Cathulhu Online, MUNYA!

Chapter 37 – Cat Dad's New Loot

30 minutes later

Xiaomao hopped down from the ceiling after the last gnoll vanished. Hanging on the ceiling for a long time exhausted him.

The prison hallway was a mess. Hyen set equipment and regular items flooded the prison hallway, filling the nearby prison cells.

Xiaomao turned to look at Slave One, who had been collecting items and transporting them to the ground floor. He noticed the fairy, who had been sitting on Slave One's shoulder.

This lucky guy was engaged with a world tree fairy and got OP. It was time for him to play a bigger role. However, if Slave One became famous one day, keeping the silly name might be a demerit.

Imagine a newspaper headline, "SLAVE SOLOED WORLD BOSS!"

The level of cringeness gave Xiaomao goosebumps.

He thought of the day when he had first created Slave One. Xiaomao named him that way because he didn't think highly of the fishing bot. But now, with the mysterious [???] bloodline skill on him, his potential was infinite.

He deserved better treatment. However, a better treatment required money.

Xiaomao opened the game's cash shop and rechecked one of the premium items, which every player had been neglecting.

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Rename Ticket

Normal Price – 1,000 PACT

By tearing the ticket, you may rename yourself. However, one character can only use this item once. Please think twice before you rename your character.

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The one character per one ticket rule was to prevent trolls and toxic players from abusing this item. In many games, strong players used this kind of ticket to hide their identities before they bullied newbies or other players. Many players also used this type of item to blackmail others, causing multiple scandals and dramas.

Still, some silly people used this item for fun, but it ruined the game's image.

For example, a player once played an elderly character and named himself [I thought she was 18]. His real-life girlfriend customized her loli character to have a lewd expression and a big round belly as if she was pregnant. Then, she set her name as [I am only 12]. As a result, when they played together, everybody looked at them with scorn. And soon, someone took a screenshot and posted it on social media, turning it into a meme.

Viral memes of a game always benefited the game's company as new players would jump into the game to replicate the iconic jokes. However, it harmed the developers' ego and the company's reputation.

As the Pangu Incorporate CEO didn't want to turn his game into an erotic game or a meme field, the company avoided trolls like plague. For the sake of curbing the freedom of trolling, Pangu Online 2 limited the name-change perk to only once per character. In addition, characters with silly names such as the previous example would be instantly banned by the game moderators.

And lastly, only the characters that tore the ticket could rename themselves. Had Xiaomao used it, he would have been forced to rename his character, not Slave One's name.

In this case, he had to give it to Slave One, and the latter would have the freedom to name himself whatever he wanted.

Although the chance was slim, many support characters could be stupid. In Xiaomao's previous life, many support characters used this ticket and changed their original name into words or a sentence, such as [My Master's Password: 1234], [What's this for?], [@#$%], [Whatever], or even a more disturbing name, [Somebody castrates my master, please].

The names varied as they reflected on how their master had treated the support characters. 99% of the time, the A.I. gave these support characters toxic names.

Xiaomao hoped that he would not need to give this ticket to Slave One. But since he would soon marry a world tree fairy, he deserved a better name.

It was the time to gamble.

'I should have named him properly. Welp, I won't fool around again next time. Lord Exodia, please give me luck.'

He purchased a ticket. Then, he called Slave One over.

"Come here for a second, munya."

Slave One stopped collecting spoils and walked toward the catopus.

Xiaomao handed over the rename ticket.

"You deserve better treatment and a new name, munya. Now, you should rename yourself so that your in-laws won't be ashamed or embarrassed by your name, munya."

"…"

Slave One's eyes turned bright. He silently accepted the rename ticket and inspected it. The fairy on his shoulder also flapped her wings, thanking Xiaomao for the item.

But after holding on to it for a while, Slave One put it in his inventory.

"You're not going to change your name, munya?" Xiaomao was surprised.

Slave One shook his head and nodded, which confused Xiaomao.

But judging from Slave One's bright pupils and a faint smile, he seemed to be happy.

"Alright. Take your time to think of your name, munya. But for now, here's your new job. Help me transport the Hyen Set here and the mountain of items on the upper floor to the front of the cave. Then, ship them to town, munya. But instead of transporting them to our warehouse, deposit everything to the public marketplace store for sale and set the price for 1 PACT each. You will need to take a few trips back and forth since we have a lot of things to sell, munya."

Slave One nodded. He collected set items to his inventory and rushed back to the upper floor.

Looking at how enthusiastic Slave One was, Xiaomao laughed.

'You are OP enough. Now, time for me to reap some profits.'

He checked his inventory, inspecting what items came out from Mama Warden.

G1 Crystalized Wood Qi x 5

G1 Crystalized Metal Qi x 5

A Vial Werewolf Blood x 1

Mama Warden Card x 1

Cursed Claw Gauntlet x 2

Unidentified Black Stone x 1

Unidentified Bronze Statue x 1

Aside from the common items and random ingredients, only these items were valuable.

Xiaomao ate all the wood Qi and metal Qi crystals right away, permanently increasing his spiritual roots. As for the card, he collected them in the encyclopedia album.

Now, Xiaomao had seven out of ten types of monsters in this dungeon, not including the dungeon boss, which belonged to another category. He only needed three cards of the gnolls that he hadn't met yet, and he would get some bonus stats.

The vial of blood was an ingredient to evolve a human race character into a werewolf. Xiaomao didn't need it, but he could use it on the future support characters or sell it for a lot of gold coins.

The black stone was the usual corrupted spirit stone. It was stacked with the other spirit stones that Xiaomao had obtained from elite gnolls from the first floor and the wardens of this floor.

'To think that I can find it here. I thought I had to fight the gnoll warchief for it.'

The unidentified bronze statue was a bronze model of a mermaid. Although the item detail only displayed it as a white-named item, Xiaomao already knew that it was a key item to open the hidden dungeon.

Xiaomao had never found this item himself. However, from the clues, given by other players in the previous life, the hidden dungeon could only be accessed if the players could offer a certain statue to the shrine in front of the boss' room.

'It's a relief that I don't have to fight the dungeon boss for it, but I'll fight him anyway for loot. Anyway, one objective down. Next…'

Xiaomao checked the blue-named gauntlet, which appeared after Mama Warden had died.

It came in pair!

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Cursed Claw Gauntlet (Rare)

The origin of this claw gauntlet is unknown, but Mama Warden has been using it ever since she has become a warden of this place. Its four claws can cut to iron plates like tofu, and it is light, which makes it easy to use for beginners.

However, this item is cursed. Upon use, you will not be able to remove it for 72 hours. Equip it at your own risk.

Item Type: Cursed Weapon

Requirement: Level 20

Effect: ATK + 200, AGI + 50

Durability: 500/500

*[???]: Curse of Hunger – Upon attacking monsters with this gauntlet, your satiety bar will decrease by 1% per attack. Randomly decrease your satiety bar to zero every day.