Before, when the chat group had fewer members and fewer worlds, Devil Fruits had still counted as rare and powerful. But now?
The Twelve Talismans, the Infinity Stones, the Sub-Biological Engine—
There were too many precious things. Devil Fruits barely ranked anymore.
Sure, it was a Mythical Zoan, but still—fifty percent success rate!
With enhancement leaps this dramatic, a Devil Fruit's success rate should be at least fifty percent! Seventy wouldn't have been surprising!
And yet—it failed!
This was simply unacceptable!
Especially after watching Zhang Sanfeng succeed on his very first attempt!
Dongfang Bai had succeeded, Zhang Sanfeng had succeeded—did the enhancement function have some special bonus for martial arts manuals?
Ordinary Group Leader: "@Uchiha Dance King, did you succeed?"
Uchiha Dance King: "I have zero interest in features that depend on luck."
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "So you failed. Just say so instead of dressing it up."
Uchiha Dance King: "You don't need to run your mouth."
Richest Man: "So this enhancement with at least a fifty-percent success rate—every single one of you failed?"
Richest Man: "What kind of luck is that?"
Richest Man: "Are you sure the chat group isn't rigged against you?"
One in two! How had every single one of them failed?
Richest Man: "@Child of Nature, what about you?"
Richest Man: "With your luck, there's no way you failed, right?"
If even Brandon had failed, they'd seriously have to question whether that fifty-percent figure was real.
Was this false advertising?
Child of Nature: "I succeeded."
Richest Man: "I knew it!"
Richest Man: "So it really is just your luck being terrible!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "@Child of Nature, what did you enhance?"
Roxie was curious.
The enhancement leaps were enormous—martial arts manuals turning into immortal cultivation techniques. She had no idea what Brandon had used it on, or what the result was.
Child of Nature: "The Book of Ages."
Brandon didn't hide it.
The chat group fell silent.
The chat group had access to the memory archive of Holy Lord's world. The Book of Ages was no stranger to them.
Put simply: it was Holy Lord's world's equivalent of the Time Stone plus the Reality Stone. Its value went without saying.
An item that precious, successfully enhanced—they couldn't begin to imagine what new abilities it possessed.
But one thing was certain: they were jealous.
Ordinary Group Leader: "THERE IS NO JUSTICE!!!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "My perfectly ordinary Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit fails to enhance, and you succeed with the freaking Book of Ages?!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Are you sure this isn't a hack? Sure the chat group didn't create a bug just for you?"
Roxie now seriously suspected the real owner of the chat group wasn't her—it was Brandon.
How else could you explain this luck?
This was the Book of Ages!!!
The most precious artifact in Holy Lord's world, its value far exceeding the Twelve Talismans!
If not for Xiao Yu, Holy Lord would have already won!
Something that valuable could be successfully enhanced, but her Devil Fruit couldn't?
Such a perfectly ordinary Devil Fruit.
How could it not work?!
Come Be My Son: "Such an ordinary Devil Fruit, truly must have been beneath you."
Though Devil Fruits did seem a bit ordinary compared to the chat group's top-tier items, abilities, and materials, watching Roxie dismiss it as "perfectly ordinary" over and over still stirred complicated feelings in Whitebeard.
You didn't always talk about them this way, Leader.
Back then, you rated Devil Fruits quite highly.
Richest Man: "Hahahaha!"
Richest Man: "I held it together through all the complaining, but the moment Whitebeard chimed in I lost it."
Richest Man: "Hahaha."
Golden Flash: "Face your luck head-on, Leader."
Golden Flash: "You've always joked about being cursed with bad luck yourself."
The Worst Spirit: "Luck can't save the unlucky, whaling can't change your fate—that's the lesson you taught us, Leader."
The Worst Spirit: "Blessed ones and cursed ones don't live in the same world."
Ordinary Group Leader: "But... but..."
Ordinary Group Leader: "BurstIntoCrying.jpg"
She joked about being unlucky, sure, but that didn't mean she actually wanted to be unlucky!
She'd transmigrated to another world AND obtained a super-dimensional chat group AND become its leader—the transmigration-plus-golden-finger combo that countless people could only dream of. She had it all.
With that kind of baseline luck, she was cursed?!
Had transmigrating and becoming the chat group leader already consumed every last drop of her fortune?
Unforgivable!
Ordinary Group Leader: "No, I refuse to accept this!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "We're both transmigrators, and Brandon's cheat is even bigger than mine. There's no reason his luck should be this much better!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Think about it—Brandon's lottery draws have always been solid, and both Transmigrator Missions selected him. Is that really just good luck?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "No!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "It could also mean the chat group and Brandon have some kind of... illicit relationship!"
Child of Nature: "???"
Child of Nature: "Would you like to re-read what you just typed?"
Brandon's eye twitched. Even if she couldn't accept reality, did she have to come up with a reason like THAT?
He'd had his own suspicions, sure—but what he questioned was the nature of the connection between his world's consciousness and the chat group, not some "relationship" between him and the chat group itself.
"Illicit," no less...
Ordinary Group Leader: "The enhancement and lottery functions could theoretically be rigged, but the fishing function might not be!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "The fishing function connects to the genuine myriad worlds—you could hook literally anything."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Just to give me some peace of mind, Brandon—try one fishing attempt, please!"
Child of Nature: "."
Richest Man: "I won't comment on whether the Leader's theory is true, but based on Brandon's luck, I personally think the result will blow her mind."
Richest Man: "Like hooking some treasure on par with the Infinity Stones or something."
Richest Man: "And besides, if there really is a connection, the fishing function is still a chat group ability—it could adjust results too, right?"
Richest Man: "But I am genuinely curious what Brandon would fish up."
Tony Stark didn't quite follow Roxie's logic, but he was genuinely curious about what Brandon would hook from the myriad worlds.
Brandon, Minato, Holy Lord, and Dongfang Bai were universally acknowledged in the chat group as having the best luck.
Now Zhang Sanfeng had to be added to that list.
But without question, the luckiest of them all was Brandon.
(End of Chapter)