100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full?-Chapter 389 - Drops

Lucien’s split body hovered in the wind beside Morveth’s shoulder.

He racked his brain for solutions.

Then his thoughts snagged on something simple.

Drops.

He looked to Kira first. She was still holding the line. His Perfect Calculation ran in the background and returned a clear verdict. She could endure long enough.

He opened his Inventory.

First, the Gargoyle drops, the ones he had taken far too long to examine.

He had been too busy to check them properly.

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GARGOYLE DROPS

—Starsteel Gargoyles—

Epic:

• Starsteel Shard

Legendary:

• Living Alloy Essence

Mythical:

• Core of Reforging – Holds the refined Law of Reforging, granting mastery over structural adaptation.

—Lionmane Gargoyles—

Epic:

• Sentinel’s Aegis – Amulet that projects a protective barrier for a short time.

• Maneplate Emblem – A sigil-etched crest that slightly enhances defensive timing and reduces stamina loss while guarding.

Legendary:

• Lionmane Timing Sigil – A rotating ward-crest that categorizes incoming force and raises defense at the optimal moment.

Mythical:

• Bastion Core – Holds the refined Law of Bastion, granting mastery over defensive interpretation.

—Serpent Gargoyles—

Epic:

• Guardian’s Heart – Grants resistance to curses and petrification once consumed.

• Corrosive Gland Crystal – A venom-charged shard that slightly weakens enemy defenses on sustained contact.

Legendary:

• Shedding Scale Relic – A preserved serpent scale that allows the user to purge one debuff by shedding a layer of aura.

Mythical:

• Corrosion Core – Holds the primal Law of Corrosion.

—Pillarborn Gargoyles—

Epic:

• Siege-Bone Strut – A reinforced stone brace that increases resistance when standing firm against frontal attacks.

Legendary:

• Loadbearing Crest – A sigil-carved plate stabilizes nearby allies, reducing knockback and structural collapse effects.

Mythical:

• Core of Loadbearing – Holds the refined Law of Loadbearing, granting mastery over balance, pressure distribution, and structural stability.

—Elementarch Gargoyles—

Epic:

• Inversion Spark – A fractured elemental mote that disrupts enemy elemental synchronization.

Legendary:

• Bleak Conductor Shard – A crystal that allows the user to convert elemental spell into its corrupted counterpart.

Mythical:

• Core of Inversion – Holds the refined Law of Inversion.

***

Lucien let out a slow breath.

’I should make a habit of checking the drops immediately after I kill,’ he thought.

The drops might prove useful in decisive battles. Lucien resolved to dedicate a parallel thought solely to scanning loots.

Some of the Mythical drops contained Laws he had already mastered.

If given to the right person, their comprehension could surge to sixty percent in an instant.

Sixty percent meant half a step toward the Celestial Realm.

Lucien’s eyes narrowed in thought.

He had always wondered whether such a transfer would affect others the way it did him.

Or...

Would they transcend and ascend in a single stride?

The theory amused him for half a heartbeat.

Lucien also found his mind snagging on a quieter curiosity.

The gargoyles’ bodies had shown no trace of storage rings, nor any storage organs like the goblins carried.

Lucien’s thoughts shifted to Kharzun. Perhaps he was the one holding the accumulated spoils of every gargoyle under his command.

Then he moved on.

Alloykin drops. Same drops as before.

(Chapter 329 for reference)

But this time, there was an addition.

A Memory Orb.

And the divine rarity loot.

Lucien’s gaze brushed the Memory Orb, then dismissed it first.

His focus locked on the new divine Authority.

***

<Covenant of Rejected Ruin>

Description:

An Astrafer disc etched with fracture-lines that refuse to deepen no matter how closely one looks.

Use:

Activate to invoke Authority.

Effect:

• Declares that the chosen target cannot be brought to structural zero by a single decisive act, denying instant annihilation regardless of magnitude.

Restrictions:

• Requires vast energy to invoke.

• The protection does not prevent damage, only catastrophic disintegration.

***

Lucien studied it.

"This is insurance," he murmured. "Not invulnerability."

It was the kind of item reckless people worshipped. The kind of item that made fools believe they could gamble with extinction and win.

It was not better than Scam the System, but very few things were. His skills are cheats after all.

He stored the thought, then moved on.

His mind sharpened as the list formed.

***

—VOID-WALKER DROPS—

Legendary

• Voidcraft Healing Ring — A rotating cosmic seal that converts absorbed momentum into gradual structural recovery.

Mythical

• Anti-Meridian Core — Holds the refined Law of Anti-Meridian; grants mastery over adjacency denial, contact severance, and spatial unlinking. (Crush to use.)

Divine

• Covenant of Pathless Sovereignty

***

Lucien’s breath slowed.

He drew the Divine drop into focus.

***

<Covenant of Pathless Sovereignty>

Description:

A void disc whose single line never closes, rotating endlessly around an absent center as if declaring that no path was ever required.

Use:

Activate to invoke Authority.

Effect:

• Declares that the chosen targets require no route to exist in any permitted location, allowing instant manifestation across distance and negating any attempt to restrict, bind, isolate, or strand them through spatial mechanics.

Restrictions:

• Requires vast energy to invoke.

• Energy cost scales with distance (Appearing within sealed domains or contested Authorities demands exponentially greater energy)

• Manifestation requires an existing reference point at the destination

"This is it," Lucien said aloud.

His split body hovered a little higher, and the wind seemed to hesitate around him as if listening.

This did not just help.

It might even be enough to return him to the West Continent fast, without needing a clean route through whatever guarded the seas.

But the restrictions spoke with the blunt honesty of an execution notice.

Vast energy.

Distance scaling.

And a reference point.

The reference point was solved.

The energy was not.

Not yet.

"Uncle," Lucien said, "I will return first. I will contact you soon. When I do, I need you to hold position. Do not keep moving." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Morveth’s head shifted slightly, a fractional nod while his arms kept Aerolith steady.

"Little one," Morveth rumbled, voice ancient even in human lungs, "do what your mind demands."

"That is enough," Lucien replied.

He did not wait for more.

He pulled his awareness back.

Then his main consciousness snapped into place.

He came back to Starforge.

Lucien moved to a quieter space.

Then he raised his hand and activated Dominion Circle.

Magic circles unfolded in layers.

Interlocking rings with nested ratios, angles that aligned to leyline drift, runes that compelled mana like gravity.

The vast formation array settled into the ground.

The air thickened.

Ambient mana began to funnel inward until the space felt heavy with invisible rain.

Saber and Condoriano arrived first, drawn by instinct.

Anvil-Horn arrived next, still carrying the weight of ruined towers behind his eyes.

He stared at Lucien’s formation then he smiled, impressed. "Tight work. It does not waste."

Kaia and Lilith arrived too, both quieter than usual.

"Everyone, meditate with me and recover as much mana as you can," Lucien said calmly. "There is another battle waiting on the other side."

He did not wait for a reply.

Lucien sat down at the center of the circle.

Then he drew out the Obsidian Necklace.

The origin core fragment pulsed within it that made the mana in the air lean toward him.

Lucien placed it against his skin and closed his eyes.

He began to meditate.

Mana rushed into him fast enough that the air itself seemed to thin. The origin core fragment converted it, refining it into divine energy that poured into his inner realm like molten light into a mold.

Lucien’s jaw tightened.

Too much and too quickly would overload him.

He then formed more split bodies for better distribution.

Around him, the others settled into the outer rings of the formation.

They felt the density.

Lucien’s breath remained slow and controlled as divine energy accumulated in stubborn layers.

He felt the brand on his spirit from the Extinction-grade, like a hot needle lodged in a place no hand could reach.

He ignored it first.

Marks could wait.

People could not.

He kept absorbing.

Not long after, Lucien opened his eyes.

He had recovered enough.

His split bodies returned to him one by one, swelling his divine energy reserves.

Lucien then observed the others. Their auras were stabilizing.

He would need their strength very soon.

...

Without hesitation, Lucien gathered the Mythical drops he had not yet absorbed.

The cores hovered before him.

He crushed them all at the same time.

Authority bursts forth.

The Laws surged into him in converging streams.

Reforging. Bastion. Loadbearing. Inversion. Anti-Meridian.

His spirit accepted them without resistance and the sapling atop his divine energy core stabilized the incoming Laws, preventing them from colliding.

Lucien’s aura deepened.

Then he reached and called to the hidden, pea-sized Luciens. Those split bodies that had formed Symbiotic Fusions with objects, constructs, and allies.

They answered.

Threads of connection tightened.

One by one, they returned, merging back into the origin.

Lucien stood motionless, quietly drawing them back into himself.

When the final fusion completed, something shifted unexpectedly.

A subtle internal click.

[Ting!]

[Job Skill: Extra Credit has evolved.]

Lucien’s eyes glowed faintly.

[New Effect Unlocked.]

[As long as Symbiotic Fusion exists, comprehension of learned Laws will passively increase over time.]

Lucien inhaled slowly.

A faint curve touched his lips.

"Good," he said under his breath. "Took you long enough."