100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 706 - Reward Pool

Lucien did not forget about the rewards.

If anything, he considered them one of the more important parts of the competition.

The training grounds would prepare people for authority suppression, battlefield pressure, mental interference, and situations where their strongest abilities could suddenly become unreliable.

But the competition would accomplish something else as well.

It would show Lootwell who was capable.

Not merely who possessed the highest Realm or the most destructive Law.

Lucien wanted to see the people who adapted quickly, protected others, made good decisions under pressure, understood unfamiliar Laws, and continued functioning when everything familiar was taken away from them.

Those people would be valuable in the future.

And if Lucien already knew who they were, there was no reason to let them die early from something he could have prevented.

The rewards therefore could not be an afterthought.

He intended to make them worth winning.

•••

Lucien continued working on the formation network while splitting several Parallel Thoughts toward another task.

The Craft Feature opened before him.

He began browsing.

The benefits prepared for ordinary attendees were already enough to make traveling to the preserved region worthwhile.

Registered attendees would receive temporary event privileges, including reduced access costs for certain training facilities, discounted Lawroot Stabilizing Draughts, free basic Law Anchor inspections, limited Law Interweaver reservoir refills, and transportation assistance through designated teleportation routes.

There would also be small commemorative rewards for those who completed the basic training requirements.

The winners were different.

Lucien wanted rewards that could change someone’s chances of surviving a future disaster.

That created an immediate restriction.

He could not prepare prizes suited only to one race.

The best rewards needed to either adapt to their owner or affect something universal enough that race mattered very little.

Lucien adjusted the Craft Feature’s filters.

Legendary Rarity and above.

Universal compatibility wherever possible.

The list shortened considerably.

Then Lucien started buying recipes.

•••

The first item that caught Lucien’s attention was a familiar item.

[Life Link Talisman]

Lucien already had the recipe.

Once bound to a non-living item, that item would be destroyed instead when its owner suffered fatal damage, sparing their life.

Simple, reliable, and extremely useful.

He added it to the list of rewards he intended to craft.

...

Next was a Legendary artifact.

[Everlasting Meridian Pearl]

Once absorbed, it adapted to the owner’s internal energy structure, reinforcing their pathways and greatly improving recovery from damage.

Lucien immediately added it to the reward pool.

Then came another Legendary artifact.

...

[Adaptive Bastion Mantle]

The mantle gradually adapted its defenses against threats it repeatedly endured, including certain forms of Law-based erosion.

It could never provide complete immunity, but its versatility made it valuable in unfamiliar battlefields.

And yes, one of the required materials was a Memory Alloy Fragment.

•••

More items were added to the list.

[Sovereign Soul Anchor]

A Mythical artifact that permanently anchored itself to the bearer’s soul.

Once integrated, even if the soul was shattered, displaced, or forcibly separated from the body, the anchor could preserve its core identity and gradually draw the scattered fragments back together.

It could not resurrect someone whose existence had been completely erased, but ordinary soul destruction would no longer mean certain death.

Lucien bought the recipe.

...

[Second Origin Vessel]

A Mythical treasure that creates a secondary internal reservoir adapted to the bearer’s race and energy system.

The new reservoir could store a separate reserve of energy without interfering with the bearer’s original foundation.

In battle, it could be used as an emergency source of power, allowing the owner to continue fighting even after their primary reserves were exhausted.

Lucien immediately added it to the list.

...

[Concordance Crown]

A Mythical command artifact.

Once bound, the wearer could establish a temporary battlefield network among willing allies, allowing them to share perception, positioning, danger warnings, and combat intent almost instantaneously.

More importantly, compatible Laws within the network could temporarily reinforce one another, allowing entire teams to coordinate techniques with a precision normally possible only after years of fighting together.

For the right commander, it could transform a disorganized group into a single battlefield organism.

This would make an excellent reward for the commander of the winning team.

•••

Then Lucien moved into Divine Rarity.

He slowed down.

These were different.

Legendary and Mythical treasures were already rare enough to change someone’s future.

Divine artifacts were on another level entirely.

Lucien only intended to prepare one.

Anything more would be too much, even for this competition.

Then one recipe caught his attention.

[Covenant of the Thousandfold Echo]

A Divine Covenant Disc.

Once activated, the next technique used by the wielder would be recorded by the disc.

Then it would reproduce that same technique several more times at nearly the same strength, without requiring the user to perform it again.

A sword strike could become several identical strikes.

A defensive technique could unfold into multiple overlapping barriers.

A healing art could be repeated across several targets.

Even complicated Law techniques could be reproduced, provided the disc had enough energy to sustain them.

The stronger and more complex the technique, the fewer echoes it could create and the more energy the disc would consume.

Lucien stared at the description.

This was the kind of reward that could completely change how someone fought.

More importantly, it was useful regardless of their race or Law.

Lucien checked the required materials.

His expression tightened slightly.

Giving something like this away would hurt.

Then he noticed something unusual.

The Craft Feature would not complete this one automatically.

It could refine the materials and prepare the initial structure, but the final stage required Lucien himself.

He would need to guide the formation of the Divine structure and stabilize the artifact personally.

Lucien’s interest immediately deepened.

That meant he would finally get the chance to study how a Covenant artifact was actually made.

With his current understanding of strings of existence and Living Creation, the process itself might teach him something far more valuable than the artifact he was giving away.

That made the loss much easier to accept.

•••

The special rewards listed by Lucien would be reserved only for the truly exceptional participants.

The real winners.

Lucien did not intend to hand every winner the same thing.

Different accomplishments deserved different rewards.

There would also be Spirit Crystals, attribute fruits, rare medicines, premium Law Interweavers, artifacts, and access to Lootwell resources among the broader prize pool.

•••

He started crafting before he finished browsing.

Several of the Legendary recipes used materials Lucien already possessed in abundance.

He selected the first batch.

The materials disappeared.

A familiar progress bar appeared.

Lucien stared at it for a moment.

His Craft Feature remained peculiar.

Ordinary craftsmen could produce some items faster.

Anvil-Horn certainly could.

Given the same recipe and enough preparation, the Solhorn could probably hammer certain Legendary artifacts into existence while complaining that Lucien’s method took too long.

The Craft Feature worked differently.

Lucien understood that much better now.

Ever since his comprehension of authority and the strings of existence had deepened, an old suspicion had become increasingly difficult to dismiss.

The Craft Feature was not merely shaping materials.

It was rearranging them at a more fundamental level.

Lucien focused.

His perception penetrated deeper.

He saw countless strings intertwined within the deeper authority of his system.

The Craft Feature carefully separated them, rearranged them, refined incompatible portions, interwove useful properties, corrected inconsistencies, then rebuilt the whole thing according to the recipe.

Lucien watched silently.

His theory had been right.

At its core, the Craft Feature was doing something remarkably similar to manipulating strings of existence.

It simply did so according to a predetermined result.

That explained the speed.

Or rather, the lack of it.

A skilled craftsman could take shortcuts.

Hammer a material into shape.

Melt components together.

Carve formations.

Join completed pieces.

The Craft Feature instead seemed obsessed with making every part fit exactly where it should.

It was slower, but consistent.

And when the progress bar reached the end, the completed product would be as close to flawless as the recipe and materials allowed.

Lucien smiled.

For prizes intended to keep the world’s most promising people alive, he could tolerate waiting.

•••

Another formation layer lit beneath Lucien’s feet.

He returned part of his attention to the construction.

Lines of authority-compatible inscriptions extended through the ground before him.

Lucien adjusted three nodes.

A misplaced connection shifted.

The formation stabilized.

Farther away, another team reported completion.

Lucien sent them the next set of coordinates without interrupting the Craft Feature.

Construction continued.

Rewards were being prepared.

Registrations were beginning to arrive.

And somewhere across the five continents, people were already training for a competition they believed was still three months away.

Lucien looked across the growing training grounds.

Everything was proceeding smoothly.

Perhaps suspiciously smoothly.

He dismissed the thought.

There was still too much work left to invite trouble by naming it.