The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4184

Normally, Ves would think about whether he was in the right state or whether his luck was sufficiently good on the day he used his lottery tickets.

He couldn't care less about that at this time. All of the lottery tickets he had earned up to this point had remained accessible for several agonizing years as the System took its sweet time to complete its upgrade.

Though Ves increasingly had the suspicion that the renewed System was more than worth the wait, that did not stop him from feeling frustrated at his inability to use up the lottery tickets that he had earned through completing a Mission and creating several masterwork mechs.

"You're not going to deny me any longer!"

Ves reached out and grabbed the stack of lottery tickets as if he was afraid the System could go offline at any moment.

"How do I use up a lottery ticket, System?!"

[Merely throw the ticket into the Wishing Fountain.]

Though Ves was tempted to toss a ticket into the water right away, he forcibly reined in his impatience and started to think about how to best make use of this opportunity.

"What's the deal with the Wishing Fountain? Can I influence the prizes that I can win in any way?"

[The Wishing Fountain is sensitive to your needs and desires. You may partially affect the prize pool that it can draw from by concentrating on a wish you would like to fulfill.]

Ves' eyes gleamed when he heard that. He was already familiar with this mechanism in past cases, but this time he could apply it to every lottery ticket.

This wishing mechanism was extremely helpful in controlling the rewards he could obtain. Before, the System could always draw all kinds of random and useful prizes that weren't particularly interesting to him. He had no need for component licenses, for example.

As Ves held a golden lottery ticket, he tried to 'wish' for a specific reward.

After fumbling around for a minute, he vaguely sensed different responses from the Wishing Fountain. It radiated faint approval when Ves held a valid thought and conveyed clear rejection when he thought about something unacceptable.

It was through cycling different thoughts that Ves developed a vague idea on what was acceptable.

Ves sensed that he could restrict the prize pool for a golden lottery ticket to different categories.

The prize categories included technological objects, spiritually reactive materials, spiritual plants, design skills and more.

He was not surprised with some of the categories, but there were plenty of other ones that sounded as if they were only recent additions to the Mech Designer System.

"Is this because of the Spiritual Ascension upgrade track?"

This was a good change in his opinion. The System was able to offer a lot more relevant rewards and benefits to Ves now that it had oriented itself towards spiritual engineering. The possibilities opened up by the Wishing Fountain was just one of many adjustments.

As Ves looked at his stash of lottery tickets once more, he felt incredibly tempted to toss them all into the pool of water all at once!

However, after learning that he could influence the prize draw by making specific wishes, his common sense took over again.

"I shouldn't recklessly use up all of my lottery tickets without knowing what I can or cannot obtain with the newly-updated System!"

What if he spent all of his golden lottery tickets on acquiring rare and valuable spiritually-reactive materials, only to learn that the revised version of the System's Shop readily sold P-stones and Unending alloy for Ascension Points?

The true value of the new Wishing Fountain was that it granted Ves a chance of obtaining objects that he could not obtain through other channels!

The Grand Dynamo was a good example of that. Ves did not forget that he had managed to draw it after he used up his first radiant lottery ticket.

Now he had four of these colorful tickets in his grasp, he did not want to squander them by trying to fish for prizes that he could easily obtain by designing a lot of mechs!

The most prudent course of action that he could take would be to leave the tickets behind and explore the new System Space in its entirety before going back.

He planned to do just that, but he still couldn't get rid of his desire to see the Wishing Fountain at work.

"I have thirteen tickets in total. What's the harm in using up one of them for a start?"

Ves put back all of the lottery tickets aside from a single golden one. He wanted to test the wishing mechanism by concentrating on a single valid category of prizes. _{freewebnøvel.coɱ}

"What I need the most are spiritually-reactive materials. I don't care what I can get. I'll be happy if I can get a chunk of P-stone, B-stone, F-stone, Unending alloy or even an exobeast bone that can be charged with spiritual energy!"

Once he set his mind on his wish, he tossed the golden lottery ticket into the fountain and waited for his prize.

As soon as the ticket touched the water, it melted into the liquid, causing it to become golden and glittering with power!

The golden fountain water began to swirl in the fountain pool. Several seconds passed by as a hidden selection mechanism finally settled on a prize.

The fountain suddenly spouted a jet of water from its pool! The prize that Ves had won floated right above this liquid jet!

[Congratulations! You have won 2.5 kilograms of pure Black Demon Steel!]

The Wishing Fountain had produced a single bar of dark and gloomy looking metal. As Ves examined it with his eyes and his spiritual senses, he noticed that it was anything but normal.

"This… reminds me of Helena or Nyxie…"

He didn't know who had originally named this material, but he found that it was aptly named.

The Black Demon Steel exuded a sense of danger and gloominess that was quite strange since it was just a hunk of metal.

It did not contain any energy as far as Ves could tell, but it was probably able to absorb certain forms of spiritual energy, specifically those that were aligned with darkness.

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