Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 640

Chapter 640: Chapter 607: Can You Get Both Fish and Bear’s Paw?

Mario Pumisat left Yelang’s live broadcast room and decisively contacted his transgender childhood friend.

He felt that this matter was very important to his friend.

In Siam, there are millions of transgender people, but their psychological states and gender perceptions are not uniform.

Some feel inside that they are still men, some feel they are women, and many more transgender people feel that they are neither men nor women, but a “third gender.”

Pumisat wasn’t sure about the mentality of the transgender people he knew.

However, he was very clear that his friend had a hard time accepting their “neither male nor female” body but couldn’t afford gender reassignment surgery, so they were often tormented inside.

The appearance of the [Gender-Swap Potion] gave Pumisat hope.

As long as they prepared a few more potions, wouldn’t they be able to change into whatever gender they wanted?

More importantly: since Cloud Dream has the technology to allow players to “transform” in “Terraria”, they must also have the ability to let players maintain their “transformation” throughout the entire virtual world.

There should be no technical difficulty in doing this.

The only challenge may be ethical and moral constraints.

Anyway, first get a friend to test the effect, and if it works well, then try petitioning Cloud Dream!

Oh right, they still need to find materials and make the potion ahead of time.

As Mario collected materials, he couldn’t help but feel relieved: thankfully, his friend was a well-known “Red Artist” locally, so they didn’t have to be as destitute as the lowest-tier transgender people, who could only afford the Mirage Console if they didn’t eat or drink for a year.

Half an hour later, the fully prepared Mario brought his friend into the virtual world to meet, and then directly took them into “Terraria”, handing them the [Potion of Gender Swap].

Looking at the system description of the potion, the friend glanced at Mario in amazement.

Without dwelling on it, they immediately drank it.

Mario shielded his eyes, watching as his friend’s body was surrounded by blinding light, their curves transforming bit by bit—the full chest flattened gradually, and the perky buttocks seemed to have shrunk by two sizes…

When the light completely dissipated and they saw the now flat chest and the slightly altered facial features, Mario curiously asked, “So, did the potion turn you into a man?”

Since they could hardly see any secondary sexual characteristics, it seemed to be effective.

But unexpectedly, the friend touched their chest with a strange expression, then turned around to touch their lower body before turning back in shock: “Did I become a woman?!”

“Huh?” Mario couldn’t believe it.

What about the two male anchors who changed into women? Didn’t they all have gorgeous figures, with busty chests and perky buttocks?

“Could it be… the potion’s effect is random? Shall we try again?” Mario suggested.

“Alright.” The friend clearly wasn’t satisfied and once again, downed another [Potion of Gender Swap].

After the light dissipated, they successfully changed into a man.

But they didn’t stop there, and another potion went down—they still leaned towards a female in terms of gender identity.

However, when the light dissipated, their hopes were shattered again—they had changed back into a flat-chested girl…

And it was even worse than before. At least before they were barely an A-cup, but now they became completely flat.

“Why can’t I just keep my breasts?” The friend, looking at their now nonexistent chest, was very disappointed.

Mario was also completely baffled as to why this was happening.

In order to test the effect of the potion, he poured the last one down himself.

The dazzling light burst again, but before it even faded, Mario felt a heavy sensation growing in his chest.

When his transformation finished, he turned into a voluptuous big sister.

The friend envied Mario’s new figure and said discontentedly, “So am I being targeted?”

“Um… try to look on the bright side. At least you look pretty now.”

“Really?” The friend was unsure.

“Really.” Mario nodded vigorously.

Of course it’s real. Little Chun’s team is top-notch in terms of aesthetics, and with the experience they’ve accumulated in making NPCs over the past few months, it’s not difficult to make someone look more attractive.

To achieve a perfect figure and face, it may take a lot of effort and hard work, but creating a 7th or 8th grade beauty is not difficult at all.

— Don’t underestimate a 7th or 8th grade beauty. They would already be quite outstanding in reality.

Take Mario’s buddy, for example. Although she has become flat-chested, she still looks like a delicate lady, and you can’t say that she’s ugly.

However, Mario’s buddy thought about it and was still not satisfied.

Biting her teeth, she asked, “How did you get this potion? I want to try a few more bottles. What if my chest gets bigger next time?”

“Are you playing the lottery here?” Mario was speechless.

But despite his complaints, he eventually accompanied his buddy in search of materials and concocting potions.

He had no choice; he needed to make a potion to change back as well…

…

The [Potion of Gender Swap] has some popularity in Siam, thanks to the presence of a specific transgender group.

However, when looking at the entire Internet of Siam, the popularity isn’t really that high.

An interesting fact is that the place with the highest discussion heat around the [Potion of Gender Swap] is actually Daxia.

Yet, when it comes to the country with the most usage of this potion, Daxia is nowhere to be found.

Yes, Daxia players are very interested in watching the fun and joining the excitement, and many of them are indeed synthesizing the [Potion of Gender Swap] in large quantities, but not many people actually use it…

Even if they do, they would only secretly use it themselves, and there is no large-scale usage.

So, where do the players use it on the largest scale?

The answer is: Europe.

Especially in Western Europe and Northern Europe, where their perception of gender is already quite flexible.

They wouldn’t feel the psychological burden that Daxia players have when changing genders in the game – on the contrary, many of them are happy to share their new post-gender-change appearance online, allowing their friends and netizens to watch the spectacle.

Thanks to this social atmosphere, the [Potion of Gender Swap] has quickly become an internet hot topic in Europe, even indirectly boosting the sales of Mirage consoles.

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In contrast, Yi didn’t have such a leisurely mindset at all.

After Yelang went offline, he anxiously searched for medicinal herbs in the underground caverns, wanting to change back as soon as possible.

— He wanted his live-streamer community to help him look for the ingredients or someone with existing materials to help him brew a potion.

But somehow, they suddenly rallied together, refusing to help, and insisted that he continue live streaming like this…

Since his viewers insisted on it, he could only look for the materials himself for the sake of the live stream effect.

But what frustrated him was that whenever he played the game, his backpack was always filled with excess herbs and seeds, which he had to destroy one by one because they took up precious inventory space.

Now that he really needed them, he couldn’t find them at all!!

What was even more frustrating was that the Flame Flowers, which only grew in the underground lava areas, were impossible to find.

What’s worse, there were lava traps hidden everywhere.

Often carelessly, two swings of his pickaxe would cause the lava to gush into the gap, giving him an experience of a “lava bath.”

Naturally, the result was a violent death on the spot, without a doubt.

It took a long while after respawning for Yi to regain his composure.

Then he sighed, and continued digging underground.

He couldn’t keep live streaming as a female, could he?

Though… it seemed like his fans kind of liked it?