On the wooden porch table of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard], the freshly extracted [Gacha System Core Orb.] Now scrubbed clean of its Upper-Realm foreclosure runes by Gu Changsheng’s belt—shivered like a peeled boiled egg.
Every time three-year-old Little Fifth poked the glass-like orb with a chubby finger, its internal probability reels spun nervously and chimed in a tiny, squeaky voice:
[100% Honest Drop Rate! No Hidden Fees! Please Don’t Hit Me With The Belt Again!]
“Haha! Papa, the shiny ball is ticklish!” Little Fifth giggled in his red overalls, rolling the Rank 7 system orb back and forth across the tablecloth like a marble.
Down in Central Smelting Square, sixty-year-old Master Tie Shan, nine-year-old Tie Ling, and twenty-two-year-old Young Master Jin walked up to the foot of the porch steps to report on the recovery effort.
“Immortal Master Gu,” Master Tie Shan said, bowing deeply with his scarred hands clasped. “All three million miners locked in Sector B have been safely released and fed hot mutton soup from your cast-iron woks!
And with the four trillion Spirit Stones of Star-Marrow Iron that you whipped out of that monster’s vault, our Blacksmiths’ Union has enough raw metal to rebuild every bridge. Moreover, Furnace on both planets!”
