Multiverse Skill System

"What is luck?" Although he didn't know what luck was, he vaguely felt that it was very important. However, he didn't really understand its importance. Thinking of Sabo, Ace finally pressed his handprint on it.

Luffy, standing nearby, made the same choice. After the two men's handprints appeared on the scroll, it transformed into three beams of light, which shot towards Yi Shuihan, Ace, and Luffy respectively.

"what is this?"

"Don't worry, this is the normal procedure. Its only purpose is to return the cost you paid to me after the mission is completed."

"Alright, now that the deal is done, I will definitely keep my promise. Lead the way, aren't you in a hurry to rescue people?" In high spirits, Yi Shuihan did not hesitate and even seemed just as eager to rescue people as Ace and the others.

Chapter 95, Battle Game

The Kingdom of Goa is hailed as the most beautiful country in the East Sea; this country, which perfectly eliminates unnecessary things, can be called a successful example of an 'isolated society'.

The previous garbage mountain was burned because the Goa Kingdom felt it was imperfect.

Guided by Ace, Yi Shuihan arrived at the capital of the Goa Kingdom.

"Indeed, it is spotless. The surface technique is indeed well done." Even Yi Shuihan had to admit that it was not without reason that the Kingdom of Goa was hailed as the most beautiful country. He had been to many places over the years, but in terms of appearance, this place was still top-notch.

"All that glitters is not gold; rottenness lies within." For some reason, this phrase popped into Yi Shuihan's mind.

Perfection? There is no such thing as perfection in the world. The excessive pursuit of perfection is a mistake and often leads to unpredictable consequences.

"Hurry up, uncle, I know where Sabo's house is!"

Ace, who had walked a distance away, saw Yi Shuihan still looking around and urged him on.

With a slight smile, Yi Shuihan quickly followed.

"This is Sabo's house?" As expected of a noble family. Even without considering the interior, the exterior alone is extraordinary, giving off an air of wealth and grandeur.

"Hey! Kid, who are you people? Get out of here. This isn't a place for commoners like you." Mocha was a member of Otruk's guards. Although he wasn't a true nobleman, he was different from the commoners. He had a very high opinion of himself and looked down on commoners.

"Make way, we're here to see Sabo."

"Sabo? Young Master Sabo, so that's how it is. You two are the little devils who bewitched the young master. Then we can't let you in. Arrest them." Mocha, who originally only wanted to drive Ace and the others away, now had a different idea.

Ace naturally wouldn't let them have their way. Although he was still young, his strength far surpassed that of these ordinary people, and he easily knocked them to the ground.

"Easy to handle, hurry up and go in." He called out and ran inside.

Watching Luffy and Ace disappear into the distance, Yi Shuihan sighed helplessly. "Do you guys really know the way? Or are you just walking by instinct?"

"Can you do me a favor?" Yi Shuihan asked with a smile as he walked up to Mocha, but lightly stepped on the ground.

"Gurgle!" Seeing the crack under Yi Shuihan's feet, Mocha had no choice but to help, even though he was unwilling.

It was easy to find out the exact location where Sabo was being held, and Yi Shuihan headed in a different direction from Ace and Luffy.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"bang bang"

Yi Shuihan easily stunned the guards and opened the door where Sabo was being held.

Sabo stared blankly at the complete stranger in front of him, unsure of what had happened, and was about to explain.

A loud roar came from somewhere, and it sounded so familiar. Yi Shuihan grabbed Sabo and started heading in the direction of the sound.

"It's too late to explain, get in the car quickly."

"Where did this car come from?" Saab, who was being pulled along and almost floating in the air, looked completely bewildered.

Ace was filled with regret, realizing he had been arrogant. He had come to rescue people, but instead encountered Sabo's father. Before they could even explain their purpose, the father ordered them to be arrested.

Thanks to their superior strength compared to ordinary people, Ace and Luffy were not captured at the beginning, but it was only a matter of time. The enemy not only outnumbered them, but also had several individuals who were even stronger than them.

Why isn't that guy here yet? Thinking of Yi Shuihan, Ace got even angrier; they had clearly made arrangements.

"Luffy, I'll hold them off, you go first."

"No, we'll go together."

Luffy's stubborn expression angered Ace, but it also warmed his heart. If Luffy really left, he wouldn't say anything on the surface, but he would always have a knot in his heart, and he didn't know if they could still be brothers in the future.

"Wow! You guys are having so much fun!"

Yi Shuihan finally arrived, and in a very special way, he descended from the sky and went straight into the center of the battlefield, casually killing several of the nearest people as he landed.

"Ace! Luffy."

"Saab!"

When brothers meet, a strong sense of camaraderie is about to ignite.

When Sabo's father saw Sabo there, his face darkened completely, and his gaze toward Yi Shuihan was filled with hostility.

"Kill him!" With a point at Yi Shuihan, several men who looked distinctly different from ordinary guards rushed forward, brandishing their weapons and unabashedly unleashing their killing intent.

"Watch out!" Ace and Luffy exclaimed.

"Be careful of what?" Yi Shuihan looked at the two innocently, while the two stared at Yi Shuihan with wide eyes.

What did they just see? Those adults who were about to attack Yi Shuihan suddenly knelt down in front of Yi Shuihan, their heads touching the ground. They were so devout, as if they had been bewitched.

The atmosphere suddenly became strange, and everyone's eyes turned to Yi Shuihan and the three people kneeling in front of him.

"What are you doing? Kill him now, or you're all out of here!" Sabo's father roared, feeling as if he had been slapped hard across the face.

"I can't move... I feel so heavy."

With a loud bang, the three kneeling people lowered their center of gravity again without warning, making full contact with the ground and creating three large human-shaped craters, with only half of their bodies sticking out.

Even the most foolish person would know at this point that this wasn't their intention, but rather that it had turned out this way for some reason. The specific reason was unknown, but it was possible to guess that it was because of Yi Shuihan. After all, their original goal was to kill Yi Shuihan, and coincidentally, this happened right in front of him.

As people from the East Sea who didn't even know what domineering aura was, they obviously couldn't guess the answer and could only look at Yi Shuihan with fear.

"Did he do it? How did he do it?" Ace looked at Yi Shuihan with curiosity, while Luffy once again turned into a die-hard fan.

Sabo stared in surprise at the person who had rescued him. He had something to ask, but didn't know how to begin. He could only look at Ace with a questioning gaze, only to receive the same puzzled look in return.

"Why are you all stopped moving? Aren't you going to play anymore? Actually, I quite like these kinds of fighting games." Yi Shuihan's voice rang out, making everyone present want to curse. Are we even playing this game?

No one answered, and Yi Shuihan looked disappointed. "In that case, let's go! Are we going to eat here again?"

After saying this, Yi Shuihan leisurely walked outside, and strangely, no one stopped him during this process; in fact, they even made way for him.

Chapter 96, The Power of Luck

Ace and Sabo exchanged a glance and nodded simultaneously, intending to leave with Yi Shuihan.

No one reacted when Ace and Luffy left, but when they saw Sabo was also leaving, Sabo's father finally couldn't stand it anymore.

"Sabo, you stay here. If you leave this house, you will no longer be my son." He stared intently at Sabo, and his expression was definitely not joking.

Sabo stopped in his tracks, his eyes beginning to waver. After all, he was his father. Although their relationship wasn't good, he couldn't bring himself to sever ties.

Ace and the others stopped and looked at Sabo, waiting for his decision. They couldn't say anything in this matter; they couldn't very well tell someone to sever their father-son relationship.

Sabo's mind was filled with flashbacks of the past: the hypocrisy of the nobles, those who still had dreams despite their hardships, and finally, the moments he spent with Luffy and Ace.

"My dream is to become the Pirate King!!!" the three brothers said in unison.

Having finally made his decision, Sabo's hesitation vanished, and he lifted his foot to walk towards Ace and the others.

"You... from now on I have no son like you!" The angry roar echoed throughout the entire house and could be heard from a great distance.

"Are you alright, Sabo?"

"It's nothing, it's good this way, I can go out to sea without any regrets."

Even so, anyone could see that he was not being sincere. In the end, he was not the kind of heartless person, and his feelings were still very complicated.

With Yi Shuihan leading the way, the journey was smooth and they quickly left the city.

When we returned, the raging fire was still there, and it was even burning more fiercely!

"They are so pitiful. Is there anything we can do to help them?" Luffy is kind-hearted. Seeing these people with blank, desperate, and numb eyes because of the burning garbage mountain, he wanted to do something.

But he had the idea; he only had the idea, and he couldn't figure out how to do it.

This hasn't changed at all; Luffy is very good at getting someone to fight, but as for figuring out how to do it, well, that's just laughable.

Sabo looked at these people with a flash of anger in his eyes. He strongly disapproved of the actions of the nobles in the city. At the same time, he was glad that he had decided to leave the noble group and come to the outside world. If he hadn't, he would probably be one of the people they hated now.

"They actually rescued them, but it must be because of him!" Nagri, the old man who had told Ace and Sabo the news, was startled when he saw Sabo and his group. Then he looked at Yi Shuihan thoughtfully. He couldn't see through Yi Shuihan, and someone who couldn't even see through him was definitely not an ordinary person.

Ace also saw Nagri and waved to him in a friendly manner.

"Thank you for your previous message, Grandpa."

"It's nothing, just a small favor."

After Luffy explained the situation, Sabo also expressed his gratitude to Naguri.

Nagri started chatting with Ace and the others. Yi Shuihan was also present, but his eyes were somewhat unfocused, clearly thinking about other things.

So what exactly made Yi Shuihan so distracted?

"Thirty percent of Ace and Luffy's luck, what a great thing! I'm really grateful for that skill I drew last time, otherwise, luck would be something I can't even dream of right now."

My thoughts drifted back to a night a few months ago, when Yi Shuihan, who had accumulated 21 draws, suddenly went for a big draw. After accumulating 20 draws, the chance of winning was 100% for Bronze players, 20% for Silver players, and 1% for Gold players.

In a moment of impulsiveness, Yi Shuihan chose the gold lottery. You read that right, the gold lottery, not the silver lottery.

The result was tragic, of course. He was completely drained, and two years of hard work vanished into nothingness. You can imagine how devastated he was at that moment.

The turning point came when Yi Shuihan, who was already delirious, saw that there was only one lottery draw left and, in despair, chose to draw the gold lottery again.

Although he regretted it the moment he made the choice, after all, even a small mosquito is still meat!

Yi Shuihan, who had already accepted reality and planned to accumulate more lottery chances later, discovered that God had played a cruel joke on him.

With a probability of almost zero, he actually won.

It wasn't won in 20 combined draws, but in 1 draw; that's how amazing things are.

The golden skill they drew was the Luck Trading skill they used when trading with Luffy and his crew. Its only function is to trade luck.

Even with just this one stroke of luck, it's still rated as a Gold-tier skill in the system's evaluation, belonging to the Mythical category.

Luck sounds like a high-level concept. Whether a person can succeed depends on talent, perseverance, and good fortune. All three are indispensable, but luck is especially important because while talent is important, it is not unchangeable, and perseverance can also be changed after experiencing certain things.

Luck is the only thing that is ethereal and elusive, and there is no way to change it. Therefore, luck might be considered the most important thing.

With good fortune, no matter how strong you are, you can walk around with impunity, picking up treasures wherever you go, receiving experience from enemies, and always having a senior to save you when you encounter someone invincible. Turning danger into safety is commonplace, and with all sorts of fortuitous encounters coming one after another, it's impossible not to become a powerful figure in the end.

All this is to emphasize one point: the importance of luck.

Now, having acquired 30% of Ace and Luffy's luck at such a low cost, Yi Shuihan felt as if he had been struck by a pie falling from the sky.

"Sigh, I'm still too soft-hearted. I could have traded 4% at most, but I left 1% for them." He thought to himself narcissistically.

After the luck he gained from the transaction was bestowed upon Yi Shuihan, he felt much more relaxed, as if he had become much closer to heaven and earth.

"This luck will only be useful during the time Luffy is the protagonist; it will gradually disappear after that period, which is a real shame."

However, I have a special way of using luck. Using luck to enhance the chances of winning the lottery can increase the success rate. Yi Shuihan just tried it and succeeded as expected.

Chapter 97, Teaching and Departure

Luffy is the protagonist, so his luck is naturally immense. Even if it's only 30%, it's still inexhaustible. If you put all of it into the lottery, you could even get a 100% chance of winning a silver lottery once. If you were to accumulate the actual number of draws, you could probably get dozens of draws.

Of course, it's impossible to use up all this luck at once; it's not cost-effective! Compared to this method, dividing it into three times, each time has a 3% chance of success or even better.

With Ace's luck added in, although it's a bit less, it's still a 50% chance of winning a silver lottery.

As for using all of Ace and Luffy's luck to boost the chances of winning the Golden Lottery, Yi Shuihan didn't plan to do that. If he didn't win anything with a 20% chance, he would be really depressed.

"So, to be on the safe side, it's better to do four silver draws. It's 4% chance, and if you get half or two of them right, you'll be making a profit."

"Uncle, do you have any way to help them?" Luffy's voice woke Yi Shuihan from his thoughts.

"What did you say?" For a moment, Luffy's meaning was still unclear.

Luffy repeated his previous words, which made Yi Shuihan realize that he wanted him to find a way out for these desperate people.

Yi Shuihan didn't really have a good solution to this problem, but if he really wanted to, it would be easy. With his current status, he could settle these people down with just a word.

“I can take them to other islands to develop. As long as they are not afraid of hardship, it is not difficult for them to make a living. Or I can let them integrate into city life.”

"If we rejoin the city, those people won't let us in."

"Going to other islands would be a good idea, but are you sure you can do it? There are a lot of people here."

“Indeed, it’s a real problem. The simplest solution is to get the kingdom to accept them.”

Yi Shuihan's words silenced everyone, as if they were considering the possibilities.