Inside a dilapidated room, a young man lay on the ground. His clothes were covered in blood and dust, his appearance battered and disheveled. Yet, even through all of that, the traces of his handsome features couldn't be hidden.
He was laying there, motionless, seemingly already dead. But suddenly, his body twitched.
After that, he opened his eyes abruptly, then rose from his lying position.
"Haa," he exhaled, greedily drawing in air like he had been on the verge of suffocation just moments before. And it took a while before he could fully gather himself.
He looked around at his surroundings, then checked over his body; his clothes, far too old-fashioned, were stained with blood. And he knew something was wrong.
He tried to remember what had happened last. And it only took a moment for it all to come rushing back.
He had been playing a gacha game and had just drew the final character from the highest tier.
He had poured so much time and money, grinding endlessly to get that character, that when he finally pulled it, he was nearly flying in joy. But right at that moment, just when the notification saying he had acquired it appeared… suddenly, everything went black.
He didn't have the time to comprehend what had happened.
He just felt everything around him shut off.
And now, here he was.
Inside this dilapidated room.
'What is going on?' he wondered.
But before he could even try to make sense of it, his head suddenly started to ache. A large amount of information… no, a memory, surged into his mind.
It took a few moments for him to gather himself once again and truly understand what was going on.
It turned out… he had been transmigrated.
Transmigrated into a cultivation world.
But, without the ability to cultivate!
Dylan… or rather, now Hong Wei, didn't have time to react to everything that was happening to him, though.
[You have successfully linked with the Gacha System.]
[You have been rewarded with one legendary or above draw for free.]
[You can draw one character every day once for free.]
Hearing the emotionless female voice echo out in his head, along with the system window appearing in front of him, Hong Wei stood in stupor for a second before finally reacting.
His eyes sparkled, and he clenched his hand in excitement.
Now, he didn't care about his talentless body anymore.
With this system… with this cheat, what couldn't he do?
What couldn't be achieved!
Who said that talent can't be forged!
Unable to wait, and eager to confirm the credibility of what he was seeing, Hong Wei immediately gave a silent command in his mind… to draw the free draw first.
Immediately after, an ancient wheel appeared in front of him, with many different pictures of the characters he had the chance to draw.
He got a brief glance at them before the wheel started spinning, and in that moment, he confirmed… they were mostly characters from the same gacha game he had been playing just before transmigrating.
There were characters from all tiers, most of them women. But the most important thing was not that.
It was the fact that he didn't see the picture of the character from the highest tier.
… Even so, he wasn't discouraged.
Even if she wasn't available at the moment, he would still draw her, no matter what!
He had managed to pull her once… and he would do it again!
With that determined thought, Hong Wei's gaze moved back to the wheel. He was still looking forward to seeing what character he would get, after all.
The tiers were divided into ten, not counting the highest one: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic, Ancient, Divine, Transcendent, and Eternal.
Hong Wei, from the very beginning, didn't have high hopes of drawing a high-tier character from the free draw. But still, he hoped it would be a useful one.
[Congratulations, the host has pulled an Epic-ranked character: Battle Maid, Shan Mei.]
[The character has been placed inside the Gacha room. You can pull it out at any time.]
Seeing the result of his first free draw, Hong Wei was quite satisfied, and immediately pulled out the said battle maid.
And appearing right in front of him… from empty air, was a woman with a mature charm, a pretty appearance, and a warm, gentle air around her.
She stood with quiet poise, her gaze soft yet steady. Her black hair was pinned in a simple bun, held in place by a thin silver hairpin.
Her attire wasn't flashy, just a simple dark blue robe belted at the waist with a black sash. Long sleeves draped past her wrists, and her movement, as she knelt on one knee, was silent, despite the delicate wooden sandals on her feet.
"Master," she said in a soft and calm voice.
Hong Wei was even more satisfied with the sudden maid he had gotten.
But he still couldn't help but wonder… how was she a battle maid without any visible weapon?
As he was thinking about the nature of her abilities, a status window suddenly appeared in front of him.
[Name: Shan Mei]
[Lifespan: 36 / 160]
[Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Realm, Level One]
[Cultivation Technique: Jade Lotus Manual]
Hong Wei's eyes lit up upon seeing Shan Mei's status window.
She was a cultivator, and one at the Foundation Establishment Realm at that!
So then… just what kind of realm would a character he could still draw from the legendary tier or above be?
Feeling like he couldn't wait any longer, Hong Wei immediately used his rewarded draw.
The ancient wheel appeared again, but Shan Mei didn't seem to be able to see it.
He didn't dwell on that and waited eagerly to see what he would pull!
[Congratulations, the host has pulled the Mythic-ranked character: Seren Myric, the Moon Guardian.]