Now was not the time to hoard money.
Takatsuki looked at the crystals in the system and opened the gacha interface, falling into silence as he looked at the two card pools on the left and right.
Although character cards were stronger than equipment cards, the number that could be equipped was limited, and as for equipment, the probability of it being useless was very high.
He would leave 2000 for emergencies and use the rest for gacha.
With 3500 crystals, he would get at least seven S-rank items, and if he was lucky, even more.
First, the character pool.
Takatsuki found that ever since his strength increased, after returning from the Jojo world, it became difficult to draw useful characters from A-rank characters.
Most of them were passers-by with special powers, such as some awakened Haki pirates or marines he didn't recognize.
Or some cannon fodder ninjas and the like.
Takatsuki also drew some well-known protagonists, such as the protagonists from various Assassin's Creed versions, but even with some extraordinary aspects, they were still within the realm of mortals and couldn't compare to a group of superhumans at all.
After pulling one seventy-pull and one eighty-pull, Takatsuki drew two S-rank characters.
One was Kurozumi Kanjuro from One Piece, a character with the Brush Brush Fruit.
Takatsuki felt that this person was rated S-rank purely because of the overpowered fruit, as his own abilities were a mess.
When he saw this card, he realized that if this fruit ability could be combined with Kishibe Rohan's drawing skills, it would be invincible! The creations from drawing could attack, and when seeing the drawn creations, Heaven's Door's ability could also be triggered.
Although Takatsuki had the intention to convert this card into a Stigma or shatter it to extract the Brush Brush Fruit's ability, he gave up on the idea after looking at the ability description.
[Devil Fruit Ability · Brush Brush Fruit: Can materialize anything drawn by the user. The ability of the creation depends on the drawing skill and the ability of the user himself. Due to the curse of the sea, the ability becomes ineffective and the user becomes weak when in contact with the ocean.]
If it was just a character card, it could be unequipped at any time, and Takatsuki wouldn't care about the side effects. But if it permanently became his weakness, then he would pass.
The second S-rank card was a very famous character, although he was still in an un-grown state on the card.
[16-year-old Natsu]
Just by the name, one couldn't guess who it was, but when Takatsuki saw the skill description below, he knew the character's identity.
[Dragon Slayer Magic · Fire: Fire Dragon Slayer Magic taught directly by the Fire Dragon King, transforming the user's physique into a dragon's physique, thereby gaining powerful physical abilities and the ability to recover by consuming corresponding elemental energy.]
Etherious Natsu Dragneel, that was the character's name, and also Zeref's Fire Demon END.
And at this time, Natsu hadn't met Lucy yet, meaning the main storyline hadn't started, which implied it was Natsu's weakest state in the entire series.
However, upon seeing this character, Takatsuki realized: Fire Demon, Balrog, Fire Dragon Slayer Magic.
Takatsuki saw a new combination again.
But like Kurozumi Kanjuro, it couldn't be combined due to the character card equipment slot limitation.
But there was another way!
The Devil Fruit ability had side effects, and Takatsuki wanted to retain the drawing skills from Kishibe Rohan's character card, so he couldn't convert it into a Stigma.
But this combination wouldn't be like that.
Takatsuki turned his gaze to the Fire Demon. The risk of Dragon Slayer Magic turning into a dragon was too dangerous. After some thought, Takatsuki chose to turn the Fire Demon into a Stigma.
Originally, the Fire Demon, when combined with the Twelve Talismans, could be converted into an SS-rank Lord.
But Takatsuki currently lacked means for rapid combat power conversion, so he didn't plan to hoard anymore. Moreover, Takatsuki thought of new possibilities.
Before that, Takatsuki spent the budgeted 2250 crystals in one go, drawing five S-rank paths, and the item pool was padded to 70 pulls.
He drew 100 crystals from the reserved 2000 crystals, finally drawing the sixth S-rank.
Although 2400 crystals felt a bit like torture for someone with OCD, Takatsuki decided to ignore it.
After stuffing all the low-level weapons and miscellaneous items into King's Treasure, and feeding the low-level character cards into the decomposition machine to turn into skill scrolls for his own use or pure spiritual energy for Heaven's Stairway, Takatsuki looked at the remaining S-rank items.
[Golden Fleece: The fleece of a golden ram, of great value. There is a legend that placing it on the ground can summon a dragon. Appreciating and touching the Golden Fleece can heal mental wounds.]
Medea's item. It couldn't be said to be completely useless, but rather, it was practically unusable. Its symbolic meaning was greater than its actual value.
[Ring of Eden: Can resist all physical damage caused by weapons.]
An item from Assassin's Creed. The drawback was that it could only block physical damage, but it was still decent.
Takatsuki didn't put it in his equipment slot; he just wore it on his hand.
"Hogyoku: A jade with infinite power that can grant the wielder's wishes, but the direction of the wishes is uncontrollable."
Go gather dust!
Takatsuki had no intention of letting this thing out again. The Hogyoku, while sounding incredibly powerful, was actually very risky and could turn a person into a non-human, non-ghost-like state. It also had its own consciousness, and who knew when it would abandon and betray him.
"Calamitous Ordnance Pandora: A demonic weapon that can record up to 666 forms. It accumulates Disaster Gauge after causing destruction, and actively using Disaster Gauge can greatly increase the destructive power of the next attack."
A black briefcase with a skull-like mark appeared in Takatsuki's hand. Although it looked like a briefcase, Takatsuki could tell that it was actually composed of tiny squares, and the gaps between these squares seemed to have streaks of light passing through them, giving it a strong sense of technology.
Takatsuki was quite satisfied with this weapon because it was an offensive one. In the original game, Pandora was set as a firearm-type weapon, but in reality, Pandora had no such limitation.
Moreover, the game couldn't display all 666 forms.
Following Takatsuki's will, the briefcase in his hand transformed into a longsword.
Tapping the blade of the longsword with his index finger, Takatsuki understood why Pandora wasn't used as a melee weapon: there were other, more excellent melee weapons. Pandora, as a melee weapon, wasn't very strong, at most reaching an excellent level.
Not to mention Dante, even for Takatsuki, using Pandora as a melee weapon was less efficient than using his own projections.