Lord of Corruption Gathers Kindling, Not Qualified

Origin Altar.

Qi Sheng withdrew his gaze from the direction of Bully City.

The Mission Market's newly launched War Chips gameplay struck him as very interesting.

As the Player Camp developed at breakneck speed, players began spending longer at every stage of growth.

The Sacrificial Power kept in their hands needed somewhere to go.

Take Star Vein levels as an example. Veteran players generally needed years of preparation to raise a single level.

They would stockpile enough Sacrificial Power, then spend it all at once to charge toward a breakthrough.

Throughout that lengthy accumulation period, vast amounts of Sacrificial Power sat idle in players' hands, unable to generate any additional value.

After all, the player system had no savings interest.

The only income-generating channels, such as pet pensions and spirit plant cultivation, offered meager returns and could not possibly activate the enormous stockpile of Sacrificial Power.

Thus, most players chose to hoard goods and lock away their funds, earning profits by reselling rare resources through price differences over time.

But this traditional model was merely a zero-sum game of players harvesting players.

The Player Camp's total reserves of Sacrificial Power did not increase in the slightest. Resources merely changed hands between different players.

For every player who profited, another player had to lose. The total amount of Sacrificial Power in the overall pool remained unchanged.

The trading seemed lively, but it was really only internal circulation, incapable of bringing growth to the entire player population.

But the emergence of the War Wager Market broke this entrenched deadlock.

It provided veteran players holding idle Sacrificial Power and lacking short-term upgrade needs with a path to generate income.

Players were no longer limited to shuffling resources among themselves. They could invest their accumulated idle resources into Tyrant Legion's extraterritorial conquest campaigns.

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