384: Good intentions lead to bad results

Chapter 383: Good Intentions Gone Bad Luck

An hour later, Trundle had continuously cleared more than a dozen BOSSes, all Beasts above level 65.

The girls gained a large amount of class experience. Xiao Nai, who had the lowest level, broke through level 30, and everyone else also leveled up by one.

Vaseline, who was helping collect the corpses outside, was already numb. This Secret Treasure Room was like a large slaughterhouse, continuously transporting out high-level Beasts.

The professional team responsible for processing the Beast corpses had also increased to five hundred people, and a strong smell of blood filled the area around the Secret Treasure Room.

As for the nearby Beasts, they were all trembling with fear. Since their birth, where had they ever seen such a grand scene?

Any single BOSS corpse could scare the wits out of the Beasts, let alone more than a dozen in a row. The deterrent effect was directly maxed out.

There was no need for Vaseline to drive them away; not a single Beast dared to approach the Secret Treasure Room. Some Beasts even directly abandoned their territory and turned to flee.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, but reality didn't seem to be so smooth, because so far, Dick hadn't even seen the shadow of an ape-type Beast.

Although he had only cleared them a dozen times, and the winning probability was only 1/56, Dick considered himself lucky. It would be unreasonable for him to miss out after more than a dozen draws.

In Dick's original plan, he intended to arrange a large harem for Trundle, starting with a double-digit number of Mother Apes, to live a fulfilling life with women on both sides.

A total of 830 refreshes would be enough to draw an entire family for Trundle.

However, after more than a dozen consecutive 'misses', Dick had already begun to feel a hint of something wrong.

Hiss—

A white light flashed, and a giant python a thousand meters long appeared out of thin air, its thick scales glowing faintly. This was the highest-level BOSS cleared so far.

A level 69 Nether Python!

Dick raised an eyebrow, not in amazement at the python's level, but at its value.

The Nether Python was almost entirely treasure: snake venom, snake eyes, snake gall, snake heart... each item could be sold for a high price and had a wide range of uses.

Especially its scales, each one was a rare material for forging armor. The scales of a level 69 Nether Python could forge at least high-grade intermediate armor.

And this giant python before him, with its massive body over a thousand meters long, had at least several thousand scales on it.

Clearly, the Nether Python was a mobile treasure mountain, a hot commodity in the eyes of adventurers!

If it were peacetime, the moment the giant python appeared, it would likely be taken down by the Snow Orchid Family with all their power to make a huge profit.

In less than ten seconds, Trundle dealt with the Nether Python, and then the girls stepped forward one by one to deliver the finishing blows.

Immediately after, the massive python body was divided into multiple sections and transported out of the Secret Treasure Room in an orderly manner. Dick, who had witnessed the entire process from the side, fell into deep thought.

Looking back at the past hour of clearing BOSSes, Dick keenly noticed a strange phenomenon.

The dozen or so BOSSes that appeared were all high-value Beasts, each one capable of making a huge profit.

Undoubtedly, this was a manifestation of Dick's extreme good luck under the blessings of Extreme Yin Co-Fate, Mysterious Blessing, and Ice Mist Lotus!

Not every Beast's body is valuable. In fact, mobile treasure mountains like the Nether Python are the minority.

Most Beast bodies are relatively worthless. For example, Dahuang, she is the most typical 'waste-type Beast'.

Killing her would yield hundreds of tons of dog meat with little nutritional value. Besides being able to fill one's stomach, it had no other use.

Beasts of Dahuang's type are usually too troublesome for adventurers to bother killing when they see them.

Continuously clearing more than a dozen BOSSes, all of which were high-value Beasts... This seemed like a good thing, but Dick felt it was terrible!

This indicated that the 'drop rate' of the Secret Treasure Room was extremely high, and high-value Beasts were more likely to appear. Dick could make a lot of money.

However, Dick's main goal here was to find a wife for Trundle, to complete a System Mission.

But the three types of ape-type Beasts that might appear all did not belong to the category of high-value Beasts!

This meant that the probability of ape-type Beasts appearing in the Secret Treasure Room would be far lower than 1/56, because they were not valuable!

Dick suddenly realized that his good luck had inadvertently caused trouble...

But this wasn't right. While the principle of luck was mysterious, everyone knew its effect. To put it simply, it made the host's journey smooth.

Compared to making money, what he currently desired most was to complete the mission. Luck should have helped him clear Mother Apes sooner.

But now he was clearing high-value BOSSes, which instead reduced the probability of clearing ape-type Beasts. Wasn't this picking up sesame seeds and losing the watermelon?

Just as Dick was puzzled, the System's cheerful voice sounded in his mind.

【Friendly reminder, all types of System Missions except Side Tasks are not affected by luck.】

Hearing this, Dick was stunned for a moment, then sighed softly, but there wasn't much surprise on his face.

Dick had long felt that anything related to missions would never go smoothly.

Even though he had now become a Child of Luck, this trip to the White Roland Underground City still had unexpected events.

After all, if everything went smoothly, Trundle wouldn't need to clear BOSSes at all. He would have gotten the Mother Ape and young apes long ago.

If luck could affect missions, then Jeffrey shouldn't have caused trouble; he wouldn't have encountered the Mother Ape and young apes at all.

Since System Missions could shield themselves from the influence of luck, he couldn't rely on shortcuts and could only rely on planning and strength to honestly complete the missions.

Was this a bad thing?

Dick thought for a moment, then quickly chuckled and shook his head, asking in his mind, "The so-called missions not being affected by luck shouldn't just be my luck, right?"

【That's right, except for Side Tasks, no luck in the world can affect the missions issued by this System~】

After getting the System's definite reply, the smile on Dick's face grew wider. In this case, the benefits outweighed the disadvantages!

Good luck could make missions smooth, but similarly, bad luck could make missions incredibly difficult, even impossible to complete.

If a World Task issued by the System conflicted with a top Child of Luck, then even with a thousand plans, Dick might still fail.

Luck was definitely the biggest uncontrollable factor in the world. It could ignore logic and probability, and it was the thing Dick hated the most and also loved the most.

For System Missions, with the blessing of a hundred lifetimes of accumulation, even without relying on luck, Dick was confident he could complete them through strategic planning.

No luck assistance, it didn't matter.

But if he was messed up by luck, then he was finished.

Therefore, it was actually a good thing that System Missions could not be affected by luck. Dick's chances of success would also be more sufficient.

However, Side Tasks would be affected by luck...

Dick thought for a few seconds and felt that it wasn't a big problem. After all, Side Tasks were very simple. They didn't require completing something complex like World Tasks or Long-Term Missions.

For example, the "gem ice crystal" completed before was a classic collection mission, which was quickly completed with the blessing of luck.

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There will be another chapter later.