Chapter 5: Value
So, the two four-star miracle elixirs she got from the first ten rolls were what essentially saved their lives. One of them healed Oathran and the other closed the hole in her chest, allowing her the stability to build a heart replacent out of pure mana.
Well, not really the elixir, though. To be fair, the mana still ca from her bond with Oathran and she was still the one who had to architect the whole thing and consciously control it... now. But it certainly helped that the potion made the blinding pain vanish and handled all the boring internal knitting.
When her heart was ripped out, it took a rather significant chunk of her aorta and vena cava with it. The miracle elixir had healed the damaged cells but politely declined the task of regenerating what was just... gone.
"If what you did was only healing my broken parts and not regenerating what was missing, then who controlled my mana all night to replace the function of my heart?" Cecilia asked the system.
[You underestimated yourself, Cecilia]
[As we said, you have been chosen as our System Player]
[We admire the essence of your soul!]
"You’re saying I did it? Subconsciously, while I was completely knocked out?" Cecilia narrowed her eyes, skeptical.
DI-DI-DING!
[Correct!]
Cecilia humd, sitting and hugging her knees by the riverbank. "I didn’t know I was that impressive."
"Impressive."
A certain person’s deep, amused voice echoed in her mory, and a flutter of butterflies started tickling her stomach. She hid her reddening face behind her knees, taking a deep breath. Get a grip, woman.
She concentrated once more and straightened her back, all business.
"I want more information. So, if a Four-Star Miracle Elixir can heal broken parts but not regenerate missing ones... would this ’Heavenly Elixir’ from the five-star list be able to do it? Regenerate the parts?"
[Correct!]
[Heavenly Elixir can restore soone to perfect health, no matter the illness! It can regenerate missing body parts, even if the missing parts had been long missing! But, it cannot heal hereditary defects or hereditary disease!]
"Repeat that," Cecilia said, her eyes narrowing to slits.
[Uhh... ahem...]
[He...Heavenly Elixir can restore soone to perfect health, no matter the illness! It can regenerate missing body parts, even if the missing parts had been long missing! But, it cannot heal hereditary defects or hereditary disease!]
Cecilia fell silent.
In the course of her ti as a Saintess, countless people had been beyond her help because of incurable diseases. Perhaps so were hereditary, but others... with this elixir...
She closed her eyes and sighed. She grasped the hem of her dress with both hands, and then slowly, forcefully, unclenched her fists.
If only she had been ’chosen’ by this system just ten years sooner... No. A single year sooner. She could’ve saved...
Forget the Heavenly Elixirs. Even the common Miracle Elixirs could have saved countless lives. If she could just roll a couple of tis and get them... she could’ve...
No. If she could get just one and have a trusted alchemist analyze its ingredients, they could potentially reverse-engineer it. They could mass-produce it.
She just needed to almost die once. She didn’t even have to actually die. If she had known, she would’ve begged that bastard Arzhen to rip her heart out sooner.
"Alright. Next," she said, her voice clipped, shoving the tidal wave of ’what-ifs’ into a locked box in her mind. She truly had no ti to dwell on it now. "If we have a list for the possible five-star items, we must have the sa list for the four-star and three-star items, right?"
DING!
[Correct!]
[Below is the list of the four star items you can get!]
[1. Enchanting Perfu]
[2. Miracle Elixir]
[3. 4 Stars Weapon (Random)]
[4. 4 Stars Artifact (Random)]
[5. 4 Stars Spell (Random)]
[6. 4 Stars Potion Recipe (Random)]
[7. 4 Stars Magic Stone]
[8. 4 Stars Mana Potion]
[9. 4 Stars Blank Magic Scroll]
[10. Money Pouch (1000 G)]
"O-oohh!" Cecilia’s eyes widened. What was this, a treasure trove? Just from the look of it, they were all incredibly useful!
[You are guaranteed one four star every 10 rolls!]
"But I can’t actually choose what I get, can I?" she asked, her initial excitent tempered.
[Correct!]
[This is a gacha after all!]
"Hmm, what does ’gacha’ an again?" Cecilia narrowed her eyes, suspicious.
[...a... ahem. I-it’s a revolutionary ga chanic created by the wisest minds in the whole multiverse!]
"So, a gambling ga, huh," Cecilia sighed, the wind thoroughly taken out of her sails. "Sothing that depends on luck... for soone as cursed with misfortune as myself..."
She coldly scoffed. Her life was proof her luck was in the negatives.
[O-okay, next!]
[Below is the list of the three star items you can get!]
[1. 3 Stars Weapon (Random)]
[2. 3 Stars Magic Stone]
[3. Money Pouch (100 G)]
"Huh?" Cecilia blinked. "Only three? That’s... significantly less impressive."
[Correct!]
[But the amount of varied 3 stars weapons you can get is more than every other star! You can get up to 20 different weapons from the three star pool. But you can only get 5 different weapons from the four and five stars pool!]
Cecilia was annoyed now. "You think that’s better? It ans to get one specific three-star weapon, the chance is even lower than getting a specific higher-tier one. You’re just diluting the pool with junk."
[Correct! But since the chance of any 3 stars appearing is higher than the others, the rolls are balanced!]
Cecilia looked at her roll history. She had gotten two three-star frost steel spears and one three-star frost steel staff. She had never used a weapon in her entire life and now she wondered if she could just sell these cluttering items in her ’inventory’.
It took a while navigating the system, and even getting herself used to its bizarre logic. She was initially shocked to discover she had a spatial inventory.
Let’s repeat that.
InsIDE HERSELF.
DING!
[Yes! You can convert any item into gold! All three stars items can be converted into 100 G and all four stars items can be converted into 1000 G!]
[If you ever want to convert any five stars items, you will receive 10000 G from it!]
"Hmm, is that so?" Cecilia humd. "I wonder if this ’G’ is the sa currency we use in this world..."
[Correct!]
Cecilia’s eyes widened. Wouldn’t that an the intrinsic value of these items, in gold, would be astronomical? She needed to verify that soti.
100 G was more or less a royal minister’s yearly salary, minus all their benefits and the money they skimd from corruption.
Her own yearly salary as a Saintess was 500 Gold. The unwritten rule, of course, was to donate 90% of it back to the temple to uphold her reputation and not be compared unfavorably to her predecessors. Not that she was entirely sure the temple used those funds to help the needy.
So now, squinting at the value of these seemingly "common" items in her inventory, she humd. "Am I... rich...?"
She sighed and rubbed her temples, a headache brewing. Turned out she just needed to almost die once to get all this, no matter how scammy the system’s gambling chanics sounded.
"Ah, I rember sothing," she said, a new plan forming. "You said I got a reward for leveling up Oathran’s love affinity, yes?"
[Correct!]
"And you said I have access to the system shop?"
[Correct!]
"Good. I want to do sothing."
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