The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend-Chapter 629 - Slot Machine

Back in the livestream, everyone saw how Han Wu’s team secured the victory against the goblin army and felt baffled. The reaction made sense. After all, the Divine River Civilization had been competing masterfully, while the Divine Civilization had been stumbling repeatedly. Between the two, most viewers had expected the Divine River Civilization to win.

Meanwhile, Han Wu focused on clearing the beasts and quickly reached Level 10. He automatically unlocked a Power Slot and received three level-up options.

The Power Slot allowed him to equip another Divine Power, so that didn’t need explanation. What surprised him were the three options, each far better than expected.

[1: Unlock 5% Strength]

[2: Unlock 1 Divine Aspect]

[3: Unlock Special Equipment: Giant Belt]

The first option was straightforward and powerful. It would boost his strength significantly, but he dismissed it. He already possessed the Slaughter Knife and could unlock his strength gradually. He saw no reason to waste the chance to unlock his strength right now.

The second option was more versatile. He had eight Divine Aspects, each formidable. Any one of them could serve as the core Divine Aspect of another God.

The third option drew his attention because of the equipment’s effect. Thus, he checked the Giant Belt’s data.

[Giant Belt: Once equipped, increases HP by 200% and accumulates points from killing beasts. Upon reaching 100 points, the wearer can become a giant, with all stats increased by 400%.]

Han Wu hesitated, then chose to forego it. Both effects were good, but they overlapped too much with his existing abilities. He already had the True Demon King Transformation, which scaled with his level. At Level 10, the transformation increased his stats by 1,000%.

Then there was Black Dragonification, which allowed him to transform into a black dragon, boosting all parameters by 500% while granting him dragon breath and flight. Black Dragonification alone surpassed the Giant Belt, so there was no need to take it.

In the end, he chose to unlock one of his Divine Aspects. He had eight in total: Death, Darkness, Destruction, War, Life, Light, Creation, and Peace. He could choose any of them, but death was abundant here, so he selected the Death Aspect.

After unlocking it, his vision changed. Strange wisps of white smoke drifted in every direction. This was Death Energy. When he drew closer, he realized that he could absorb it naturally. At the same time, an interface appeared before him.

[2/1,000]

It displayed the amount of Death Energy that he could absorb. If it reached 1,000, he would obtain some special powers, though their nature remained unknown.

Back in the Divine Civilization’s plaza, Commerce and Jia Gui were guarding the crystal. The locusts had killed many beasts, earning them a large amount of gold and experience points.

Commerce had reached Level 5. It was a special threshold because it granted better options. Commerce chose the special equipment Slot Machine. It wasn’t an offensive tool and contained three cylinders. Each cylinder displayed four different patterns: Blank, Unlock Strength, Ability Slot, and Equipment Slot.

One could insert one gold to play the Slot Machine once. If all cylinders stopped at the same pattern, the user would gain the corresponding reward. Commerce calculated the probability and concluded that there were three winning combinations out of sixty-four.

As long as one’s luck wasn’t terrible, they could expect three wins for every 64 gold spent. It seemed like a guaranteed profit. Clearing a single beast nest yielded at least 50 gold.

Commerce notified everyone, and the three members clearing the nests were shocked. After all, they had found a way to grow stronger even faster. All they needed was to spend gold.

Since they also needed to guard their territory, they returned one by one to use it. The remaining members held their positions to prevent the Divine River Civilization’s team from attacking.

As the team’s core, the Origin of Mutation returned to the fountain to recover and use the Slot Machine. It had killed countless beasts and accumulated 13,000 gold. After spending 8,000 on forging equipment, it still had around 5,000 left. Even so, this far exceeded what Commerce and Jia Gui had earned.

Commerce watched as the Origin of Mutation spent its gold, playing several thousand times. The supposed 3-in-64 probability proved false. Out of 5,372 attempts, the Origin of Mutation won only four times.

The Origin of Mutation almost smashed the machine in rage. It had burned through all its gold and expectations! It left, grumbling under its breath.

Soon, it was Xu Hai and Han Wu’s turn. They assumed that the Origin of Mutation had simply been unlucky and trusted their own luck.

They were wrong. Han Wu spent 4,800 gold and won three times, giving him a win rate of roughly 1 in 1600. Xu Hai spent 5,700 gold and won four times, with a rate of about 1 in 1,425. Had Commerce not been their ally, they would have suspected him of rigging the machine.

Commerce was speechless too. The Slot Machine hadn’t behaved as his calculations predicted, and he started to doubt his own math. They could have forged more equipment with that gold. Instead, it had been largely wasted.

Commerce was about to stow it away when Jia Gui decided to test his luck. “Should I try?”

Because he was too weak, Han Wu had asked him to stay at the fountain. Hence, he was only Level 3 and possessed little gold. He had just 1,300, all earned from the shared loot provided by the locusts.

Commerce looked at his old friend and nodded. Might as well let him try. Not that it could get any worse.

Jia Gui was excited and placed gold.

Ding! 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

He won and received an Ability Slot.

Commerce froze. Jia Gui won on his first attempt. He thought it was a fluke and motioned for Jia Gui to continue.

Jia Gui failed until the seventh try, when he won again and unlocked 1% strength.

Commerce was stunned, while Jia Gui saw hope and decided to spend all of his gold.

“I’m all in!” He laughed like a maniac as he fed all of his remaining gold into the Slot Machine.