“F*ck! You!” Feng Bujue yelled into the sky inside the storeroom. After half a month of rather acceptable luck, things had returned to normal for our Brother Feng. “What the hell is this! Didn’t the game manual guarantee that the item that you exchange from combining a set of cards will at least be excellent quality equipment?”
His disappointment only lasted for a few seconds, then his expression slowly returned to normal. The man’s mood swing was like a light switch. He could turn it on and off within the difference of a second.
“Wait…” Feng Bujue said, “Could it be…”
He reread the item description and his eyes stopped at the last sentence. ‘This machine was labeled ‘trash’ since then and locked up in the forgotten warehouse.’
“In other words, this thing’s function and quality are labeled by the victims from Mage’s Society but the actual quality is unknown…” He tried to console himself. With that in mind, his desire to make chaos surfaced.
“Hmm… We’ll know for sure after giving it a try.” Feng Bujue started to assess his equipment. “After tossing in more than three excellent quality equipment, there’s a chance to get a piece of legendary equipment, is it…” Currently, Feng Bujue felt his most useless equipment was definitely the Stool of the Eighteen Bronze Statues. This thing that had no equip requirement could surprise the enemy during low elo Killing Game but once he reached high elo, pure fists might be more powerful than using this thing. Unfortunately, the item’s quality was ‘broken’ and it was not good enough for the disintegrator.
After considering for two minutes, Feng Bujue finally made his decision and chose the three items: Persephone’s Vacuum, Spiderweb Gloves, and Goblin’s Mask.
As the level increased, so would the tempo during the player battle, and the increased complication of the duel as well as the intensity.
Therefore, the usability and reliability of these three things would be less effective. On the other hand, while they were equipment gained when he was at a low level, Mario’s Wrench and Jazz Shoes were much more useful. The former was also a tool and could pair it with not so hasty repair and the passive effect of the latter was exceptional.
“Hmm, so this is how you use it…” Feng Bujue placed the disintegrator on the ground and then placed the largest item which was the vacuum on the conveyor belt.
“Warning: Your decision is not reversible. Are you sure you want to proceed?” The system and window bounced out. Feng Bujue chose ‘accept’; the vacuum then appeared to take root on the conveyor belt. He did the same for the next two items. Half a second later, the three items were lined up on the conveyor belt. Brother Jue did not hesitate and pull the lever.
A strange sound came out from the machine as the conveyor belt moved, the three items were cartoonized in that moment. When they entered the machine, they were ‘squeezed’ together into it and they made a ‘bong’ sound effect. ten seconds later, after all the three items entered the machine, the machine started to vibrate and creak noisily like a broken engine. A puff of purple smoke rose from between the gaps. No matter how you looked at it… this Magical Disintegrator Prototype Zero felt highly unreliable. Moments later, the glass end shone, and a prismatic light focused and gathered to form a pool of white light and then it condensed into an object.
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Name: Useless Scrap Metal
Item Type: Other
Quality: Trash
Function: None
Remark: Trash that has lost its original function. Pure trash. Cannot be used in any way.
Feng Bujue picked up the pile of trash and studied the item for two seconds. Then he silently yet swiftly destroyed it…
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After five seconds, he suddenly jumped up, took out the stool from his inventory, and whacked it madly at the disintegrator before him. “Go to hell! Die, die, die, die, die, die…” He roared as he hit, venting the hatred in his heart. The three items that he sacrificed were at least excellent quality and they could sell for a good price at the Auction House, but now… he had nothing.
“Hint: Creation of legendary item failed. The energy of the items you placed has been absorbed. The success rate of the consequent creations will rise slightly.” This hint caused Brother Jue to recover his sanity…
He gave out a long sigh, he picked up the machine and placed it at the corner of the room.
“This shall be a lesson in human greed…” Feng Bujue lamented. “Compelled by gambler’s psychology, for the sake of legendary item… I believe I will feed more items into this thing…” He knew himself very well. “But… after all, I can guarantee to draw an item through the extra reward. At most, I will give up taking the extra EXP a few times. If I gain any excellent quality items that don’t work for me in the future, I’ll keep them and I’ll stuff them into this thing after I get three of them… As long as I keep working on this, as bad as my luck is, from the study of probability, it is only a matter of time until the day I get the legendary item.” Thinking it that way, Brother Jue felt better.
But… he had no idea just how awful the machine was. The success rate of this machine at the beginning was 0.01 percent and the accumulative success rate would be increased by one percent for each item that was sacrificed (ignoring the quality)… in other words, for Brother Jue’s first attempt, his success rate was 0.01 percent, and now that he had wasted three items, his success rate for his second creation would only be 3.01 percent… and if he added four items during the second attempt and then he failed again, then for the third attempt, the success rate would increase to 7.01 percent… Of course, these were all hidden data that wouldn’t be revealed to the player. Only the company could view it through the system back end.
“Okay… guess I’ll go take a stroll around the market.” After getting his reward in the storeroom, Feng Bujue decided to visit the market. Since this was sleeping mode server and he had logged in ten minutes earlier than designated, he had around one hundred plus in-game minutes to do other stuff… he was at ease.
Therefore, he returned to the elevator. After the door closed, he pressed the button for the market and came to the crowded open area. As mentioned before, Thriller Paradise’s Market had a multiverse setting, there were several similar-looking markets in the game, and they were differentiated by numbers. Due to the population of players, initially, Brother Jue and Passing Rain randomly chose Market ten as their main market, so guild members of Underworld Frontline had their default market as Market 10.
Coincidentally enough, during that time, there were quite a number of people that Brother Jue knew at Market 10…