Am I the Evil Spirit, or Are You?

Three months later.

The War Wager Market's popularity swiftly swept across the entire Player Camp.

Aside from Counter-Tide players, who had only gained player status a year and a half ago and could rapidly boost their strength simply by accumulating Sacrificial Power in the early stages, countless veteran players stuck at stage bottlenecks and unable to break through anytime soon began taking out their stockpiled Sacrificial Power to participate in the Tyrant Legion's expansion fundraising.

The return rates displayed on the War Wager Market's light screen did not seem particularly impressive, but they were not annualized returns. They were dividend payouts cashed out directly at the end of each campaign.

As a result, large numbers of Detailed Study Faction players buried themselves in data analysis, and all sorts of risk allocation plans began appearing on the forums.

Every plan had one thing in common.

They generally recommended portfolio strategies, reducing risk by spreading investments across more targets and avoiding a sudden "divine descent strike" wiping out a single investment.

As the player "Read Ten Thousand Volumes" analyzed in a forum post, the risk ratings everyone had once agonized over were, at their core, a matter of the time cost of having resources locked up.

As for the risk of a campaign collapsing completely, the Evil Spirits of the Tyrant Legion had already assessed it repeatedly before the campaign was ever listed for fundraising.

Among all the Black Tide factions the players had encountered, the Tyrant Legion's Evil Spirit Warriors had always placed their own survival above conquest.

As one forum player put it: whatever kind of leader one had determined what kind of subordinates one would raise. Di Nian Bully's creed of survival had been instilled over countless years until it became instinct for his followers.

That was also why