[You received an excellent rating. You obtained the guaranteed fortune reward: one tael.] [You eliminated Coal Spirits ×7. Fortune obtained: fifteen taels and three mace.] [You eliminated South Seas evil creatures: Long-haired Warthogs ×301. Fortune obtained: sixty taels.] [You eliminated a South Seas evil creature: Evil Soil Terracotta Figure. Fortune obtained: fifteen taels.] [You eliminated South Seas evil creatures...]
The figures that followed were rather unremarkable.
A little here, a little there.
There were plenty of them, but they were all small amounts. Lin Feng hadn't found them particularly surprising at the time.
This was only the beginning.
The evil beings he'd slain were still further down the list.
He really had completed quite a few tasks by the end.
This was also his first time completing the game alone.
He was studying how fortune was awarded.
At first glance, did it come from killing enemies?
If so, that was fairly straightforward.
It also fit the usual rules of a game.
But as he went further down the rewards list, Lin Feng's eyelid began to twitch.
When the rewards for venturing out bravely exceeded the guaranteed rewards for playing it safe, and a game deliberately set things up that way...
Assuming there was an underlying logic to it...
There was only one possibility.
The game was encouraging him to carve out a place for himself.
The guaranteed reward would only keep him from starving.
And when that guarantee was so small that it was practically a tenth or a hundredth of the rewards for slaying evil beings...
What is this, a hundred bucks in base pay and a hundred thousand in overtime bonuses?!
You're forcing me to work overtime, aren't you?!
It started with Dharma Mahā.
The elders and temple heads began giving larger fortune rewards: a hundred