The Abyss felt like a distant dream with tis like this.
Twenty minutes later, Levi ca out from the bathroom feeling almost human again. His body still ached, but it would only take about half an hour before he fully healed. Also, the edge had been taken off.
Levi dressed in fresh clothes, black pants and a simple dark gray shirt, and walked back into the main living area.
Martina was already awake, sitting at the kitchen table with what looked like a protein shake and her holo-watch pulled up displaying various docunts. She glanced up as he entered, her eyes widening slightly.
"Phewee. You look like hell. Did you fight so demons in your dreams? " Martina whistled as she stared at Levi am obseved.
"Sothing like that," Levi said noncommittally.
She studied him for a mont but didn't dare to pry. "There's food in the cooler if you're hungry. And coffee, if you want it."
"Thanks."
Levi grabbed both, a massive plate of eggs, at, and vegetables he'd ordered last night specifically for this morning, plus a cup of black coffee so strong it could literally paint the town black. He sat down across from Martina and began eating to munch on his food.
Martina looked at him with her jaws opened as she saw him tearing through the food as though he hadn't eaten in years.
She shook her head and wondered what the hell happened at the Hellfrozen Abyss.
It was few minutes before she spoke again.
"So what's the plan for today? Tournant registration is still open for two more days, but you'll want to review the rules and format before you sign up. Also…" She hesitated. "You probably want to do sothing about that."
She gestured vaguely at him, and Levi knew imdiately what she ant. His killing intent. Even suppressed as much as he could manage, it was still leaking out.
"I'll work on it," Levi said. Which was true, though he wasn't sure how much improvent he could make in just a few days.
"That's nice," Martina sighed in relief.
Levi finished his al and stood, carrying his empty plate to the kitchen area. As he passed by the entrance to his private training room, he paused.
There was sothing else he needed to do.
Sothing he'd been putting off since returning to the apartnt last night.
He turned to Martina. "I'm going to be in the training room for a while. Don't disturb unless it's an ergency."
Martina raised an eyebrow but nodded. "Understood."
Levi entered the training room and closed the door behind him, activating the privacy formations built into the walls. Then he reached into his spatial ring, his old, small spatial ring that he'd been using since the trial examination, and withdrew an object.
A massive sphere of tal, roughly the size of a basketball, materialized in his hands. The mont it appeared, every electronic device in the apartnt shut down simultaneously.
The lights flickered and died. The control panel of the room also died.
Complete electromagnetic blackout in a roughly fifty-ter radius.
"Finally safe," Levi muttered.
He wasn't entirely sure if the academy had placed surveillance in his private apartnt, technically it would be against policy, but he'd learned not to trust "technically" when it ca to powerful organizations. The tal sphere solved that problem definitively. No caras, no audio recorders, no remote monitoring of any kind could function while this thing was active.
Levi carried the sphere to the center of the training room and set it down carefully.
He then went to Gladine Stone and sat cross-legged on top of it. The mont his body settled into position, he felt the subtle shift in energy, the Gladine stone was already beginning to create a calm energy flow into his body as his mind cooled.
Levi closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then, speaking clearly in his mind rather than aloud 'System, how many lottery rolls do I have?'
A translucent blue screen materialized in his mind's eye:
[Lottery: 403]
Four hundred and three lottery spins accumulated over six months of survival in the Hellfrozen Abyss.
"Spin all lottery," Levi commanded ntally.
Instantly, the blue screen before him flickered rapidly, numbers and images beginning to blur together as the system prepared to process all four hundred three spins simultaneously,
The screen froze.
A new notification appeared, overlaying everything else:
[User has amassed 100 lottery spins]
[Ding! Host can now rge 100 ordinary lottery spins into 1 Super Lottery Spin for a guaranteed treasure of Type III rarity and above!]
Levi's eyes snapped open, in surprise.
"Eh?"
This was the first ti he'd seen anything like this. The system had never offered any kind of consolidation or upgrade option before. Then again, this was also the first ti he'd accumulated over one hundred lottery spins at once. Maybe the option had always existed but only appeared when the threshold was t.
He leaned back slightly, as his mind through through what the system had said.
A guaranteed Type III relic or higher. That was… significant. Type III relics were worth fortunes, objects that even Fiend Warrior cultivators would fight wars over. Type IV or V would be even more valuable, artifacts that could change the entire trajectory of a cultivator's path.
But it ca at a cost. He could rge one hundred ordinary spins into one super spin, but that ant giving up one hundred chances at receiving items. Sure, most of those chances would probably result in "Try Again Later" ssages or low-tier garbage, but still. One hundred opportunities versus one guaranteed good result.
The gambler in him, was aroused as he thought of gaining and absolute treasure!
Certainly, the risk would be definitely worth the reward. But one hundred ordinary lottery might actually give him a surprise but the probability was infinitely lower than what a super lottery system might give him.
Levi held his chin in thought as his fingers tapped against his knee.
He could ignore the super lottery option entirely and just spin all four hundred three tis individually. But realistically, the "Try Again Later" ssages would probably consu at least half of those spins, if not more. And of the remaining items, most would be Type I or Type II relics, useful but not ga-changing.
Or he could rge one hundred spins for a guaranteed Type III or higher. Keep the other three hundred three for individual spins.
That felt like a reasonable compromise. Test the super lottery with one attempt, see what happened, then decide whether to do it again.
Though part of him wondered… if one hundred ordinary spins could rge into one super spin, could one hundred super spins rge into sothing even better? An ultra-spin? And what about one hundred ultra-spins?
The possibilities made his head spin slightly.
But that was thinking too far ahead. Right now, he had four hundred three ordinary spins and one new option to explore.
"System," Levi said clearly in his mind. "rge one hundred ordinary lottery spins for one Super Lottery Spin."
[Command acknowledged]
[rging 100 ordinary lottery spins…]
[Super Lottery Spin created]
[Remaining ordinary spins: 303]
The world in front of Levi dissolved.
It happened instantly, without warning. One mont he was sitting in his training room, walls visible, tal sphere nearby, everything solid and real.
The next mont, he was floating in an infinite cosmic void.
Stars, billions upon billions of stars, stretched out in every direction. Galaxies swirled in the distance, vast spirals of light and color that seed to go on forever. Nebulae glowed with impossible colors, purples and greens and blues that human eyes shouldn't be able to perceive.
And directly in front of him, dominating his entire field of vision, was a lottery machine.
Not the small, contained version that usually appeared in his mind during normal spins. This was sothing else entirely. Sothing massive and incomprehensible and sohow more real than reality itself.
The machine stretched upward until it disappeared into the cosmic distance above, so tall that Levi couldn't see the top even when he craned his neck back. Its base was equally massive, disappearing below him into infinite depths. The entire structure seed to be holding up the heavens themselves, a pillar connecting the fundantal layers of existence.
And it was made of gold. Pure, radiant gold that didn't just reflect light but seed to generate it, pulsing with inner luminescence that made the surrounding stars look dim by comparison.
The machine was spinning.
Not slowly, not gradually, but at speeds that made it impossible to track individual items. Treasures flashed past in the machine's windows, weapons, armor, scrolls, fruits, jewels, things Levi didn't have nas for, all of them blurring together into a kaleidoscope of possibility.
Levi watched, transfixed, as the massive golden lottery machine continued its spin. The sound it made was incredible, not chanical clicks and whirs like a normal machine, but sothing deeper. Sothing that resonated in his bones, in his soul, like the fundantal vibration of the universe itself.
Then, gradually, it began to slow.
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