Chapter 417

Chapter 417

Siegfried couldn't enhance Horse Fly.

There was a long line of Adventurers waiting to enhance their gears in front of the enhancement machines outside the Macallan Kingdom Branch of the Bavarian Workshop. Siegfried was forced to line up behind the others and wait for his turn.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Quite a few Adventurers failed their enhancement and lost their gears.

“I’m... going to kill myself...”

“...”

“I’m done with this game. Bye.”

“This damn enhancement machine! Fuck off! All of you! I’m going to destroy this shit!”

The Adventurers who failed their enhancement showed different reactions, such as collapsing to the ground with devastated looks, logging out without saying anything, raging and trying to destroy the enhancement machines as well as a variety of other reactions.

Of course, not everyone failed.

“Oh! +13!”

“WHOAAA! Winner winner chicken dinner!”

“Ah...! S-Success!”

There were equally as many Adventurers who successfully managed to enhance their gears just as there were those who failed and had their gears destroyed.

“Thank you for your offerings!” One of the Adventurers successful in enhancing his gears sneered at those who had failed.

“Ack!”

The enraged failures attacked him and killed him on the spot despite the penalties they would get for killing someone in a city.

“Wow... That’s literally what Hell looks like. I should probably not become like them...” Siegfried muttered while shaking his head.

It was utter chaos. The region in front of the Bavarian Workshop was no different from hell itself, and Siegfried was witnessing firsthand how much joy or despair a human being could feel.

“My queue number is... 987? Crazy...” he grumbled. He decided to kill time by going over to a group playing a mini-game of BNW called Hardstone[1] and asked if he could join them.

“Huh? You’re Siegfried-nim, right? Please, take a seat.”

“Oh, are you here to enhance your gears?”

“Wow! I didn’t expect to see a famous person here! But... your level is lower than I thought...”

The Adventurers waiting for their turn, just like Siegfried, recognized him one by one and let him join the game without any hesitation, but...

“Huh? I won again?” Siegfried muttered in disbelief after experiencing something unbelievable.

“Wow...”

“Are you some sort of professional gambler...?”

“How the hell are you so lucky?”

“You won again?”

Surprisingly, Siegfried ended up winning thirteen rounds in a row.

“Wow? Does this make sense?” he muttered in disbelief. He never imagined he would win thirteen rounds in a row, and he won all of the gold that each Adventurer had placed as their bets.

‘What’s going on? Does it make sense to win thirteen rounds in a row? Why is my hand so good...?’ he wondered, but his question was soon answered.

Wooong...!

His Lucky Guy Earrings vibrated gently.

‘Oh? I see...’

His S-grade Graduate Gear, Lucky Guy Earrings, had activated its unique effect, Luck.

‘This is quite useful,’ he thought with a satisfied smile.

Just then, the NPC in charge of calling out the queue numbers shouted, “Customer 987! Please come to the enhancement machine! Your turn will be forfeit if you do not come within one minute!”

“Ah! That’s me! I am 987!” Siegfried raised his hand and hurriedly replied. Then, he turned to the Adventurers he was playing with and said, “I'll get up first. I had fun, thank you!”

He ran up to the NPC and handed his queue ticket. “Here, I am 987.”

The NPC checked the stub and replied, “987... Yes, you are. Please step right up to the enhancement machine and—“

The NPC looked up and exclaimed, “Ack! K-King Siegfried!”

The NPC jumped in fright after recognizing Siegfried and was about to scream something to the soldiers, but the NPC couldn't do so.

“H-His Majesty S—“

“Shh!”

“Eup! Eup!”

Siegfried hurriedly blocked the NPC’s mouth and hushed him up.

“Can you please be quiet? Are you trying to start a festival or something?” Siegfried whispered, and then he asked, “Hey, did your headquarters send notice to all of the branches to throw me a grand welcome if I come?”

“Eup! Eup! Euuup!”

“Be quiet, okay? If not... I might start things here, do you understand? Blink three times if you understand.”

The NPC blinked three times in response.

“Don’t make a fuss and—“

Siegfried removed his hand from the NPC’s mouth, but...

“HIS MAJESTY KING SIEGFRIED! His Majesty has visited our branch!” the NPC screamed at the top of his lungs and stabbed the Demon King of Backstabbing in the back.

What happened next could only be described as amazing.

“What? Did he just say Siegfried?”

“That gamer?”

“Why would a Named Adventurer be here?”

The Adventurers started looking around the moment Siegfried’s ID was mentioned.

Tak! Tak! Tak!

A marching band ran out from the Bavarian Workshop and started blasting their instruments to throw a grand welcome for their VVIP guest.

[Alert: The enhancement requested by Siegfried van Proa-nim has failed!]

[Alert: The item +0 Vanquisher’s Grasp has failed its enhancement!]

He failed his fifth attempt as well.

“Is this piece of junk testing me?” Siegfried grumbled before shoving Horse Fly and the gold into the enhancement machine and running it once again.

[Alert: The enhancement requested by Siegfried van Proa-nim has failed!]

[Alert: The item +0 Vanquisher’s Grasp has failed its enhancement!]

His sixth attempt was a failure.

“Eh?”

His seventh attempt was also a failure.

“Are you kidding me?”

His eighth attempt, too.

“This little...”

His ninth attempt was no different...

“Again!”

[Alert: The enhancement requested by Siegfried van Proa-nim has failed!]

[Alert: The item +0 Vanquisher’s Grasp has failed its enhancement!]

Even his tenth attempt was a failure.

“D-Does this make sense? How can I fail +1 ten times in a row?! Hey, is there something wrong with this enhancement machine?”

Siegfried was already half-insane by the time he failed his tenth attempt.

“Wow... That’s literally what Hell looks like... I should probably not become like them...”

The Siegfried, who had looked down on the Adventurers going crazy from failing their enhancement just a few hours ago, was nowhere to be seen.

Everyone was equal in front of the enhancement machine! He was no different from the other Adventurers when it came to the enhancement content of the game.

“Wow. This. Is. Really. Fucking. Absurd...” Siegfried gnashed his teeth and was about to explode from rage.

Meanwhile, the onlookers had a completely different expression compared to him.

“Haha?”

Of course, there was no need to explain what kind of expression they had.

“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

Their reactions could be summed up with the word laughter.

“Ah... My blood pressure...” Siegfried groaned while holding the back of his neck.

Then, he shoved Horse Fly and the gold required inside the enhancement machine.

This was his eleventh attempt, and the result was...

[Alert: The enhancement requested by Siegfried van Proa-nim has succeeded!]

[Alert: Siegfried van Proa-nim has successfully enhanced the +0 Vanquisher’s Grasp to +1 Vanquisher’s Grasp!]

Fortunately, his eleventh attempt was a success!

“Phew...” he let out a sigh of relief.

Why?

He would have smashed the enhancement machine into pieces if he had failed this time.

However, the onlookers were greatly disappointed by his success.

“Ah...”

“Well, at least he was successful on his eleventh attempt.”

“That’s a shame.”

“It’s no fun if he succeeds...”

Their reaction this time was understandable as well and seeing someone fail for more than ten consecutive times was a priceless sight.

“No fun?! Who the fuck was that?! Come out, asshole!” Siegfried screamed to the point his blood vessels were bulging on his neck.

Unfortunately, the culprit did not dare show up in front of him.

‘Damn it! Why is it so hard to enhance this thing?!’ Siegfried raged once more before shoving Horse Fly and the gold required into the enhancement machine.

He attempted to enhance his weapon once more.

[Alert: The enhancement requested by Siegfried van Proa-nim is successful!]

[Alert: Siegfried van Proa-nim has successfully enhanced the +0 Vanquisher’s Grasp to +2 Vanquisher’s Grasp!]

He was successful once again!

“Hoho! As expected! Time to ride this momentum,” Siegfried said with a grin before he attempted another enhancement.

He had to enhance Horse Fly to at least +10 to use his enhancement coupon and make it a +11 Vanquisher’s Grasp.

‘I’ve already made enough offerings, so reaching +10 should be a breeze now,’ he confidently thought.

Going from +2 to +3 was quite easy as well, so he did not have a single doubt he was going to fail.

He waited for the result of the enhancement, but...

[Alert: The enhancement requested by Siegfried van Proa-nim has failed!]

[Alert: The item +2 Vanquisher’s Grasp has failed its enhancement!]

[Alert: The enhancement of the item +2 Vanquisher’s Grasp has been reset!]

He had failed once again.

1. Some of you might know what game this is derived from! ?