Chapter 234
When Seojun pressed the enhance button, a success notification popped up with a simple effect.
[Success]
[Beginner's Greatsword] [Legendary] [Tier 2]
[+5 --> +6]
Countless cheers poured in for Seojun, who had succeeded with a 100% success rate.
-Wow, one-tap!
-Succeeding in one try, d-da-damn. A-maz-ing.
-So jealous!
-You crazy bastards lololol
-Ah lol, if you hit pity it’s a one-tap lol
Seojun let out an empty laugh as he scrolled past the flood of congratulations.
“Why do the materials get consumed even though I hit the pity cap? That’s really annoying.”
“Shut up and let’s go for +7!”
“Why are you so excited? Even if my misery is your happiness. Oh, right.”
“What.”
“You already spent 3 million gold, right? I’ve only spent 30,000 so far?”
No wonder he was excessively happy.
“You little shit?”
“Got under your skin, huh.”
“You think you’re not gonna be like that! Huh!”
“I don’t think so? Don’t you agree, Taewoo’s viewers? Isn’t 3 million won a bit much?”
-That’s true lol
-The streamer wasn’t asking for our opinion, but it’s true lol
-3 million won is just… even if you ruin everything lol
-Even the veterans in that other stream agree lol, they’re spamming that Taewoo’s an idiot lol
“Let’s just wait and see. You saw it just now. I told you it wouldn’t work no matter what you tried. Huh? ‘Looks like it’ll work’? Pfft. It went straight to pity, right?”
It’s sad.
The fact that what he said wasn’t wrong.
It’s not that I’m emotionally damaged or nervous.
‘If it doesn’t work, I’ll just spend more money, whatever.’
I just didn’t have a way to completely shut Taewoo up.
There was one way, but the fact that I couldn’t do anything about it bothered me.
“Sisikconeo-nim. How many pities do you predict?”
Taewoo asked Sisikconeo with high tension.
“Hmm. Out of 25 tries, he’s hit pity once already, and maybe 4 more? 5 times? Actually, hitting pity a lot isn’t that easy.”
“…….”
He glared at Sisikconeo.
“Ah… s-sorry.”
“Why are you making him cower. Alright, let’s go for +7.”
“Fine! Let’s see what happens!”
Seojun pressed the enhance button with half anticipation and half worry.
For some reason, he felt like he’d hit pity again this time.
So he decided to use an enhancement skill.
“If I just spam-click this five times, it really feels like it’ll stick?”
The rapid-fire enhancement method.
He’d learned it on the internet.
Taewoo sneered.
“Pfft.”
He’d show him with the results.
[Failure]
[Failure]
[Failure]
[Failure]
[Failure]
“Well, then.”
This method is scrapped.
Seojun made that decision with a serious expression.
“Hahaha. You really caught the flow, you bastard. In the opposite direction from what you intended, though.”
“Heh. Your luck is really terrible, isn’t it?”
“I guess so.”
“This time, three tries.”
“Will it work?”
“You think? How many tries, everyone?”
-lololololololol
-Judging by how it’s going, seems like he’ll hit pity again
-No lol the streamer is dead serious lol
-Money is finally being deleted, not duplicated!
-Do two tries
-Two, go
[Failure]
[Failure]
The letters appeared with a faint *poof* sound.
“Hmm, so far I’ve failed 15 times total, and probabilistically that’s around 20%, so it’s possible it won’t stick. Hmm.”
Seojun accepted it for now, but he was troubled.
It really isn’t sticking.
“Heh. No, seriously, are you counting that? Enhancement is luck, I told you. You think it can be a skill?”
“I guess.”
“Just give up and hit pity.”
“Fine. I’ll try just four more times as a last resort.”
[Failure]
[Failure]
[Failure]
[Success]
[Beginner's Greatsword] [Legendary] [Tier 2]
[+6 --> +7]
“Oh, it worked.”
“Seojun….”
Taewoo looked at Seojun with a twitching mouth.
“I already knew. Don’t laugh.”
When Seojun said it calmly, Taewoo laughed even louder.
The reason was.
-lololololol another one-tap success!
-He failed 10 times and hit pity on the 11th lol
-The streamer lol he knew and said he’d try four times lol
“Whew, I’m glad I’m not doing it.”
“Right? It seems like not now, huh?”
“Seojun, you’re in the same fate as me. From now on, the pity threshold goes up and it’ll get harder. What’re you gonna do.”
Indeed.
It was the second pity.
Seojun was troubled. He was genuinely worried he’d end up like Taewoo.
Even so, he couldn’t possibly do worse than Taewoo, but wasn’t this the biggest crisis he’d faced in this life?
“Ha.”
Seojun finally let out a big sigh.
Of course, it was an act for the audience’s amusement.
-lololololol
-How long are you gonna stay serious, streamer!
-His confidence seems to be dropping lol
Thanks to that, the viewers laughed.
“What are you doing? You gotta go for +8.”
Taewoo was teasing from the side.
“Heh heh heh. I’ll do mine once the Heavenly Demon finishes everything. I need to suck up his stacks!”
Dang So was expounding on the so-called ‘stack theory’—that the more you fail, the more stacks accumulate, and someone will hit the jackpot.
“You still don’t know.”
Sisikconeo comforted him with a twitching smile.
Feeling truly hopeless, Seojun shrugged his shoulders and moved his finger.
In the end, there’s only one thing he can do.
‘Press the enhance button.’
And as a result of doing what he had to do silently, it was Seojun’s turn to laugh this time. So he laughed.
While watching Taewoo’s expression change.
“How much will get sucked out this time… eh?”
[Success]
[Beginner's Greatsword] [Legendary] [Tier 2]
[+7 --> +8]
“This time it really is a one-tap. Right? Isn’t that right, Taewoo?”
-Kyah!
-This one was well-deserved
-Acknowledged!
“Y-yeah. You just barely avoided a loss, and if you hit pity from now on….”
“Then ignoring the flustered Taewoo, I’ll go straight ahead. Enhancement is about flow.”
And when he pressed enhance.
-??
-No, this is a bit much?
-Don’t cross the line, streamer?
[Success]
[Beginner's Greatsword] [Legendary] [Tier 2]
[+8 --> +9]
He had gone past break-even and gained a profit.
“This stuck? As expected, it’s the flow?”
When Seojun unconsciously pressed once more.
[Success]
[Beginner's Greatsword] [Legendary] [Tier 2]
[+9 --> +10]
“Oh. I’ve graduated my weapon.”
The viewers began to riot.
-????????
-This is seriously way over the top?
-What the f***????
-Are you cheating?
-lololol this is ridiculous
-Luck
“You dirty bastard. Please stop cheating… please.”
And Taewoo wept.
* * *
In probability content, situations beyond imagination occur.
A scene where someone succeeds consecutively at 65%, 55%, 45%, 35%, 25%, 25%, 25%?
It would be less scary than the fact that there is someone who hits that 0.0007% chance.
And less scary than the fact that it really does happen.
So Seojun’s three consecutive successes could not help but pale in comparison to those.
After all, isn’t the success probability only 0.1%?
Seojun explained these cases he’d seen online and this point to the viewers.
“It’s true, isn’t it? Right?”
He got flamed.
-That bastard streamer is laughing like crazy lol ah so annoying
-Kill! Kill him!!!
-Ah lol, please don’t cheat even with probabilities ㅠㅠㅠ
-Bitter-luck ON lol
“No, how many times do I have to say it. How much could it cost on weapons anyway. Surely there isn’t someone who hit pity for weapon +8, +9, +10 and spent nearly 700,000 won?”
Weapons are an especially expensive slot.
And as the enhancement levels get higher, the loss you take each time you hit pity becomes severe.
And that kind of person was right next to him.
“Hey, you bastard!”
“Pfft.”
“Hey, you come out. Come out right now. Stop cheating!”
Taewoo was exactly 1 meter away and tried to approach him.
However, due to system restrictions, he couldn’t get any closer and was just flailing his arms.
“Hmm. Is that so?”
“Bad bastard.”
-Ah lol Taewoo’s losing his mind
-My heart is bursting too… I hit pity yesterday
-Why does the probability explode there, agh!
-How can this be… is this the world? If the streamer even has luck…
“Everyone, isn’t it just regression to the mean after I hit pity twice?”
-No, it’s not. You know it’s not. Is it not? Is it not!
-Three one-taps, you bastard, ajhdfajksdf
-Ugh, his voice is so hateful
-The bitter-luck in his voice is MAX lol
-Seems like a lot of people got a taste of enhancement yesterday lol
“Hmm. Enhancement is pretty easy.”
“Heavenly Demon, that’s enough.”
“Why, Dang So? Are you anxious?”
“Indeed.”
“Hmm. Want a pro tip?”
“Oh? What is it?! Tell me quickly!”
Even Dang So was that anxious.
Since he had mentioned the stack theory earlier, he might feel anxious thinking his luck had already been sucked away.
So Seojun said.
“Get as far away from Taewoo as possible. If you stick near him, bad luck….”
“Argh! Hey. You really shouldn’t do that. You shouldn’t do that….”
“No way, are you crying?”
“No… sniff.”
“Wow. You’re really crying.”
“Ah, I truly hate the heavens.”
Taewoo genuinely hated the heavens.
“Even if you’re handsome, and good at studying, good at sports, and good at games, I never hated the heavens as much as today. Really. Why, heavens! Do you give even luck to that bastard!”
-lolololololololololol
-Being next to him is a deprivation generator
-Are you taking even luck, streamer!!!!!
-This time, the streamer really is in the wrong lol
And.
After hearing Taewoo’s feelings, Seojun laughed for a while and then began enhancing the next equipment.
* * *
“I charged 200,000 won more and finished. Is this considered going well?”
-Ugh, bitter-luck lol
-You know it went well, you damn bad guy
-Taewoo is really crying ㅠㅠㅠ
The armor enhancement ended normally, with good luck.
It wasn’t to the point of being called cheating like with the weapon, but overall there were no parts that failed badly.
If he hit pity and took a loss, it was quickly made up for in the next enhancement.
Riding the flow, lucky enough to succeed in three or four tries?
“Hmm. It could be done with 500,000 won, but 3 million won….”
“Stop it!”
“Okay. Then now it’s Dang So’s turn?”
“I-I’ll do it later!”
“Aww, that’s no fun.”
“Forget it! I’m not doing it now.”
-Because the streamer succeeded so well lol
-If it were me, I wouldn’t want to enhance now either
-Luck continues? No way. It’s just the destined ones succeed lol
“Alright then. What should we do now?”
Brushing past Taewoo, who had been dealt two blows and was now completely mentally exhausted, Seojun approached Sisikconeo.
“Hmm… since the enhancements went well and Dang So-nim said he won’t do it, we have some time left, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then we can end the stream.”
-????
-That bastard?
-Is he crazy?
-Ha lol, does Sisikconeo-ham think we’re pushovers? Show him once?
“…It was a joke. There’s a lot to do. So much.”
Seojun didn’t miss it.
The fact that Sisikconeo glanced to the side, went pale for a moment, and hastily spoke up.
“What is there?”
“We have to enhance your skills too. Even as a beginner, you can enhance skills.”
Ah.
“Then where do we go?”
Skill enhancement tickets could be obtained by exploring maps that aren’t dungeons or raids, or by clearing challenge achievements.
Skill enhancement tickets are essential for upgrading your specs.
However, the process of acquiring them is quite bothersome and complicated, so a guide is essential.
Of course, gamers have neatly organized it on the community, but.
“Hmm… Since Swordsman-nim’s luck is good right now, let’s visit a few fields that come to mind.”
It wouldn’t match a secretary who organizes and schedules in real time.
“Taewoo, get yourself together and let’s go.”
“I don’t wanna… I don’t want PK….”
“He’s saying let’s go to the field.”
Usually, map and field are used interchangeably, but this time, the ‘field’ Sisikconeo mentioned likely meant a PvP-enabled area.
Since there aren’t many skill enhancement tickets you can get in ordinary safe zones in the first place.
‘There’ll probably be viewers who pick fights.’
-Turning on PK right away
-Let’s disturb the streamer’s skill ticket farming a bit
-Since he cheated in enhancement today, he deserves to suffer a bit lol
-There’s no turning off the stream midway, streamer
‘Already excited, huh.’
Up until this moment, Seojun never imagined that he would go to the field and later end up in a guild war.
But when he came out of the Blacksmith’s map and saw the suspicious group waiting for him, he expected trouble.
‘What’s with those masks?’