Chapter 40: All Thanks to Maintenance

Once this announcement was released, the casual players, who had been full of rage and were just about to join the bandwagon of cursing on various forums, were all stunned.

On Blue Star, server crashes for games from big companies are common occurrences.

However, the way big companies usually handle this is by posting a cold, impersonal announcement, or at best, offering some worthless low-level healing potions as compensation, with an extremely arrogant attitude— "Take it or leave it."

When have they ever seen a scene like this?!

The game lagged, and not only did the officials act as humble as a grandson, they actually gave away the highest-level gacha items that could be used as real money in the game, and they gave away a full ten-pull at that?!

You have to know, the price of 30 saint quartz in this game is equivalent to over a hundred yuan!

They just shoved a hundred-yuan red envelope into the hands of tens of millions of players across the entire server!

The sentiment on the forums underwent a magical, earth-shattering reversal in an instant.

The players who were cursing the potato servers a second ago suddenly developed collective amnesia the next:

"Holy crap? A free ten-pull? Am I seeing this right?!"

"What kind of god-tier official is this! Giving out money just because of a lag?!"

"Who was just cursing Father Gu? Stand up! This potato server is practically the light of humanity, okay?!"

"Father Gu! Take your time fixing it, don't rush! If you're tired, you can wait until tomorrow morning to open the servers, just add another ten-pull! I absolutely won't curse you!"

It wasn't just regular players; even the paid trolls hired by Tianpeng Interactive Entertainment were dumbfounded.

What kind of underworld PR tactic is this?

Just throwing money to shut the players up?! Is this game not trying to make a profit?!

Two hours later... As Oriole smiled and plugged the network cable back in, the servers were opened once again.

Belle was the first to rush into the game.

As soon as she logged in, the system popped up the gacha results screen from just before she disconnected.

That [★5 SSR Avenger Jeanne dArc] card, radiating pitch-black hellfire and featuring an arrogant character portrait, jumped into her arms accompanied by a rainbow halo!

Not only that, she opened her mailbox, and those heavy 30 saint quartz radiating with seven-colored light made her grin from ear to ear.

"Wife!!! I got her! My stones didn't disappear, and I even made a profit of a ten-pull!!!"

Belle twisted around in her gaming chair in excitement.

"What do you call this? This is called 'Getting rich, all thanks to maintenance'!"

"Brothers! Wait for me to go through the event story, then I'll take my wife to wreak havoc!"

Belle excitedly put on her VR headset and clicked on the event story [Da Vinci and the Seven Counterfeit Heroic Spirits].

In her imagination, and indeed the imagination of all players from the other world, since this was a revenge event initiated by Jeanne dArc, the tone of the story must be very heavy, oppressive, and full of blood and tragedy.

After all, in the France Singularity, she was a cold-blooded villain who killed without blinking.

However, as the story deepened, the expressions of Belle and the viewers in her livestream began to become increasingly strange.

On screen, Jeanne dArc did indeed use the power of the Holy Grail to create seven "counterfeit" Servants to block the players.

But these counterfeit Servants... they looked wrong no matter how you looked at them!

For example, the originally arrogant and cold Gilgamesh had turned into a "loyal dog-type hunk" who was full of sweet talk and constantly fussed over Jeanne dArc.

The originally steadfast and resolute Siegfried had turned into a "melancholy hunk" who only knew how to look up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle and sigh about the loneliness of life at the drop of a hat.

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