Chapter 497: Chapter 302: 100-Chapter Premium Launch

Unless they were die-hard fans of another book, everyone would save their monthly tickets for Wu Bao. After all, everyone knew how rare an author who dared to drop a hundred Chapters at once was.

Even fans of other books, because they enjoyed it so much, would "betray" their usual reads and give Wu Bao the monthly tickets they’d earned from those other stories.

More importantly, a book written from the first-person perspective of a Pet Beast that could so accurately capture every relevant detail was in a class of its own.

On the entirety of Qi Point, there wasn’t a single other book on the same subject that reached the same caliber as Wu Bao’s.

Unsurprisingly, the book would soon be trending on forums, perhaps even all over the web novel community.

Countless veteran readers would be drawn in by the hype. Even readers who weren’t typically into this genre would decide to give it a shot.

Some readers who usually read pirated versions would even start paying for official Chapters just for Wu Bao, all to support this one-of-a-kind gem!

In reality, Su Mao had still underestimated the power of the internet.

The moment Wu Bao’s hundred-Chapter drop went live, the forums were already blowing up—

"Holy shit?!"

In a dorm at the Shanda University Affiliated School, several students hiding under their blankets and staring at their phones all let out the same, purely human cry of amazement.

Wang Haokun shot upright and rubbed his eyes. "Am I seeing things? Wasn’t this book at 170,000 characters just a minute ago? How is it at 600,000 now?"

"No... it’s real. Mine says the same thing..."

Chen Xinghao’s hands trembled. "It’s not a bug. The author dropped a hundred Chapters for the premium launch! That’s over four hundred thousand words!"

"Huh?"

The blankets on the other two beds were thrown back, revealing two dazed faces. "What book is that badass?"

"It’s that book from a Pet Beast’s point of view. The one that was pretty popular a while back."

"Didn’t that one get dropped? I stopped reading when it stopped updating..."

"Nope, they started updating again. Today it went premium with a hundred-Chapter drop."

"Badass! I’m gonna go give them my first-day sub right now!"

"Keep it down! Someone watch out for the RA. If we get caught, we’re screwed!"

"No worries, no worries. The RA reads this book too. He’s even a high-level supporter. He’s one of us."

"Ha, well that’s a relief!"

·

「Alliance Headquarters, Flying Shadow Alliance office—」

Chopper chuckled as he scrolled through his phone and scratched his head. "Seriously, Vice Alliance Leader Gou, what are you doing in my office in the middle of the night?"

"Shh!"

Gou Yu was huddled pathetically under a desk, clutching his phone. "Lord Cui Que put the Dark Alliance on curfew, but the novel I’m reading went premium today with a hundred-Chapter drop. I just can’t sleep until I finish it..."

"A hundred-Chapter drop? Wait, don’t tell me you’re also..."

The two men looked at each other, tears welling up in their eyes, and threw their arms around one another.

"A fellow reader! My brother!"

"Xiaosai won’t let me stay up late either! I had to sneak out just to be here, WAHHH..."

"Shh, let’s just read quietly. No more noise."

"Roger that!"

An Alliance Leader and a Vice Alliance Leader sat side-by-side, phones in hand, and began to read with relish.

As experts in the field, not only could they find no flaws in the technical knowledge presented, but the more they read, the more astounded they became.

"This is brilliantly written. All the daily behaviors are perfectly recreated from a Black Fighting Emperor’s point of view. It even captures the psychology and the subtle details of its perspective..."

’Ordinary web novel readers might not even notice these things; they’d just skim right past them.’

’And yet, the author had rendered even these tiny, insignificant details with such meticulous care. One could only imagine the sheer effort involved.’

’What was even more outrageous was the incredible update speed. For this kind of story, the research alone was a tedious task! That’s why so few authors attempted it; it was a thankless job.’

’But this author, Wu Bao, somehow managed to deliver masterful prose while maintaining a high-speed update schedule. It was simply unbelievable.’

’It was almost as if... he himself were a Black Fighting Emperor, and this was all just part of his daily life.’

"Huh? Wait a second. A Yu Dian Dog that can use Sandstorm... why does this character feel so familiar?"

"A Flash Gold Sparrow that uses Hardening... Hey, isn’t that..."

As they continued to read, Chopper and Gou Yu looked at each other, blinking.

These two Pet Beasts, plus the Black Fighting Emperor protagonist... hmmm...

The hundred-Chapter binge was still going strong, so neither of them gave it much thought, simply shrugging it off and continuing to read.

’It’s probably just a coincidence, right? After all, the author has created so many Pet Beasts.’

·

「Meanwhile, the lights were still on at the Qi Dian Editor Department.」

It wasn’t because of Wu Bao, but just a coincidence that a few editors were working overtime, and their shift happened to fall on Wu Bao’s premium launch day.

"What’s the first-day sub count?"

"Nine thousand already..."

"Nine thousand in the first hour? At this rate, the 24-hour subscription count could easily break twenty thousand..."

"No, twenty thousand is the floor. This book by Wu Bao has great reader stickiness. It might even hit thirty thousand!"

"Didn’t this book stop updating for a day? The active readership dropped to five thousand back then..."

"But dropping a hundred Chapters for the premium launch is almost unheard of on Qi Point! Most of the readers who dropped the book will come back, and it’ll attract a ton of new ones!"

A few young editors stared at the real-time graph of the launch data, their faces etched with shock.

On the Qi Dian editor’s dashboard, the launch data was displayed as a dynamic, horizontal bar graph.

At first, a veteran top-tier author held the number one spot, but Wu Bao’s bar quickly shot to the top at a terrifying speed.

After an hour, Wu Bao’s data bar had grown so long it left everyone else in the dust, equivalent to the second through fifth-place spots combined!

This was a clear sign that a new blockbuster hit was about to be born.

And that was just the beginning.

Wu Bao’s book had a unique, uncontested premise and high reader retention. Several comic adaptation studios had already approached Qi Point to discuss adaptation rights.

For a new author, this was simply unimaginable...

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