sinovels Chapter 458 I Have My Way
Chapter 458 I Have My Way
The joy in the hall subsided into tranquility.
Chen You stared at the announcement that was scrolling above the heads of all players on the server.
"Damn it!" Chen You slammed his fist on the counter, making teacups jump around. "You failed and then announced it to the entire server? This is public humiliation!"
Hill looked completely innocent: "Boss, this is also to remind players to be aware of the risks; it's the system's way of showing humanistic care."
"What kind of humanistic concern is this! You're using me as a negative example to promote your anti-explosion talismans!" Chen You was so angry that smoke was coming out of his nostrils.
The prestige he had just built up in front of all the top players on the server was instantly shattered by this announcement.
"I refuse to believe this nonsense!" Chen You's face turned completely red.
He grabbed the Jade Emperor Sword and threw it back into the enhancement slot.
"strengthen!"
Click! A red light flashes.
[Ding! Enhancement failed. Explosion-proof talisman activated.]
[World Announcement: Oops! Player "Chen You" has failed to reach +13 again! He keeps failing, but he keeps trying! Let's cheer him on!]
"Shut up!" Chen You roared at the air, his fingers clicking the buttons frantically as if he were having a cramp.
Click! Click! Click!
Inside the Supreme Tower, the sound of blacksmithing turned into the sound of heartbreak.
A series of red lights flashed, and the Jade Emperor Sword remained as steady as Mount Tai at +12, while the number of anti-explosion talismans in Chen You's backpack was decreasing at a visible rate.
The world channel went completely wild.
[World Announcement: Player "Chen You" failed his third attempt to reach +13! His wallet is bleeding!]
[World Announcement: Player "Chen You" fails his fourth attempt to reach +13! Anti-explosion talisman sales are far ahead!]
[World Announcement: Player "Chen You" failed his fifth attempt to reach +13...]
In Titan City, Thalos stared at the screen filled with failure announcements and let out a deafening roar of laughter: "Hahaha! Fools! Did you really think +13 was just a matter of luck? That's an insurmountable barrier from the system!"
In the City of Eternal Night, Moon Arrow silently ignored the announcement and changed his evaluation of Chen You from "unfathomable" to "foolish and rich".
Inside the Supreme Tower.
Chen You slumped in his chair, staring blankly at the ceiling.
The interface displays the message: [Insufficient explosion-proof tokens, please replenish.]
In just one minute, all eighteen anti-explosion talismans, along with nearly ten thousand enhancement stones, were reduced to nothing.
His proud "padding technique" was utterly crushed in the face of the system's cold, big data-driven price discrimination.
"Hill..." Chen You's voice was hoarse, like a gambler who had lost everything, "Is your system locked out of success rate?"
Hill approached Chen You with a steaming cup of spiritual tea, his tone still gentle and professional: "Boss, the system is absolutely fair."
"Strengthening is 70% determined by fate, 30% by hard work, and the remaining 90%... depends on financial resources."
"Enough nonsense." Chen You shoved the teacup aside, grabbed a handful of blast talismans, and slammed them onto the anvil. "Continue!"
"bite--"
[Enhancement failed.]
"Again!"
"bite--"
[Enhancement failed.]
The Supreme Tower echoed with a continuous, cracking sound, like the sound of hammering iron.
Chen You's eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep, and his fingers mechanically repeated the actions of "putting in materials and clicking to enhance".
This psychological suggestion that "it will definitely work next time" is practically a deadly poison etched into human DNA.
Press the confirmation button for the twenty-second time.
A blinding golden light suddenly burst forth from the anvil, shooting straight up to the dome of the hall.
[Ding! Enhancement successful. Jade Emperor Sword's current enhancement level: +13.]
[World Announcement: A Miracle! Player "Chen You" has overcome numerous hardships and successfully upgraded his main weapon to +13! May it live as long as heaven and earth, and shine as brightly as the sun and moon!]
"Phew—" Chen You slumped into a chair and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Hill clapped his hands and said, "Congratulations, boss! You're now tied for first place in the entire server with Lord Thalos."
"This sword is now powerful enough to cleave ten abyssal dragons in two."
Chen You ignored her and instead opened the spending records on the panel, quickly doing a mental calculation.
Explosion-proof talisman, enhancement stone, and single enhancement fee.
Upgrading a weapon to +13, aside from the cost of upgrade stones, costs nearly 50,000 gold coins!
Fifty thousand gold coins is equivalent to five hundred billion Chinese yuan!
"Director Li, I'm sorry, we burned a bit too many gold coins today," Chen You muttered under his breath, his heart aching.
As he looked at the dark gold patterns flowing on the Jade Emperor Sword, his mind quickly cooled down.
Don't get carried away!
This kind of relentless struggle is absolutely not going to work.
The system's probability pool is a bottomless pit. Even with the government's financial backing, a single piece of equipment can't withstand such exploitation.
20%的成功率都花了22次，那后面+14、+15的15%、10%，岂不是要把整个国库掏空？
"I need to think differently." Chen You stroked his chin, his gaze falling on his equipment inventory.
There lay five pieces of equipment shimmering with seven-colored light—the Mythical Five-Piece Set, the Fortune and Prosperity Opening Heaven Set.
He crafted this set of equipment using blueprints. Although it was of mythical quality, as long as there were enough materials, he could easily recreate it if it broke, making the cost extremely low.
"Hill, how many enhancement stones can the auction house still buy?" Chen You suddenly looked up.
"Please wait a moment." Hill closed his eyes, opened them two seconds later, and said, "There are currently about 100,000 enhancement stones circulating across the server, with an average price of around 0.1 gold coins."
"All done in seconds." Chen You waved his hand.
Hill was stunned for a moment: "All...all in an instant? Boss, 100,000 enhancement stones will instantly drain the market liquidity and cause a price collapse."
"So what if it crashes? What does it have to do with me?" Chen You tossed out a money bag full of gold coins. "Ten thousand gold coins, let's go on a shopping spree."
Three minutes later.
All players browsing the auction house across the entire server fell into an eerie silence as they stared at the instantly emptied list of enhancement stones.
Inside the Supreme Tower, a small mountain of glowing light had been piled up in front of Chen You.
One hundred thousand enhancement stones illuminated the hall.
"Come on, line up, one by one, go to the gallows."
Chen You placed the helmet, breastplate, leg guards, boots, and bracers of the Kaitian·Fulu set next to the anvil in that order.
Hill looked at the scene with some confusion: "Boss, what are you trying to do? Aren't you going to use the anti-explosion talismans?"
"Bullshit, this thing is meant to be blown up."
Chen You skillfully tossed the gauntlets into the enhancement slot, without adding any anti-explosion talismans, and directly clicked the enhancement button.
[Ding! Enhancement successful. Fortune and Prosperity - Heavenly Hand of Heavenly Blessing current enhancement level: +1.]
[Ding! Enhancement successful. Fortune & Prosperity - Heavenly Blessing Boots current enhancement level: +1.]
……
[Ding! Enhancement failed.]
[The enhancement level of the Fortune & Prosperity Boots has been reduced; current level: +7.]
[Ding! Enhancement failed.]
[The Fortune and Prosperity - Heavenly Blessing - Heavenly Prosperity Leg Guards are completely shattered.]
A constant cycle of success and failure, back and forth.
After twelve consecutive failures and the destruction of a pair of leggings, Chen You's eyes lit up.
After a series of setbacks, the system's probability pool will definitely provide a compensatory critical hit.
He decisively put the +13 Jade Emperor Sword into the enhancement slot and inserted an anti-explosion talisman.
"Get out of here!"
"bite--"
[Enhancement successful. Jade Emperor Sword's current enhancement level: +14.]