I Killed the Hero and Took His Achievements-Chapter 51: The Global Gacha System

[Location: The Grand Plaza - Capital of Oaklan]

[Status: Economic Frenzy.]

Gold was useless. I had flooded the market so thoroughly that people were using gold coins as paving stones. It was shiny, durable, and cheaper than gravel. But an economy needs currency. If gold is dead, what replaces it? "Luck," I whispered while watching the crowd from my balcony.

In the center of the plaza stood a machine. It wasn’t a weapon nor a statue, but it was a massive, colorful, and flashing box of glass and metal, towering thirty feet high. Inside, thousands of colorful orbs swirled in a vortex.

[The Great Gacha Machine.]

"Step right up!" Gallywix shouted into a megaphone while wearing a striped carnival suit. "Test your fate! Defy your destiny! One pull costs 100 Cain Credits!"

"What’s in the box?!" a peasant yelled.

"Possibility!" Gallywix beamed. "Could be a potato! Could be a [Class Upgrade Scroll]! Could be a Key to a Mansion!"

The crowd murmured. A Class Upgrade Scroll? That was an item that could turn a [Farmer] into a [Druid], or a [Guard] into a [Knight]. It was life-changing and hope.

"I’ll try!" A blacksmith stepped forward. He tapped his credit card on the scanner. BEEP. The machine whirred, the lights flashed, and the music played a catchy, brain-rotting jingle that I composed myself. A grey orb rolled out. POP. It was a potato. "A... a potato?" The blacksmith looked at the vegetable in his hand.

"Better luck next time!" Gallywix shouted cheerfully. "The next one could be the Jackpot!"

"Again!" The blacksmith slammed his card. Another potato. "Again!" Potato. Potato. Potato. "I’m out of credits!" the blacksmith wailed.

"Then work harder!" Gallywix pointed to the recruitment booth for the mines. "Earn more credits! Pull again!"

The blacksmith then retreated in dismay. A young girl then came up to the machine, she pulled the gacha. It started slowly. But then. FLASH. GOLD LIGHT. A golden orb rolled out. [Item: Potion of Eternal Youth.]

The crowd went insane. "She won! She won! It’s real! Let me pull! Let me pull!" A riot broke out. People were shoving and fighting to get to the machine.

I smiled vilely while sipping my wine. "It’s beautiful, isn’t it?"

Sylvia stood next to me while looking disturbed. "Master... the odds. What are the odds?"

"The published odds are 1% for a Rare item," I said.

"And the real odds?"

"0.0001%."

"That’s... that’s scam!"

"It’s business," I corrected. "Besides, I’m not just taking their credits." I held up the [Orb of Divination]. It was glowing. Swirling inside it wasn’t mana, but a strange, misty substance.

"Luck," I explained. "Karma, fate, or whatever you call it. Every time they pull the lever, they expend a tiny bit of their own ’Luck’. They hope, wish, and pray. That energy goes into the machine."

"And then?"

"And then it flows into me." I placed my hand on the Orb.

[Absorbing Luck Energy...]

[Stat Update: Luck.]

[Rank: C -> B -> A...]

My Luck stat was skyrocketing. Why do I need Luck? Because in a world that was governed by a System, Luck affects everything, including critical hit rates, drop rates, evasion chances, and even conversation outcomes, with max Luck, I could trip over a rock and land on a diamond mine.

"Boss," Ahri radioed in. "We have a problem in the Eastern Continent. Someone is winning too much."

"Winning?" I frowned. "That’s impossible."

"He pulled three S-Rank items in a row. The crowd is going crazy, they think he’s the true Messiah."

I narrowed my eyes. "Show me."

A hologram appeared. A man stood before the Gacha machine in Zimara. He wore a simple traveler’s cloak. He had a plain face, average height, and average build.

[Target: John Doe.]

[Level: 10.]

[Class: Gambler.]

[Trait: The Glitch.]

He pulled the lever. GOLD LIGHT. [Item: Sword of the Storm (Legendary).]

"Another one!" the crowd cheered.

"He’s draining the prize pool!" Gallywix screamed in the background. "Boss! He’s going to bankrupt the casino!"

"He’s not lucky," I realized. "He’s manipulating the RNG."

"Is he a Hero?" Sylvia asked.

"No. He’s worse. He’s like a Speedrunner." I teleported.

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[Location: Zimara - Grand Plaza]

I appeared in a puff of smoke directly on top of the Gacha Machine. "We have a winner!" I announced while my voice was booming piercingly. The crowd looked up, then they cheered for me, for their Emperor.

I looked down at ’John Doe’. He didn’t look impressed. Instead, he looked bored while checking his watch. "You’re ruining my split," he muttered. "Your split?" I jumped down, landing in front of him. I drew my dagger. "You’re glitching my machine."

"I’m optimizing the route," John said. He didn’t draw a weapon. Instead, he pulled out a... bucket?

He put the bucket on my head. My vision went dark. "What the—" I swung my dagger, it hit nothing. I pulled the bucket off.

"You..." I stared at him.

"I’m enjoying it," he shrugged. He grabbed the loots from the prize pool. "Got it. Bye."

"Get him!" I roared.

Ahri leaped from the rooftops. She threw a fireball.

John didn’t dodge. He opened his bag then drank 50 health potion in one fell swoop. [Health Restored.] He tanked the fireball with his face, drank the potion, and kept running backward.

"He’s insane!" Ahri yelled.

I couldn’t let him leave. "Sol! Lock the zone!"

"LOCKING SPATIAL COORDINATES. DISABLE FAST TRAVEL."

A blue grid appeared around the city. John hit the invisible wall. BOOM. "Invisible wall?" John frowned. He turned to face me. "Fine. Boss fight. Let’s do this." He pulled out a wooden spoon and a potion of levitation. "I’m going to stunlock you."

I activated [System Override]. "No," I said. "You’re not."

[Target: John Doe.]

The air around John turned red.

[Gravity: 100x.]

[Friction: 100x.]

John fell flat on his face. He tried to move, but the friction was so high that he couldn’t even slide.

I walked up to him slowly. "You treat this world like a play," I said while crouching down. I grabbed the loots from his hand. "And I don’t allow cheaters in my casino." I raised my hand. [Skill: Liquidate.] "Let’s see how much a Speedrunner is worth."

"Wait! I can teach you! I know the glitches! I know a duplication glitch!"

I paused. "Duplication glitch?"

"Yes!"

I lowered my hand. "Show me."

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[Location: The Imperial Vault]

[Time: 1 Hour Later]

We stood before a chest.

John who was now restrained by a Slave Collar was sweating. He activated his skill [Duplication Glitch]. He punched the chest, nothing happened. "The timing was off!" John insisted. "Let’s try again!" He tried again and again. On the 50th try... CLINK. Two items appeared.

"It works," I whispered. My eyes glowed with absolute greed.

"See?" John grinned nervously. "Now let me go."

"Let you go?" I laughed. "You just became my most valuable asset." I put him in a dungeon cell where he did the job for me 24/7.

I walked out of the vault. The Gacha machine was still printing money outside. The Speedrunner was now my slave. And I had infinite items. "Today was a productive day," I noted. I looked at my Luck stat, it was pulsating.

[Luck: S-Rank.]

"I feel lucky," I said.

I walked to the balcony. The Global Tournament was tomorrow. The Hero Kenji was coming. The Foreign Fleet was watching. I pulled out a coin. "Heads, I win. Tails, I lose." I flipped it. It landed on its edge. "Perfect."

I looked up at the sky. "Let the games begin."