Late at night in New York, where everything lay in silence, the city remained brightly illuminated. Jia Li had already gone to bed, while Xu Mo stood on the roof, staring into the distance. He noticed the glow of a fire, likely another gang-related incident.
He wasn't attending university as a regular student; instead, he had invested a little money to get through graduation while focusing on drawing his new comics throughout the day.
Now, he was waiting—eagerly anticipating the fan value accumulated from "One Punch Man" on its first day. Soon, he would be able to start an exciting lottery.
"Om ha..." Xu Mo glanced over at a figure swinging across the rooftops. It was unmistakably Spider-Man, Peter Parker.
He had declined Peter's invitation to visit the research institute yesterday, but it seemed this was a significant turning point in Peter's life. The friendly neighborhood Spider-Man had certainly earned his reputation.
Xu Mo noticed the fan value had begun to stabilize and slow down. After a long wait, under the faint moonlight, the system's mechanical voice rang out.
[Fan value statistics have been completed. Host received a total of 280,840 fan value on the first day.]
Two hundred and eighty thousand on the first day alone.
Xu Mo grinned with satisfaction.
According to his calculations, the fan expansion for "One Punch Man" would peak tomorrow and persist for a week. By then, it would exceed one million.
"It is detected that the Host meets the lottery criteria. Do you want to start?"
The minimum amount for a lottery is 100,000 points, and with 280,000, Xu Mo could draw twice. The scope of the lottery covered any properties from the first four chapters of "One Punch Man."
Xu Mo was unable to contain his excitement. Even with just two draws, any item from the comic could be incredibly useful.
"Let's draw now."
"Please choose the quota for Host. The more you consume, the higher the chance of obtaining rare items."
Xu Mo smirked at the prompt. "Got it."
With millions of fan points, he would definitely draw a significant number at once. But with only two hundred thousand now, drawing twice seemed the best option.
The time had come to test his luck.
Xu Mo washed his face in the bathroom, rubbed his hands together, and then entered the lottery interface with two hundred thousand points.
[Congratulations to Host for getting the ultimate cholesterol "King of Biceps."]
What?!
Xu Mo stared at the test tube that materialized in front of him, its golden solution glowing. He recognized it immediately—it was the serum developed by Fokker in Chapter 3, which turned Marugoli into a colossal giant. A single punch could destroy a town.
Without Saitama's intervention, it could have become a dragon-level disaster.
Xu Mo shook the test tube. While the reagent was immensely powerful, he had no intention of using it. He didn't want to become a monster, especially in the Marvel Universe, where such power would attract unwanted attention. He set the test tube aside.
[Congratulations to Host, you have obtained the skill of Vaccine Man: Lightwave Ball Fragment x1]
"Skill fragments? What's that?"
Xu Mo was surprised. He understood skill extraction but not fragments.
[Fragments are one of the lower-tier rewards, categorized into character fragments, skill fragments, and item fragments.]
[Skill fragments can be equipped. One fragment represents Lv1, and multiple fragments can be combined to upgrade the skill, up to level 10.]
Hiss!
Xu Mo was thrilled. He had expected trivial items, but he had drawn something genuinely valuable in just two tries.
The first was the giant's potion, which he had no use for, but the second was a skill fragment.
The full version of the Lightwave Ball could destroy a city, and Vaccine Man was a dragon-level threat.
Xu Mo touched his face, marveling at his luck. "I really am fortunate."
The system seemed annoyed by his self-praise and interrupted with a cold tone. "Are you ready to use the skill fragments?"
The Lightwave Ball fragment was stored in his inventory.
"Equip it."
Additional blocks appeared under the lottery interface, showing skill modules like those in online games. The fragment materialized as white light, which surged into Xu Mo's brain.
At the same time, a white and blue Lightwave Ball icon appeared in the skill module with "Lv1" in the corner.
"What is this?"
Xu Mo felt a rush of energy flood his brain. After a moment of clarity, he grasped the power of the Lightwave Ball.
He raised his hand slightly.
"Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
A stream of blue and white energy erupted from Xu Mo's hand, coalescing into a fist-sized ball of light. The terrifying energy crackled in the air.
The ball of light was powerful enough to obliterate the room, and it was only at Level 1.
Staring at the ball of light, Xu Mo couldn't help but marvel at his newfound ability.
"Hey, Xu Mo, what's that?" A cheerful voice called out. It was Jia Li, standing at the bedroom door, gazing at the glowing ball in Xu Mo's hand.
"Uh, nothing."
Xu Mo quickly dispersed the light ball, his face flushed with embarrassment. He didn't want to frighten Jia Li.
"Hey, what's this? It looks tasty."
Jia Li, not understanding the nature of the Lightwave Ball, seemed more interested in the glowing biceps king potion on the table. She grabbed it with eagerness.
Xu Mo was stunned as Jia Li eagerly drank the potion.
"Stop, don't—"
But it was too late. Jia Li gulped down the potion, and Xu Mo felt a wave of dread. His mind raced with thoughts of her transforming into a giant, causing chaos.
"It's over."
His thoughts were a whirlwind of worry. But to his astonishment, Jia Li showed no immediate change. She lay down, looking as innocent and cute as ever.
Xu Mo was dumbfounded. "System, is this a fake medicine?"
Jia Li blinked innocently, seemingly unaffected by the potion. Xu Mo sighed in relief.