Chapter 337: Crowdfunded Lottery – Come and You Shall Receive
Crowdfunded lottery: if you have points, join in.
Kaguya Houraisan: [Come quickly, everyone! Let's pool our points and do a ten-pull draw.]
Fujiwara Chika: [I'll contribute 1,000 points!!]
Bronya: [I'll also contribute 1,000.]
Sagiri: [Count me in too.]
Akeno: [A lottery? I'll participate too.]
Ais: [I have 1,000 points as well.]
Herta: [Here's my 1,000.]
Megumi Kato: [Me too.]
Just with that one announcement, quite a few group members expressed interest.
Up until now, there hadn't been much enthusiasm for these lotteries. After all, doing solo draws never resulted in anything worthwhile.
Only Himeko and Akeno had won anything decent—Himeko got a Stigma, and Akeno received a superpower. Takumi had drawn before too, but his reward wasn't impressive.
That's why solo pulls didn't excite anyone.
But pooling points together? That piqued everyone's interest.
In no time, enough points were collected.
Kaguya Houraisan: [Including myself, that's eight people.] [8,000 points. Takumi, you cover the remaining 2,000, okay? @takumi]
Hearing this, Takumi rolled his eyes.
"Fine."
"Just give me the points."
If it was only 2,000 points, Takumi was willing to chip in.
At the same time, he addressed the group:
Takumi: [When we draw the prizes, we'll distribute them based on who can best use them.]
He didn't want people fighting over the rewards afterward.
Fujiwara Chika: [No problem!]
Akeno: [Agreed.]
...
Everyone quickly chimed in with approval. No objections—this arrangement seemed fair.
Takumi: [Alright then, transfer the points over.]
With that, he launched a livestream.
A livestream of the draw, of course.
Seeing this, others quickly joined in.
Meanwhile, they began transferring points to Takumi.
In no time at all, the full 10,000 points were collected.
Kaguya Houraisan: [This is what I call group gambling!] [Let's go—get me something useful!] [I'm really curious what the guaranteed jackpot is.]
Reverse Izayoi: [Too bad I don't have any points, or I'd join.]
Saten Ruiko: [!!!!] [What did I miss?!]
She had only glanced away for a moment, and already they were planning something.
Sagiri: [@Saten Ruiko, hush and watch the draw.]
You're late.
Now that Takumi had collected all the points, he began.
He initiated the draw—a ten-pull all at once.
[You received Mihawk's "Swordsmanship Experience."] [You received the "Tongtian Talisman."] [You received the "Seven Nights Assassination Technique."] [You received the "Uranus System."] [You received the "Avalon Scabbard."] [You received the "Grand Compendium of Kido."] [You received "Superpower Breakthrough Elixir."] [You received "Superpower Breakthrough Elixir."] [You received a "Random World Travel Talisman."] [You received a "Random World Travel Talisman."]
The draw ended quickly.
Looking at the results, Takumi was filled with confusion.
Takumi: [What the hell? Where's the jackpot?] [This is it?]
Is there really no guaranteed big prize?
Fujiwara Chika: [Looks pretty good to me. 10,000 points well spent!]
Asuna Yuuki: [No, for Takumi, this is a total loss!!]
Bronya: [Not a loss!!]
Kaguya Houraisan: [Not a loss!]
Everyone laughed.
This wasn't a loss at all.
In fact, it looked like a pretty good haul.
There were even a few things they really wanted.
Especially those two Random World Travel Talismans—those were quite exciting.
Takumi stared at the chat, speechless.
To him, it felt like a total loss.
After silently cursing, he began assigning the rewards.
Takumi: [The Seven Nights Assassination Technique goes to Megumi.] [The Swordsmanship Experience goes to Ais.] [The Uranus System goes to Bronya—probably Icarus's system.] [Tongtian Talisman goes to Sagiri.] [Superpower Elixir goes to Chika.] [Herta, Akeno, Kaguya—just tell me what you want.]
Takumi quickly allocated everything.
The others fell into thoughtful silence.
Herta: [I don't need anything for now. Once you finish studying the Superpower Elixir, just give me a dose.]
She took another look and decided to pass.
Akeno: [The Grand Compendium of Kido... After you upload it, send me the knowledge.]
Kaguya Houraisan: [Same here!]
Megumi Kato: [Seven Nights Assassination... Use it first, then pass it to me?]
Sagiri: [Me too.]
Ais: [Same for me.]
Some items could be used first by Takumi, then duplicated and shared.
There was nothing wrong with that.
Hearing this, Takumi nodded.
He already had the Seven Nights Assassination Technique—after all, he had copied the Root of Type-Moon's knowledge.
This kind of knowledge-based item was right up his alley.
With the Herrscher of Knowledge's abilities, sharing knowledge was easy.
All in all, it was a fruitful draw.
Takumi immediately began processing everything.
He threw Avalon into his system directly.
Even the Uranus System—he made a copy before handing it to Bronya.
Same with the other items.
He dealt with everything quickly and distributed them accordingly.
Takumi: [This was a total loss.] [The Superpower Elixir—I'll let Serpent study it.] [Now, those Random World Travel Talismans... they seem interesting.]
Takumi still felt it was a loss.
There was no jackpot.
And none of the items were really useful to him.
Only the travel talismans held some potential.
Fujiwara Chika: [Random world!] [Are you going to use it?] [You might end up somewhere really fun.]
She was curious.
A talisman that randomly transports you to another world?
Given Takumi's current strength, there was no world he couldn't handle.
So for him, it was a very valuable item.
Takumi: [No rush.] [I'll deal with what's on my plate first.]
After saying that in the chat, he exited the group.
"I'm off."
"These items are pretty interesting."
Kaguya also requested a copy of the Grand Compendium of Kido.
That was a set of techniques from the world of the Shinigami.
She planned to study it carefully.
And with that, she vanished from sight.
Only Bronya and Takumi remained at home.
Bronya was busy examining the Uranus System Takumi had just given her.