After losing three straight rounds of rock-paper-scissors to Iger, with the latter looking thoroughly disgusted the entire time, Ashe opened the Material Purchase menu and bought the Box of Source Crystals for 328 points.

[Received sixty-six Source Crystals.] 

[First Recharge Bonus Activated! Received another sixty-six Source Crystals!]

Adding the 32 Source Crystals accumulated from daily logins over the past few days, he now had a total of 164 Source Crystals, enough for 54 pulls.

If only he could have rolled on this event-exclusive banner back in the Gospel Kingdom. There, he could have prayed for the Gospel's blessing to amplify his intent. He firmly believed the intensity of his desire would have yielded at least the Swordswoman's and Witch's costumes. Had it been the Bride series, his intent might have even warped the entire Recruitment System's probabilities.

Now, all he could do was build up his luck by repeatedly losing to Iger in rock-paper-scissors, praying the Recruitment System would show him a little mercy.

With fifty-four pulls, surely I'd get something good, right? No way anyone would go through five consecutive ten-pulls without getting what they wanted!

[Confirm consuming 162 Source Crystals for 54 recruitments?]

"Confirm!"

Then came the results. First came thirty white beams cluttering the pool.

[Energy Potion], [EXP Potion], [Basic Combat Card], [Career Potion]

Next were eighteen purple beams.

[Spirit Joy Potion x8], [Pure Radiance Tonic x7], [Advanced Trial Card]

Along with those came a new gadget, the [Aurora...