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nChapter 89 – The Unluckiest Man?

nEnhancement failed.

nEnhancement failed.

nEnhancement failed.

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n“Damn it! Do these things actually work?”

nAfter separating the gems by their type, I began to use them to enhance my armor.

nThe first type I used was the green colored Gem of Recovery.

nIt was a gem that would give 10% increase in stamina recovery if the enhancement was successful.

nThe red one was called the Gem of Crit, giving a 1% chance to double your attack power twofold per enhancement.

nThe black one is called Gem of Defense.

nIt would increase your defense by 1%.

nThe stats raised weren’t that significant.

nHowever, if I was in a battle with someone wearing the same artifacts?

nDepending on the enhancements I have, the difference will clearly show.

nImagine that transcended Meteor becomes twice as strong, and on top of that, 3 of them fall.

nBefore the full destructive force can even be demonstrated, their form would be annihilated.

nGreen, red, black.

nThese three types made up over 90% of the gems, while there were a sparse few blue and golden colored gems that caught my eye.

nIt took a long while just to separate them by color though.

nFirst, I took the Gems of Recovery.

nImmediately, I attempted to enhance Black Dragon’s Scale that I’ve obtained from Joker.

nInitially, it had a 10% chance of succeeding.

nEach time the enhancement succeeds, the chance of success decreases by 1%.

nIn theory, I should succeed at least once out of ten tries initially.

nHowever, despite using up 20 gems, the armor wasn’t enhanced once.

nSwears came out of my mouth naturally.

nDespite the gems being the size of small pendants and the avatars filling the bag full, if I keep failing like this, I will run out of gems in no time.

nThese gems were obtained from the Unknown Dungeon, which is painfully difficult to gain entrance to.

nAs these gems disappeared one by one, I grew anxious.

n“It’s already annoying as hell to use them one by one, but if I don’t even succeed once, what’s the point of doing them!”

nAt first, I thought to enhance Titan Boots, Black Dragon’s Scale, and Butcher’s Sword.

nHowever, at the rate I was going, it would be difficult to enhance just the armor.

nWith a pout, I continued to try.

nSuddenly, a narration that excited me came through.

nBlack Dragon’s Scale has been successfully enhanced.

nStamina recovery increased by 10%.

nDoes not apply if the item is unequipped.

n“Oh yes! It should have been like this from the start!”

nI ended up yelling out in excitement without much thought.

nIt was almost as if I won the lottery.

nUnable to hold back, I checked the armor.

nThe information that Eye of Insight revealed was as follows.

n-Black Dragon’s Scale-

n*All stats 300

n*All damage taken reduced by 40%

n*Stamina recovery increased by 10%

n“Yes…. On top of the insane bonus effects, another one was added.”

nJust looking at it made me smile.

nNow, the success rate of enhancing the armor should be 9%.

nRight as I was about to bring another gem to the armor, I stopped.

n“Hm. There’s no reason to use all of them on the armor. Okay. I got an idea.”

nTossing the armor aside, I pulled in the sword and boots.

nThe reason was simple.

nSince the bonus effect of increased stamina recovery would be same on any of the equipment, it didn’t matter what I enhanced.

nIt was similar to how a backpack’s weight wouldn’t change no matter where you wore it.

nThe enhancement success rate was already low enough, so why try it on the item with 1% less success rate.

nIf all 3 of the artifacts become successfully enhanced, I planned to enhance them all for the second time and so on.

n“Please succeed! Succeed!”

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nLike that, I spent 3 hours on using the gems.

nThe gems were roughly the size of quarters, and they had filled up a duffle bag, so there was quite a lot to begin with.

nHowever, the look on my face wasn’t that good after having expended all the green, red, and black gems.

nNo. The expression was akin to have eaten **.

nThe reason why is as expected. The result wasn’t anything to be satisfied of.

nMy infinite mana ability wasn’t enough to console me at this moment.

nDespite going through nearly a thousand gems, the results were enough to make me despair.

nIt was enough to question just how unlucky I was.

nI was crying out in anguish while pulling out my hair.

n“I… I’m the most unluckiest person in the entire world….”

n“……”

n“No! Is 8% that low of a success rate? Isn’t it 0.8%? This must be rigged. It’s nonsense.”

nOut of all the results, the Gem of Recovery had the worst results.

nThose gems only managed to enhance each equipment once.

nThe Gem of Crit and the Gem of Defense had succeeded twice per each artifact.

nThe total was 30% increased stamina regen, 6% crit chance, and 6% increase in defensive capabilities.

nI had used nearly a thousand gems, but only succeeded 15 times.

nI couldn’t help but fall into despair.

nSince the situation turned out like this, exhaustion piled onto me.

nDue to my expectations being high, disappointment equivalent to that came.

nOn top of that, I hadn’t slept in two days since the fight with Ghost.

nNo recovery skill could get rid of the basic human urge to sleep.

nDespite looking at the gems and equipment laid over the floor, I didn’t much feel much excitement.

nMy interest towards them had dropped.

n“I’m no longer interested. I’ll do the rest after I sleep… Huh?”

nMy Eye of Insight was still being used.

nOnly then did I see the ability of the blue gems.

nIt was enough to get my curiosity going.

n-Gem of Magic Power-

n*Enhances all artifacts.

n*Successful enhancement grants 10% increase in magic power.

n*Success chance: 10%

n(Enhancement can stack up 5 times. Each successful enhancement lowers the chances of success by 1%.)

n*Low chance that the artifact will be destroyed instead.

n*Magic power?”

nNo stats the Awakened possess and none of the artifacts ever had the term of magic power mentioned in them.

nThe only thing that existed was mana stat that increased your total mana, which was required to cast skills.

nHowever, this gem’s name and the description both mentioned magic power.

nSince I wasn’t sure of the effect this bonus stat would give, I organized the thoughts in my head while muttering to myself.

n“Magic power.. Is it literal, increasing the power of my magic? A stat that I’ve never heard of. But if it’s real….”

nThere were only 100 Gem of Magic Power.

nUnlike all the gems I’ve used so far, there weren’t that many.

nNext to that were 50 or so golden gems.

nAfter checking the gems, I found that the name of the golden gem was called Gem of Blessings.

nIt would give 1 to 3 random stat bonuses.

nSince it turned out this way, sleep would have to wait, even though I was insanely tired just a minute ago.

n“Ha….. It’s enough to drive people insane.”

nBonus stats that weren’t just magic power, but random ones as well.

nThe name itself had the word blessing in it!

nThinking about the droprate and the name, I knew that it wasn’t just an ordinary item.

nHowever, the last line of information on the Gem of Magic Power really got to me.

nIt was that the artifact could be destroyed.

nDespite the chances being low, as a unlucky man, I couldn’t use them right away.

n“If I use it without much thought, it could become quite a disaster. This is difficult, Difficult.”

nI decided to use the Gems of Blessings first.

nEven if the enhancement doesn’t succeed, at least the artifact wouldn’t be destroyed.

nI used the first gem on the Titan Boots.

nTitan Boots has been successfully enhanced.

n“What? Already?”

nIt was a different result than the ones I had so far.

nThe enhancement had succeeded despite only using one.

n1 to 3 bonus stats should be added.

nI check the boots.

n-Titan Boots-

n*Immune to all status effects. (Obtains immunity to being frozen, slowed, poisoned, and all other status effects.)

n*Movement speed increased. (Obtains the same speed as the Boots of Lightspeed.)

n*Stamina recovery increased by 10%.

n*Crit chance increased by 2%.

n*Defensive capabilities increased by 2%.

n*Evasion Teleport obtained. (When receiving damage beyond one’s maximum health, negates the damage and teleports 20m in a random direction. Cooldown is 24 hours.)

n*Offensive capability of electric magic attacks increased by 30%.

n*Stats do not apply if the equipment is unequipped.

n“Wow….”

nChecking the Titan Boots, the size of the explanation had grown by a lot.

nThe basic abilities of the Titan Boots were immunity to status effects and increased movement speed.

nExcluding the 3 stats I’ve earned using the gems, 2 more were added.

nOut of them all, I was focused on the Evasion Teleport.

nDespite the cooldown being 24 hours long, it would negate the attack if I received an attack that I wasn’t able to handle.

nEven though I had earned a ton of stats through the Butcher’s Sword, one could never know of the future ahead of them.

nIt was true that defensive capability should be prioritized over offensive capabilities for now.

nAfter transcending my skills, my offensive capabilities were beyond what was enough.

nNow, the time that I could hold out against the opponent’s attack was equivalent to the window of opportunity to attack.

nVery strongly at that.

nOn top of the Evasion Teleport, the attack damage of my electric magic spells had increased.

nThe only electric spell I had was the Lightning Spray, but I knew that I would obtain more as time went on.

nI had thought that the offensive capabilities of a skill could only increase with skill levels, but now I discovered that it could be increased like this.

nIt would have been better if it increased fire magic damage, but this was enough of a steal.

nWith my expectation increasing, I tried once more.

nHowever, there was a term called beginner’s luck.

nAll the gems that were left had failed.

nHowever, the results were enough to leave me without regret.

nMatching with the anxious beating of my heart, my eyes settled on the Gems of Magic Power.

nHowever, I did not have the desire to use them.

nIf I had other items that could replace my artifacts, I would have used all the gems without hesitation.

nHowever, the current situation wasn’t like so.

nNo matter how strong the heart is, there wouldn’t be anyone who would go through with it.

nIt was then.

n“Wait. It said all artifacts?”

nI looked at the numerous equipment that I had obtained from the Unknown Dungeon.

nNo matter what I picked, it was obvious that it would surpass the skull ring I had on right now.

nEven though there was a great variation in the loot, there were still multiple copies.

nIt meant that even if some things were destroyed, there were substitutes to use.

nSeparating the items into same shapes, I looked at their bonus stats.

nI discovered something that was enough to match, no, deny comparison with the equipment I was wearing currently.

nOn top of that, 3 of them.

n“With this, I think it’s pretty okay?”

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