Gacha Addict in a Matriarchal World

I thought I finally pulled a 5-star, but it turned out to be the Power of Lookism.

“…It seems subtle for now, but it might come in handy in actual combat.”

Turning my hopeful thoughts around, I shifted my gaze to the remaining results piled on the bed.

There were two more 3-stars. It’s time to check those out.

“Let’s see…”

First, I popped a Magic Herb, rolling it around at the top of my mouth, and began rummaging.

Before long, I discovered something emitting a subtle glow among the clutter.

“Is this it?”

Pushing aside the surrounding items, I retrieved the source of the light.

The crystal itself is common, but the light within makes it resemble a gem. This must be the Moonlight-infused Crystal that was listed.

“A material item, huh.”

A 3-star material like the Unicorn Horn I once pulled. I don’t know what I can make with this, but considering the power of the Unicorn Dagger, I can certainly make something substantial from it.

However, there’s one thing that bothers me….

“…I have to go back to Eve?”

After doing that to her, I have to go back to Eve? For a moment, my head went blank.

To the person who came all the way here, even incurring debt, just to do something naughty with me, I have to walk back in myself.

This time, she will definitely not let it slide.

Well. I don’t mind seggs itself, but I made a promise to Ellie and Lydia.

The reason they treat me well isn’t just because they’re good people or because they’re close to me, but also because they expect such things.

I know this, and I have used it to get various things.

But now that I’ve received everything I could, I’ll have seggs with someone else? Is that how it turned out?

This pricks my conscience a bit.

“Alright. I should go to Benny.”

Benny might not have as much experience as Eve, but she’s also a high-level mage. Being more adept in practical skills than theory, she should be familiar with such special materials.

She might not be able to tell me the best way to process it or connect me with the top craftsman, but she should at least know what the item is used for.

Then I can go to Ellie or Lydia and ask them to introduce me to a suitable person.

Although Ellie has retired, she was once the most famous adventurer in Pangrave.

And isn’t Lydia a severe gear junkie? Given how much she’s bought, she’s likely to know in detail.

…If my past life was as a writer, wouldn’t I need a good keyboard? Just like how I bought so many expensive keyboards, one for each day of the week, Monday through Sunday, and still had one left over.

Why on earth did my past self buy eight keyboards….

With a deep sigh, I put the jewel back into my pocket. There’s still one more 3-star item left, so I should check that out first.

“It was definitely called ‘Fragment of Conviction’.”

An abstract name. It sounds like an item or equipment….

No matter how much I searched, I couldn’t find anything that looked like a 3-star item. Instead, I found another Wrist Crossbow and reinforced it.

During the previous reinforcement, its power significantly increased, and this time it gained a rapid-fire function.

It’s only three shots, but compared to having to reload after every shot, it’s a world of a difference.

Of course, the crossbow has become a bit larger and heavier….

But it’s not so large that it hinders movement, and thanks to my body’s growth after defeating Morgana in the Labyrinth and my ability to handle the massive aura of a 4-star, the weight shouldn’t be a problem.

I’ve been neglecting the crossbow since acquiring the stealth skill…but at this level, it might be worth using it more seriously.

“By the way, where on earth is it…”

Surely, it’s not that it didn’t come out, right? More likely, I just haven’t discovered it because it appeared in an unexpected form.

In the end, I began checking by moving the piles of herbs one by one. How long did I rummage like that?

Suddenly, I discovered a small wooden box exuding an unusual aura.

“What’s this?”

Judging by the size, it looks just right for holding a ring. Could it be a jewelry-type artifact?

The artifact I farmed from Morgana last time was truly fitting for a mage…meaning it consumed quite a bit of mana to activate.

The performance itself is useful, but for someone like me with a mana pool far inferior to Morgana’s, a few uses would leave me in mana exhaustion.

Benny said it didn’t suit her combat style and told me to just sell it.

In the end, the only magical tool I got from Morgana was this subspace robe. And I’m quite satisfied with it alone.

“Since I already have a Subspace Ring on one hand, should I wear it on the other?”

I even thought about selling the Subspace Ring secondhand since I have the robe…

But with the robe, don’t I still have to take items out of the pocket?

A Subspace Ring is designed to quickly draw or exchange weapons in urgent situations.

Its capacity is small, and it doesn’t have a lightweight function, so you can’t store very heavy weapons…but its practicality in real combat is certain. After all, the two have different purposes in the first place.

Anyway, because of such a situation, the box in front of me started to look incredibly promising.

Sending it wrapped again, how sneaky. It’s like getting a gacha box after doing a gacha.

I gulped and opened the wooden box in one swift motion.

“Hut!”

Click.

A refreshing scent suddenly wafted out at that moment. The inside of the box was filled with dry moss, and in the center lay a pure white pill.

“An elixir?”

My head tilted involuntarily at the unexpected item. An elixir worthy of being called the Fragment of Conviction….

“Ah!”

Is it a potion related to aura? People often compare magic to wisdom and aura to conviction.

If it were Benny, she would be jumping around saying magic is a miracle born of foolishness… Anyway, that’s the common perception.

“This is a bit troublesome.”

It’s a 3-star potion. I’m not exactly sure how effective it is, but it certainly isn’t ordinary.

Judging by my experience so far, it might be among the top-tier potions.

Of course, if the potion’s effect is good, it’s beneficial for me too… The problem is, didn’t I just learn the Aura skill, Dormant Explosion?

It’s a type of awakening technique that triggers the aura to momentarily draw out latent power. Although it’s not a technique used purely with aura, it’s still a 4-star.

After activating it once, I only have the minimum aura needed to maintain it until exhaustion, yet my lower abdomen already feels quite heavy.

But now I have to take another 3-star elixir here….

“Hey. Still, it shouldn’t do anything harmful to me.”

Although I often felt like the Goddess of Love was remodeling me to her taste, she never acted as if she wanted me to get screwed. Rather, she tried to help excessively.

Above all, don’t I have the Power of the Gluttonous Stomach that perfectly digests anything I eat?

“Alright. Since it was given to me to eat, I should eat it.”

I quickly popped the pill from the box into my mouth. As soon as it touched my tongue, it melted smoothly and went down effortlessly.

…It was definitely white, right? The thought of drinking white liquid triggered an instinctive aversion, but fortunately, the elixir didn’t smell like chestnut flowers or plum blossoms.

Up until a moment ago, it had a refreshing mint scent…but as soon as I put it in my mouth, I couldn’t taste or smell anything.

I blinked in confusion for a moment. The elixir that slid down my throat started to move into a different space instead of my stomach.

It must have flowed into the unique space of the Gluttonous Stomach.

After waiting for a few seconds, it seemed like it would be stored and digested whenever I had the capacity.

Energy began to flow from somewhere in my stomach. The liquid I drank vanished, and only pure energy started to fill my body.

But I could only use aura in a very basic way. I was perplexed about what to do with this massive energy.

“Uh.”

The energy of the elixir began to move on its own, gathering in my lower abdomen.

It was as if I hadn’t properly learned the mana breathing technique, unable to form a mana core, just gathering mana around my heart.

The aura I had, was not properly refined, but merely stored in my lower abdomen. Then, when needed, I would draw it throughout my body.

However, the energy of the elixir acted as a kind of focal point, pulling in the aura and refining it cleanly.

Thus, what was completed was a pure white sphere, with not a speck of dust on it, just like what I had seen before consuming it.

I could instinctively tell. This was a proper dantian.

“…Is that what it is.”

I realized from the state of the dantian, so clean it seemed easily tainted.

The Fragment of Conviction was not to increase the amount of aura, but an elixir to help form the dantian.

Aura, too, originally stemmed from the power of the God of Knights.

At first, it wasn’t like now, with a system in place for training.

Suddenly gaining power is nice, but managing it properly requires effort.

The Fragment of Conviction must have been an elixir made for this purpose.

Though it gathered aura to form a dantian, it was merely laying the foundation.

The power of aura is the power of conviction. This blank canvas that can be colored with anything… What picture I will paint… How I will complete this simple fragment with a conviction is up to me.

“…Isn’t this essentially a fundamental training method?”

Magic was originally a miracle. Thus, with the power bestowed by the gods, it was just about wishing and wishing again, reaching for the impossible.

Isn’t this what I’ve been learning from Benny lately? In fact, mana and magic were given to me by the Goddess of Love through gacha.

Aura is the same. First, receive the aura, gather it in the dantian, and then overlay it with my conviction.

It’s the complete opposite of now, where I explore the true meaning contained in the aura refining method from the beginning. Gather the aura accordingly, and transform it into the dantian by the prescribed method.

I don’t know which one is better. Both have their pros and cons. The God of Magic and the God of Knights have long since died and vanished.

However, I know this one thing.

“The time of completely freeloading is slowly coming to an end.”

Even if you draw an amazing Tier 0 character, you can’t aim for the end content if you use the skills without understanding them.

That’s probably the logic.

The next morning. Lemon and Apple burst into Fairy and Silver Coin with horrified expressions.

“Cr, crisis, Sir Jonah!”

“The Boss has run away!”

“What.”

The episode of Eve’s darkening was supposed to start with Eve suddenly vanishing one day.

…There is a word called eobbo.

Surely, it is a word used in situations like this.