100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 689 - Law Interweaver

Lucien made the announcement later that day through Lootwell’s official public channel.

Across the five continents, communication devices lit up almost at once.

[LOOTWELL OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT]

[Lootwell has prepared a new artifact for the Thousand Races.]

[Its purpose is not merely to increase individual strength. We hope it will help people understand authorities beyond their own and create stronger bonds between companions, factions, and races.]

A video followed.

Seran stood inside one of Lootwell’s testing chambers with the dark metal bracelet around his wrist.

Seran raised one hand.

Reflection unfolded around him.

A second authority emerged from the bracelet at the same moment.

The two Laws entered the same manifestation.

The reflected images around Seran became heavier, more stable, and capable of carrying force that ordinary reflections could not preserve.

The scene lasted only a few breaths.

That was enough.

A second message appeared beneath it.

[The artifact is called the Law Interweaver.]

[It allows the wearer to temporarily interweave their own Law with an authority stored by another person.]

[The stored Law does not grant its owner’s complete comprehension, techniques, or instincts. It provides only a limited reserve of authority.]

[Once the reserve is exhausted, it must be refilled.]

The message spread through the communication network.

For several moments, the five continents appeared to fall silent.

Then the questions began.

Could any Law be stored?

Could two people exchange authorities?

Could one person carry the Laws of three companions?

Would it allow someone to wield a Law they had never integrated?

How powerful was the resulting merger?

Lucien watched the responses accumulate without answering immediately.

Another message appeared.

[Lootwell’s certified Law Interweaver will become available in limited quantities after seven days.]

That line caused an immediate surge of interest.

Reservation requests began arriving before the announcement had even ended.

Lucien ignored them.

The delay was deliberate.

If Lootwell began selling the artifact immediately, many factions would simply wait to purchase finished products.

That was not what he wanted.

Lootwell could not supply the entire world.

The Thousand Races needed to build the device themselves.

Lucien allowed the anticipation to grow for several breaths longer.

Then the final attachment appeared.

[The Law Interweaver was created to encourage cooperation and help people better understand Laws beyond their own.]

[To allow different factions, workshops, and individuals to develop versions suited to their own needs, Lootwell will release the standardized public blueprint without charge.]

[The artifact’s external form may be modified freely, provided that the core safety structures remain intact.]

The blueprint appeared beneath the announcement.

For a moment, the world seemed unable to understand what it had received.

Lootwell had not merely displayed a new artifact.

It had handed the design to everyone.

Ancient clans downloaded the blueprint.

Crafting guilds copied it into secured archives.

Independent artificers stared at the formation patterns as though someone had placed a fortune directly into their hands.

Some faction leaders immediately called emergency meetings.

Others sent people running toward their treasuries and workshops.

The five continents stirred.

•••

Lucien allowed the world to absorb the first announcement before releasing the second attachment.

[OFFICIAL PRELIMINARY LAW COMPATIBILITY REGISTRY]

The Obsidian Collegium’s name appeared beside Lootwell’s.

The registry divided tested combinations into the four categories: Stable, Conditional, High risk, and Forbidden.

A warning followed.

[The Law Interweaver does not guarantee that two authorities are compatible.]

[Failure to merge does not mean the artifact is defective.]

[Stable combinations are suitable for ordinary use. Conditional combinations require specific conditions.]

[High-risk combinations should only be attempted by those with exceptional control, while Forbidden combinations require direct supervision.]

[Choose combinations appropriate to your level and follow the requirements listed in the registry.]

Lucien watched the network react.

The compatibility registry did not reduce the excitement.

It made the excitement more focused.

People began searching for their own Laws.

Entire discussion channels appeared within minutes.

Some people were already asking strangers whether they could exchange Law reserves.

Lucien leaned back.

The reaction was even faster than he had expected.

Once people realized they could temporarily carry and merge the authorities of their companions, curiosity moved through the world faster than fear ever had.

This was only the beginning.

•••

By the end of the first day, major factions had already produced their first working copies.

They had not waited for Lootwell’s certified model.

They had the blueprint.

They possessed materials, artificers, formation masters, and enough pride to refuse being slower than their rivals.

Not every attempt succeeded.

Some devices refused to activate because the formation lines had been copied poorly.

Others shut down when the stored authorities proved unstable.

One faction proudly announced that it had improved the reservoir capacity, only to discover that it had accidentally reduced the release speed until the artifact required several breaths to activate.

The announcement disappeared shortly afterward.

No one mentioned it again.

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By the second day, working Law Interweavers had spread through every continent.

Friends exchanged authorities.

Masters filled reservoirs for their disciples.

Siblings argued over which Laws should occupy the three slots.

Old rivals discovered that their authorities combined far better than their personalities did.

Researchers began testing combinations that had never appeared in historical records.

Some results were practical.

Others were strange.

A Law of Fragrance combined with Wind created a tracking field capable of spreading across an entire valley.

A weak Law of Adhesion mixed with Momentum allowed a fighter to preserve force along a surface instead of losing it on impact.

A Law once mocked for producing harmless sparks became devastating when interwoven with Metal Conductivity.

The world became obsessed.

Not because every merger was overwhelmingly powerful.

Many were not.

The fascination came from possibility.

A Law that seemed limited alone could become invaluable beside the right companion.

•••

By the third day, merchants entered the market.

That was expected.

Not everyone could manufacture a Law Interweaver personally.

Workshops began selling completed devices.

Independent craftsmen offered customized designs.

Some factions produced durable military versions for their own members, then sold simpler models to the public.

Lootwell did not interfere.

Lucien wanted the artifact to spread.

This was no longer primarily a matter of profit.

Every functioning Interweaver placed in someone’s hands increased the world’s chance of surviving what was coming.

However, opportunity attracted greed as reliably as light attracted insects.

Several merchants began purchasing entire batches from small workshops and reselling them at absurd prices.

Others replaced ordinary materials with inferior substitutes while advertising the devices as high-grade certified models.

A few even placed Lootwell’s insignia on their products without permission.

That crossed the line.

Lootwell issued a public notice.

[Independent manufacture and sale of the Law Interweaver are permitted.]

[Reasonable profit is permitted.]

[False certification, deliberate concealment of defective materials, and coordinated price manipulation during shortages are not.]

[Devices sold under Lootwell’s name without certification will be disabled.]

Most merchants adjusted immediately.

They had already been given a public blueprint capable of earning them enormous profit.

There was no reason to challenge Lootwell over fraud.

Some did not listen.

They assumed the threat was meant only to frighten them.

The first offending merchant displayed dozens of counterfeit certified bracelets inside a major eastern city.

Customers crowded the shop.

The merchant proudly claimed that every device had passed Lootwell inspection.

Far away, Lucien sensed the imprints within the copied arrays.

He gave a single command.

The bracelets went dark.

Their reservoirs disconnected.

The convergence structures folded inward and became inert.

Nothing exploded.

No one was harmed.

The expensive devices simply stopped being anything more than decorated metal and gemstones.

The same thing happened in several other locations.

Counterfeit models failed on display tables.

Fraudulent stockpiles became useless inside sealed warehouses.

Devices modified to bypass their safety restrictions refused to activate.

The news spread quickly.

The world stirred once again.

People finally understood that releasing the blueprint did not mean Lootwell had carelessly surrendered control of the standard they had created.

Anything faithfully copied from the public design still carried Lootwell’s underlying imprint.

They could not control the wearer’s Law.

But they could deny the structure permission to continue functioning when it was being sold falsely under Lootwell’s authority.

The merchants who had obeyed the notice felt immensely fortunate.

Those who had not learned a more expensive lesson.

After that, public sellers became much more careful about labels.

Lootwell-certified meant Lootwell-certified.

Everything else was sold under its actual maker.

That was all Lucien had demanded.

•••

By the fourth day, the five continents had entered a frenzy of experimentation.

Training grounds glowed with unfamiliar combinations.

Workshops remained open through the night.

Researchers published new findings almost every hour.

The Obsidian Collegium struggled to verify the flood of submitted results.

Some combinations were added to the stable registry.

Others were moved into the conditional category after hidden weaknesses appeared.

Several were banned from public testing after destroying more than one arena.

The Law Interweaver began changing more than combat.

People who had dismissed unfamiliar Laws were forced to experience them directly.

They felt how another authority moved.

They learned where it resisted and where it excelled.

A Law that appeared weak from the outside often revealed qualities its critics had never understood.

Minor Laws became valuable supports.

Specialized authorities found partners that transformed their limitations into strengths.

The old Evershade rankings began losing their hold over public imagination.

People still argued about which Laws were stronger.

That habit would not disappear in four days.

But the arguments changed.

Strength was no longer treated as a single fixed ladder.

Compatibility mattered.

Circumstance mattered.

Control mattered.

Trust mattered.

A seemingly weak Law could preserve a stronger one at the exact moment suppression began.

It could provide the missing property that allowed a technique to survive.

It could save a life.

The change appeared in small ways.

Disciples who had once hidden embarrassing Laws began offering to fill their companions’ reservoirs.

Experts who had dismissed support authorities started requesting them.

Factions searched their forgotten records for neglected inheritances.

Some practitioners discovered, for the first time, that another person genuinely wanted to carry their Law into battle.

Lucien found that result more valuable than the excitement.

The Law Interweaver had been created as protection against stolen authority.

Instead, it was also teaching people to respect authorities different from their own.

By carrying another person’s Law, they were forced to acknowledge its value.

By depending on it, they learned not to underestimate its bearer.

•••

Lucien watched the reports from his office.

Lootwell had not yet sold a single certified batch.

Its official release remained several days away.

Yet the world had already changed.

Independent workshops were producing Interweavers.

Factions were contributing compatibility data.

Friends were exchanging Laws.

Researchers were discovering combinations neither Lootwell nor the Collegium had considered.

No single organization could have created this much progress alone.

That had been the purpose of releasing the blueprint.

Lucien looked at the latest public discussions.

Someone had attempted to rank the Laws again.

The responses had buried the ranking almost immediately.

A Motion practitioner argued that no Law was weak when placed correctly.

A healer explained how a supposedly minor Law of Cooling had prevented a Life manifestation from collapsing.

A swordsman admitted that an unremarkable Law of Friction had strengthened his attack more than a celebrated offensive authority.

Others added their own experiences.

For once, the world defended its differences without Lucien needing to intervene.

He smiled.

The Evershade Exchange had once used rankings to turn people’s ambition against them.

Now the same people were discovering that strength did not need to look the same.