I Never Run Out of Mana - Chapter 89

Chapter 89

89 . The Most Unlucky Man?

[Enhancement failed . ]

[Enhancement failed . ]

[Enhancement failed . ]

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“Damn it! Do these things actually work?”

After separating the gems by their type, I began to use them to enhance my armor .

The first type I used was the green colored Gem of Recovery .

It was a gem that would give 10% increase in stamina recovery if the enhancement was successful .

The red one was called the Gem of Crit, giving a 1% chance to double your attack power twofold per enhancement .

The black one is called Gem of Defense .

It would increase your defense by 1% .

The stats raised weren’t that significant .

However, if I was in a battle with someone wearing the same artifacts?

Depending on the enhancements I have, the difference will clearly show .

Imagine that transcended Meteor becomes twice as strong, and on top of that, 3 of them fall .

Before the full destructive force can even be demonstrated, their form would be annihilated .

Green, red, black .

These three types made up over 90% of the gems, while there were a sparse few blue and golden colored gems that caught my eye .

It took a long while just to separate them by color though .

First, I took the Gems of Recovery .

Immediately, I attempted to enhance Black Dragon’s Scale that I’ve obtained from Joker .

Initially, it had a 10% chance of succeeding .

Each time the enhancement succeeds, the chance of success decreases by 1% .

In theory, I should succeed at least once out of ten tries initially .

However, despite using up 20 gems, the armor wasn’t enhanced once .

Swears came out of my mouth naturally .

Despite the gems being the size of small pendants and the avatars filling the bag full, if I keep failing like this, I will run out of gems in no time .

These gems were obtained from the Unknown Dungeon, which is painfully difficult to gain entrance to .

As these gems disappeared one by one, I grew anxious .

“It’s already annoying as hell to use them one by one, but if I don’t even succeed once, what’s the point of doing them!”

At first, I thought to enhance Titan Boots, Black Dragon’s Scale, and Butcher’s Sword .

However, at the rate I was going, it would be difficult to enhance just the armor .

With a pout, I continued to try .

Suddenly, a narration that excited me came through .

[Black Dragon’s Scale has been successfully enhanced . ]

[Stamina recovery increased by 10% . ]

[Does not apply if the item is unequipped . ]

“Oh yes! It should have been like this from the start!”

I ended up yelling out in excitement without much thought .

It was almost as if I won the lottery .

Unable to hold back, I checked the armor .

The information that Eye of Insight revealed was as follows .

-Black Dragon’s Scale-

*All stats +300

*All damage taken reduced by 40%

*Stamina recovery increased by 10%

“Yes… . On top of the insane bonus effects, another one was added . ”

Just looking at it made me smile .

Now, the success rate of enhancing the armor should be 9% .

Right as I was about to bring another gem to the armor, I stopped .

“Hm . There’s no reason to use all of them on the armor . Okay . I got an idea . ”

Tossing the armor aside, I pulled in the sword and boots .

The reason was simple .

Since the bonus effect of increased stamina recovery would be same on any of the equipment, it didn’t matter what I enhanced .

It was similar to how a backpack’s weight wouldn’t change no matter where you wore it .

The enhancement success rate was already low enough, so why try it on the item with 1% less success rate .

If all 3 of the artifacts become successfully enhanced, I planned to enhance them all for the second time and so on .

“Please succeed! Succeed!”

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Like that, I spent 3 hours on using the gems .

The gems were roughly the size of quarters, and they had filled up a duffle bag, so there was quite a lot to begin with .

However, the look on my face wasn’t that good after having expended all the green, red, and black gems .

No . The expression was akin to have eaten shit .

The reason why is as expected . The result wasn’t anything to be satisfied of .

My infinite mana ability wasn’t enough to console me at this moment .

Despite going through nearly a thousand gems, the results were enough to make me despair .

It was enough to question just how unlucky I was .

I was crying out in anguish while pulling out my hair .

“I… I’m the most unluckiest person in the entire world… . ”

“……”

“No! Is 8% that low of a success rate? Isn’t it 0 . 8%? This must be rigged . It’s nonsense . ”

Out of all the results, the Gem of Recovery had the worst results .

Those gems only managed to enhance each equipment once .

The Gem of Crit and the Gem of Defense had succeeded twice per each artifact .

The total was 30% increased stamina regen, 6% crit chance, and 6% increase in defensive capabilities .

I had used nearly a thousand gems, but only succeeded 15 times .

I couldn’t help but fall into despair .

Since the situation turned out like this, exhaustion piled onto me .

Due to my expectations being high, disappointment equivalent to that came .

On top of that, I hadn’t slept in two days since the fight with Ghost .

No recovery skill could get rid of the basic human urge to sleep .

Despite looking at the gems and equipment laid over the floor, I didn’t much feel much excitement .

My interest towards them had dropped .

“I’m no longer interested . I’ll do the rest after I sleep… Huh?”

My Eye of Insight was still being used .

Only then did I see the ability of the blue gems .

It was enough to get my curiosity going .

-Gem of Magic Power-

*Enhances all artifacts .

*Successful enhancement grants 10% increase in magic power .

*Success chance: 10%

(Enhancement can stack up 5 times . Each successful enhancement lowers the chances of success by 1% . )

*Low chance that the artifact will be destroyed instead .

*Magic power?”

No stats the Awakened possess and none of the artifacts ever had the term of magic power mentioned in them .

The only thing that existed was mana stat that increased your total mana, which was required to cast skills .

However, this gem’s name and the description both mentioned magic power .

Since I wasn’t sure of the effect this bonus stat would give, I organized the thoughts in my head while muttering to myself .

“Magic power . . Is it literal, increasing the power of my magic? A stat that I’ve never heard of . But if it’s real… . ”

There were only 100 Gem of Magic Power .

Unlike all the gems I’ve used so far, there weren’t that many .

Next to that were 50 or so golden gems .

After checking the gems, I found that the name of the golden gem was called Gem of Blessings .

It would give 1 to 3 random stat bonuses .

Since it turned out this way, sleep would have to wait, even though I was insanely tired just a minute ago .

“Ha… . . It’s enough to drive people insane . ”

Bonus stats that weren’t just magic power, but random ones as well .

The name itself had the word blessing in it!

Thinking about the droprate and the name, I knew that it wasn’t just an ordinary item .

However, the last line of information on the Gem of Magic Power really got to me .

It was that the artifact could be destroyed .

Despite the chances being low, as a unlucky man, I couldn’t use them right away .

“If I use it without much thought, it could become quite a disaster . This is difficult, Difficult . ”

I decided to use the Gems of Blessings first .

Even if the enhancement doesn’t succeed, at least the artifact wouldn’t be destroyed .

I used the first gem on the Titan Boots .

[Titan Boots has been successfully enhanced . ]

“What? Already?”

It was a different result than the ones I had so far .

The enhancement had succeeded despite only using one .

1 to 3 bonus stats should be added .

I check the boots .

-Titan Boots-

*Immune to all status effects . (Obtains immunity to being frozen, slowed, poisoned, and all other status effects . )

*Movement speed increased . (Obtains the same speed as the Boots of Lightspeed . )

*Stamina recovery increased by 10% .

*Crit chance increased by 2% .

*Defensive capabilities increased by 2% .

*Evasion Teleport obtained . (When receiving damage beyond one’s maximum health, negates the damage and teleports 20m in a random direction . Cooldown is 24 hours . )

*Offensive capability of electric magic attacks increased by 30% .

*Stats do not apply if the equipment is unequipped .

“Wow… . ”

Checking the Titan Boots, the size of the explanation had grown by a lot .

The basic abilities of the Titan Boots were immunity to status effects and increased movement speed .

Excluding the 3 stats I’ve earned using the gems, 2 more were added .

Out of them all, I was focused on the Evasion Teleport .

Despite the cooldown being 24 hours long, it would negate the attack if I received an attack that I wasn’t able to handle .

Even though I had earned a ton of stats through the Butcher’s Sword, one could never know of the future ahead of them .

It was true that defensive capability should be prioritized over offensive capabilities for now .

After transcending my skills, my offensive capabilities were beyond what was enough .

Now, the time that I could hold out against the opponent’s attack was equivalent to the window of opportunity to attack .

Very strongly at that .

On top of the Evasion Teleport, the attack damage of my electric magic spells had increased .

The only electric spell I had was the Lightning Spray, but I knew that I would obtain more as time went on .

I had thought that the offensive capabilities of a skill could only increase with skill levels, but now I discovered that it could be increased like this .

It would have been better if it increased fire magic damage, but this was enough of a steal .

With my expectation increasing, I tried once more .

However, there was a term called beginner’s luck .

All the gems that were left had failed .

However, the results were enough to leave me without regret .

Matching with the anxious beating of my heart, my eyes settled on the Gems of Magic Power .

However, I did not have the desire to use them .

If I had other items that could replace my artifacts, I would have used all the gems without hesitation .

However, the current situation wasn’t like so .

No matter how strong the heart is, there wouldn’t be anyone who would go through with it .

It was then .

“Wait . It said all artifacts?”

I looked at the numerous equipment that I had obtained from the Unknown Dungeon .

No matter what I picked, it was obvious that it would surpass the skull ring I had on right now .

Even though there was a great variation in the loot, there were still multiple copies .

It meant that even if some things were destroyed, there were substitutes to use .

Separating the items into same shapes, I looked at their bonus stats .

I discovered something that was enough to match, no, deny comparison with the equipment I was wearing currently .

On top of that, 3 of them .

“With this, I think it’s pretty okay?”