Chapter 99: Ten Superior Draws 2

A thick book appeared before him.

Adam read the title.

And remained motionless.

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Book of Alchemical Recipes

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Rank: Purple

Grade: Epic

Contents:

Complete recipes for all known potions up to and including Major level.

Includes:

*Healing potions;

*Mana potions;

*Stamina potions;

*Recovery potions;

*Antidotes;

*Temporary buffing potions;

*Utility preparations;

*Stabilization methods;

*Preservation methods;

*Variations for different compatible ingredients.

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Adam looked at the book.

Then at the box of potions he had just obtained.

Then the book again.

"...Okay."

He started to laugh.

"That’s clearly luck at work."

He had literally thought of the recipe just seconds before.

And now he had just obtained a book containing not only the recipe for the Major Stamina Potion...

But all the major recipes up to that level.

Elaria was going to go crazy.

Probably in a good way.

And Shiora...

Adam could already picture her expression when she realized the economic potential.

Major Potions were rare.

If Elaria could establish a stable production...

Sales.

Military supplies.

Emergency reserves.

Expeditions.

Dungeons.

Guilds.

Foreign markets.

Adam carefully put the book away.

"Shiora will probably try to calculate the profits before Elaria has even finished reading the first page."

He moved on to the eighth draw.

Another card appeared.

Adam sat up.

"Again?"

This time it bore the symbol of the Bridal Chamber accompanied by a small bell.

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Function Card

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Compatible with:

Bridal Chamber

New Function:

Time Bell

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Adam immediately opened the details.

And a few seconds later...

His expression changed.

"Ah."

They had indeed forgotten something.

Something important.

When they closed the inner door of the Bridal Chamber, the time distortion activated.

No matter how long they were inside, the normal exit occurred after eight hours outside.

It was perfect for sleeping.

But what if an emergency arose outside after only one hour?

Two hours?

Five hours?

No one could simply go in to retrieve them without disrupting the Chamber’s operation.

The new card solved precisely this problem.

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Time Doorbell

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When a Permanent Door in the Bridal Chamber is closed and time distortion is active, a person outside can use the Doorbell function.

If less than eight hours have passed in the outside world:

*The Chamber immediately receives the alert.

*Its time stream synchronizes with the actual time elapsed outside.

*The occupants can then open the door and exit at the corresponding time.

Example:

Entry into the Chamber: 12:00 AM.

External emergency: 5:00 AM.

Bell activated.

Time synchronization:

Five hours have passed outside and become the exit reference.

The occupants can leave the Chamber immediately without waiting for the eighth hour.

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Adam reread it slowly.

"Yes... we really forgot about that."

The Bridal Chamber was designed to guarantee rest.

But their situation was anything but normal.

An attack.

A military emergency.

A problem with the barrier.

An incident at the Tower.

An important message.

Until now, completely closing the Chamber meant accepting an outage of up to eight hours.

It wasn’t catastrophic.

But for Isadora, Selene, Vespera, or the others, eight hours could sometimes be far too long.

With this feature...

The problem disappeared.

Adam immediately activated the card.

It transformed into golden particles before disappearing into the Chamber.

A small notification confirmed the integration.

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Feature Added

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Bridal Chamber

New Feature Available:

Time Bell

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Adam smiled.

"Very useful."

Ninth spin.

The wheel spun.

It stopped almost immediately on white.

An object literally fell into his hand.

Adam looked down.

A knife.

A perfectly ordinary iron knife.

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Iron Knife

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Rank: White

Grade: Common

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Silence.

Adam looked at the knife.

Then at the wheel.

Then at the knife again.

"Seriously?"

After a Unique Orange Skill.

A space gate.

A pendant capable of preventing death.

Lost alchemical recipes.

And an additional time-based function...

An iron knife.

Adam turned it over in his hand.

Mastery of Weapons immediately confirmed one thing.

It was indeed...

A knife.

A perfectly ordinary knife.

"At least it cuts."

He put it away.

Even with Luck 13, the System seemed determined to remind him that chance was still chance.

He only had one more roll.

Adam looked at his counter.

1,100 Satisfaction Points.

After this one...

He would only have one hundred left.

He hesitated.

A few seconds earlier, he had mocked himself by talking about "a few rolls."

Now, he had practically emptied his supply.

"Exactly what I planned to avoid..."

But he had already decided to go all the way.

"Last."

He confirmed.

The last thousand dots disappeared.

The wheel began to spin.

This time, Adam didn’t even try to follow the symbols.

He waited.

The speed decreased.

Blue.

Purple.

Blue.

Purple again.

Then...

Stop.

Purple.

A fragment of crystal appeared before him.

Adam reached out.

It was strange.

Very strange.

The material was a deep purple, almost translucent.

But its surface bore patterns that were never the same.

For a second, they resembled circuits.

Then runes.

Then tiny geometric structures impossible to follow.

Adam immediately activated the available information.

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Technology Fragment

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Rank: Purple

Grade: Epic

Fragments Obtained:

1 / 3

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Adam waited.

Nothing.

"...Is that all?"

No description.

No effect.

No origin.

No indication of what would happen when he reunited the three pieces.

Only:

Technology Fragment — 1/3.

Adam brought the crystal close to his eyes.

The patterns changed again.

Even Eyes of the World gave him nothing immediately useful.

"Mysterious."

But Purple rank.

Epic.

The fragment had to have some value.

And above all...

The word Technology alone was enough to pique his curiosity.

He thought of Elaria.

Then Vespera.

If anyone could detect anything strange in this object, it would probably be them.

Adam carefully put it away.

Silence returned to the Chamber.

He checked his total.

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Satisfaction Points

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Before Higher Draws:

10,100

Draws Performed:

10

Total Cost:

10,000

Points Remaining:

100

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Adam stared at the number.

One hundred.

He had practically spent it all.

Yet...

He didn’t really regret it.

He had obtained:

A permanent increase in Luck.

A Unique Orange Skill.

A Permanent Door for the Bridal Chamber.

Three Stat Points.

An artifact capable of preventing death.

Ten Major Stamina Potions.

An extremely valuable alchemical recipe book.

A new function for the Chamber.

A knife...

Adam paused mentally.

"We’ll forget about him."

And finally, a mysterious Technology Fragment.

Overall...

The Superior Draw clearly lived up to its name.

He then turned his attention back to the skill he hadn’t yet fully mastered.

Kamasutra.

Adam activated the full learning process.

The skill became permanently fixed in its state.

A strange sensation coursed through his body.

Not exactly a direct increase in power.

It felt more like a new function had just connected to several existing parameters.

Body.

Endurance.

Relationships.

Statistics.

Growth.

Adam remained motionless while the integration finished.

Then...

Several notifications appeared almost simultaneously.

He blinked.

"Again?"

The first one was about his training for the day.

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Progress Completed

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Mana Body

Level 2 → Level 3

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Adam smiled.

Not really surprising.

He had maintained his compression from morning till night, then pushed his viscosity to a new limit with Vespera.

A second window appeared.

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Progress validated

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Delimiter

Level 2 → Level 1 3

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Then:

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Progress validated

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Adaptation

Level 1 → Level 2

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This time, Adam wasn’t surprised at all.

Between Selene’s golems...

The forge.

The compression.

And the controlled experiments with Vespera...

If Adaptation hadn’t progressed today, he would have started to worry.

The next notification was about Vigorous Body.

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Progression validated

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Vigorous Body

Level 2 → Level 1 3

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Adam immediately sensed that Selene’s physical training, combined with the Progressive Charge Bracelets, continued to pay off.

One final evolution appeared.

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Progression validated

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Fertility Control

Level 2 → Level 3 3

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Adam observed the series of windows.

Then he noticed something else.

His stats had changed.

The improvements accumulated during his recent training sessions had clearly been consolidated.

Strength.

Agility.

Endurance.

Intelligence.

Spirit.

And thanks to the gem...

Luck.

He immediately opened his status panel.

The window appeared before him.

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Status Panel — Adam

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Level: 3

Stat Value Progression

Strength 18 +4

Agility 18 +4

Endurance 26 +2

Intelligence 21 +2

Spirit 19 +5

Luck 13 +1

Available Stat Points: 12

Talent:

*Return to Player System Satisfaction

Satisfaction Points: 100

Blessings

*Mana Body — Level 3 (+1)

*Eyes of the World — Level 2

Skills

*Boundary — Rank - · Grade - — Level 3 (+1)

*Adaptation — Blue Rank · Rare Grade — Level 2 (+1)

*Vigorous Body — Blue Rank · Rare Grade — Level 3 (+1)

*Healing — White Rank · Common Grade — Level 2

*Massage — Green Rank · Uncommon Grade — Level 2

*Fertility Control — Blue Rank · Rare Grade — Level 3 (+1)

*Weapon Mastery — Orange Rank · Unique Grade — Level 1

*Kamasutra — Orange Rank · Unique Grade — Level 1 1

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Adam remained motionless for several seconds.

His eyes slowly scanned each line.

Strength eighteen.

Agility eighteen.

Endurance twenty-six.

Intelligence twenty-one.

Spirit nineteen.

And thirteen in Luck.

The most impressive change was probably his Spirit.

Five points.

But after keeping his mana compressed almost all day, then working at near-maximum density with Vespera, this progression made sense.

Adam then examined his skills.

Two Unique Orange skills.

Weapon Mastery.

And now...

Kamasutra.

He remained silent.

Then he looked up at the ceiling of the Chamber.

"My progress is really taking a strange turn."

A slight smile appeared nonetheless.

Strange...

But certainly not useless.

He closed part of the interface.

Around him, the Bridal Chamber was still quiet.

But that probably wouldn’t last much longer.

The others were gathering their belongings.

And when they arrived...

Adam had several things to show them.

A Permanent Door.

A Pendant of Sacrifice.

A book containing lost alchemical recipes.

A mysterious Fragment of Technology.

And perhaps...

He glanced briefly at the name of his new skill.

Then immediately closed that window.

"That one can wait a bit."