In May of this year, the Chinese server for Goddess of Victory was finally launched.
Kai, as ordinary and handsome as his readers, decided he had to try it out!
“Sigh!
If only I had used an iPhone back then, I definitely could have saved Marian!
Marian, oh Marian, go easy on her!”
Kai finally finished Chapter 16 of the main story, then excitedly went to play Special Interception, but his combat power was too low and he got schooled by the BOSS, Modernia.
It was a miserable defeat!
He died at the reward stage of phase two.
A pile of purple equipment, too terrible to look at.
“Forget it!
At this point, I’ll just sleep!
I’ll go offline after I pull Dorothy!”
Since the server launched, Kai had painstakingly saved over 60,000 jewels, plus the tickets from previous mini-events and the current Dorothy banner update.
He could still manage 200 pulls.
Now, he finally waited for the Dorothy banner to update.
Unfortunately, the next banner, coming in just a few days, was Marian.
If his luck was bad with these resources, and he didn’t get any Pilgrim, he would have to choose between Marian and Dorothy.
“Sigh!
Pilgrim, as a true SSR, only has a 1% chance.
I hope I can get Dorothy.”
Kai was wearing a T-shirt and sports shorts, with a pair of slippers on his feet.
He was currently outside, preparing to buy some fruit.
“Boss, how much is this orange per jin?” Kai came to a roadside fruit stall, peeling an orange in his hand; it looked quite fresh.
“What’s that?
Ora—Euro?
I don’t accept foreign money!
Too much trouble!” The middle-aged boss didn’t quite understand internet slang.
“Uh—I mean, how much are oranges per jin.
orange, you know, English.”
The boss was speechless.
Young people these days, really too young.
You buy fruit and you use English, just to show off.
“5 yuan per jin.”
Kai felt it was a bit expensive, “Damn, is your orange peel made of gold or are your orange segments made of gold?”
Boss: — “Young man!
I know Hua Qiang, don’t move from here, let me find my knife first!”
Kai quickly stopped the boss, “Hey!
I was just kidding with you!
Give me 4 jin.”
“Young man, take a good look, is there anything wrong with my scale?” The boss weighed out 4 jin of oranges and handed them to Kai, half-jokingly.
Kai held the white plastic bag in his hand, feeling that the weight was fine; it was still a bit heavy.
“No, no, I was really just kidding with you!”
“I was kidding with you too, I love watching Hua Qiang buy watermelons.”
“Well, you’re something else.
Bye now!” “Walk slowly!”
After scanning the QR code to pay, Kai walked a short distance away and switched his phone to the game.
“Start gacha!” Kai first put on the battle song ‘Good Luck Comes’ in the background.
“Dorothy, ah, I even bought your favorite orange.
Give me some face, please, you must come home!”
Recruit 10!
Confirm!
Blue skies and white clouds—, so unlucky he didn’t even get a purple.
Hey!
My short temper!
Continue!
No child cries every day, no gambler loses every day!
“200 pulls are nothing, Dorothy, you’re not even in the banner, where did you hide?”
Kai’s 200 pulls only yielded a few SSR characters for storage, not even a shadow of a Pilgrim.
“Bad luck, bad luck, bad luck!
Last 10-pull, if not, I’m done.” Kai steeled his heart and went for one last try!
The last recruit in this pull was orange, excellent!
It started with a P, it’s a Pilgrim, we’re saved!
The light faded, finally revealing her true form!
It was a pink-haired Nikke!
Wow!
I hit the jackpot!
Kai, ecstatic from finally getting what he wanted, completely failed to notice that his surroundings had quietly changed.
The bustling city was now silent.
“Have an orange to calm my nerves.” Kai took an orange from the white plastic bag, ready to peel it and celebrate.
Uh!
He froze.
Before his eyes was no longer the familiar city, but a scene of devastation, nothing but ruins.
There was no trace of humans, not even a single living creature.
He numbly put the orange back into the plastic bag.
Kai had no idea what had happened.
He had just gone out to buy oranges.
Where had he come to?
This was definitely not the street he knew.
“Did I transmigrate?
What’s the principle?
I didn’t see any full-risk semi-trailer or great fortune!
I finally pulled a card, saved resources for so many days, and as soon as I enjoyed it, it’s all over!”
His phone had no signal at all, and the game displayed: [Connection to server interrupted, please try again later—]
Kai was completely bewildered.
What was going on?
[Welcome to the world of Nikke!]
[Dear Commander—the Ark is full of bugs.]
What sound?
Kai seemed to hear someone welcoming him?
[I am your command system.
I am currently communicating with you through your mobile phone.
Please name this system.]
Kai finally had a clue, “Did you bring me here?
Can I still go home?”
[This system cannot understand what you are saying.
Perhaps you can try again after upgrading the system.]
Was it truly artificial stupidity or was it playing dumb?
Kai had no way to deal with it.
It was still his phone, he couldn’t just smash it, could he?
“Then what functions do you have?
Are you my cheat system?”
[I am an intelligent system that assists you in commanding Nikke in battle.
The current basic function is only communication.
Other functions will be enabled after the game officially launches.
More functions require system upgrades after launch to unlock.]
Still have to wait for the game to launch?
“System, how much longer until the game launches?”
[Please name the system first.]
“Okay!
I’ll call you Doro!”
[Alright!
Doro is at your service!]
The system’s tone even became a bit livelier, seemingly very fond of the name, and even its address to Kai became more respectful.
“Doro, how much longer until the game launches?”
[Reporting, Commander, there are still 100 years until the game launches.] ‘Doro’ spoke terrifying words in a flat tone.
!!!
After repeated confirmation, Doro still said there were 100 years until the game launched.
If this was truly the world of Nikke, wouldn’t he be doomed!
Not to mention the lifespan issue, without a system to act as a cheat, how would he survive on this Rapture-infested Surface?
“My good Doro, do you really only have communication functions?
I can’t survive without a cheat system!
I’d struggle to survive even 3 days.”
Kai looked at himself.
His simple attire offered no warmth, and he didn’t even know what time it was in this Nikke world.
And he was wearing slippers!
He regretted being lazy; he couldn’t move around in just slippers!
The only useful thing he had was probably the 4 jin of oranges he was carrying.
— Doro seemed to fall into thought, then finally reacted.
[A mysterious Newbie Gift Pack (Newbie Gift Pack) has been issued to the Commander.] This was the maximum authority of the unactivated Doro system.
Good, good, good!
Classic Newbie Gift Pack!
My portable space, my powerful trial card, and definitely starting funds!
Kai quickly checked the mysterious Newbie Gift Pack issued by Doro via his phone.
None of the above was there.
“Commander’s legitimate identity, 3-day newbie protection period (cannot be detected by Ego-level Rapture), mysterious gift.”
“That’s great, Doro!
Now I can survive for 3 days.” Kai was almost in tears.
This gift pack wasn’t useless, but it was completely unusable right now!
— Doro also had no choice.
All her energy had been used to bring the Commander to this world.
She could only gain permission to open functions once the story of this world began.
Even the Newbie Gift Pack was issued in violation of her protocols.
Also, she seemed to have gotten the time wrong, arriving a little too early.
Just as Kai was feeling helpless, thinking that an extra 3 days of survival wouldn’t do much good and he might as well die sooner and be reborn, he heard Doro’s excited voice.
[Commander!
Incoming communication!!!]
[From the Goddess Squad!]