Chapter 824: Special Item: The Disbursing Balancing Scale

The feeling of winning the lottery in the next second gave Su Yang a mad adrenaline rush.

However, after the excitement, Su Yang could not help but feel fearful.

After all, because of his reflexes, he almost tapped on the [+] symbol on the balancing scale, which means that he would have ended up adding a second point for the balancing scale again...

However, there was a chance of failure when it received its second point.

So, if it failed, the balancing scale might have been destroyed!

Fortunately, at that critical moment, the panel for the balancing scale popped up. Otherwise, something bad might have happened!

Su Yang took a quick glance at the attribute panel before him.

[Special Item: The Disbursing Balancing Scale]

Ability: You can place special items or abilities with special abilities on the balancing scale.

Place the ability that you wish to modify its contents on the left side of the balancing scale, and the price you wish to pay on the right side. The balancing scale will measure according to the weight of both sides. As long as the right side is heavier than the left side, you will be able to change the contents.

Restriction 1: Abilities can only be adjusted, they cannot be created out of thin air.

Restriction 2: Items without special abilities will not have any price. Only those with special abilities would.

Restriction 3: The price can be the deletion of the ability itself or other abilities.

Restriction 4: The price of modification is not “absolute”, but weighed according to the degree of improvement of the ability.

Note: There is no such thing as absolute fairness in this world. But, if you want to gain something, you must first pay a price...

Su Yang’s eyes lit up when he read the introduction.

He finally understood why the success rate of this balancing scale was so low! ‘This is practically a divine tool, the divinest of the divine in fact!

‘Special abilities are all created automatically after points are added. Some of them are very interesting. But, due to certain limitations, they become very little in value.

‘Now, all of them can be adjusted to allow these abilities to be “reborn”. So, if this isn’t a divine tool, what is?’

At the thought of this, Su Yang could not control his emotions anymore. He wanted to test out this ability immediately! In fact, he even had a few things from his abilities that he wanted to modify...

For example, the Silver Ability that Su Yang had never used before, the [Truth Or Explosion].

This ability was actually very powerful. Not only could it allow Su Yang to obtain the real answer to any of his questions, a bomb would even be placed on the other party’s body. The bomb could locate the other party’s location, and it could be detonated at any fixed time.

Hence, it was a very convenient ability providing both support and control.

However, Su Yang did not use this ability very often. In fact, he had only used it once before. The reason was that the requirement for using this ability was very strict. It required Su Yang to invite the other party to play Truth or Dare to trigger this ability.

However, when chatting with someone, inviting them to play Truth or Dare out of the blue would be very strange. Hence, no normal person would accept such an invitation, much less their enemies.

When Su Yang thought about how he was in a heated battle with his enemy, yet he suddenly invited the other party to play a game of Truth or Dare, he felt that he was crazy...

Other than the Silver Ability, [Truth Or Explosion], Su Yang had many other special items that he wanted to adjust.

For example, the [Fruit- Loving Pen] that he often used in the past.

The purpose of this pen was to allow Su Yang to find people within 20 kilometers of him who knew his name.

In the early stages of Su Yang’s development, he had resolved many difficulties using this ability. However, now that Su Yang was developing globally, this ability was no longer practical.

After all, its 20-kilometer radius was too small, just enough to cover the entire Socot Island even. In fact, it might not even cover the virtual space.

So, it was too useless.

Therefore, with this balancing scale, many special abilities and special items that had already been eliminated or were unable to be used due to the harsh conditions could now serve another purpose.

The only problem was the cost of using this balancing scale.

Su Yang studied the price of this balancing scale carefully and realized that his understanding of the price involved was still a little vague. ‘What’s this about the absolute price? Is it the corresponding price? Also, it even has to be a special item?

‘What’s the meaning of all this?’

Therefore, after researching for a long time without a solution, Su Yang decided to test it out personally.

The first special item to be tested was Su Yang’s [Lucky Disfiguring Brick], which he often used and would always be useful at critical moments.

The [Lucky Disfiguring Brick] had always been one of Su Yang’s trump cards. Many times, Su Yang had relied on it to turn the tides when he was fighting with his enemies.

In the past, Su Yang would use this brick once a month to increase his own development rate. However, as Su Yang progressed faster and faster, and the brick became less and less useful for that purpose, Su Yang had already treated it as his trump card.

After all, Su Yang was not sure if he would run into a situation where he had to rely on his “luck”.

So, he could only keep it around, just in case.

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Now that he had the balancing scale, which had the ability of modification, Su Yang felt that he could modify the ability of special items!

At that thought, Su Yang told Little Deeny that he had succeeded in adding the point. Then, he returned to the study room on the second floor and took out the [Lucky Disfiguring Brick] that had turned into the most ordinary brick.

After taking it out, Su Yang placed the balancing scale on the table and wanted to place the brick on its left side.

The balancing scale was very small. It was silvery-white in color and felt like it was made of aluminum. When placed together with the brick, not only was the color inconspicuous, but it was also smaller than the balancing scale. The brick was almost five times the size of the balancing scale.

Hence, Su Yang held the brick and gestured for a long time. He was at a loss. Luckily, there were no outsiders around. If there were, most of them would suspect that Su Yang was about to hit the balancing scale with the brick.

After gesticulating for a long time, Su Yang recalled the introduction panel on the balancing scale. He remembered that there was a sentence on it: Put it on the balancing scale.

‘On?

‘Language is just such a profound thing... I can’t even understand it properly.

‘Does it... Just want me to place the brick on top?

‘Or hold it above?

‘Or do I put the brick on top of something?’

As he was thinking, Su Yang tried to place the brick on the balancing scale. With a flash of light, the brick in Su Yang’s hand disappeared.

Su Yang was shocked. However, the next moment, his vision turned dark.

It was as if he had been inside a circus space before. Suddenly, he was in a world of darkness. In this world of darkness, there was only a large balancing scale standing there. The balancing scale was indomitable and looked like it had existed since time immemorial.

The brick in Su Yang’s hand had already reached a small platform above the balancing scale. Su Yang, on the other hand, was below the balancing scale and could only look up at the balancing scale.

As the space around him changed, Su Yang started to have a few rules as to how to control the balancing scale in his mind. He just had to shout out the conditions that he wanted to change and the balancing scale would tilt.

The greater the impact of Su Yang’s modification, the more the balancing scale would tilt towards the left, and the higher the price Su Yang would have to pay. The greater the price, the more the balancing scale would tilt towards the right.

As long as the right side outweighed the left, Su Yang would be able to modify his special ability.

At the thought of this, Su Yang looked at the balancing scale in front of him. He raised his head and shouted, “I hope this lucky period can come once a day!”

As Su Yang named the ‘conditions’ of his modification, a rumbling sound echoed throughout. Along with the sound, the huge balancing scale slowly tilted to the left...

Then, it tilted to almost 80 degrees.

Su Yang was speechless.

‘That modification actually requires such a huge price?’

Fortunately, Su Yang was only trying to figure out the “degree” of this price, so he did not mind.

Immediately, he removed the chopsticks that he had been wearing, which were called Ke Bei, from his neck. This pair of chopsticks had an automatic warning effect on dangerous objects, so Su Yang had always kept it by his side.

Hence, at that moment, Su Yang wanted to test out the value of the item.

With that thought in mind, Su Yang threw his necklace to the right. Even though he did not throw it high, the necklace flew to the other end of the balancing scale as if it had a flying spell casted on it. Then, the balancing scale slowly tilted to the right for... 3 degrees.

Su Yang was speechless.

‘Such a useful item for only 3 degrees?’

Su Yang was a little disappointed.

He took out another cookie from his pocket. This biscuit was the [Memory Master’s Special Wasabi Cookie] that Su Yang had added previously. It could improve one’s memory.

Su Yang had a total of 12 cookies, so he wanted to try them out.

He tossed the cookie onto the tray on the right, and the balancing scale accepted it. Then it quivered, and nothing happened, it did not even move a single degree.

Su Yang was stunned.

‘This is a special item! Yet, it’s not even worth a single degree?

‘So... this balancing scale doesn’t have a setting where there would be a “minimal damage” done with every item, does it?’

Su Yang was a little disappointed.

He tried to throw the 10 cookies onto the right side of the balancing scale one by one. Only when he reached the ninth cookie did the balancing scale move slightly.

From this point of view, the balancing scale determined that only 27 cookies would be as worth as his [Danger Detecting Chopsticks].

And to modify the brick to be able to be used once a day, at least 720 cookies were needed.

Su Yang was speechless.

‘So, the modification condition I asked for is that excessive?’

As he thought about it, Su Yang tried to throw all the special items on him to test them.

In the end, he discovered that two pieces of [Unknown Sticky Note] were worth 4 degrees, [A Talent Printer That Likes To Jog] was worth 2 degrees, [Grass-Eating Iron Pot] was worth 0.5 degrees, [A Videotape To Make Up For Regrets] was worth 3 degrees, [Double-Sided Salted Fish Mask] was worth 1 degree...

At the end of the experiment, Su Yang even felt that the condition that he named was too much...

He could not help but take a step back, reducing it to once a week.

To his surprise, the balancing scale did not adjust the weight of the two sides. Instead, it returned all the items to Su Yang. After returning to zero, it dropped to 80 degrees again.

Su Yang was speechless.

‘So, based on the balancing scale’s judgement, the “level” of modification that I requested for is about the same? Instead, it’s only different in terms of its “degree”?

‘Then, could it be that the “price” represented by my special items have also changed?’

With that thought in mind, Su Yang threw the special items up for further testing. In the end, he realized that the prices of most of the items had tripled. For example, the price of the [Danger Detecting Chopsticks] had risen to 9 degrees, and the price of the [Double-Sided Salted Fish Mask] had increased to 3 degrees.

In other words, from what balancing scales determined, “once a day” was three times the price of “once a week”.

Su Yang felt that it was understandable.

After all, even if it was modified to once a day, he would not use it for half an hour everyday.

At the thought of this, Su Yang could not help but have a sudden thought. ‘If I set the lucky period to be 24 hours and that the brick would be usable once a day, wouldn’t it become effective infinitely?

At that thought, Su Yang tried it out.

In the end, he discovered...

The price of having his lucky period last for 24 hours was about five times the price of “once a day”.

However, once the two modification options were combined, Su Yang could not figure out how many special items would make a degree...

This was because no matter how many things Su Yang threw, the balancing scale would not budge. It was as if this modified ability, which would become a bug, could not take effect.

He did not know if it was because the price was too low or because there was no way to change it.

Su Yang was a little disappointed...

After testing the modification of the [Lucky Disfiguring Brick], Su Yang set his own conditions. He did not adjust the time of the brick. Instead, he set the brick so that it could store another “lucky” opportunity.

The cost of this small adjustment was not high. According to the 70 degrees for the “once a day” condition, it was only 10 degrees, which was the equivalent of 100 cookies.

Su Yang took note of this number and decided to change it after adding a point for some useless items.

Right after that, Su Yang tried to modify the ability of [Truth or Explosion].

Compared to the brick, this ability was only intended to have its usage method modified. Furthermore, the abilities involved were not strong, so it only required 60 cookies.

On the other hand, the reason why Su Yang added a point for this balancing scale was to modify the [Descent] ability of his [Eye of Origins] so that his name could be more sensitive. However, the price for that was terrifying.

He did not know if it was because this was related to the law of cause and effect, but just adding the name “Mr. Su” required 100 cookies.

Then, the cost of adding another keyword, “Jiadian”, directly increased the price to 300 cookies.

Initially, Su Yang thought that it might be because of the “word” that caused the price to be higher. For example, the price of the word “Jiadian” was higher than “Mr. Su”.

However, after changing the order, Su Yang realized that it was not the case.

The price was actually increasing according to the number of keywords on a staircase format.

Su Yang was terrified.

So, he tried to modify it again to “being notified whenever someone thought of himself during a conversation”. Then... The price of this condition soared to a terrifying 1,500 cookies.

In other words, 50 [Danger Detecting Chopsticks] and 150 [Grass-Eating Iron Pot] would be required for the modification.

Even though Su Yang had thought that the price would be huge, he did not expect it to be that huge.

Hence, Su Yang was speechless.

‘When will I be able to finish modifying this...

‘Will I have to constantly add points and give birth to new special items just to modify this Silver Ability...?’