100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 692 - Reward and Remedy

For the next several days, Lucien continued receiving reports about the Law Interweaver.

Not the sales reports. Those were Kael’s problem now.

Lucien had asked the branch administrators and record keepers to look in the opposite direction.

He wanted to know who had been left behind.

The Law Interweaver’s public blueprint had already prevented the device from becoming something only Lootwell could provide.

But that did not mean everyone could afford one.

Some small clans barely possessed enough resources to maintain their territories.

Some factions had hundreds of promising members and enough money to equip only a few dozen.

There were independent practitioners with no organization behind them at all.

Others had spent almost everything they possessed during the Keeper War and had never truly recovered.

Those were the reports Lucien wanted.

He read them carefully.

Then he began finding reasons to give things away.

A small clan head received an unexpected notice informing him that he had become Lootwell’s hundred millionth certified customer.

The reward was a substantial discount on his entire order.

The man reportedly checked the number several times before accepting that Lootwell was serious.

Lucien did not explain that the milestone had become important only after he noticed who had reached it.

Another policy followed shortly afterward.

Families whose members had died defending the Big World during the Keeper War could receive certified Law Interweavers without charge, provided there was an eligible practitioner within the family who could actually use one.

Factions that had stood with the Big World during the war received preferential prices.

Small organizations with strong combat records but weak finances received purchase assistance.

Independent defenders who had repeatedly risked themselves during major disasters appeared on separate lists.

Lucien did not simply distribute devices at random.

The certified Interweavers were still limited.

Giving one to someone who would never train with it while another person desperately needed one would not be kindness.

It would be waste.

So Lucien prioritized people who lacked resources but possessed ability, discipline, useful Laws, combat experience, or clear potential.

He tried to make the process as fair as possible.

Not perfectly equal.

Useful things rarely could be distributed perfectly equally when there were not enough of them.

But fairly.

There was a difference.

•••

The Grace System became another route.

New Grace Quests began quietly appearing before selected people across the five continents.

They were not easy.

Lucien deliberately avoided meaningless tasks designed only to justify a reward.

The quests could take days. Sometimes longer.

The rewards made people stare at their screens.

[Quest Reward: Lootwell Certified Law Interweaver.]

The first recipient reportedly thought the Grace System had made a mistake.

It had not.

More such quests appeared. Only among people who genuinely lacked reasonable access to the devices.

Lucien was careful about that.

A wealthy heir would not receive an Interweaver merely because completing a Grace Quest sounded more interesting than buying one.

A powerful faction could equip its own people.

The limited supply went elsewhere.

And Lucien did not choose recipients solely because they were poor.

The devices were protection.

They were also investments.

Potential mattered.

Character mattered.

What someone had already done when no reward was waiting mattered.

The Grace System had enough information to distinguish many of those things now.

The quests themselves also served as a final test.

By the time someone earned the Interweaver, Lucien usually knew exactly why he wanted that person to have it.

The response was stronger than expected.

People who had thought Lootwell’s newest creation would forever remain outside their reach suddenly had a path toward one.

Trust deepened.

So did faith.

Chapels across several regions reported increased activity during the following days.

Lucien noticed the resulting growth in faith divine energy and stared at the numbers for a moment.

He had been trying to distribute equipment.

Apparently, generosity had returns too.

Lucien decided not to complain.

•••

A week after the first Law Anchor formation had entered testing, Seran’s report arrived.

Lucien opened it immediately.

The first line was enough to improve his mood.

The Law Anchor formation worked.

Seran had pushed it through the Echo Crucible repeatedly.

Stage One takeover had been detected almost immediately.

The formation recognized the deviation before most test subjects consciously noticed that their Law had hesitated.

At Stage Two, the response became more aggressive.

The foreign direction was disrupted.

The return pathways activated.

The affected authority was guided back toward the bearer’s established foundation.

When the simulated pressure continued increasing, the dormancy layer closed before the foreign command could fully travel inward.

The Law disappeared from active use.

But it remained with the practitioner.

That was the important part.

There were failures.

Most came from racial differences.

Some races circulated energy through structures that barely resembled human pathways.

Another naturally divided authority through several organs.

The original array had not been designed for any of that.

Seran had documented everything.

He included diagrams, response times, failed configurations, altered rune placements, and suggested variations for every major racial structure they had tested.

Lucien continued reading.

Then he reached the combined trial.

Law Anchor and Law Interweaver.

His smile slowly widened.

When the test subjects’ original Laws began falling under hostile control, the Anchor withdrew them.

The Law entered dormancy.

Then the Interweaver activated.

A different stored authority took its place.

The echoes attempted to suppress a Law that was no longer being manifested.

The practitioner attacked with another one instead.

The result was simple.

Annoyingly simple.

The hostile takeover lost its easiest target.

The simulated Primordial pressure remained terrifying.

It could still crush Domains through raw power.

It could still kill someone normally.

But the specific advantage of turning the practitioner’s own Law against them had been broken.

That was enough.

Lucien leaned back.

The Law Anchor did not make someone invincible against a Primordial Incarnation.

Nothing so convenient existed.

But against authority takeover specifically, a properly prepared practitioner had gone from almost helpless to extremely difficult to control.

And when combined with the Law Interweaver, losing access to their original Law no longer meant losing access to Law authority entirely.

That changed the battlefield.

•••

Lucien spent the rest of the day adjusting the formation variants.

With Seran’s notes, the work moved quickly.

He did not need to rediscover every problem himself.

That alone saved an absurd amount of time.

Lucien modified them one after another.

When Lucien finished the racial variants, he sent it for verification.

He looked at the collection of completed designs.

Having capable people around him really was convenient.

There had been a time when he would have tried to do almost everything himself.

That sounded exhausting now.

•••

The next good news arrived from Seraphine.

She entered Lucien’s office carrying a small sealed vial and the expression of someone trying unsuccessfully not to look pleased with herself.

Lucien looked at the vial.

Then at her.

"You finished it?"

Seraphine placed it on his desk.

"The formula."

That distinction mattered.

Testing was still ongoing.

But the medicine itself had finally reached a stable version.

Seraphine had named it the Lawroot Stabilizing Draught.

The name was simple because its purpose was simple.

It temporarily reinforced the pathways created through long-term Law integration.

The body’s adapted channels became clearer.

The spirit’s connection stabilized.

Authority moved more cleanly between the practitioner’s foundation and manifestation.

The medicine did not fight higher authority.

It did something more useful.

It strengthened the practitioner’s side of the connection before the struggle began.

Combined with the Law Anchor formation, withdrawal became faster and less violent.

The risk of internal damage dropped. The dormancy process became smoother.

Best of all, Seraphine had solved the problem Lucien had expected to become troublesome.

Materials.

The strongest original formula required several rare plants.

That would have made worldwide distribution difficult.

Seraphine’s system had compared their medicinal properties against thousands of alternatives.

Her Law of Restorative Remedy had then rebuilt the intended effect through combinations.

One rare spirit root became four common herbs.

None of the replacements were individually impressive.

Together, they reached the required result.

Lucien read the ingredient list.

Then he read it again.

Most of these plants could be grown in enormous quantities.

Several were already cultivated inside Lootwell.

The others were common enough that ordinary farming factions possessed them.

That changed everything.

The Law Anchor formation was already inexpensive.

Now the medicine could be mass-produced too.

Seraphine had not merely created a treatment.

She had created one the world could actually afford to use.

Lucien looked at her.

"Well done."

Seraphine smiled.

The current batches had entered controlled testing.

Different races would receive adjusted versions.

Dosage duration needed to be established.

They still needed to determine how repeated use affected the foundation.

Several more days of testing would tell them whether the formula worked exactly as intended.

But the difficult part was finished.

They had something real.

Lucien looked through the ingredient list one last time.

His thoughts moved toward the farming world.

Green could handle the plants. Aerolith could help expand the required growing regions.

With accelerated cultivation, proper environments, and Lootwell’s existing distribution network, stockpiling enough ingredients for large-scale preparation should not be difficult.

The Law Interweaver was spreading.

The Law Anchor formation worked.

The medicine existed.

The world fortification plan continued elsewhere.

The Thousand Races were unknowingly becoming harder to kill with every passing week.

Lucien leaned back in his chair.

For once, the reports surrounding him contained considerably more good news than disasters.

He smiled.

The world was becoming friendlier.

Probably.