Bonus Chapter - for reaching 600 power stones
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In front of everyone, Kairos did indeed download the game onto his computer, but didn't rush to open it.
"Alright, now that the game's downloaded, I just remembered I left water boiling at home and forgot to turn off the stove, so I'm ending the stream here."
Without waiting to see the chat's reaction, he directly exited the livestream.
Kairos knew that if he started playing Emerald in front of everyone, his game knowledge and experience would probably generate quite a few emotion points.
But he didn't want to lose sight of the bigger picture for small gains.
Even the insane-difficulty Pokémon: Emerald wasn't much of a challenge for a seasoned Pokémon veteran like him—especially since he'd created the game himself. Playing it would be easy for him.
While it might provide plenty of entertaining content and some emotion points, it would essentially hand players who hadn't touched the game yet a full walkthrough.
They could copy his route and breeze through the entire high-difficulty run.
A game is always most fun when people are just starting to explore it and have little game knowledge or understanding.
For his early strategy of using the game's difficulty to farm emotion points, livestreaming a complete playthrough now would obviously be counterproductive.
So Kairos wasn't in a hurry to stream Pokémon: Emerald. Instead, he planned to wait until the top players had reached at least halfway through the game before starting his own livestream.
When he played through the game with completely different methods and strategies, it would naturally create bigger emotional waves in his audience, earning him more points.
Besides, the insane mode of Pokémon: Emerald was less than one-third complete. Compared to streaming, Kairos needed to focus more on development.
After all, each game update brought far more emotion points than simply playing games on stream.
Simply put, now wasn't the optimal time to stream Emerald. Better to wait a bit longer.
With that thought, Kairos got up from his computer desk, stretched, and opened the backend of Pokémon: Emerald to check the player leaderboard.
What he saw made him freeze—Cynthia, who was in first place, had suddenly progressed to the gym in Lavaridge Town!
He rubbed his eyes, almost doubting what he was seeing.
Wait, I just updated all that content today. I figured it would last at least two days, and you've already reached the gym in one??
What a terrifying woman…
Of course, this "terrifying" referred only to her gaming speed—and her trainer skills as well.
Kairos shook his head and sighed.
Sigh… looks like I can't rest today—gotta work overtime on the game again.
But he wasn't in a rush to start. Instead, he opened the game backend to check something else.
The 2 million yen promotion had clearly been worthwhile. After just one day, sales had jumped by as much as 30,000 copies.
At this rate, forget fifteen days—probably just a week or so, and the game would break the 300,000 copies required by the mission.
Besides the sales boost, the game's popularity was steadily rising, too. Pokémon: Emerald had reached second place in the New Game Festival's real-time rankings!
And the gap between it and first place—a game called Pokémon Fishing Contest—wasn't that big in terms of either popularity or sales.
At this rate, taking first place in the New Game Festival was just a matter of time.
However, Kairos suddenly remembered—Dream Factory's new game would be released in three days.
He wasn't worried about Dream Factory being a threat. He was just curious—what kind of game could that unscrupulous company make?
Whatever, who cares?
Kairos shook his head slightly, his gaze falling on the mission panel in front of him.
The end of the month would mark the end of the New Game Festival. As long as he could take first place, he'd get 2000 emotion points, a random advanced production module, and a special A-rank system item chest.
Before that, once game sales reached 300,000 copies, he could claim the side mission rewards: 2000 emotion points, an A-rank special item chest, and an invitation card.
Between these two sets of rewards, aside from the emotion points being the same, the difference between the other rewards was significant.
Kairos couldn't yet judge which was more valuable—the invitation card or the advanced production module.
But there was no doubt that the system item chest was a higher grade than the special item chest.
From experience, losing those two words "system" made a world of difference.
Just as Kairos was staring at the game panel in thought, a notification suddenly popped up before his eyes.
[Ding! Please note, host, current stage emotion points have been calculated!]
[You have gained 460 emotion points from 230,000 livestream viewers!]
[You have gained 450 emotion points from Emerald purchasers!]
[You have gained 1000 emotion points from key character "Cynthia"!]
[You have gained 670 emotion points from Cynthia's livestream viewers!]
The string of notifications left Kairos stunned.
The points from livestream viewers and Emerald players were expected.
But how did Cynthia suddenly give him another 1000 points?
Past experience told him the champion must have been shocked by something in Emerald again.
And apparently her viewers were equally shocked…
But Kairos frowned. Aside from the fossil Pokémon and Bill's research facility storyline, he hadn't arranged any events near Petalburg Woods that could cause Cynthia such emotional fluctuations, had he?
After a brief moment of thought, he noticed the small tooltip behind the two messages. Sure enough, a tiny prompt box read:
[Includes Easter Egg Module bonus!]
As expected, it was content automatically generated by the Easter Egg Module!
He immediately opened his browser and entered Cynthia's livestream.
At this moment, Cynthia had successfully come down the mountain and arrived at Lavaridge Town, where she obtained a mysterious Pokémon egg from the old lady at the hot springs above.
According to his design, the Pokémon hatched from this egg wouldn't count toward the 15-Pokémon team limit in insane mode, and unlike the original, where it always hatched into a Wynaut, it could be one of several random Pokémon.
Kairos opened the replay of Cynthia's livestream, dragging the progress bar to check exactly what had caused such a huge emotional spike.
Soon, he got his answer.
Seeing Zacian, the Warrior of the Sword, battling Eternatus on screen, Kairos's mouth twitched.
Good grief, isn't this supposed to be the Hoenn region? How did the Easter Egg system just drop two legendary Pokémon from the Galar region in here?
And this Zacian beating up Eternatus in its Eternamax form with 1125 base stats and 2509 combined defenses—was that even legal?
But thinking it over, Kairos realized this CG segment was probably far stronger than his previous Regirock CG.
After all, for people in this world, legendary Pokémon were beings ordinary people could hardly ever encounter or comprehend.
For lower-tier legendaries like the Rock Titan, mythologists like Cynthia might at least have heard of them, so seeing that CG wouldn't produce extreme emotions.
But the shock brought by these two first-tier legendaries from regions that didn't even exist in the real world was massive.
Looking at the 2000-plus emotion points that had appeared in his account out of nowhere, Kairos's mood instantly improved.
This Easter Egg Module was definitely worth it!
Of course, such an amazing effect didn't come from the Easter Egg Module alone.
Its autonomous ideas, combined with the Advanced CG Technology Module and Intimidation Effect Module he'd purchased earlier, were what made that scene possible in Cynthia's livestream.
At this moment, Kairos began to feel anticipation.
The battle CG between Zacian and Eternatus, as well as the Rusted Sword, were all Easter Egg arrangements—things he couldn't control or predict.
But there was one main storyline in Emerald that he could plan himself!
This was the earth-shattering apocalyptic battle between the three legendary Pokémon of Hoenn—Rayquaza, Groudon, and Kyogre!
Well, more accurately, little Groudon and little Kyogre throwing a tantrum, then kindergarten teacher Rayquaza coming in to break it up…
Following the game's original flow, he had already inserted the Team Magma and Team Aqua content.
But Kairos didn't plan to move everything over exactly as in the original. He had his own plans.
He wanted to better showcase these three legendary Pokémon to all players, letting them truly participate rather than just watch as bystanders!
Of course, achieving this would require considerable effort.
But thinking about the moment when players would personally experience the scene, Kairos knew it would be worth it.
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