But when the number of spirit beasts she summoned reached 10, a new system prompt appeared:

[The number of spirit beasts that can be entered into the painting is unlimited, and the observation of the painting through the Eight Sides Headband in reality is not capacity-limited either.]

[But when players enter the virtual world in person, the number of spirit beasts that can be materialized at the same time is limited, the current limit: 3000. If you want to increase the limit, you can purchase the exclusive expansion device: Peace Paradise.]

[Current materialized spirit beasts: 12/3000]

“???”

“Wait a minute, wait a minute!” Camille Victoria felt her head was a bit overwhelmed, “[Peace Paradise], another set of hardware?!”

“So, Eight Sides Headband and Mirage aren’t enough, you want to sell three sets of hardware for one game?”

“Isn’t this h…business acumen going too far?!”