Reborn with Infinite System Points, I Can Directly Change Item's Value-Chapter 51 --Constructing the Pet Sanctuary

After publishing the Raid Quest, John opened the city interface once more.

As more and more players had continued moving into the city during this period, the city had leveled up again.

A new Special Structure had been unlocked.

"Special Structure [Pet Sanctuary] is now available for construction!"

Looking at the Pet Sanctuary icon on the construction panel, John placed it without hesitation in the city’s northwest corner.

After that, he posted another announcement in the guild channel.

[Guild Notice]

[Overlord City has added a new Special Structure: Pet Sanctuary. Coordinates: Northwest Corner.

Please head there and check the details yourselves!]

The guild members, who had just been chattering excitedly about the group missions to come, all froze for a moment when they saw the notice.

Then they immediately closed the chat panel and rushed toward the city’s northwest corner.

The earlier Special Structures had already let them experience enormous benefits firsthand.

So even though they did not yet understand this newly appeared Special Structure, they still flocked to it eagerly.

Very soon, players began arriving at the newly built [Pet Sanctuary]!

They immediately checked the building’s information.

[Pet Sanctuary] (Special Structure)

[Function]: Pet Eggs and pets may be placed inside this structure.

Pet Eggs will have their hatching speed increased, shortening incubation time.

Pets, meanwhile, will receive a growth bonus and automatically gain 1,000 EXP per hour!

This structure has unlimited space, with no cap on the number of pets!

Each pet (or egg) consumes 10 legion contribution points per day.

[Description]: This structure is specially designed for players who cannot devote full attention to raising pets, or who own multiple pets and cannot manage them all properly!

...

After reading the detailed information about the building, the players could hardly suppress their excitement.

"So it’s another building that gives us players incredible convenience!"

"These Special Structures are way too overpowered—they can even help hatch and raise pets.

With this, we can save a huge amount of time and focus fully on our own growth!"

"The best part is that it actually has unlimited capacity. Unlike the other buildings, we don’t even have to line up and wait!"

"Damn, this building is ridiculously good!"

...

Watching the praise for the new structure flood the guild channel, John smiled faintly.

The stronger these players became, the higher the city level would naturally rise as well.

And once that happened, even more Special Structures could be unlocked.

This was precisely the advantage of having a player-controlled main city.

Players and the main city could benefit one another.

It was not like an NPC main city, where everything functioned in a one-sided, output-only manner.

...

Seeing the unanimous praise from the players, John gave a slight nod.

"It’s been a while since I checked the Level Rankings. Looks like quite a few players from other zones have entered the top 100?"

John opened the Level Rankings and glanced through them out of curiosity.

As expected, the top ten were still completely dominated by members of his Overlord Guild.

After all, with Overlord City in their hands, plus the trial dungeons,

players from other zones simply could not match Zone 5’s grinding speed, no matter how hard they tried.

But beyond rank ten, the situation changed.

The rankings behind that point were occupied in large numbers by players from other zones.

For example, Zone 1 held every position from 20 to 25.

Ranks 30 to 35 were entirely occupied by Zone 4 players.

As for Zone 3 and Zone 2, they seemed to have chosen different development strategies.

They had taken a large share of the spots from 50 to 100.

The remaining empty slots were filled by players from Zone 5.

Overall, Zone 5 was still developing the best at the moment.

But Zone 1 and Zone 4 were also showing very strong momentum.

Even without trial dungeons and without Overlord sovereignty, they had still managed to force their way into the top 100 through their own strategies.

John then curiously opened the Power Ranking.

This time, the results looked very different.

[Global Power Ranking]

[Rank 1]: John (Zone 5, Overlord Guild)

[Rank 2]: Alan (Zone 5, Overlord Guild)

[Rank 3]: Link (Zone 4, War God Guild)

[Rank 4]: Edward (Zone 1, Glory Guild)

[Rank 5]: Zoro (Zone 4, War God Guild)

[Rank 6]: Ace (Zone 3, Reaper Guild)

[Rank 7]: Lucy (Zone 2, Thunder Guild)

[Rank 8]: Fioc (Zone 5, Overlord Guild)

[Rank 9]: Roy (Zone 1, Storm Guild)

[Rank 10]: Robin (Zone 1, Storm Guild)

...

By now, every major zone had basically established its own guilds.

And now, a player from Zone 4 had even appeared in the top three of the Power Ranking.

Even though the first and second places were still firmly occupied by Zone 5,

this still gave John a sense of threat.

At the same time, he had a faint idea of what those other zones were doing.

John shook his head slightly.

"Drinking poison to quench thirst."

If his guess was correct,

those zones had most likely used their guild systems to forcibly funnel resources into a small number of players, pushing them up the Power Ranking.

Otherwise, with Zone 5’s absolute advantage, there was no way so many players from other zones could have entered the top ten.

For example, they could first recruit a large number of players into the guild,

then use the guild’s distribution rules to maximize the share of EXP awarded to the one who landed the final blow.

Say the entire guild earned 1,000,000 EXP from defeating a dungeon Boss.

If the final blow were deliberately handed to one chosen player,

and if the last-hit EXP ratio were adjusted to 99%,

then that player could directly receive 990,000 EXP and level up at an explosive speed.

At the same time, all the dropped gear, items, and advanced skill books would be funneled to that same player.

With enough resources piled on, even a pig could be turned into a powerhouse.

John looked down on that kind of development.

That method could indeed push a small number of people to the top in a short period of time, ensuring that the zone had representatives occupying the upper ranks.

But in the long run, it would create a massive level gap.

At the same time, the zone’s overall development pace would be greatly slowed.

Later on, when they encountered even higher-level Bosses, it was possible that even sending tens of thousands of players to die in waves would not be enough to shave off half the Boss’s HP.

That kind of growth model was simply too distorted.

"What a shortsighted approach. They’re not taking the players of their entire zone into consideration at all.

Besides, what makes you think this will let you catch up to me?"

Looking at the names of players from the other zones on the top ten ranking, John laughed inwardly.

If combat power had been displayed as an actual numerical value, then his current power would absolutely exceed the combined total of the other ninety-nine players on the ranking!

It was only because the ranking system was being considerate to the player base by not revealing true combat power values.

If those numbers were made public, John’s terrifying combat power might very well shatter every other player’s confidence on the spot.

"Heh. That’s the leaderboard’s mercy toward you—and my cruelty."

John smiled faintly.

"Since you still foolishly believe you can catch up to me,

then with this raid operation, I’ll show you what a real gap looks like."