I Cultivate 10,000 Times Faster-Chapter 156: [154] 400+ Lottery Spins! [Chapters Fixed!]
The Abyss felt like a distant dream with times like this.
Twenty minutes later, Levi came 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 documents. She glanced up as he entered, her eyes widening slightly.
"Phewee. You look like hell. Did you fight some demons in your dreams? " Martina whistled as she stared at Levi am obseved.
"Something like that," Levi said noncommittally.
She studied him for a moment 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, meat, 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? Tournament 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 something about that."
She gestured vaguely at him, and Levi knew immediately what she meant. 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 improvement he could make in just a few days.
"That's nice," Martina sighed in relief.
Levi finished his meal 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 something else he needed to do.
Something he'd been putting off since returning to the apartment last night.
He turned to Martina. "I'm going to be in the training room for a while. Don't disturb me unless it's an emergency."
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 metal, roughly the size of a basketball, materialized in his hands. The moment it appeared, every electronic device in the apartment shut down simultaneously.
The lights flickered and died. The control panel of the room also died.
Complete electromagnetic blackout in a roughly fifty-meter radius.
"Finally safe," Levi muttered.
He wasn't entirely sure if the academy had placed surveillance in his private apartment, technically it would be against policy, but he'd learned not to trust "technically" when it came to powerful organizations. The metal sphere solved that problem definitively. No cameras, 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 moment 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 mentally.
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: 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
[User has amassed 100+ lottery spins]
[Ding! Host can now merge 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 time 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 time he'd accumulated over one hundred lottery spins at once. Maybe
the option had always existed but only appeared when the threshold was met.
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 came at a cost. He could merge one hundred ordinary spins into one super spin, but that meant giving up one hundred chances at receiving items. Sure, most of those chances would probably result in "Try Again Later" messages 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 times individually. But realistically, the "Try Again Later" messages would probably consume 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 game-changing.
Or he could merge 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 merge into one super spin, could one hundred super spins merge into something 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. "Merge one hundred ordinary lottery spins for one Super Lottery Spin."
[Command acknowledged]
[Merging 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 moment he was sitting in his training room, walls visible, metal sphere nearby, everything solid and real.
The next moment, 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 seemed 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 something else entirely. Something massive and incomprehensible and somehow 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 seemed to be holding up the heavens themselves, a pillar connecting the fundamental layers of existence.
And it was made of gold. Pure, radiant gold that didn't just reflect light but seemed 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 names 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 mechanical clicks and whirs like a normal machine, but something deeper. Something that resonated in his bones, in his soul, like the fundamental vibration of the universe itself.
Then, gradually, it began to slow.
