458: Chapter 458 I Have My Way

The joy in the hall returned to calm.

Chen You stared at the announcement scrolling repeatedly above the heads of all players on the server.

"Damn it!" Chen You slammed the counter, making the teacup jump. "You broadcast it to the whole server even when I fail? This is a public execution!"

Hill looked innocent: "Boss, this is also to remind the vast number of players to be aware of the risks. It's the system's 'humanistic care'."

"What kind of 'humanistic care' is that! You're just using me as a negative example to sell your anti-explosion talismans!" Chen You was so angry that smoke was coming out of his nostrils.

The cool image he had just established in front of all the top players on the server was instantly shattered by this announcement.

"I refuse to believe this!" Chen You was completely red-faced with anger.

He grabbed the yuhuang sword and threw it into the enhancement slot again.

"Enhance!"

Crack! Red light flashed.

[Ding! Enhancement failed. anti-explosion talisman has taken effect.]

[World Announcement: Oops! Player "Chen You" has failed to reach +13 again! Truly failing repeatedly, yet fighting repeatedly! Let's all cheer for him!]

"Shut up!" Chen You roared at the air, his fingers clicking the button frantically like they were cramping.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Inside the Supreme Tower, the sound of blacksmithing turned into the sound of a breaking heart.

Red light flashed repeatedly. The yuhuang sword remained firmly stuck at +12, while the number of anti-explosion talismans in Chen You's backpack was decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The World Channel completely descended into a carnival.

[World Announcement: Player "Chen You" has failed to reach +13 for the third time! His wallet is bleeding!]

[World Announcement: Player "Chen You" has failed to reach +13 for the fourth time! anti-explosion talisman sales are far ahead!]

[World Announcement: Player "Chen You" has failed to reach +13 for the fifth time...]

In Titan City, Salos looked at the screen full of failure announcements and let out a deafening burst of wild laughter: "Hahaha! Idiot! Do you really think +13 can be achieved with luck? That is the system's chasm!"

In the City of Eternal Night, Arrow of the Moon silently ignored the announcement prompts, changing her evaluation of Chen You from "unfathomable" to "a fool with too much money."

Inside the Supreme Tower.

Chen You slumped in his chair, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Interface prompt: [Insufficient anti-explosion talismans, please replenish.]

In just one minute, eighteen anti-explosion talismans, along with nearly ten thousand Enhancement Stones, had all vanished into thin air.

His "sacrificial fodder metaphysics" that he was so proud of was crushed into nothingness in the face of the system's cold big-data price discrimination.

"Hill..." Chen You's voice was hoarse, like a gambler who had lost everything. "Does your system have a locked success rate?"

Hill walked up to Chen You with a steaming cup of spiritual tea, her tone remaining gentle and professional: "Boss, the system is absolutely fair."

"Enhancement is a matter of seven parts destiny, three parts hard work, and the remaining ninety parts... rely on financial power."

"Cut the crap." Chen You pushed the teacup away, grabbed a handful of anti-explosion talismans, and slapped them onto the anvil. "Continue!"

"Ding—"

[Enhancement failed.]

"Again!"

"Ding—"

[Enhancement failed.]

The endless sound of breaking echoed through the Supreme Tower like blacksmithing.

Chen You's eyes were bloodshot, and his fingers mechanically repeated the action of "placing materials, clicking enhance."

This psychological suggestion of "it will definitely succeed next time" is simply a poison carved into human DNA.

He pressed the confirm button for the twenty-second time.

A blinding golden light suddenly exploded on the anvil, and a beam of light shot straight up to the dome of the hall.

[Ding! Enhancement successful. yuhuang sword current enhancement level: +13.]

[World Announcement: A miracle! Player "Chen You" has endured hardships and successfully enhanced his main weapon to +13! May it live as long as heaven and earth, and shine as bright as the sun and moon!]

"Whew—" Chen You slumped back into his chair, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

Hill applauded from the side: "Congratulations, Boss. You are now tied for first place on the server with Lord Salos."

"The power of this sword now is enough to split ten Abyssal Demonic Dragons."

Chen You ignored her and opened the spending record on the panel, doing a quick mental calculation.

anti-explosion talismans, Enhancement Stones, and the fee for a single enhancement.

To enhance one weapon to +13, leaving aside the consumption of Enhancement Stones, he had poured in nearly fifty thousand gold coins alone!

Fifty thousand gold coins, converted to huaxia coin, is fifty billion!

"Director Li, I'm sorry. I burned a bit too much gold today." Chen You muttered to himself, his heart aching.

He looked at the dark golden patterns flowing on the yuhuang sword, his brain cooling down rapidly.

Can't get carried away!

Stubbornly persisting like this is definitely not the way.

The system's probability pool is a bottomless pit. Hard-pushing a single piece of equipment, even with the national wallet backing it up, cannot withstand such waste.

A 20% success rate took 22 attempts, so wouldn't the 15% and 10% for +14 and +15 empty the entire national treasury?

"Need to change my approach." Chen You touched his chin, his gaze falling on his equipment slot.

There lay five pieces of equipment shimmering with seven-colored light—the mythological-grade five-piece set, the Fulu Kaitian set.

This set of equipment was crafted by him using blueprints. Although it is mythological-grade, as long as there are enough materials, he can re-forge a piece at any time if it breaks, with very low cost.

"Hill, how many Enhancement Stones can we sweep from the auction house now?" Chen You suddenly looked up.

"Please wait a moment." Hill closed her eyes and opened them two seconds later. "There are currently about one hundred thousand Enhancement Stones in circulation on the server, with an average price of around 0.1 gold coins."

"Buy them all." Chen You waved his hand.

Hill was stunned: "All... all of them? Boss, one hundred thousand Enhancement Stones will instantly drain the market liquidity and cause prices to crash."

"Let them crash, what does that have to do with me?" Chen You threw out a money bag filled with gold coins. "Ten thousand gold coins, sweep the market."

Three minutes later.

All players on the server who were browsing the auction house simultaneously stared at the list of Enhancement Stones that had instantly emptied, falling into an eerie silence.

Inside the Supreme Tower, a small pile of glowing items had piled up in front of Chen You.

One hundred thousand Enhancement Stones illuminated the hall.

"Come on, line up, one by one to the gallows."

Chen You placed the helmet, breastplate, leggings, boots, and bracers of the Fulu Kaitian set next to the anvil one by one.

Hill looked at this formation, somewhat bewildered: "Boss, what are you doing? Are you not using anti-explosion talismans?"

"Use them my ass, this stuff is meant to be blown up."

Chen You skillfully threw the gauntlet into the enhancement slot, didn't place an anti-explosion talisman, and directly clicked enhance.

[Ding! Enhancement successful. Fulu Kaitian Heavenly Egret Gauntlet current enhancement level: +1.]

[Ding! Enhancement successful. Fulu Kaitian Heavenly Egret Boots current enhancement level: +1.]

...

[Ding! Enhancement failed.]

[Fulu Kaitian Heavenly Egret Boots enhancement level decreased, current level: +7.]

[Ding! Enhancement failed.]

[Fulu Kaitian Heavenly Egret Leggings completely shattered.]

Constant success and failure, back and forth.

After twelve consecutive failures and one pair of leggings shattered, Chen You's eyes lit up.

After the system's probability pool suffered consecutive losses, it would definitely give a compensatory critical hit.

He decisively placed the +13 yuhuang sword into the enhancement slot and inserted an anti-explosion talisman.

"Go!"

"Ding—"

[Enhancement successful. yuhuang sword current enhancement level: +14.]