100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 691 - Anchor Formation and Interweaver’s Debut

Seraphine took responsibility for the medicine.

Among everyone gathered in Lootwell, she was the most suitable person for the task.

Her evolved Law of Restorative Remedy could study damaged foundations, identify what should have existed, and guide medicines toward restoring that state.

Combined with her evolved system, the work became even more precise.

Seraphine could define the intended result first.

A stronger Law pathway. A more stable connection between body, spirit, Domain, and soul. Greater resistance against foreign authority entering through an active manifestation.

Once that result was established, her system could compare ancient remedies, conventional medicines, racial treatment methods, and recorded battlefield restoratives.

Her Law would then move through the possibilities and search for a workable path.

It did not create answers from nothing.

It narrowed the distance between the desired result and the materials that already existed.

That difference mattered.

A rare ancient herb might provide the strongest effect, but the system could identify three weaker plants that produced a similar result when processed together.

Several Lunarian healers joined her. Celestials with experience treating authority damage assisted as well.

•••

Lucien handled the formation.

The Law Anchor could be imprinted directly onto the body.

That removed several problems and introduced many others.

The formation needed to remain small enough to fit beneath clothing or armor.

It could not disrupt circulation.

It could not interfere with the practitioner’s ordinary techniques.

It had to distinguish hostile takeover from exhaustion, injury, hesitation, fear, and ordinary failure.

Most importantly, it needed to react before the third stage completed.

That left no room for a formation that required conscious activation.

By the time the wearer realized something was wrong, the foreign command might already be moving toward the spirit and soul.

The formation needed to detect the takeover and respond automatically.

Lucien opened his Magic Book.

Pages of old magic circles, runes, and layered structures unfolded before him.

Some were meant to detect foreign mana.

Others recognized soul signatures.

Several were designed to close unstable channels before energy backlash could reach the core.

There were emergency withdrawal formations, resonance marks, defensive seals, and old battlefield arrays that redirected attacks through prepared paths.

None of them were enough alone.

Together, they offered possibilities.

Lucien closed the chamber doors. Then he began studying.

It reminded him of his childhood.

Back then, he had spent entire days testing circles that no one else thought were worth combining.

Now the circles were more complicated.

The consequences were also greater.

But the process remained familiar.

Lucien removed one detection ring because it reacted too slowly. He replaced it with an authority resonance pattern.

That pattern detected deviation quickly, but it was too sensitive. A practitioner changing techniques could trigger it accidentally.

He added a personal imprint layer.

The formation would first record the wearer’s ordinary Law signature, activation rhythm, circulation pattern, and Domain response.

Only deviations carrying a foreign direction would be treated as takeover.

That solved one problem.

It created another.

A formation connected to the spirit and Domain could become dangerous if damaged.

Lucien added a safety separation layer.

If the structure became unstable, it would disconnect from the wearer before collapsing.

No backlash would travel inward.

He continued.

The final formation needed several functions.

A personalized resonance core would recognize the bearer.

A deviation ring would detect when the Law began responding against the bearer’s intent.

A foreign direction filter would distinguish hostile authority from ordinary loss of control.

A reflex trigger would activate without conscious command.

A severance layer would disrupt the foreign instruction moving through the manifested Law.

A return channel would guide the Law inward through the practitioner’s established pathways.

A dormancy seal would close those pathways temporarily once the authority returned.

A safety release would abandon the entire process if the formation itself became unstable.

There was one more problem.

If the Law resisted withdrawal, the formation could not pull harder without risking damage to the bearer.

Lucien added a graded response.

The first layer would warn and prepare.

The second would encourage withdrawal.

The third would force dormancy only when the foreign command crossed the final threshold.

It would not treat every hesitation as an emergency.

It would escalate with the takeover.

That was better.

•••

By the next day, Lucien had chosen the circles and runes he needed.

The Magic Book floated open before him.

Dozens of structures overlapped above the table.

Lucien adjusted them again.

After that, he examined the result.

Then he dismantled it and started again.

The next version was smaller.

The one after that responded faster.

The fifth reduced the number of required materials.

The seventh could adapt to different body structures without changing the central logic.

After several more attempts, the separate circles finally stopped behaving like parts.

They became one formation.

The finished design was no larger than a palm.

Its lines curved inward like streams returning to a lake.

At the center rested the personalized resonance core. Around it were three thin rings corresponding to the three stages of takeover.

The first ring detected hesitation.

The second identified foreign direction.

The third activated withdrawal and dormancy before the command reached the spirit and soul.

Lucien looked at the completed structure.

For the first time since opening the records, he relaxed.

The formation was not stronger than a Primordial Incarnation.

It did not need to be.

It only needed to close the road before the enemy entered too deeply.

Lucien sent the design to Seran for testing.

The first tests would determine whether the detection thresholds were accurate.

The next would measure how quickly the return channel worked.

After that, they could test different races, different Laws, different Domains, and different levels of personal control.

There would be adjustments.

There would probably be failures.

Those could wait until the first data returned.

For now, the foundation existed.

•••

The following day belonged to the Law Interweaver.

Lootwell’s certified version officially entered the market.

Kael had been busy since before sunrise.

Orders arrived through every branch of Lootwell.

Faction representatives requested bulk purchases.

Independent experts requested single units.

Merchants asked whether they could become authorized distributors before the first batch had even appeared.

Kael had expected interest.

He had not expected the entire world to behave as though Lootwell had opened a vault and announced that everyone could enter.

Fortunately, he was not alone.

Elias handled the public announcements.

The communication division processed reservations.

The Crafting Division monitored supply.

Branch administrators organized regional distribution.

Lootwell’s people moved with practiced efficiency.

Kael still looked overwhelmed.

He simply looked overwhelmed while everything continued functioning.

That was progress.

The official message appeared across the five continents.

[LOOTWELL CERTIFIED LAW INTERWEAVERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE.]

The world stirred again.

People had already been satisfied with the public versions.

Some workshops had created excellent models.

Major factions had improved durability, altered external forms, and expanded reservoirs.

But Lootwell was Lootwell.

Its products had built a reputation.

People expected quality.

They still underestimated the difference.

The certified Law Interweavers looked almost ordinary.

Every unit appeared identical in quality.

There were no inferior batches hidden among the better ones.

Every device met the same standard.

That alone caused a rush.

Then people began using them.

•••

The first difference was control.

Public versions required the wearer to manage the interweaving carefully.

Experienced practitioners could do it well.

Ordinary users often needed some practice.

Lootwell’s version assisted with the process.

It measured the movement of both Laws as they entered the convergence structure.

If one authority surged too strongly, the device reduced its release.

If the other weakened, it adjusted the flow.

The wearer still chose the intended balance.

The Interweaver simply helped maintain it.

A practitioner who wanted equal proportions could achieve them without constantly dividing their attention.

Someone using one Law as the foundation and another as support could set the relationship before activation.

The device would preserve that ratio until the stored reserve weakened too far.

The second difference was transition.

Public models often produced a brief moment of instability when two authorities first met.

It was not always dangerous.

It was merely uncomfortable.

Techniques flickered.

Domains trembled.

Manifestations sometimes required several breaths to settle.

Lootwell’s version guided both Laws through the same channel before allowing them to emerge.

The result felt smoother.

The merged authority did not arrive as two forces struggling to occupy the same space.

It emerged already arranged.

The third difference was efficiency.

Less authority was wasted during activation.

The reservoir lasted longer.

The release responded faster.

The device adapted more accurately to changes in technique.

A wearer could move from a defensive merger to an offensive one without shutting the entire structure down first.

The Interweaver recalculated the ratio and adjusted the flow.

For trained experts, the improvement was convenient.

For ordinary practitioners, it changed everything.

They did not need to devote most of their concentration to keeping the merger stable.

They could focus on fighting.

They could use the borrowed Law as part of their technique instead of treating the device like a fragile experiment strapped to their wrist.

The reactions spread quickly.

A swordswoman demonstrated three consecutive techniques while changing the ratio of Sharpness and Motion between each strike.

A healer used Life with Cooling and shifted the balance depending on whether she needed regeneration or stabilization.

A defensive practitioner activated Earth and Flexibility together, then adjusted the mixture as the attack changed.

The public versions could do similar things.

Lootwell’s version made them feel natural.

That was what people paid for.

Not an entirely different function, but a better experience at every stage.

•••

Some still tried to study the Lootwell-certified devices.

That was inevitable.

One major workshop purchased several units and carefully opened the first.

The formation disconnected immediately.

The internal structures folded into harmless silence.

The gemstone reservoirs remained intact, but the convergence core became unreadable.

They attempted to restore it.

Nothing responded.

They opened a second device more carefully.

The same thing happened.

By the third attempt, the workshop stopped sacrificing expensive products.

Rumors spread that Lootwell used a different manufacturing method from the public blueprint.

The rumors were correct.

Elk and the Crafting Division had rebuilt the design for machine-assisted production.

Lucien’s personal structures had been converted into repeatable steps, but the certified version still contained layers that the public blueprint did not.

People could confirm the results.

They could not confirm the process.

That did not reduce demand.

It made the devices more desirable.

Some factions purchased them as reference standards.

Others bought them for their strongest experts.

Families saved for one unit that could be shared among several members.

Support practitioners who had previously struggled to maintain complicated mergers found themselves using them comfortably after a few hours.

Combat teams reorganized around the new possibilities.

The Interweaver stopped feeling like a strange new artifact.

It began feeling like something people had been missing all along.