Levi glanced at the Valis Vouchers he held.
He discovered that since he started drawing cards in the afternoon until now, he had only consumed a little over 12 million Valis. An unexpected expression immediately appeared on his face.
He pondered for less than a second before making a decision: continue leveling up Luck!
However, this time, to improve the card drawing efficiency, Levi no longer chose to use the Skill Books immediately after obtaining them. Instead, he would draw 10 to 11 copies of each type, ensuring that after using them, there would absolutely be no waste.
Thus, for the next two hours or so, Levi began to mechanically repeat his labor.
—Snap! —Snap! —Snap! —Snap! ...
The sights of pulling a blue in 40 draws, a blue in 30 draws, or even a blue in 10 draws, and double blues in a 10-draw pull, constantly flashed before his eyes.
Placed in his previous life, this was a beautiful scenery that he, as someone with terrible luck, would not even dare to dream of. But now, it looked slightly tedious.
Simply because the process of using Skill Books was omitted, raising Luck from B to A took less than forty minutes in total. And from A to S, it took another hour and a half.
As for the Valis Vouchers, before starting in the afternoon, there were over 17 billion. By the end, it had become a little over 16.8 billion, approaching 16.9 billion.
'If I had known that upgrading [Luck] wouldn't cost many Valis, I would have done this long ago,' Levi secretly thought in his heart, while the corners of his mouth pulled into an arc that could not be suppressed at all.
Of course, it wasn't too late now either.
After Luck rose to S-rank perfection, the soft pity count for the designated rate-up item had dropped to 40 draws, and it was guaranteed to be obtained during the soft pity period.
This meant that Levi, who held a total of 84 Law Crystals in hand, no longer needed to wait for the Exchange Store to refresh next month. He could directly draw the Hōgyoku!
In fact, the youth with short pale-gold hair indeed did just that next.
He took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled. His will touched the card pool panel that only he could see, switching it to the Bleach Lv.5 sub-page.
Then.
10 Law Crystals were ignited, merging into the card pool interface. Accompanied by a "boom," they transformed into ten illusory meteors falling down.
Among them, six were golden lights symbolizing 5-star items, and one was a red light symbolizing a 6-star item.
And three of them shimmered with the rainbow light corresponding to 7-star items!
"Three rainbows in a ten-pull?!"
Even though he had experienced this many times before and had made ample psychological preparation, understanding that under the enhancement of Luck S his luck would be very good, Levi still couldn't help but wave his arm and reveal an excited expression upon discovering he had hit the jackpot in one shot.
He maintained a sense of ritual next. He didn't rush to use his will to skip the item display. Instead, he viewed the items he had drawn one by one:
(Hōgyoku + Shihakushō/Hot Spring Skills. Pic! Pic! Pic!)
[Hōgyoku · 7-Star (Unique)]
[Indestructible]
[Soul Equipment]
[Break Limit. The higher the difficulty of the breakthrough, the more Magic Power consumed and the longer the cooldown time.]
[Shihakushō Production Technique · 7-Star] (Skill Book Unique)
[Obtain Development Ability: Mystery S]
[Obtain Development Ability: Goldsmithing S]
[Obtain Development Ability: Sewing S]
[Can produce cloth armor Shihakushō of minimum 4-star and maximum 7-star based on known materials in the current world]
[Medical Hot Spring Construction Technique · 7-Star] (Skill Book Unique)
[Obtain Development Ability: Mystery S]
[Obtain Development Ability: Construction S]
[Obtain Development Ability: Healing S]
[Can construct Medical Hot Springs with healing and other extra effects based on known materials in the current world]
Leaving aside the target Hōgyoku, the Shihakushō Production Technique and Medical Hot Spring Construction Technique were unexpected surprises.
Levi had planned to build a systematic clothing processing factory before. Now that he had obtained the production technology for the Shihakushō, he naturally prepared to integrate its principles into the assembly line machines that were halfway through design.
As for the Medical Hot Spring...
At first glance, this thing didn't seem very useful. After all, in Orario, there are recovery potions for small injuries, Elixirs for major injuries, and Regeneration Wine and High-rank Regeneration Wine sold by the Hestia Familia for severed limbs.
But, what if the Medical Hot Spring and Ice and Fire Wine were combined together, allowing people soaking in the hot spring to slowly increase their Ability Stats without enduring pain?
What if it could even break the upper limit of their own Ability Stats bit by bit?
Since the Hestia Familia had now fallen out with the Guild—actually, mainly the rentier class headed by Royman—they naturally had to be prepared for the other side to use dirty tricks to compress the sales channels of the sparkling wine.
Of course, even if both sides still maintained a good relationship, Levi had originally intended to open another channel. It was just that originally, he prepared to use Hephaestus's firm to sell the sparkling wine outside of Orario.
Now, he could turn his gaze toward Orario's sinking market.
Among the many sparkling wine products, the Ice and Fire Wine undoubtedly sold the worst.
Low-level Ice and Fire Wine was relatively cheap, but few people bought it. High-level Ice and Fire Wine was gradually starting to open up the market, but there were only so many Level 3 and Level 4 adventurers in total. Selling once meant one less user.
Compared to the Second-Class Adventurers, whose total number might not even reach a thousand, the Level 1 and Level 2 Falna holders were actually the absolute mainstream of Orario.
These guys usually roamed the first 18 floors of the Dungeon. Not because they were willing to abandon themselves to depravity, but because, much like Liliruca before, their talent was indeed mediocre, and they would be like this for their entire lives.
However, life inherently yearns for strength.
If there was a chance to grow, no one would choose to give up. At least, in the two stages of rising from Level 1 to Level 2, and from Level 2 to Level 3, what truly blocked the adventurers was absolutely not the acquisition of some Feats, but the improvement of Ability Stats!
Levi took out pen and paper, recording the many inspirations born in his mind one by one.
The matter of constructing Medical Hot Springs, even if the technology was in his hands, was not something the Hestia Familia alone could digest or play around with.
He planned to pull another batch of Familias into the arena. Firstly, it could reduce the prying eyes and pressure from the Guild and some gods looking for amusement. Secondly, they could also form a relatively solid alliance of interests.
Of course, whether it was the ready-made garment factory for Shihakushō or the Medical Hot Springs that could improve Ability Stats, neither was what needed the most concern right now.
Levi opened his Inventory and took out the Hōgyoku.
Then, without even a hint of hesitation, he slapped it into his chest, subsequently equipping it onto his soul.
Almost at the same time.
On the character panel that had been opened in advance, a burst of white light quietly flashed past.
When the abnormality disappeared, whether it was the level of the Falna, the Development Abilities, or the Magic, Magic Slots, Skills... counting every single one, a '+' sign had appeared behind them all.
Levi moved his will slightly, focusing his attention on the '+' sign after the Falna level Lv.5.
Subsequently, a line of text manifested:
[Breaking the limit requires consuming 16,000 points of Magic Power. After breaking the limit, the level will change from Lv.5 to Lv.6. Hōgyoku Cooldown: 148.8 days.]
The consumption of Magic Power could be ignored. As long as it didn't exceed his current upper limit, it could all be recovered quickly within a short time.
What truly made Levi frown was the Hōgyoku's cooldown time after using the limit-breaking ability.
A little under half a year to exchange for the Falna rising from Lv.5 to Lv.6.
For other adventurers, this was undoubtedly a profit. But in the eyes of Levi, who had risen from Level 1 to Level 5 in less than 4 months, it was obviously somewhat lengthy.
'Wait on the leveling matter first, let's look at other aspects.'
Thinking this, Levi clicked on the '+' signs after the Development Abilities, Magic, Magic Slots, and numerous Skills in turn.
Skipping the Magic Power consumption, the shortest cooldown time was for Development Abilities. [Possession] rising from H to G took less than 4 days. The Development Abilities that came with skills obtained from card draws previously—ranging from the low I to the high F (the rest were S)—required cooldowns ranging from one day to sixteen days after breaking the limit.
Next was the number of Magic Slots. Changing three Magic slots to four Magic slots had a cooldown time of ninety days.
As for Skills and Magic, breaking the limit meant raising the star level. 3-star had a cooldown time of 27 days. Levi currently didn't have 4-star and 5-star skills on hand. 6-star skills were 216 days.
Then came the 7-star skills that were focused on heavily. Like [Constellation Awakening], it required 2401 days. Arcanum-type skills had slightly shorter times, but they were all over 2000 days. [Chakra Semi-Ancestor] was 1800 days, [Cold Edge Martial Arts] was 1500 days.
Even for the [Primordial Runes], on which he had spent the most resources, using the limit break once would result in a cooldown time of a full 1000 days.
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