The moment the Breeding King Brown Rat popped out, the fine hairs all over my body stood on end, and an intuitive sense of failure flashed through my mind. But I couldn't stop here.
'Haa... Times like this call for rapid fire. Let's go for one more.'
Only two Constellation Eggs remained. I snatched one of them up and shouted into the air, almost like a desperate struggle.
"Please!!!!! Let's get something proper, not a chicken or a rat bastard!!!!!"
Cr-crack-.
As if answering my desperate cry, the surface of the egg began to crack.
Amidst suffocating tension, my pupils staring at the splitting egg bulged as if they would burst.
"Baa-!"
'......'
A snowy-white sheep wearing the pathetic nameplate [(Advanced) White Sheep] appeared before my eyes, letting out a cute cry.
The happy circuits in my brain that had swollen when I first found this quiet abandoned house, thinking, 'What if I hit the jackpot even before using the Fragment of Distortion?'
That sweet delusion seemed to shatter into particles of light, scattering vainly beyond the sky along with the eggshells of the Constellations.
'I'm completely ruined...'
I closed my eyes tightly with the single thought of resetting this thoroughly twisted flow of luck.
To regain my shattered composure, I fell into meditation, emptying my complex mind and distracting thoughts even for a brief moment.
Soon, along with the sensation of my mind calmly settling down, I snapped my eyes open and pulled up the Premium Shop window in the air without delay.
"Let's just burn exactly 230,000 Lumina. Let's consider it a sacrifice to ward off bad luck and just go for it..."
Swoosh-! Flash!
Swoosh-! Flash!
Relentless gacha pulls continued without even a moment to catch my breath.
[-1,000]
[-1,000]
[-1,000]
[-1,000]
[Balance: 1,108,000 Lumina]
"Phew..."
[-1,000]
[-1,000]
[-1,000]
[-1,000]
[Balance: 1,007,000 Lumina]
'......'
'Statistically speaking, shouldn't at least one Epic-grade pop out naturally after burning this much money?'
Of course, my ultimate goal was the 'Myth of the Constellations', but seeing this atrocious probability with my own two eyes made me feel like I was losing all affection for the game 'Liberty Online' itself.
However, I still had a 'trump card' left.
For a single, most certain attempt, I gathered all the miscellaneous pets that had just poured out of the shop and began carefully building up failure stacks once again.
Swoosh-! Pop!
After attempting numerous fusions like that, the moment I finally hit '20 consecutive failures'.
A perfect sensation struck my mind, as if the terrible bad luck suffocating me had cleanly evaporated.
[The Toxic guild has declared a hostile relationship against your affiliated guild (White Night).]
[Guild Master] Kangyu: What is this all of a sudden??
[Guild Member] RomanticCat: ?? Why is Toxic attacking us?
[Guild Member] FlameFist: Ah... getting involved makes the game exhausting. I'll stop here. Good luck, everyone.
[Guild Member 'RomanticCat' has left the guild.]
[Guild Member 'FlameFist' has left the guild.]
'...What the hell is this.'
Hearing the whole story Ian hurriedly poured out over the guild chat window, I fell into miserable despair like a man who had lost his country.
The path of a true gold farmer I ambitiously declared after boldly quitting the factory,
seemed to grab my ankle with a mournful wail right from the start and drag me down into the gutter.
Looking quietly down at the solitary final 'Constellation Egg' left behind.
The gold farming journey that had become roughly twisted ahead seemed to flicker before my eyes.
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But what could I do? They were precious connections made while struggling together from the very beginning.
Suppressing the urge to run there right this instant, I vowed to finish this final Constellation challenge and run there immediately.
With a half-resigned heart, I took out my trump card item, [Fragment of Destiny Distortion], which had been sleeping in the corner of my inventory, and used it.
Sizzle-!
The solid fragment slowly turned into radiant particles of light and scattered in the air, before gently wrapping around my entire body, conveying a pleasant warmth.
[Item Effect Applied: The hatching success rate of the 'Constellation Egg' has increased to 0.1%.]
'Let's not get our hopes up. If it's 0.1%, I should assume it won't come out anyway...'
I muttered negative words to myself, but I couldn't fool the sound of my heart pounding like crazy.
Suppressing my chest that felt like it would burst with anticipation, I squeezed my eyes shut and reached for the final Constellation Egg.
Cr-crack-! Cr-crack!
Piercing through the cracked surface of the egg, an intense red light began to leak out little by little from the crevices.
At this never-before-seen effect, on a completely different dimension from anything so far, my heart plummeted for a moment.
'......?!'
The violently vibrating egg then trembled as if it would explode, and the faint ray of light squeezing through the crevices instantly turned into a massive radiance, flashing madly as if to swallow the entire egg.
KABOOOOM-!
At the fierce beam of light that spewed out along with an eardrum-shredding roar, I reflexively raised my right hand to shield my face and squeezed my eyes shut.
'Heugh...'
Soon after, a majestic bell toll that vibrated my heart began to resound grandly from high up in the sky.
DONG-! DONG-! DONG-!
Holding my breath, I put strength into my brow and stared ahead very slowly.
Through the gaps between the fingers blocking my vision, a single dazzlingly white feather leisurely fluttered down, reflecting a sacred golden light.
Fwoooosh-!!
Six massive wings that had been wrapping around like a cocoon spread wide open, and the figure of an Archangel clad in pure white armor filled my vision.
The flashy golden trim embroidering the edges of the pure white armor, the angelic halo shining radiantly above its head,
the wavy golden hair flowing over its shoulders.
And even the thin, white cloth elegantly floating in mid-air, wrapping around its entire body in an X shape.
It was an overwhelming visual that made it obvious at a glance the game company had put their all into making it, making me forget it was an entity within a game.
My very own Archangel revealing its majestic presence.
Behind it, through the crack in the abandoned house's door, a blood-red server-wide announcement dyed the entire sky and spread grandly.
[Cleaving the sky of Liberty Online, the primordial myth opens its first eye.]
[An anonymous player has brought down the Myth of the Constellations, 'Michael, the Archangel Lord of Radiance'.]
[Remaining eggs out of the 12 Constellations: 11/12]
An unprecedented system message suddenly covering the sky. All players in Liberty looked up at the sky as if promised, unable to close their mouths in astonishment.
As I stood blankly, mesmerized by the majestic figure of the Archangel that descended before my eyes.
Several massive system windows, large enough to obscure my vision, popped up consecutively in the air.
Ding-!
Ding-!
[You are the first on the server to acquire the 'Myth of the Constellations' grade!]
[As a reward for being the first to achieve this, Archangel Michael's exclusive weapon will be granted.]
Clank, clank.
A heavy yet reverent metallic sound rang out as the pure white armor clattered.
Archangel Michael, who had approached me, folded his massive wings, knelt on one knee, and bowed his head.
Then, respectfully holding up a pure white bow brimming with a radiant and sacred light with both hands, he waited for his master to claim the weapon.
The pure white bowstave falling elegantly without any excess, and the noble white wing decorations settling down as if embracing the grip.
What stole my gaze more than anything was the string connecting both ends of the bow.
Above the string, which was not made of material but a single ray of radiant light, a faint yet brilliant radiance like the Milky Way in the night sky flowed endlessly.
I carefully lifted the heavy Mythic-grade weapon, then immediately pulled up the detailed information of the bow to check it.
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『 Divine Punishment 』
Grade: Myth of the Constellations (Mythic)
Classification: Longbow
Equipment Restriction: Exclusive to the Contractor of 'Michael, the Archangel Lord of Radiance'
Base Stats:
Attack Power : 1,850 ~ 2,400
Dexterity (DEX) + 250
Perception (PER) + 300
Attack Speed + 40%
[Passive] Sin Resonance:
The higher the enemy's 'Malicious Tendency (PK Value and Infamy)', the final damage dealt is amplified up to a maximum of 200%.
[Passive] Thunderbolt of Judgment:
Upon a successful basic attack, there is a 15% chance for a [Sacred Lightning] to strike the target location, dealing Holy damage equal to 300% of Attack Power to enemies within a 5m radius and inflicting 'Absolute Paralysis' for 2 seconds.
[Active] Arrow of Heavenly Punishment (Cooldown: 10 minutes):
Fuses the user's mana with the Archangel's divine power residing in the bow to shoot a single arrow into the air.
The arrow splits into dozens of 'Judgments of Light' in mid-air, raining down a shower of light on the designated area (20m radius).
[Item Description]
The Bow of Judgment imbued with the authority of the Lord of Radiance, Archangel Michael, one of the primordial Constellations.
Created to pierce the sins that disrupt the balance of the world, this bow is not a mere weapon, but a 'Medium of Punishment' that executes the will of God.
Only a Mythic-grade entity can fully draw the string of this bow.
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'...This is really... mine?'
My jaw naturally dropped at the vicious numbers that destroyed common sense.
But the astonishment didn't end there. Another system window popped up consecutively before my eyes.
[While summoning 'Michael, the Archangel Lord of Radiance', the caster's possessed summon skills are upgraded according to the skill grade.]
'...Summon skills?'
I flinched and opened my skill window.
Then, the text of the Epic-grade summon skill I obtained from catching Matus previously, [Authority of the Goblin Legion Commander], wavered with a golden light and began to be overwritten with a completely different name.
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Name: [Authority Conversion] Authority of the Silver Vanguard
? Grade: Epic (Heroic)
? Restriction: Level 10 or higher, Common to all classes (Automatically applied when summoning 'Lord of Radiance')
? Effect: Instantly summons 3 elite guards imbued with the Archangel's divine power, 'Battle Angels of the Silver Wings'.
The summoned Battle Angels inherit 150% of all the caster's stats and escort their master for 15 minutes. (Cooldown: 30 minutes)
(The previous 'Black Fang Assault Squad (Goblins)' summon has been replaced by the Archangel's authority.)
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The majestic figure of the Archangel kneeling before me, awaiting his liege's command. At that wondrous sight, the fine hairs all over my body stood on end, and my fingertips trembled.
It was the very moment I was intoxicated by the fact that I had truly become the master of a Mythic-grade entity.
[Guild Member 'Jude' has died.]
The death log in the guild chat window dyeing a corner of my vision red.
The moment I checked that blood-red notification, a single word I had completely forgotten flashed through my mind.
'Ah, right. The abandoned mine...!'
A fact I had forgotten for a very brief moment, drenched in surging happiness. Right now in the abandoned mine, the trio was fighting a blood-drying battle.
'I have to go quickly...!'
I needed to fly there right this instant, but no matter if it was a pet, I couldn't just casually hop onto the back of that holy Archangel in human form.
Just as I was looking at Michael, pondering. As if reading my predicament, the Archangel himself emitted a radiant light.
Fwoooosh-!
Michael, turning into a dazzling cluster of light, seeped into my body, and immediately after, six massive and pure white wings surged and bloomed from my back.
