As everyone watches.
Ding ding ding~
With Kiki’s trademark signal, light erupted.
The symbols of the slot machine changed rapidly, and the Light of Transcendence seeped into the White Guardian.
Change.
Brilliance emitted from the White Guardian, and a splendid transformation took place.
At first glance, it seemed close to success.
“Oh! Did it work?!”
‘…Oh?’
Yena and The Agent were also excitedly watching Kiki.
Could it be happening?
Tick.
Tick.
7
7
-77□-
For now, two are successful.
If the last one could succeed…!
[7?]
[77777777]
[Did the Transcendent Masterpiece appear?!]
[What about the last one!]
[Please, White Guardian, stay true this time!]
[Explode!]
[If it fails, it’s bound to be hilarious lol]
[Please please please please]
[Stay stay stay stay stay]
[I came from the future, and it’s 100% staying lol]
[777!]
Tick.
7
7
♤
-77♤-
“?”
[Huh?]
[????????]
[What the hell?]
[Is it a failure?]
[But 777 didn’t happen?]
[Huh?]
─K… Kiki?
Failure…?
Booom!!
[The enhancement has failed.]
[The Light of Transcendence (quasi-legend) turns to dust and disappears.]
[The White Guardian is flustered.]
“What is this?”
No way, this can fail?
After using all sorts of things to improve the enhancement rate?
‘This?!’
I looked back at Kiki.
She was fiddling with her mechanical arm, checking herself for some reason.
As Kiki avoided my gaze, I approached and met her eyes.
“Kiki?”
─K… Kiki…?
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[That tin can of a bastard]
[Tin can level ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Noooooo, my Light of Transcendence!!!]
[Isn’t there a probability manipulation? How can ㅅㅂ 47% not stick?]
[This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy]
[Let’s scrap the junk]
[Kiki…]
[You’ve turned into a star of the universe…]
[Nah, ㅋㅋ what good is making two if it’s going to fail?]
[Such a waste of the probability bonus ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Legendary stuff is freakin’ expensive for real]
[47%… ]
[It’s time to slowly let Kiki go]
─Kiki! Kiki Kiki!
“Right. You must have certainly done your best.”
I tried every possible method to counter the absolute nature of the probability, but the result was failure.
I even awakened abilities from The Agent, but this was Kiki’s limit…
“…Is there some other intention like with the Celestial Skewers? Please just say there is.”
─…Kiki.
“This can’t be real. There’s no way I couldn’t break through a 47% chance of being struck by lightning.”
“I can’t possibly fail at 47%.”
“Even if I’m unlucky, this is just absurd.”
“This doesn’t make sense.”
Tap tap tap tap.
“Miss Lily… I don’t think the machine will do anything if you just hit it—”
“I heard you need to hit machines to fix them.”
“But I’m not hitting it.”
[Lily…]
[Lily LOL]
[Did Lily lose her mind after that failure?]
[LMAO]
[“Failing at 47% really crosses the line.”]
[WTF]
[Doesn’t this just bring us back to zero? I thought we were risking it for a chance to gain something.]
[Info: The biggest victim here is Yena, who used all the spell scrolls.]
[LMAO]
“[No, that’s not true. Lily, who looks like she’ll get free rental, is the true victim. Yena actually gained something.]”
[For real LOL]
Shut up.
‘You can stop now. That child really did her best.’
“…Yeah, I guess so.”
I let Kiki go under the Agent’s guidance.
Only then did Kiki, now dazed, vanish with a pop!
It’s my fault, after all.
I was unlucky enough to not succeed even at 47%…
‘But it must have meant something. That child always guides the caster along the best path.’
“…Is this failure part of the bigger picture?”
‘Maybe. Since absolute power is so strong, it might not be perfect, but luck isn’t something to take lightly.’
“Hmm…”
But it’s still a bit frustrating.
If only one had been made from the start, I wouldn’t have gotten my hopes up and invested resources only to end up losing.
Moreover, the Light of Transcendence is one of only two items in the world.
Had I succeeded, I would have had two transcendental-grade pieces of equipment.
“White Guardian.”
[The White Guardian is clearly avoiding eye contact.]
[The White Guardian says this was an unexpected accident.]
“An accident?”
[The White Guardian confirms that light did seep into him, but that the connection was severed by Abstract Power.]
[The White Guardian asks me to grasp him.]
…
I grasped the White Guardian.
I could feel a slightly different energy this time.
While light did seep in, it seems that connection was broken due to the failure of enhancement.
Yet, compared to the explosive change of the Multicolored Successor, it was pretty minor.
‘This is at most semi-transcendental… No, it feels more like mythic+.’
What’s clear is that it didn’t turn out transcendent.
That much is a fact.
‘Guess there’s nothing we can do.’
“Miss Yena?”
“What… yes?”
“Take this.”
Whip!
I threw the Green Hermit, which I no longer needed, to Yena.
Yena, clutching the dagger with both hands as if cradling a child, looks at me with wide eyes.
Yena, gripping the item, looks at me with wide eyes.
“Um, are you really giving that?”
“I’ll lend it to you indefinitely as promised. Just give it back when you need it later.”
“Whoa! I totally love you!”
Yena jumps around, bouncing this way and that.
After a while, Yena, seeing me quietly standing, approaches me in a brisk walk.
“Um… Lady Lily? But are you okay with this?”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m really, like, super thankful and all, but… didn’t you say you’d decide after seeing my success?”
“That’s true.”
Four enhancement tokens Yena gave me.
The legendary one was so hard to obtain that it felt like it was worth a fortune, so I decided to settle the past rental fees with the enhancement tokens.
If things go well, I also wouldn’t charge for future rental fees.
But since the enhancement failed, at least I shouldn’t charge for the previous fees, but I still have to charge for the future ones.
“But I’m just going to give it to you. You’ve helped me a lot, and there’s a lot we need to do in the future.”
“Lady Lily…!”
“But you have to work hard, okay? You know what I mean?”
“Yes! I’ll do my best! Loyalty, loyalty!”
Yena kept bowing her head, expressing her gratitude.
[LOL]
[Yena turned into a dog]
[Of course she’d act like that if you give her a mythical item, haha]
[Yena Yena…]
[Wow]
[Lady Lily]
[But it’s a bit regrettable that the enhancement failed]
[That’s just absurd, really]
“Speaking of which, can you help me out right now?”
“Anything!”
Yena’s red eyes sparkle.
I let out a small laugh as I pulled out the Multicolored Successor.
The Multicolored Successor, now a Transcendent Masterpiece, was radiating an even stranger aura than before.
Yena’s face stiffens as she sees the Multicolored Successor.
“No way…”
“I didn’t originally plan to do this, but it looks like I’ll have to change my plans a bit.”
I explain to Yena, no, to everyone.
Originally, my plan was to succeed in enhancement with a 47% chance.
Even with my bad luck, it felt worth the risk since it was nearly a half chance.
But I failed, and the Light of Transcendence disappeared.
What is the root cause of this situation?
“…Probability?”
“Exactly. That probability was never absolute.”
The probability set by the System was not absolute.
The magic granted to the Light of Transcendence was merely ‘probability,’ and it could be sufficiently increased by Kiki’s ability.
“Kiki managed to craft two items despite the horrible odds of ‘being struck by lightning.’ Yet, what happened with the recent enhancement?”
“It failed…?”
“That’s right. It failed without even breaking through half the odds. Why can one side work in the same probability system, while the other side cannot?”
“Will one side not work again?”
Both sides are enhancements created by the system.
But why does Kiki’s ability only fully apply to crafting?
The answer lies in the item, the Light of Transcendence.
“The system acknowledges the power called ‘Kiki’. Kiki is a ‘pet’ obtained through the dungeon, so using the pet’s ability isn’t a problem. However…”
“The Light of Transcendence isn’t acknowledged! Because it wasn’t created by the system.”
“Spot on.”
The Light of Transcendence is a power made by ‘someone’ who gave a mission to Drak, not the system.
Thus, due to the powerful law of absoluteness, it can only be used in a severely nerfed state.
The reason why the additional enhancement probability is fully applied is that it’s a power created by the system rooted in the world.
[So?]
[???]
[Oh?]
[Is there a way?]
[What happens with the Multicolored Successor?]
“So, what’s going to happen?”
“It’s simple. The real issue is the creator of the Light of Transcendence, right?”
It’s because the creator didn’t acknowledge Kiki that this situation arose.
And that creator is very likely allocated to face the ‘trials’ of the Multicolored Successor.
“I’m going to meet them directly.”
“…What?”
“I’m planning to have a talk about the Light of Transcendence. It’d be even better if I could get an enhancement while I’m at it.”
“No. Wait a sec.”
“It won’t take long. Not much time passed during the Kraken incident.”
Or could it take a while?
This time, it might take a little longer since I’m planning to resolve everything.
Thus, Yena only has one job to do.
“Please do a broadcast in my place.”
“Eh?”
[????]
[??]
[Yena broadcasting instead?]
[Hahahahaha]
[Yena taking over Lily’s broadcast LOL]
[Huh?]
Just like most spiritual worlds, the broadcast cuts off once I enter the trial.
The transmission can only occur from the outside me.
“Here, here? Is that possible…”
‘I’ll be more than happy to do it. I was just feeling lonely, so it works out perfectly.’
“That’s what they said.”
I’ve also received permission from the house owner.
Yena’s sweating bullets.
“Then I’ll trust you with it.”
“…You’ll come back soon, right?”
“Of course. I’ll be back within three days at the latest.”
“Three days… Huh? Three days?!”
The Multicolored Successor casts a spell.
My vision went dark.
Blue.
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