Chapter 6: 300,000 won for a single character?!

Seele’s signature Light Cone.

This one didn’t come out as quickly as I thought.

It passed the generously estimated 50 pulls, then 60, then 70, and still didn’t show its face.

“Why…! Why isn’t it coming out!!! Are you being spiteful because you gave it to me in 20 pulls earlier?!

Give it to me! Golden! Door! Golden! Not purple!!!”

Is it okay for the youngest daughter of a chaebol family to scream like this in front of her computer?

…No, but what am I supposed to do when I’m angry because it’s not coming out!

“It came out earlier! It came out in 20 pulls earlier!!! I don’t want to do 100 or 200 pulls for one character like in the old days!!!”

The grand catastrophe of the mobile game I used to play started to come to mind…

They definitely showered us with resources during the summer event or whatever, but because the gacha went terribly wrong, I ended up feeling depressed all by myself, right?

“I have 4 billion won in my bank account, but…! I have 4 billion won, but! I don’t want to get one character by doing 300 pulls!”

This isn’t about money.

It’s a matter of feeling, I tell you?!

– Dudududung!

“Eigh… Eighty! Yes! You’re finally showing up…!”

At last, the train door opened with a golden light.

Unable to contain my dopamine, I mashed the skip button.

[In the Night] New!!!

“Ugh, keuuuk…! Still, it’s not 100 pulls!!!”

Th-thank goodness!

The strategy guide definitely said there was a ‘pity break’, but the character I wanted came out instead of a different one.

Back in the day, when I wasted 300 pulls, the character I wanted didn’t appear, and only a bunch of weird characters came out, making my blood boil.

“Hoo… Pity breaks are a bad civilization… I’m glad it didn’t happen.”

I wiped the sweat trickling down my forehead with a quick swipe.

…Ah, but this is making my armpits sweat, it’s so thrilling.

Is this what gambling tastes like?

Is this why there are chaebol heirs, third or fourth generation, who get caught for illegal gambling?

“Anyway… since it finally came out. Let’s equip it right away… Huh?”

– Shuuuuung!

I thought there was nothing more to come since I already got Seele’s Light Cone that I wanted…?

The moment I pressed the next button, a brilliant golden light flashed, and a second 5-star Light Cone suddenly popped out.

[The Battle Isn’t Over Yet (Harmony)] New!

“Huh? It’s a pity break…?”

Since a different 5-star Light Cone appeared instead of Seele’s Light Cone again, it was indeed a ‘pity break’ situation.

But this… I got Seele’s Light Cone in seventy-something pulls, and then I got the next one before even doing 10 more pulls, right?”

“Heh, hehehe… This isn’t bad at all!”

[The Battle Isn’t Over Yet] even featured a beautiful woman with silver hair, dressed in a Russian-style uniform.

Come to think of it, this Light Cone thing has a similar feel to the Craft Essences from that ‘Fate’ game I used to play, where they just slap an illustration on something and call it a day, huh?

…Hmm, it eats up the same amount of money as character gacha, yet they get away with just one illustration; it feels somewhat infuriating.

“Still, well… it’s pretty, so does it matter?”

For Kwon Se-ah, the youngest daughter of a chaebol, money isn’t that important.

“First… I don’t have a Harmony? character, so let’s skip its performance for now…”

Right before equipping Seele’s signature Light Cone, I moved the mouse to a very small button.

“Oh? What’s this? The laws in this world seem pretty strict, huh? They even tell you the probabilities?”

Wow… I miss this.

In the games I used to play, users had to roughly guess the percentages.

“Let’s see, the probability is…”

[Limited Light Cone Gacha Information]

[Gacha Probabilities]

The probabilities of acquiring a ★5 Light Cone and a ★4 Light Cone in this limited Light Cone gacha are as follows!

[The base probability of acquiring a ★5 Light Cone in the event-limited Light Cone gacha is 0.800%, and the comprehensive probability (including pity) is 1.870%. You are guaranteed to acquire a ★5 Light Cone via pity within a maximum of 80 warps.]

“Huh…? I’m guaranteed to get it within 80 pulls? Wh-what’s pity?”

[When acquiring a ★5 Light Cone in a warp, there is a 75% chance it will be this ★5 rate-up Light Cone, “In the Night (Hunt)”.

If the ★5 Light Cone acquired in this warp is not the ★5 rate-up Light Cone, the next ★5 Light Cone acquired in a warp will unconditionally be the ★5 rate-up Light Cone.]

“So. The probability of getting something other than Seele’s Light Cone, which I’m aiming for, is 25%, right?

And if a pity break like that happens, the next time I get a 5-star, it will unconditionally be Seele’s Light Cone, is that it?”

But what’s this pity system?

Unable to contain my curiosity, I quickly wrote a post on the ‘Galactic Train Gallery’.

[Hey guys, I’m new to this kind of game, what’s pity?]

I’m asking because the gacha probability table says ‘including pity’.

What is pity?

[What kind of Temple Run is this? You don’t know pity?]

[Why are normies crawling into the gallery???]

[The guys above could just explain, but they’re being sarcastic lol]

[Dude, you really don’t know pity? To explain it in Galactic Train terms, if you pull about 80 times, you’re guaranteed a 5-star.]

[▶ Isn’t it something you exchange with mileage or something?]

[▶▶ What kind of game did you come from??? Did you play Toram or something?]

[▶▶▶ lol fr are there any subculture games these days without pity lol]

“What… If I pull 80 times, I’m guaranteed to get it?”

…Why do they do this?

“I-I don’t understand? Isn’t this a huge loss for them?”

I covered my face with both hands.

“Looking at the character gacha, the pity break probability is 50%, but… to put it another way, it means I can unconditionally get the character I want within 160 pulls, right?”

I slowly recalled the mobile games I had played so far.

…Those f*cking trash games didn’t have anything like pity.

They were games where if you didn’t pull it, you were just an idiot who wasted money.

One million won.

Two million won.

Three million won!!!

“These were games where even if you threw in an infinite amount of money, if you were unlucky, they basically told you to f*ck off…”

Is this game called Galactic Train perhaps not interested in making money?

“Most users would think it’s generous just to have the character’s base form… Ah, maybe it’s that?”

Is it really that?

I hurriedly rummaged through the information posts in the gallery.

“If they unconditionally give out characters like this, then it must be a game where you have to pull a lot of characters, right?

Yes, it must be like that game I used to play, where you have to pull more copies of a character to level them up!”

I said, searching for information, but that wasn’t it.

“Huh… Max level is 90, and leveling up and character breakthroughs can be done with resources obtained by killing monsters?”

Character breakthroughs were just as I knew them.

Max level was 90, but from level 30 onwards, there were roadblocks every 10 levels, and if you wanted to level up, you needed specific items.

In the game I used to play, you needed to pull more ‘characters’, but in Galactic Train, you could do it with items dropped by monsters.

[Why is this game so generous? I can get the pickup character within 160 pulls unconditionally?]

How the hell do they make money like this;

Besides, it’s not unconditionally 160, there’s a base probability, so isn’t it possible to get it in between?

[No, f*ck, what kind of forced praise is this again]

[Are you crazy lol 160 pulls is 300,000 won in raw trucks]

[Why the hell is 300,000 won for one character generous? Are you a Chinese game shill???]

[If you play Genshin, you’ll know lol they release characters with all their limbs cut off, crippled, so you’re forced to get C2]

[▶ It’s not that bad lol stop with the forced criticism ㄴㄴ]

[▶▶ Your mom ㅇㅇ]

My heated post was deleted in exactly three minutes.

Thanks to that, I learned that most people didn’t particularly like Galactic Train’s business model.

…Why don’t they like it? They say if you spend money, you’ll get it unconditionally?

“So this is how they sell characters…”

While looking around the character’s stat window, I found an item labeled ‘Stigma’.

Right.

It’s a mobile game, but at its core, it’s an RPG, so there are elements to strengthen characters, huh?

“Level up… equipment… fostering, growth, breakthrough, enhancement… Right, right.”

“An RPG game can’t be without these.”

Clicking on ‘Stigma’, I saw six blocked slots.

These slots could only unlock their effects by inserting an item called ‘Seele’s Stigma’.

“So I get the feeling.”

“If I pull more Seeles here? They give Seele’s Stigma?”

“And with that, I can unlock these special effects?”

[First Stigma: Annihilation]

[When dealing damage to an enemy whose current HP percentage is 80% or lower, CRIT Rate increases by 15%.]

“This seems like it would be good in boss fights…?”

[Second Stigma: Butterfly Dance]

[The acceleration effect of the Combat Skill can stack up to a maximum of 2 times.]

“…Wait a minute, isn’t this broken?”

“It can stack twice?”

“Doesn’t that mean I can get more of the Light Cone’s damage increase effect?!”

This is different from the mobile games I used to play, isn’t it?

Those games, when you did a breakthrough, it was just, poof, Ultimate damage increases from 100% to 200% scaling! Poof, stats just randomly increase by a lot!

It was like that, wasn’t it?!

“What is this… It feels like spending money will be worth it…?”

No, it might still be trash. Should I ask around?

[Is it okay to spend some money on this game and do character breakthroughs?]

How much stronger do you get if you do breakthroughs?

[It varies depending on the character, but there are no cases where they get worse with breakthroughs.]

[If you’re going to do PVP later, breakthroughs will probably be important?]

[If you’re not going to grind points in PVP all day long, then not really?]

[No lol it just opened today, why are you already thinking of spending money?]

[▶ Whales just have a different mindset ㅇㅇ]

[Of course, you get stronger with breakthroughs ㅇㅇ but you already bought a truck??]

[If you get 6 constellations, you can break anything ㅇㅇ You can easily r*pe things like Spiral Abyss.]

[▶ What the hell is Spiral Abyss, you otaku~~~~!]

“So… if I spend money, I’ll definitely get stronger, right?”

“But is it just me getting stronger and that’s it…?”

[So, is there a lot to do in this game? Is it just pulling characters by myself, looking at the receipt, masturbating, and that’s it?]

I’m debating whether to do some character breakthroughs, is there a lot to do??

It’s better to have a lot to do even if I spend some money than to have nothing at all.

[During the last closed beta, I got a lot of sh*t for it, but there was PVP too ㅇㅇ]

[There will probably be a ton of PVP and PVE content? Point competition is intense ㅇㅇ]

[For PVP, they said they’d give a skin if you get into the top 10%]

[▶ This game gives crowns and more stones based on your weekly rank anyway ㅋㅋ]

[PVE will probably be intense too? Something like clan battles will open.]

[The grandpas who did the closed beta said there was something where you join a guild, beat content, and compete for points.]

[There’s even exclusive content that only opens if you have 6 constellations ㅋㅋ]

[▶ You can just RMT that, can’t you ㅋㅋ]

[▶ ▶ Thinking of RMT even in an otaku game ㅋㅋ]

“What, if I pull strong characters, there’s a ton of stuff I can do?”

PVP where you can directly kill other players.

PVE where you stylishly beat up designated monsters and boast about your score.

Besides that, looking at the comments coming up, it seemed like you could compete by climbing an infinitely rising tower, or even show off your ‘equipment score’.

“This is pretty good…”

I have 4 billion won in my bank account anyway, right?

…The bag stuffed in a shopping bag in the corner of my bedroom right now costs tens of millions of won, right?

“This… how many trucks do I have to buy to pull Seele 6 more times?”

“If I’m going to be number 1 in both PVP and PVE, getting full constellations is a basic requirement, right~!”

My fingers moved quickly.

If I assume I hit pity every time and get Seele 6 more times in 160 pulls each, I’d have to pull about a thousand more times, right?

[Obtained 6,400 Glimmering Dreams! + Bonus 1,600!]

Checking the shop, the first-purchase bonus was gone, so the amount of bonus currency had decreased.

Still, it’s 8,000, so even if a 10-pull costs 1600, I can still do 50 pulls, right?

“Let’s see… if I need to pull a thousand times, and one truck buys 50 pulls, then I need to buy 20 more times, huh?”

‘I have to buy it 20 more times?’

I did the calculation with that thought, but it only came out to about 3.6 million won.

“Crazy… Se-ah! Is 2.4 million won chump change to you?! You already pulled the character, does it make sense to spend another 2.4 million won just to make her a little stronger?! A game console doesn’t even cost 1 million won!”

I jumped up from my seat, screaming, and quickly checked my bank account.

The account still held roughly 4 billion won, a sum where the trailing digits didn’t need close inspection.

“4 billion… 2.4 million won… 4 billion… 3.6 million won…”

Cold sweat trickled down my forehead, and I felt the urge to pee, so I squeezed my thighs together while standing.

2.4 million won… Before I was possessed as Kwon Se-ah, that was more than my monthly salary.

“W-when I ate expensive food, I could justify it by saying it’s good for my body…”

This is purely squandering money, isn’t it?

She talked about a Birkin bag, but I didn’t buy that; I received it as a gift.

There are plenty of things in this house more expensive than 2.4 million won, but I haven’t bought anything since becoming Kwon Se-ah, have I?

“Ha… Se-ah! Se-ah! Kwon Se-ah! What are you hesitating about! 2.4 million won is probably similar to the interest!!”

I laughed heartily, sat back down, and crossed my legs.

“I could get lucky, right?”

“Instead of 2.4 million won, if I get super lucky and pull without pity breaks, I might not even spend 2 million won, right?”

“Maybe I can get 6 copies for 1 million won?!”

This feels like a gamble with about 1 million won at stake, doesn’t it?

Isn’t this like a safe casino? If I lightly break through the 50% pity break and pull Seele 6 times in a row…!

“…Aargh! No! Se-ah! Are you an idiot?! You’ve already spent 2 million won, what are you thinking, saying you won 1 million won!”

I jumped up from my seat again, making a fuss, and repeatedly closed and opened the game’s shop window.

“I have 4 billion won… I have 4 billion won…”

…What’s going to happen if I spend a little over 2 million won?

Honestly, compared to golf or skydiving? Horseback riding?

Isn’t this an incredibly cheap hobby?

It’s not like it’s bad for my body like drugs, right?

I’m not calling women over to play, am I?

I’m not drinking alcohol either, am I?

“…Alright. Se-ah.”

“Instead of spending 2 million won all at once from the start, let’s spend it whenever the bullets run out.”

After slapping my butt with both hands, I pressed the tips of my trembling, sharp, and itchy breasts with my palms.

“Let’s pull, let’s pull! Let’s just pull!”

“Let me break through all of these and brag about it in the community too…!”

Even games that only increased Ultimate damage, even games that only increased stats, if you fully enhanced them, they called you a ‘Perfect Owner’ and put you on the featured posts!

My face flushed red as I quickly finished the face authentication and tapped my feet impatiently.

– Chiring!

[Obtained 8,000 Glimmering Dreams!]

“Let’s finish this with just 1 million won! Then I’ll be saving 1 million won!!!”

Honestly, if the hobby expenses of a chaebol’s youngest daughter are 2.4 million won, that’s incredibly cheap!

And so, with my happy thoughts spinning, I mashed the character gacha button.