Chapter 1573: 401: Maritime Landscape, Momentum of Two Powers (Part 2)

Doing this would be no different from cutting off one’s own foundations. A more realistic reference case would be the Blue Lantern Clan.

This race treats resources like weeds, yet regards Rule System Strength as supreme treasure.

The very top-tier Rule System resources will never be sent by any race to the Trading Market of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.

But the Destiny Casino bypassed this barrier.

Rules exist as chips; they don’t necessarily lose, and may even win.

A gambler at absolute rock bottom might well put Rule-level Power on the table to bet on a possible future.

From Qi Sheng’s macro perspective.

The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce and the Destiny Casino have formed complementary development and profit models.

The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce builds a stable, universally accessible foundational ecology.

Like a colossal resource heart, it maintains the blood (resource) circulation of the surrounding sea areas through the flow of low-, mid-, and high-end resources, earning steady toll fees from massive traffic.

The Destiny Casino runs a high-risk, high-premium top-tier hunting ground.

In regular income terms, the Destiny Casino might only be making small profits.

Yet it has a chance, at extremely low cost, to harvest Rule-level resources whose value cannot be measured by conventional means, or some civilization’s heritage-level resources.

One side is responsible for transfusion and hematopoiesis, keeping the base game intact.

The other is responsible for looting cutting-edge value.

Together, they achieve a total, no-dead-angle extraction of this sea area’s value.

In the words of a certain forum player: from now on, the living beings of the Bright Star Sea Area will never escape three things in this lifetime—death, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, and pacing back and forth at the gate of the Destiny Casino.

Death is Life’s endgame, and also a tomorrow that may arrive at any time.

The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce is the existing order that cannot be bypassed in development; refusing to interface means falling behind, and also means being eliminated by the era sooner or later.

And the Destiny Casino is, in this ever-shifting Monster World, a dawn that tastes like poison.

No race in this world ever has smooth sailing.

In hardship and desperation, they will inevitably cast their gaze toward that Gambling City which may bring hope or may bring despair, hesitating over whether to go all-in.

From development to death, Ah Lan and Life Throat together completed the harvesting loop.

But this is not oppression.

To the various races of the sea areas, both are opportunities.

They may be able to leverage the systemic advantages provided by players to stand out in Monster World and gain new chances for development.

Withdrawing his gaze, Qi Sheng at this moment called up the tax revenue data from the Destiny Casino for these past few days.

Although the casino has been running at a loss these days.

He will not change the tax-drawing Rules he set.

He will still extract profit according to the previously fixed ratio.

And it is taken directly from the operation of Destiny City’s Rules, having nothing to do with wins and losses of the individual games.

Under this model of the Destiny Casino, there are two ways to earn profit.

The first is the normal mode, aimed at all ordinary gamblers.

In this mode, the Destiny Clan will not use any Life Soul Characteristic to interfere with the win rate of the games, relying entirely on the randomness of probability itself.

The casino’s setup also contains no concept of the house taking a cut, so the odds remain stable.

The Rule-derived Energy produced during the gambling process within Destiny City is Life Throat’s main source of income.

This is a slow, steady stream—an income source that will not make gamblers suffer in terms of probability.

The second mode, Life Throat calls: Hunting Mode.

When a heavyweight gambler appears, staking chips of extremely high value (such as involving Rule Fragments, Civilization Treasures, and other top-tier resources), Life Throat will selectively intervene.

Secretly using the Strong Luck Attribute and Calamity Attribute, it tilts the scales of probability, greatly increasing Destiny City’s chance of victory.

However, this interference does not guarantee absolute victory.

The gambler can still rely on their own luck to win even under interference.

And regardless of which mode, in every single game, Qi Sheng will take 30% of the Rule-derived Energy as profit.

Even if in that game the Destiny Clan’s total income is negative, the tax is still collected as usual.

Because taxation is built on Rule-derived Energy.

Viewed in the long term, it will not affect the Destiny Casino’s stable income source.

It is certain that in the future, the Destiny Casino will also be, like the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, one of the important tax output channels.

Without continuing to pay attention to the Destiny Casino’s operating status, Qi Sheng’s line of sight at this moment jumped to the Ascension Sea.

The clash among the Mingwu Clan, the Ascension Clan, and Shuyan’s faction, after the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce intervened, has undergone new changes.

The Ascension Clan had originally fallen into disadvantage.

The Mingwu Clan held absolute superiority in all aspects, and on top of that had the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce providing war resources and all kinds of Recovery Potions from the rear.

The core reason this war has not ended quickly lies in the Mingwu Clan’s adoption of a nibbling tactic.

Multiple Mingwu Army units did not forcibly assault the Ascension Clan’s core island chains, but instead kept roaming, probing, cutting, and devouring at the periphery.

With the support of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, the Mingwu Clan holds a sure win and is in no rush.

The main reason for this choice is that the Mingwu Clan’s General "Ye Ming" has taken into account the fierce confrontation brought by total war, which would inevitably cause huge losses for the Mingwu Clan.

It knows Monster World is riddled with crises, and unknown powerful enemies may descend at any time.

So Ye Ming has always been stockpiling war Strength, ensuring that when a Descent War occurs it can launch a strong counterattack at any moment.

Coupled with the war resource support from the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, the core Combat Power basically suffers no attrition in the war, and can rapidly recover their state through Potions.

This is what gives the Mingwu Clan the confidence to wage a nibbling campaign.