Chapter 38: Making a Fortune
Every player stared at the poster, their eyes nearly popping out of their sockets and onto their screens. It featured a white-haired girl standing in an endless sea of fire, holding a tattered black flag, her face wearing an incredibly defiant, yandere, and maniacal smile.
"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!!"
PD literally jumped onto his chair in the stream room, even snapping his headphone cable in the process.
"Jeanne d'Arc?! That final boss who led hundreds of Wyverns in France and slaughtered us until we cried for our parents... she's actually in the gacha pool?!"
"Players can actually pull the boss to be their waifu?!"
In the gaming history of this parallel world, this was an absolute first!
In traditional games, a boss was always a boss—a tool for players to defeat and harvest for gear.
But in FGO, Oriole used the theme of "Counterfeits and Obsessions" to turn this tragic, villainous witch—who was already explosively popular across the internet—into a Servant that players could control!
The lore buffs, meta-chasers, and researchers on the forums went completely berserk:
"Aaaaah! She's so wild! She's so arrogant! I love her!"
"Waaaah, my waifu Jeanne d'Arc didn't die! She was resurrected by Father Gu! Even if she's a counterfeit, she's one of a kind in my heart!"
"A brand new class? Avenger?! She gains damage when she takes hits?! Isn't this the perfect nuke for a desperate comeback?!"
"Do the copycat dogs at Tianpeng Interactive Entertainment see this? That trash game you copied isn't even worth one of Chaldea's toes! This is what you call character building! This is the ultimate charm of the ACG world!"
"Nobody stop me! Even if I have to hock my underwear today, I'm bringing Jeanne d'Arc home to Chaldea! I want to tell her personally that she isn't a fake dream!"
"Come home! Come home! Jeanne d'Arc waifu, get in my bowl!"
In the Shark Stream Room, Belle—a usually elegant lore-focused streamer—now had bloodshot eyes. Like a crazed gambler, she was frantically drawing crosses in front of the VR summoning circle.
With the official release of the [Da Vinci and the Seven Counterfeit Heroic Spirits] event, combined with the extreme buildup from the France storyline, the popularity of the "Dragon Witch" Jeanne d'Arc had completely skyrocketed.
As a low-spending lore fan, Belle had painstakingly hoarded every single free quartz she got from clearing Fuyuki City and France just for this moment.
Belle rubbed her hands nervously, watching the light from her final ten-pull flash wildly within the summoning circle.
Just as a brilliant "rainbow-colored" ring suddenly lit up in the center of the circle, signaling the arrival of a maximum rarity gold card—
*Buzz—*
A sudden, heart-wrenching sound of static rang out.
The gorgeous special effects, the summoning circle, and even the sci-fi hall of Chaldea vanished before Belle's eyes like a receding tide.
In their place was a deathly silent darkness and a very prominent white disconnected icon in the center of the screen.
[Network connection lost.]
[Server is reconnecting, please try again later (Error Code: 502).]
"What the hell?!"
Belle froze completely. She frantically slapped her VR headset and mashed the reconnect button.
But no matter how she clicked, the screen only showed that heartless "Error 502."
"My freaking rainbow ring! My Jeanne d'Arc was about to come out! All my quartz were consumed! You're cutting my connection now?!"
Belle was so frantic she was nearly in tears, screaming in despair in the stream room.
However, she was not alone.
At that moment, the viewers in the stream room also let out wails of despair:
"Belle, stop hitting your headset. It's not your internet; Chaldea's servers just exploded!"
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