[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-100-drop-rate-why-is-my-inventory-always-so-full":3,"chapter-100-drop-rate-why-is-my-inventory-always-so-full-100-drop-rate-why-is-my-inventory-always-so-full-chapter-565":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","100\\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},749864,994,"Chapter 565 - Grand Confluence","100-drop-rate-why-is-my-inventory-always-so-full-chapter-565",565,"\u003Cp>More months passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien turned twenty-seven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, the Middle Continent no longer spoke of Lootwell as a foreign power, a mystery, or a passing disturbance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It spoke of Lootwell as a fact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumors had become reports. Reports had become travel plans. Travel plans had become business routes. Business routes had become dependency. And dependency, if handled properly, became influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Middle Branch had also gained a name from the people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, it appeared in casual conversations between travelers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then on communication channels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then in reports.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then even allied faction notices began using it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grand Confluence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place where all paths met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A place where opportunity gathered and community spread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lucien first read the report, he stared at the name for a long moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grand Confluence,\" he repeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he marked the report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From now on, use it officially.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just like that, the Middle Branch ceased being only the Middle Branch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It became Grand Confluence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The name spread even faster after Lootwell accepted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People liked that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Middle Continent had given the branch a name, and Lootwell had not rejected it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That mattered more than Lucien first expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made people feel involved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made the branch feel less like an occupation of opportunity and more like a shared point of pride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grand Confluence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The name belonged to Lootwell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, in a small way, the Middle Continent felt it had helped name its own future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Communication between the West and Middle continued to grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What had begun as scoreboard rivalry became something stranger and better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pride leads to competition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Competition leads to communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Communication leads to connection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Connection leads to unity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unity prepares the world for calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The West and Middle coming together was good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were five continents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It the Black Mass returned in greater force, if Primordial Incarnations found more vessels, then two continents becoming connected would not be enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien needed more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed the world closer before the next world-shaking event arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant accelerating again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During those months, the Shadow Information Network began its campaign in the Middle Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reaper and Eldran had grown. Both had reached the peak stages of the Ascendant Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their people had grown as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within that massive structure, true Shadows were rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were not ordinary spies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were trained. Taught not merely how to steal information, but how to understand context, verify truth, avoid manipulation, and recognize patterns before disaster formed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shadow Information Network continued expanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The public saw branches, devices, markets, and facilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They did not see the hidden roads beneath them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A good network was not supposed to be admired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was supposed to be there before anyone realized they needed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien also asked Grand Confluence’s allied factions for help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With locations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted more regional branches across the Middle Continent\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the request went out to the allies, they took it seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starveil Observatory sent divined route recommendations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mirror-Sun Hall sent terrain analyses and political risk maps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninefold Ledger House sent trade-flow projections so detailed that Kael stared at them with professional affection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearwater Meridian Sect proposed river-adjacent locations suitable for healing halls and water-route logistics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jade Horizon Pavilion suggested locations near contested training regions, clearly hoping Lootwell’s presence would force rivals to behave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien read the proposals and smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are helping themselves too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eirene nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course. That is why the suggestions are useful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every proposed location revealed what the ally valued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trade. Defense. Prestige. Safety. Access. Influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien approved the best ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, during those months, expansion began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Branches rose across the Middle Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The continent was reminded again how bizarre Lootwell was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A branch that should have taken years rose in weeks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A regional hub that should have required a decade of negotiations opened after a few contracts, several surveys, and Lilith deciding the local stone was \"cooperative enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Middle Continent factions stared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then they sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then they began saying, \"It is Lootwell,\" as though that explained everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a way, it did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grand Confluence had already shattered their sense of normal construction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, when smaller branches rose quickly, people no longer denied it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They simply adjusted their expectations upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the regional branches began operating, people kept coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Communication devices spread again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Middle Continent’s message network thickened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world became louder, more connected, and harder to hide inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was exactly what Lucien wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came the matter of Origin Core fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien did not rush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rushing would make holders defensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he offered the same terms he had offered in the West.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrender an Origin Core fragment willingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In exchange, receive deep benefits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, with one more benefit added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That changed everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the intercontinental teleportation array had been destroyed, travel between continents had become almost impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Grand Confluence announced that it had proper channels to the West.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Middle Continent listened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then leaned closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien did not even have to exaggerate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The offer was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who surrendered Origin Core fragments and entered deep alliance could earn passage to the West through Grand Confluence’s channels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not for armies. Not for smuggling. Not for hostile operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for approved envoys, scholars, merchants, healers, selected disciples, and allied representatives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That alone was enough to make many old powers reconsider the value of a crystal they had long treated as a symbol they barely understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The recorders had already identified possible holders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were friendly. Some neutral. Some hidden. Some troublesome. Some were evil sects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not simply destroy the evil factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not openly seize their fragments without turning the campaign into fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And fear would make every hidden holder bury their treasures deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So spies were sent again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To understand who held what, who valued what, who could be persuaded, and who needed to be isolated before any future action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the meantime, the public example would do most of the work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As always.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first to yield were the early allies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They already trusted Grand Confluence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had already tasted benefits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had already seen what happened to those who arrived early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when the offer became formal, several of them moved quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starveil Observatory surrendered one fragment after a full council reading confirmed that holding it brought less future benefit than alliance deepening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ninefold Ledger House surrendered another after calculating projected trade access, exclusive product rights, and intercontinental passage value over thirty years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their conclusion was apparently so decisive that their patriarch signed the agreement before the more sentimental elders finished complaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearwater Meridian Sect hesitated longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then requested additional healer exchange privileges with the Celestial complex and Grand Archives medical law access.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien granted a controlled version.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They surrendered their fragment within the week.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two other holders followed after private negotiations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In only a few months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien did not call that small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because each one mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each fragment strengthened the Origin Core network.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each fragment reduced the chance of the wrong hands using it poorly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each fragment made future continental connection easier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And each exchange strengthened the idea that surrendering a fragment to Lootwell was not loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien kept his promises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The factions that surrendered fragments were not given empty praise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their barriers were strengthened with Lunarian designs and Celestial sanctified reinforcement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eirene personally approved several of the barrier structures, and that alone made the allied factions nervous in a good way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Celestial lightworkers helped cleanse old weaknesses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lunarians refined command clauses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lilith, the Genesis Forger, visited their core facilities and corrected structural flaws with the calm expression of someone judging both architecture and life choices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At one sect, she examined a thousand-year-old training hall, tapped one pillar, and said, \"This was always wrong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sect elders nearly fainted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she rebuilt the support logic, and the hall’s energy circulation improved by nearly forty percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, no one argued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lootwell also delivered exclusive products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And access rights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grand Archives opened limited Law Book sections to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough to make elders weep quietly after finding answers to bottlenecks that had haunted them for centuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough to make talented disciples feel as if the world had widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough to make the factions understand that the Origin Core fragment they had surrendered had been sleeping potential, while Lootwell gave them living momentum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came the intercontinental passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Approved groups were allowed to visit the main territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For many, that was the true turning point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grand Confluence had amazed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main territory humbled them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original districts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deeper chapel network.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ascension Spire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The older markets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slimes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the slimes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Middle Continent elders returned from the main territory with complicated expressions, as if they had seen both paradise and something they were not sure etiquette allowed them to describe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One Starveil elder sent a private report to his faction:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Grand Confluence is a gate. The main territory is the heart.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another wrote:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Ascension Spire alone explains why the West changed.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The factions that had surrendered fragments relaxed after that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because they had lost nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they had gained too much to regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One Ninefold Ledger elder summarized it best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[We gave away a crystal we could not properly use and received access to a future we could not build alone.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cecil who saw that line immediately wrote it down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien saw him do it and sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are going to use that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cecil smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord, It would be irresponsible not to.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Origin Core Shrine changed again when the new fragments were merged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sixty-five fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still incomplete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very incomplete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shape remained unfinished, like a broken moon trying to remember whether it had once been a sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the authority had deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien placed one hand lightly near the shrine’s edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not touch the core directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only felt the pulse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sixty-five,\" Vivian said softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many more?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien’s gaze deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do not know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truth was uncomfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are more in the Middle Continent,\" Vivian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And more in the other continents.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And some in dangerous hands.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien’s eyes cooled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivian looked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Will you gather all of them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One by one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shrine pulsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucien exhaled slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five fragments gained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The work was slow when compared to the scale of the universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But compared to ordinary history?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was terrifyingly fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was only the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>",1765,"2026-06-02T12:11:00.450Z",1,"novelbin.me","7bd161c287596bc24cb0e09542052ffed789eec11ee44447982917bfbd72d86b","100-drop-rate-why-is-my-inventory-always-so-full-chapter-566","100-drop-rate-why-is-my-inventory-always-so-full-chapter-564",572,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002F100-drop-rate-why-is-my-inventory-always-so-full-cover.jpg"]