Chapter 170: A White Flashbang of Despair! Mythical Eclipse Flare Acquired

He could use anything. An archangel who would tend to his and Sylvia’s needs, a primordial demon that would do the dirty work for them, or even a heavenly spirit that made their quality of life better.

He prayed to God that he got a gold or red!

As he stared in anticipation, a bright white blinding light hit Caelus’s face.

His face darkened like someone had just stepped on it.

[Congratulations! You just obtained the White rarity, Dirt-Rank potential Pillar "Traumatized Soldier!"]

[Traumatized Soldier (White, Dirt-Rank): He is pretty useless at everything else aside from being used as a meat shield and trauma dumping. He is traumatized because he got used as a meat shield by his fellow battalion and died. But they cannot be blamed, for our traumatized soldier was truly a one of a kind being that shot his own fellow comrade and then almost sabotaged his country in a war.]

"..." Caelus choked on air halfway through reading the comment.

Is this a joke? It is still January, right? April is still two months away. Caelus’s face violently twitched as he coughed heavily.

"What happened, Caelus?" Sylvia came forward and began patting his back to ease the cough, but when she saw the system screen of Caelus, she burst out laughing.

This was incredibly funny for some reason.

However, before Caelus completely crashed, he stopped himself.

He remembered the Origin Network’s warning. Indeed, it was his fault; he was really testing his luck right now.

But, he still had 9 more to go!

How could he give up on it?

A newfound motivation surged into Caelus as he swiftly began rolling the rest of the gacha rolls.

However, what welcomed him was flashing screens of white.

And surprisingly enough, all of them were the traumatized soldier.

"FCK! I LOST THEM ALL!" Caelus almost cried as he began cursing out the poor traumatized soldier.

Good thing he was still in a system state; if he had heard this, then his title might have evolved into something worse, suicidal soldier.

Caelus glared angrily at the soldier and began selling each of them.

[Ding! You have obtained 100 pillar stardust which has been converted into 1 roll.]

Seeing this, Caelus calmed down. Last one is always the charm... or so he thought.

A white flashbang flashed across Caelus’s face as Sylvia laughed to the point she was on the sofa with her two arms clutching her stomach, after laughing too hard.

[Congratulations! You just obtained the White rarity, Dirt-Rank potential Pillar "Traumatized Soldier!"]

Caelus stared at it with mixed emotions.

Happiness, sadness, denial, anger, indifference. Various emotions flooded his face as he stared at the ceiling of the mansion.

Seeing his state, Sylvia stopped laughing and warmly pulled him into her embrace.

"Don’t be so sad," Sylvia said with a smile. "Am I not here for you?"

"I will just give you more reputation points," Sylvia said as she rubbed his face.

Caelus looked at Sylvia in disbelief... as if she was the god of wealth itself.

However, just as quickly, he got depressed.

"It needs... gacha rolls." Caelus collapsed onto Sylvia’s lap with a dramatic sigh.

However, after a few minutes of comforting from Sylvia, Caelus woke up refreshed.

Now was a good time to use the Talent Skill Roller.

For getting skills, he had a good candidate in mind.

Hollow Sun Manifestation. It was his lower A-Rank skill, and currently, it only had one skill: Hollow Sun Manifestation (Epic, 2-Star).

It was very powerful. He wanted to see if there was something even more useful.

He locked it in and pulled the lever. Immediately, several fruits appeared in the artifact and began rolling down like a slot machine.

Caelus instinctively flinched like a person who gets beaten daily with a slipper when he saw this.

This did look like a slot machine, did it not?

His eyes widened. Was he being haunted by gacha?

However, his attention was soon averted when a light shone out of the slot machine as all the fruits became a banana and shot into his body.

[Ding! You have obtained the skill: Eclipse Flare (Mythical, 2-Star)]

[Eclipse Flare (Epic, 2-Star): Form an Eclipsing Hollow Sun that is on the verge of collapsing under its own weight. The terrifying suction force generated by it will incinerate any living thing.]

[Legendary Effect: If the target is out of mana, even if they are a rank above you, the Eclipse Flare will devour them and collapse into a singularity of violet corrosion and never-ending flames that spread 30 meters around you, spreading corrosion and draining HP.]

[Cost: 15 CA]

"Oh wow." Caelus was amazed.

This skill, it sounded extremely formidable.

He wanted to try it out, but he held it in. What if it devoured the house?

Sighing, he examined his list of talents. In the end, the most eye-catching one here was Tremor Authority. Elemental King was always out of the question because he could already create skills on his own through the talent itself, without even needing this item. But only for the elements, of course.

Speaking of which, he remembered the Frost Monarch talent. The previous skills were still there, but he wanted to copy Sylvia’s Frost Monarch skills. She had Frost Impact and Sub-Zero. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

He immediately used his Elemental King talent to get them.

[Frost Impact (Epic, 3-Star): Freeze the moisture in the air to create a dense ball of frost. Consumes mana to deal massive piercing damage.]

[Cost: 15 CA]

[Sub-Zero (Epic, 3-Star): Freeze even the hottest volcano by utilizing this absolute zero skill.]

[Cost: Varies depending on the ambient temperature. If it is naturally snowing around you, the cost is 0 CA.]

[Default: 15 CA.]

These two were good. It took a bit of effort, but he did form skills using Elemental King.

Afterward, he used the last available slot on the Tremor Authority. He wasn’t worried. He will unlock two new slots immediately after this tomorrow either way.

[Ding! You have obtained the skill: Quake (Epic, 3-Star)]

[Quake (Epic, 3-Star): Unleash a circle of expanding vibrations. By weaponizing and distorting kinetic energy, this shockwave shatters the surrounding environment and deals catastrophic damage.]

[Cost: 15 CA]

However, just as quickly, a new notification appeared within Caelus’s vision.

It was from the Origin Network.

[Alert!]