novelraw Chapter 33 Supreme Summoner System
Chapter 33 Supreme Summoner System
"Hahaha! Let me have a good time spending some money! Let's see what summoned creatures I can get!"
Holding a hundred summoning stones, Zhou Yanyu instantly felt "rich," straightened his back, and boldly opened the interface of the [Supreme Summoner System], heading straight for the summoning market.
[Summoning Market (Level 1, 10 Summoning Stones required to upgrade to the next level)]
【Item 1: Air (Grade D) - Price: 1 Summoning Stone】
【Item 2: Water (Grade D) - Price: 2 Summoning Stones】
【Item 3: Air (Grade D) - Price: 1 Summoning Stone】
【Item 4: Soil (Grade D) - Price: 1 Summoning Stone】
【Item 5: Broom (Grade C) - Price: 11 Summoning Stones】
[Current refresh cost: 100 Summoning Stones]
"What is all this?! What? What?!"
Zhou Yanyu suddenly felt a darkness before his eyes, and his soul swayed as if countless alpacas were galloping across the grassland in his mind.
"Is this a summoning system or a junkyard?! This is a total rip-off!!!"
Even Lin Chi, who is usually reserved and doesn't show much emotion, couldn't help but twitch his lips when he saw this outrageous product list. His face showed a complex expression that mixed absurdity, embarrassment, and a little bit of wanting to laugh.
"This...this is also a summoned creature?" he asked hesitantly, his voice unusually filled with obvious confusion.
Clinging to the last shred of hope that "there might be a hidden effect," Lin Chi clicked on the details of "air" and "broom" to check.
[Summon - Air (Rank D)]
[Description: Provides a brief breathing space; upgrades increase the breathing space area; summoned, it dies instantly, meaning it does not count against the limit on the number of summons that can be deployed.]
[Summon - Broom (Rank C)]
[Description: It's just a regular household broom with no special effects. As the saying goes, "If you can't sweep your own house, how can you sweep the world?" Perhaps this broom can "clear the way ahead"? It uses up the limit on the number of summoned creatures that can be used.]
"In other words," Lin Chi stroked his chin thoughtfully, "that one-time consumable summons, like air and water, don't take up a slot. And summons don't necessarily have to be living things; even a broom can..."
"Uncle Yu, do you think we should upgrade the Summoning Market first, and then check the summons after tomorrow's update?" Lin Chi glanced at Zhou Yanyu, who was floating silently in mid-air. "We can directly upgrade it to level 3!"
[Probability of Summoning Items]
[Level 1: D-80% C-20% B-0 A-0 S-0 SS-0]
[Level 2: D-60% C-30% B-10% A-0 S-0 SS-0]
[Level 3: D-30% C-50% B-15% A-5% S-0 SS-0]
"Upgrade my ass! This thing is a huge trap! I finally understand!" Zhou Yanyu rolled over listlessly, then suddenly sprang up, pointing at the button that required 100 stones to refresh once.
"See that? The money from refreshing once is enough for me to do a lottery draw! This lousy shop is a trap, luring you to waste your resources! Only by facing the real 'abyss'—the rice pool!—is there a glimmer of hope! Let's go! Going all in is a sign of wisdom!"
Zhou Yanyu stared blankly at the summoning pool's card-drawing interface, as if possessed.
It was as if he would press the "extract" button without hesitation the next second.
To prevent the situation from worsening, Lin Chi quickly used 60 summoning stones to upgrade the summoning market to level 3.
"Alright, I've leveled up to level 3. There's a 5% chance of getting an A-grade item now." Lin Chi breathed a sigh of relief. "Anyway, the shop refreshes automatically once a day, so leveling up early means enjoying the increased drop rate."
"Sigh—!" Zhou Yanyu let out a long, disdainful sigh after seeing Lin Chi's cowardly behavior. He floated in front of Lin Chi and said, "Coward! How can you achieve anything great!"
Then, like a sulking child, he darted back into his storage ring with a "whoosh," leaving a muffled voice saying, "I'm going to sleep! Don't bother me! I have nothing to say to a coward!"
Even though he is a soul and doesn't need to sleep.
"I wonder how old he is, he's more like a child than me? He's not mature at all." Lin Chi rolled his eyes helplessly at the storage ring, shook his head, packed up all the spoils, checked the direction, and headed towards the teleportation point leading to the next level.
Since then, every day during breaks between climbing the tower, Lin Chi would summon the interface, open the Summoning Market, and check the five items that had been refreshed that day.
After more than a month of observation and data analysis, Lin Chi roughly summarized some patterns:
Grade D is a one-time summon.
Grade C is a useless summon.
Rank B possesses basic combat capabilities.
In addition to combat abilities, Rank A members also possess skills.
However, Lin Chi only had 40 summoning stones left.
Lin Chi could only stare helplessly as he watched the A-grade summons that appeared every day, occasionally, and seemed quite useful, along with their prohibitively high prices.
Of course, what's even more enticing is the [Summoning Pool] interface, with the incredible description of this season's SSS-level featured summon—"One-Punch Gauntlet".
It can kill anything instantly with a regular pattern. Once you put it on, you can kill any living being with a single punch. Instant kill has the highest priority, although the cooldown time is one day.
But it's also an incredibly overpowered summon!
Time slipped away as I climbed the tower...
With the level advantage brought by the Windwalker Armor, the increasingly tacit cooperation between the two, and their cautious approach along the way, they finally made great strides, breaking through layer after layer of obstacles, and arrived at the end of the fifty-seventh floor.
The fifty-eighth floor—the location of the academy.
My mother seems so close!
However, due to the "equipment drop restrictions" of the exclusive profession, the BOSSes and treasure chests along the way dropped almost no usable equipment or weapons, except for experience bottles and a small number of potions. I didn't even see the most anticipated "level breakthrough stone".
The only consolation was that 200 summoning stones dropped from the BOSS!
"Draw! You have to draw! Kid Lin, what are you hesitating for?!" Zhou Yanyu jumped around in the storage ring.
"Look at the summoning market! It costs 500 to upgrade to level 5! We're far behind! And the probability increase after upgrading isn't significant! Besides, even if an A-grade item appears, we simply can't afford it right now! The cheapest A-grade item so far costs 334!"
[Level 4: D-20% C-50% B-25% A-5% S-0% SS-0%]
[Level 5: D-10% C-40% B-40% A-10% S-0% SS-0%]
"See that? Reaching level 4 only increases the A-rank probability from 5% to 5%? Is there any difference? And the stones needed to reach level 5 are practically nonexistent! We're almost at floor 58, who knows if we'll even have a chance to fight bosses and get summoning stones later! The chances are slim! If not now, when? All in! Go all in on the gacha! Give it a shot, and your broom might turn into boxing gloves!"
Zhou Yanyu's voice was filled with the fervor of a gambler.
"No! Obtaining summoning stones is so difficult, we must plan for the long term!" Lin Chi firmly opposed, always feeling that it was extremely unwise to pin his hopes on "lottery".
"And didn't you used to hate this gacha system the most? Why are you more enthusiastic than anyone else now? 240 yuan is only enough for two draws, don't you know how low the probability is?"
The two argued until their faces turned red.
"Alright! Let's compromise then!" Seeing that Lin Chi was unyielding, Zhou Yanyu proposed a new solution.
"You used 100 stones to upgrade the shop to level 4, and then you used the remaining 100 stones to go to the prize pool? Is that okay now?"
"...Okay." Lin Chi finally nodded slowly, agreeing to this compromise. "But," he looked at Zhou Yanyu suspiciously, "why does it have to be me who does the drawing? You were the one shouting the loudest, why didn't you do it yourself?"
"Oh! You don't understand! You're the protagonist! The chosen one! Blessed with good fortune! And you're a 'newbie' pulling from this crappy pool for the first time! Your buffs are maxed out! Your chances of pulling and getting a miracle are a hundred times higher than mine, this 'unlucky veteran'! Trust me! It's science!"
Seeing Zhou Yanyu's confident and patted-chest-like assurances, Lin Chi was skeptical but didn't refute him further.
The two quickly reached an agreement.
Lin Chi first used the system, consuming 100 Summoning Stones to upgrade the [Summoning Market] from level 3 to level 4.
Then came that crucial draw.
Lin Chi took a deep breath, ignoring Zhou Yanyu's silent shouts of "Draw faster! Draw faster!" and focused his gaze on the single draw button.
"I'll believe your metaphysics just this once..." Lin Chi thought to himself, and his finger pressed down firmly and steadily.
100 summoning stones are deducted instantly.
The entire system interface went dark, leaving only the card-drawing area shining brightly! A dazzling ball of light spun rapidly in the center of the interface, its colors flashing wildly!
White, cyan, blue, purple, orange, rainbow, color!
The flashes of light grew faster and faster, dazzling the eyes and causing the heart to beat faster involuntarily.
Zhou Yanyu was so nervous that he shrank into a ball of light, and even his "fluctuations" stopped.
Finally, after a breathtaking few seconds, the frantically flashing light slowed down, paused for a moment, and then—
Suddenly, the image freezes on the rainbow colors!
Congratulations on obtaining the SS-rank summon – One-Punch Mantis!