By midnight, the world announcement pinged again and again:
[Lingyan Pavilion] has captured the Leviathan's Pearl!
[Haoshangtian] retaliates and kills the Crystal Hydra!
[World Event: Eternal Phoenix awakens!]
Streams hit record highs. Casual players stopped grinding entirely just to watch the spectacle. Comment sections were flooded:
"These guys are literally burning houses to win pixels."
"I'd sell my cousin to be in one of these guilds."
"Imagine explaining to your accountant why you recharged a million for a turtle boss."
Horny Princess Interactive's servers groaned under the weight of battle and money alike.
Back at Horny Princess Interactive, the dev floor looked like a church. Fen Su stood at the front, gesturing passionately at another chart.
"Comrades, look!" He pointed at the graph showing the sudden spike to three million in revenue. "This is not luck. This is Mr. Kim's divine hand at work!"
Zhao Bowen hesitated. "Or… it's just two guild leaders being insane?"
