Friday, March 6, 20XX
The day after Zhongli's visit, Alexy passed the day without anything special, he did commission as normal, did homework as normal, ate breakfast, lunch, dinner and extra meals as normal.
It was a normal day until after dinner.
"A...!"
Alexy stepped into his room and saw a black haired young man. Surprised, he was about to shout but the guy covered his mouth.
"Don't shout! It's me, Gacha God, remember?"
Alexy nodded.
"Good!" Gacha God stopped covering Alexy's mouth.
"What are you doing here?" Alexy asked.
"Let's go inside the system's dimension and I'll explain." Gacha God
"Wait...you can go inside my system?"
"Not without your permission, of course!"
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"Gacha God, what are you doing here?" Paimon asked, suprised.
"No need to be surprise!" Gacha God said "I came here today to give a new update to the system."
"What update?" Paimon
"~R~A~T~E~~U~P~" Gacha God answered.
"Rate up? As in the chance of getting a specific character or item is increased, right?" Alexy asked.
"Yes, you're correct!" Gacha God
"Wait, what's about my pity so far?" Alexy
"There will be 2 rate-up banners at the same time: one for character, the other one for weapon, both will be 5 stars of course, along with some other 4 stars. Your pity will so far will continue on the character banner, even though you have got both 5 stars character and weapon, while the weapon banner will have a separate pity. These pities will carry on to following banners."
"*phew*" Alexy "But rate-up banners are limited, right?"
"Yes, both are limited within 3 weeks. After 3 weeks, another 2 banners will replace them."
"So after 3 weeks, you will come again!?" Paimon asked, distressed.
"Nah, I'll come again after 6 weeks. Each time, I will update 4 banners, but the latter two will be hidden. After the time of the former 2 banners ends, the latter 2 banners will automatically appear."
Paimon seemed even more distressed after hearing she would have to meet Gacha God regularly.
"Alright, just do what you have to do and leave, please!" Alexy said.
"Alright, prepare to dance, folks!" Gacha God said.
"Huh...what?"
However, the Gacha God did not answer Alexy's question. He turned around, stretched out his arms, his eyes suddenly turned blue, then turned to gold, and then blue again and it kept repeating that cycle.
The whole system's dimension began to tremble. It shook very hard like it was the end of the world, or rather just itself.
And then the music started.
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"Wait...what!?"
Before Alexy could understand what is what, his arms and legs began to move by themselves. Even Paimon started to dance too.
"I think you need these." Katheryne appeared and gave Alexy and Paimon sunglasses.
"Thanks!" Alexy
"Thank you, Katheryne!" Paimon
The two put on the glasses and continued to dance.
And everywhere in the system's dimension, everyone started to dance "Specialist". Whatever they were doing, reading book in the library, eating popsicles, making bombs, blacksmithing, etc., they all started to dance the moment they heard "Specialist" playing.
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Upper floor of the system's dimension
The Archons were the only ones that could resist "Specialist" dancing effect.
"I still don't understand why they have to dance..."Specialist." Ei
"It's...tradition." Zhongli.
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Harbingers' room
"Everyone, dance more enthusiastically!" Pierro - the Jester, the 1st of the 11 Harbingers shouted while he was dancing.
Other Harbingers did not say anything, it was not the first time they had to put up with their senior, anyway.
"This is so fun!" Tartaglia
(Ugh!) Scaramouche
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The sky of the system's dimension began to brighten up. And from mid-air, the 2 rectangle banners appeared. It was not until they fully came into shape did the shaking and trembling stopped. Coincidentally, "Specialist" came to an end.
"Ha...ha...I don't understand why we have to dance." Alexy
"It's very hard to explain, let's say it's tradition." Gacha God
"Do we have to do it every time banners come up?" Alexy
"Yes, and not only when the banners come up, but also when the banners come down." Gacha God
"WHAT!?"
"Alright, listen. Look up to the banners and I will explain the 50/50 mechanic." Gacha God
"Wait, Paimon can do it too." Paimon
"Um...the 50/50 mechanic you know is old. So let me." Gacha God
Alexy looked up and saw two gigantic banners floating mid-air.
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On the character banner, Alexy could see a orange hair young man holding some sort of water weapon, on his left or to the right of the banner, there were three girls, from top to bottom, Xiangling, Barbara, and Fischl.
"Wait...that mask...he's a Fatui!" Alexy
"Yes. Tartaglia is the 11th of the 11 Fatui Harbinger. But don't worry, according to the Fatui's definition, he's still your subordinate. So don't be shy and just pull for him." Gacha God
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"I believe Paimon has explained to you the 4 stars pity and the 5 stars pity. Now, remember, I will only say this 50/50 mechanic once. For the character banner, the first time you get the gold wish, it will be either the character you see on the banner or a character you already have. If you win the 50/50 this time, next time it will also be a 50/50. If you lose 50/50 this time, next time you're guaranteed to get the featured character." Gacha God
"Wait...then if I lose 50/50 this time, I will get 2 Klees?" Alexy
"There can't be 2 Klees, the system will automatically exchange for you an emoji of Klee which you can freely use in the chat or message." Gacha God "The same for 4 stars, you can get those on the banner, or those not on the banner. If you get a duplicate, you'll get a Genshin emoji that everyone will be envy."
(Wait...isn't this a loss if I get a duplicate!?)
"Alright, about the weapon banner..."
Gacha God proceeded to explain about the Fate Point and the pity system of weapon banner, which is the same as in the game.
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"Wait, to get a 5 star, I need a lot of primogems, I cannot save enough within 3 weeks."
"Ah right...just find people with exclamation mark on their head. Talk to them and help them and you will get primos. You can have those characters you got do it for you. Ok, that's it, bye!" the Gacha God said and disappeared.
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An abandoned warehouse
"Where were you? I've been waiting for more than 2 hours!"
"Shhhh...I know, I was just testing your patience, Balthasar!"
The second man then took out 2 photos.
"These are the sons of General Tsarivich, who captured you in the anti-terrorist operation 20 years ago."
Balthasar took the two pictures and looked at them closely, like he wanted to eat fresh and drink blood of the two boys in the pictures.
"With this, you're in debt with The Organization!"
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AR: 8 (1625/4000 EXP)
Primogem count: 695
Mora count: 84,275