SSS-Rank Awakening: My Talent Multiplies Everything novel Chapter 224

Chapter 224: Talisman of Serendipity.

Without wasting any more time, Kael opened his inventory.

He had already gone through it earlier when he was pulling out the healing potions, but at the time, his injuries had been far more important than anything else. Now that his condition had stabilized somewhat, he could finally pay attention to the unfamiliar items that had appeared inside.

Kael narrowed his eyes.

These had to be the rewards for fending off the floor invasion.

"I better have gotten something good."

Considering how close he had come to dying, Kael felt he had every right to be disappointed if the Tower had decided to reward him with some mediocre junk.

He had nearly died against that monk, lost consciousness, somehow ended up in a strange void, encountered two beings that could probably erase him without effort, and nearly got himself killed again while trying to escape.

The reward better be worth it.

Kael reached into his inventory and pulled out the first item.

The moment it appeared in his hand, his eyes widened.

He recognized it immediately.

"The Talisman of Serendipity?"

For a moment, Kael simply stared at the paper-thin talisman resting between his fingers.

This was the very same Talisman the monk had been bragging about earlier.

Yet recognizing it wasn’t what surprised Kael.

The fact that it was here did.

His brows slowly furrowed as he turned the talisman over in his hand.

By the end of his battle with the monk, the man’s body had been completely shredded when the Null Seed bloomed, and there had been nothing left of him afterward. His talisman had been on him at the time, which raised an obvious question.

Kael tugged lightly at one corner.

Despite being thin enough to resemble a piece of ordinary paper, the talisman was surprisingly durable. Still, there was no way something like this should have survived being caught directly within the blast produced by the Null Seed.

Kael sighed.

"Whatever."

There was no point wasting more brainpower on it.

This was the Tower, after all.

What even made sense in this mysterious hellhole?

Instead, Kael focused his attention on the talisman itself.

The information surfaced within his mind, and his expression shifted at once, brows lifting as disbelief slowly crept across his face.

"The Way of the Buddha, my ass."

Kael stared at the talisman with an expression that could only be described as disgust.

"This thing is extremely evil."

The monk had described the Talisman of Serendipity as some kind of sacred object that could enhance the fortune of its wearer. And technically, that wasn’t a lie.

The talisman really could enhance someone’s fortune.

The problem was how it accomplished that.

It didn’t simply increase fortune out of nowhere.

The first step required the creation of another specific talisman that was connected to the Talisman of Serendipity. That secondary talisman could then be placed on another entity, but there was an important restriction.

The target had to be a Sapien creature.

It wouldn’t work on an ordinary beast or some mindless monster. The target needed to possess intelligence.

Once the secondary talisman was attached, the Talisman of Serendipity would begin draining the target’s fortune.

This process would continue until every bit of fortune the individual possessed had been gradually siphoned away, leaving nothing behind.

That stolen fortune would then be accumulated within the Talisman of Serendipity, allowing the wearer to use it to enhance their own fortune.

And the process could be repeated.

The more people subjected to the process, the more fortune could be accumulated. Naturally, the amount of fortune the wearer could gain depended entirely on how much had been collected within the talisman.

Kael’s expression became increasingly strange as he processed the information.

He could already imagine how the temple had operated.

People arriving from all over the place, believers seeking salvation, cures for illnesses, blessings, protection, or simply hoping to improve their lives. They would enter the temple believing that they were receiving some kind of sacred blessing, only to happily place the secondary talisman upon themselves because of their faith.

Kael couldn’t help but sigh. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

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