Woke Up to Find the Game I Made Came True-Chapter 9

After nightfall, the public benches near Ye Bai gradually filled with people.

Most were travelers waiting for their spacecraft, those who had a long wait ahead and didn’t want to spend extra on accommodations.

On a planet like Blue Star, there were no vagrants. Everything required Stellar Coins, which made living expenses prohibitively high. It was far more comfortable to find a planet that used local currency.

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Ye Bai’s current situation—being able to afford the StarNet but not a hotel—was probably unique on Blue Star.

“Gurgle…”

Ye Bai finished the remaining half of a nutrient drink from earlier in the day. It still tasted like water, but one bottle was enough to satisfy hunger and nutritional needs for an entire day, making it incredibly convenient.

After lying back on the public bench, Ye Bai thought for a moment, then spent 1 Stellar Coin on a molecular cleaning service. This method, which used molecular vibrations, wasn’t as comfortable as a water bath, but it was quick and convenient. It also cleaned her clothes, making it the most cost-effective option available.

With a full stomach and a “clean” body, Ye Bai felt refreshed and closed her eyes on the bench.

Time to log in!

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In the world of "Boundless Realms," day and night cycles were shorter than on Blue Star. When Ye Bai logged back in, it was already daylight in the game.

She first checked the leaderboard for lords. The only name on it was still "Bai Ye," indicating that no other players had yet achieved the status of lord.

With so many players re-registering, there were bound to be those starting in the wilderness. However, even for regular dungeons, without spending resources to experiment, clearing a normal-level dungeon wasn’t easy. If a player quit, logged out, or died during the dungeon, the dungeon key’s energy would be depleted, requiring resource-based recharging to use again.

Starting in the wilderness was a shortcut, but the city-building dungeon was designed for experienced players with equipment and resources. If they failed, they could spend resources to try again.

The players had only been officially active for two or three hours, and their progress was a day behind Ye Bai’s. Unlike her, they weren’t familiar with the game and were essentially penniless. They likely couldn’t afford resources and had to rely on their first free attempt to experiment. Even if wilderness players chose regular dungeons, progress would be slow.

Ye Bai opened her inventory and reviewed her items.

Her weapons were unchanged. The materials took up three slots: two sets of fully synthesized fluorite, totaling 45 pieces. She had discarded the remaining two fluorite fragments to save space.

Other items were more varied, arranged in her inventory by rarity:

60 pieces of minced meat (white), 31 bat wings (green), 12 bat teeth (blue), 1 unidentified blueprint (blue), 8 pieces of high-grade beast meat (blue), 4 pieces of Ragehorn hide (purple), 1 vial of Metamorphic Blood (purple), 1 Ragehorn (gold), 1 Philosopher’s Stone (gold), 1 unidentified blueprint (gold), 1 Seed of Genesis, and 10 gold coins.

Ye Bai was familiar with the boss drops, but her attention was drawn to the golden item in her inventory: the Philosopher’s Stone.

**Philosopher’s Stone**

Rank: Legendary

Type: Mythical Material

Description: The ultimate creation of alchemy.

If it weren’t for the shocking server-wide announcement earlier, Ye Bai would have immediately noticed this item.

What did the Philosopher’s Stone do?

It was a universal material. As long as you had a blueprint, it could substitute for any required material in crafting. However, only one could be used per creation.

In other words, if you obtained a rare blueprint and gathered all the materials except one, the Philosopher’s Stone could fill that gap, even for the most critical or precious material. It was a blessing for unlucky players.

Clearly, such an item belonged in the game’s shop.

But back when Ye Bai was cryogenically frozen 10,000 years ago, the shop framework hadn’t been implemented.

The investor’s representative, who was profit-driven, proposed many ideas Ye Bai disagreed with. For example, while Ye Bai designed the Philosopher’s Stone to replace only one material in crafting, the investor wanted to remove all material restrictions, allowing players to use multiple Philosopher’s Stones to create items purely through spending.

When Ye Bai heard that, she clenched her fists, imagining how the game would devolve into a pay-to-win system.

If wealthy players could just buy their way to building a city, what was the point of quests or gathering materials?

The two sides had been at odds, so the shop framework remained unresolved.

Switching back to the aerial view, Ye Bai noticed eight small black dots moving toward the center of her territory at the edge of her vision.

From this moment on, Bai Ye’s identity as a lord truly lived up to its name.