Chapter 276: What is going on? (1/2)

Fatty kept acting like a drunk pirate and laughing loudly , the other contestants were visibly annoyed. However the live crowd in the collosseum were quite entertained , they liked that guy.

Finally the contestants were sorted to their stations, and started looking through all the materials that were provided for the competition.

Jhonny looked through the ingredients and was happy to see that iron and steel were indeed given , although small amounts. The amount was not enough to make a sword , but enough to make a dagger. Jhonny was happy.

What Jhonny did not know , was that his presence alone would make this event a complete disaster. Jhonny had a disastrous luck of -95 , He also had a attribute that gave his enemies twice his badluck , ie -190 luck , and allies half his badluck ie -47.5 badluck.

The moment he entered the forging competition , the AI classified everyone except Fatty Kalash as enemy , meaning they all got -190 luck. This was no longer badluck at this point , as anything beyond -100 had a 100% probability of happening.

Forging was highly dependent on luck , even though skill played a major part , in the virtual world where swords were literally made in minutes by forgers , the damage and grade of the sword was often decided by luck attribute that came into play while forging.

Fatty had a luck value of 78 , with Jhonny around it fell to 30.5 , which was not good , not too shabby either , however he was the only contestant with a positive luck value here. Everyone else , being applied with a -190 luck value , even if they had a +80 luck stat , they could not bring the negative effects below -100.

Everyone else had a luck stat of above -100 meaning , at the very slightest mistake in their forging technique , they would 100% see a damaged product.

This was going to become one of the most dreaded events in the history of the sport , headed towards certain doom. The prestigious forgers from across the world were going to have a nightmare of a day , and they were unaware of it.

The spirits were high , when the 24 hour competition started , everyone had a plan in mind about what they wanted to make , and started to work on something or the other.

Jhonny only knew one forging manual , it was a epic dagger forging design that had a 100% success rate , it was the only thing he could forge. Hence for him this competition had already concluded , all he could make was a epic dagger , should anyone forge semi legendary item , they would win. Should anyone forge a better epic item they would win. However , since it was out of his control he did not bother much with it , and focused on doing the one thing he could do .

Putting iron in the furnace , he added just the right amount of carbon powder and started to form the alloy.

Meanwhile , Fatty was banging his hammer on a red hot piece of iron , completely carefree , he was singing songs from pirates of the carribean and annoying the hell out of the participants around him , who could not focus on their work at all because of the guy's annoying singing.

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Derek Ray : Well well , He sure is a jolly one eh? Look at him sing as he forges .