At that moment, PD's mana bar had only reached 24 points—still 2 points away from deploying Saber!
The defense line collapsed once again.
[Mission Failed]
"What happened?! In the video, this Lancer clearly took on the whole field alone to buy time!"
PD slammed the table in anger.
In the comments, several sharp-eyed veteran players burst out laughing:
"Solo the whole field? President P, look at the level of your Cu Chulainn, will you?!"
"Great God White Night used the newbie fodder the system gave him to level Cu Chulainn to 20, doubling his stats. That's why he could hold the early game alone! Yours is a pure level 1 naked card!"
"Vanguards are for recovering cost, not for being a God of War! You either use your brain and deploy Defenders and Healers to cooperate, or you go to the Enhancement Center to level up and steamroll! Why are you still trying to hoard for your 26-cost Saber?"
PD realized his mistake, his face turning red.
A clumsy player like him couldn't pull off micro-management like "precise deployment and limit-testing coordination." The only way out was to raise the levels of his low-star cards.
He hurriedly retreated to the lobby, ran to the Enhancement Center, and selected the level 1 Cu Chulainn.
Leveling up required a material called Blaze of Wisdom (Experience Fodder) and the game's basic currency, QP.
PD confidently pressed the "Max Enhance" button.
However, the system popped up a cold, jarring notification sound:
[Enhancement Failed! Your fodder reserves are insufficient! Your QP balance is insufficient!]
"Huh?" PD was dumbfounded. "I just created the account. Didn't the system give a ton of newbie fodder and hundreds of thousands of QP? Where did it go?"
The viewers in the stream were also stunned. Then, someone sent a quiet comment:
"Um... President P, after you finished pulling just now, did you think five-stars were invincible and just... fed all the fodder and money the system gave you to that five-star Saber?"
Boom!
PD felt like he'd been struck by lightning. With trembling hands, he opened Saber's data panel.
Sure enough, that gorgeous five-star SSR card was now shining with a very bright "Lv. 40"!
To nurture this "God-tier unit" that he couldn't even deploy, he had completely drained his early-game savings!
"I'm..."
PD wanted to cry but had no tears.
"Hahahahaha! The comedy of the year has been born!"
"A hundred-thousand-yuan whale, under house arrest in Fuyuki City!"
"What do you call this? It's called 'class stratification' backfiring and being sanctioned by the poor! That's what you get for looking down on F2P cards!"
The audience in the stream was dying of laughter at PD's ridiculous blunder.
Just as PD was about to log off in despair, or even delete his account and restart, a comment with a golden VIP badge floated by:
"PD, are you blind? Didn't you see the last slot in the formation screen says Support?"
"Support?"
PD froze and quickly opened the formation screen.
Sure enough, in the last empty slot of the team, there was a handshake icon.
Clicking it revealed a list; players could borrow Servants put up by other friends!
PD's eyes lit up instantly, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.
He immediately retreated to the main interface, clicked on his Master info, and displayed that long string of "Friend Code (UID)" directly on the stream's public screen.
The number one tycoon of the Global community, in front of tens of thousands of viewers, made the most humble plea of his gaming career:
"Brothers! Who has a max-level Cu Chulainn?! Or a max-level Georgios is fine too!"
"Please add my UID! Put Brother Cu or Brother Georgios on support so I can borrow them!"
"As long as you help me clear the first stage, I'll immediately gift a Super Rocket in their stream!"
At this moment, F2P players across the server went wild.
In previous games, it was always the F2P players pitifully begging to cling to a tycoon's leg, borrowing their god-tier gear for a bit of fun.
But in this game called FGO, the world lines had completely converged.
Countless F2P technical players holding high-investment low-star cards watched PD's humble plea for help, feeling an indescribable, massive sense of satisfaction.
There were no absolute trash cards, no brainless steamrolling, only the wisdom of understanding mechanics, and the ultimate joy of "copying homework" and "clinging to a carry."
FGO was officially a hit!