Ning's last hit dealt 800 damage once again to the Ore Golem, finally killing it.
[You have defeated an Ore Golem]
[You have received 320 Exp]
[You have received Star Gold x 2]
[You have received Light Zinc x 1]
"Oh, I could get ores from these monsters too?" Ning looked at his notification with a thoughtful expression. "No, I got too few for it to be worth it."
He looked at the wall again and started mining it. After mining about 10 different ores, the wall started taking way too long to produce anything, just like last time.
So Ning moved on to another wall that shined with many lights and tried there. 11 different ores came out this time, and only 1 of them was Black Iron.
Ning frowned and tried again. Out of 10, he got 1 Black Iron.
Once again.
He mined another wall. Out of 10, he got 0 Black Iron.
Once again.
He fought an Ore Golem and got 0 Black Iron.
Once again, and again.
Ning was annoyed by now. Even the most patient of men would be annoyed, and Ning was far from being one.
He was less annoyed about his improved luck being not as useful, and more so about the fact that despite having a quest, the game wasn't prioritizing him to get more Black Iron by default.
Did the game truly expect him to mine here for 2 weeks just to finish the quest? Ning certainly wasn't thinking of doing that.
He mined the walls some more and fought the Ore Golems some more, but no matter how much he fought, he was barely getting any Black Iron Ores at all.
Getting unlucky time after time was starting to get frustrating now.
"Urgh! Screw this," Ning thought. "System, get me the highest LUK stat possible."
<Are you certain? You were the one that requested the system not to interfere in the game.>
"Yeah, I'm certain. Do it," Ning said.
<Understood.>
Suddenly, Ning saw a notification pop up in front of him.
[You have ??? ???]
[Your LUK stat has upgraded from B+ to SSS]
[??? ???? ???? ???? ?????? ?? ???!]
[Congratulations! You have reached SSS grade LUK.]
[Class Upgrade available.]
[Would you like to upgrade your class to 'Master of Fate'?]
Ning looked at the words in surprise. 'Improving my LUK stat upgrades my class?' he thought with a surprised look.
He saw the color of the words 'Master of Fate'; it was Orange.
'A Legendary class,' Ning thought to himself with surprise. There were exactly 10 Legendary classes, and Ning had somehow managed to land on one.
"Wait, I would've had to wait until my LUK was SSS before I got this?" he thought. "What bullshit! I did right cheating."
Ning looked around at one of the walls in the cave and walked up to it to hit it. He only hit it 3 times before he was done.
Black Iron ore dropped in that single turn.
"Is that what's supposed to happen? Or… did I get lucky?" Ning wondered. He hit the wall again and got Black Iron again.
"Haha! It works!" Ning cried out in happiness and started mining wherever he could find the ores. He got so into it that he even forgot there was a class upgrade waiting for him to accept or deny.
Soon Ning understood that he was in fact getting lucky. The game wasn't supposed to give him all these ores just like that. He had to work for it by mining for a long time.
However, thanks to his luck 9 out of 10 times, Ning was getting Black Iron. He was so much happier now that he understood he didn't have to work so hard for a bunch of rocks.
As he mined, Ning came across another Ore Golem.
"Well let's get this over with," he thought and pulled out a card.
Suddenly, two cards, one Purple, and one Orange flickered to life as they appeared in front of Ning. "Woah! I don't even have a 0.5% chance of summoning a Legendary card. Is this how good SSS grade LUK is?"
Ning looked at the card.
[Interchange: For the next 120 seconds, all instances of your damage will either deal physical damage or magical damage. You can change it 2 times entirely.]
"Activate!" Ning used the card.
The golden light shined and a few notifications appeared in front of him. One of which told him he could choose which damage to deal with, with 3 choices entirely.
"So, I can change it twice after I choose here, right?" Ning thought as he looked at the beast in front of him. With how high its DEF stat was and with how it had absolutely 0 magical resistance, it would be stupid of Ning not to choose to deal only magical damage here.
Once Ning choose it, he jumped onto the Golem and swung his pickaxe down on it.
[You have dealt 800 Damage.]
[You have dealt 256 Damage]
[You have dealt 5100 Damage]
Ning paused for a second. "I'm sorry… what?" He looked at the notification and tried to make it make sense. He looked at the numbers briefly and finally understood what was happening.
The 800 damage he dealt was the Absolute Damage he dealt through the pickaxe's passive. The 256 was his damage from the 'Zap' skill that was passive to the Thunder Lizard's Necklace where he had some chance of dealing 50% of his INT as magic damage.
Finally, the 5100 damage was his normal damage, unblocked by anything, that had successfully landed a Critical strike.
With his luck, every hit would be a critical strike, and with him pulling a legendary card, every critical strike would do 850% of his normal damage.
In just 3 more hits, Ning finished off the Ore Golem, shocking himself at what incredible speed he killed it.
The loot was also quite good, giving him another 5 Black Iron.
Ning continued his way through the dungeon, fighting golems, and mining ores before he finally came across the Boss room of the dungeon.
"A level 150 boss. Can I even defeat it?" he thought. "Hmm… should I upgrade my class now?"
