Sakura Fubuki stared at the screen, her brow furrowed.
She repeatedly checked the cultivation materials for Little White Lotus, her confusion growing deeper.
"Have the materials changed?" she muttered to herself, continuously checking her materials, and finally discovered that the materials she had previously farmed were not suitable for Little White Lotus.
The live chat in the streaming room immediately erupted:
"What do you mean? The materials have changed? Did the officials secretly change the materials?"
"Seriously? I also farmed a lot of materials!"
"Wait a minute, Little White Lotus's materials were leaked by an insider to begin with. There's no official confirmation, so how could they have changed?"
"I checked, and it really is different from what's being circulated online."
"Snow Dog, you didn't fall for those fake news and farm the wrong materials, did you?"
With the popularity of "Fairy Journey," the internet was flooded with all kinds of true and false information.
There were numerous conflicting opinions about the cultivation materials for the new character, Little White Lotus.
Many players prepared materials based on supposed "insider information," only to find that when the game truly updated, the situation was vastly different from their expectations.
Sakura Fubuki looked at the chat and sighed helplessly:
"I'm really at my wit's end... I farmed this material for half a day, and now you're telling me the leveling materials for Little White Lotus aren't these? I have to farm them all over again?"
Her tone was filled with frustration.
As a streamer, she had initially intended to showcase a max-level Little White Lotus in the live stream, but now she found herself in an awkward position due to this unexpected situation.
This wasn't even the most critical part.
The most critical part was the difficulty in acquiring materials in this game, which was quite unspeakable...
Every player of "Fairy Journey" knew this.
In "Fairy Journey," each character's breakthrough required different materials.
The ways to obtain these materials were varied.
Some required dungeon runs.
Others were scattered throughout the vast world waiting for players to pick up.
The difficulty of obtaining each character's materials varied as well.
Some characters had materials that were easily obtainable, just by casually running around the map.
While others had materials that were extremely rare.
Players needed to invest a lot of time and effort to obtain them.
The reason behind this situation.
Lay in the unique true drop rate mechanism of "Fairy Journey."
There were some unlimited dungeons in the game.
In these dungeons, players could repeatedly challenge without consuming stamina.
However, at the same time, the drop rates for materials were genuine.
This meant that a player wanting to level a character to max would inevitably involve a degree of luck.
In theory, if a player's luck was bad enough.
She might even never be able to level a certain character to max.
Sakura Fubuki continued to criticize the game's design while checking the material requirements for Little White Lotus.
Suddenly, a strange material caught her attention.
[Fiery Peach Heart]
Description: A peach blossom heart burned by fierce flames yet still beating, exuding a faint sadness. It burns with an unknown fire, yet stubbornly continues to beat. But how long can this persistence last? It's just a peach blossom, and one day it too will turn to ash, leaving only an unheard longing...
Sakura Fubuki felt that this material looked somewhat familiar, a sense of ominous premonition suddenly surged in her heart.
Soon.
As the game continued onward.
Sakura Fubuki's bad premonition was suddenly confirmed.
"Damn! Isn't this Tao Yao's dungeon?!" she exclaimed.
Since the last main storyline mission, she hadn't been paying much attention to Tao Yao's dungeon.
"Do I need to use this material?"
Sakura Fubuki took a deep breath and clicked on the material icon to switch to the map.
A familiar sea of flowers appeared before her.
The meticulously dressed Tao Yao was now standing in the center of the flower sea in the distance.
Sakura Fubuki controlled Hiyakura and slowly walked toward the center of the flower sea where Tao Yao was.
The familiar scene unfolded before her once again, but it left her feeling a bit disoriented.
The last time she came here, she had no idea what would happen next.
Now, she was fully aware of the outcome of this battle, yet she had to go through it once again.
The cutscene began to play, and Sakura Fubuki looked at Tao Yao on the screen, feeling a tinge of bitterness in her heart.
That gentle and kind girl.
She chose to sacrifice herself to save Hiyakura.
Now, she had to "kill" Tao Yao again and again in this dungeon.
The battle began.
Tao Yao still wore that gentle expression, monumentally symbolically dodging Hiyakura's attacks.
Sakura Fubuki controlled Hiyakura, each attack felt like it was tearing apart her own heart.
"Damn it... why design it this way?"
Sakura Fubuki muttered to herself, her fingers mechanically pressing the keys on her keyboard.
As the battle progressed, the live chat began to roll madly:
"Streamer, you really are something! How can you bring yourself to do this?!"
"Tao Yao sacrificed herself to save Hiyakura!"
"My Tao Yao wife, how can you treat her like this!"
"Snow Dog, doesn't your conscience hurt?"
"Seeing Tao Yao get hurt, my heart is bleeding..."
Sakura Fubuki looked at the scrolling comments, her heart a mix of emotions.
Wasn't she feeling the same way?
But in order to obtain the materials.
She had to repeatedly go through this process.
As the final blow landed, Tao Yao fell among the sea of flowers.
Sakura Fubuki breathed a sigh of relief, waiting for the dungeon settlement screen.
However, when the reward list appeared, she was stunned.
"Wait, where are the materials?"
Sakura Fubuki exclaimed in surprise, "Shouldn't the weekly dungeon guarantee a 100% drop of materials?"
She carefully checked the reward list again.
Indeed, she found no trace of the required [Fiery Peach Heart].
This situation left her extremely perplexed.
There were many dungeons in this game, but they roughly fell into two categories: unlimited dungeons and weekly dungeons.
Unlimited dungeons, needless to say, could be challenged infinitely, some required stamina, and some did not. However, in this kind of dungeon, the material drop rates were relatively low.
On the other hand, weekly dungeons could only yield rewards once a week but guaranteed a 100% material drop.
This design was meant to balance the game's difficulty.
Providing players with a stable material source while allowing for some challenge.
Sakura Fubuki instinctively thought it was a bug in the game.
She exited the dungeon, re-entered, and fought again.
The result still yielded no materials.
"What's going on?"
Sakura Fubuki frowned and began to research carefully.
She opened the game forum and searched for relevant information.
Soon, she discovered the source of the problem.
As it turned out, Tao Yao's dungeon had indeed changed compared to the last version.
Just then, a chat message caught her attention:
"I heard it's because many players complained that the materials from the weekly dungeons weren't enough, and only being able to run one per week is really disgusting... so the game company canceled all weekly dungeons and changed them to unlimited dungeons, with materials changed to probability drops."
Sakura Fubuki looked at this chat message, falling into silence.