The gacha system came with two pools: the Friendship Pool and the Reincarnation Pool.
The Friendship Pool used Friendship Points for draws, while the Reincarnation Pool, as the name suggested, required Reincarnation Points the standard currency of the Lord God's dimension.
Items within these pools were divided into four broad categories: white, blue, purple, and gold. Qiuwen Jian found himself speechless what was it with people and their obsession with the color gold?
The Friendship Pool could at most yield blue-tier items, whereas the Reincarnation Pool was more expansive: it could offer anything from basic white-tier gear to the coveted gold-tier items.
All the items were contributed by fellow group members. Once submitted, contributors would receive roughly one-tenth of the item's estimated value in currency on the first day. If the item wasn't drawn that day, they would continue to earn the same amount daily until the item was eventually claimed.
The quality of the item dictated its color, and each color had a different probability of being drawn. In the Friendship Pool, white-tier items had an 80% draw rate, while blue-tier had a 20% chance. The Reincarnation Pool offered more variety: 50% for white, 30% for blue, 18% for purple, and a rare 2% for gold.
In essence, the higher the item's value, the lower the chance it would be drawn meaning more passive income for the contributor. On the flip side, lower-tier items might just be given away for free.
But these pools didn't only contain physical items. The Friendship Pool also had training cards that activated the system's training functions, allowing access to training rooms for skill development. The Reincarnation Pool could yield additional cards like a one-time Friendship Pool draw ticket (white-tier) or even a ten-draw ticket (blue-tier).
Altogether, the system was impressively well-structured. The currency spent on gacha draws was pooled into a cumulative reward fund, from which item contributors were compensated.
For example, if Qiuwen Jian placed a blue-tier item worth 3,000 Friendship Points into the Friendship Pool, he would receive 300 Friendship Points on the first day. If the item went unclaimed for ten days, he'd earn the full 3,000. These points came directly from what others spent drawing from the pool. Meanwhile, the system would also produce training and function cards to prevent the pool from running dry.
These function cards were incredibly useful some offered training, others allowed summoning of fellow group members for aid, or renting out equipment. There were even one-time skill cards crafted by group members. The point was, the pool was sustainable. Buying function cards outright with Friendship Points was much more expensive than drawing them.
Even if someone directly purchased an unclaimed item, the spent Friendship Points would still go into the pool's reward fund, ensuring contributors received their share.
The Reincarnation Pool was more straightforward. Besides the user-contributed items, it also produced a steady supply of Friendship Pool draw tickets to maintain depth. Upon reaching a certain user level, additional usage and spending restrictions applied, ensuring no one could exploit the system indefinitely. Overall, it was a robust setup not something you could "whale" your way through.
Currently, Qiuwen Jian held a purple-tier ten-draw ticket. It even guaranteed at least one blue-tier item.
A purple-tier ticket… that only guaranteed blue-tier items? Qiuwen Jian didn't know how to even start mocking that, but he still made his way to the pool and activated the draw.
"Congratulations! You've received:
- Pioneer Set, Improved Edition (Blue)
- Demon Urn, Improved Edition (Blue)
- Pokémon Egg with Luxury Ball (Blue)
- Pet Training and Riding Techniques (White)
- Legendary Arms Contract Card, Improved Edition (Blue)
- Healing Potion Pack (White)
- Memory Sync Card, 3-Day Use (White)
- Universal Panacea (White)
- Skill Card – Battle Continuation (White)
- Gourmet's Tablecloth (White)"
Staring at this sea of white and blue, Qiuwen Jian fell into silent contemplation.
Not bad, actually? Four blue-tier items out of ten. That was nearly half. For a draw that guaranteed at least one blue, that was… average, he supposed.
No big deal. The items had already been automatically transferred into his so-called spatial backpack. He could easily confirm their existence by trying to retrieve one later.
Still… he wasn't even sure what half these things were. The only one he could probably identify was the healing potion. For the rest, he'd better look them up before doing anything rash.
Unfortunately, the newbie guidebook didn't include any sort of item encyclopedia. If he wanted answers, he'd have to dig them up himself.
The group chat was quiet for now, and his remaining 1,000 Friendship Points wouldn't do much barely enough for five more pulls. Better to save them for later.
His consciousness returned to the real world. Not much time seemed to have passed. Lying on the floor any longer served no purpose. He slowly sat up, pretending to have just regained consciousness.
"Tch. You're the weakest one of the lot. Did you skip breakfast or something? Took you long enough to wake up."
The voice belonged to a man with a long scar across his face and a mop of black hair that gave him a seaweed-like appearance.
Scanning the others, Qiuwen Jian saw two other men and two women ordinary-looking Asians, by all accounts.
"Alright, now that we're all awake, mind telling us what the hell is going on?"
It was the same young man who'd spoken earlier clean-cut, glasses-wearing, scholarly. Why so impatient? Qiuwen Jian thought. Still, his eagerness was convenient it meant someone else was taking the lead.
"All of you here are young. I don't need to explain much."
"We're not sitting, though," said a timid-sounding girl with a soft voice.
"Don't speak unless you have something useful to say."
The scar-faced man shot the girl a sharp glance. She immediately shrank back, staying silent.
"What I'm about to say must not be shared with anyone. If you do… you'll bear the consequences."