I Gain a God-Tier Talent Every Level

Chapter 562

A scepter that represented luck, yet its outer layer was entirely wrapped in delicate, fine-textured skin and flesh. Running a hand over the skin and flesh gave a faint squirming sensation.

As if the hide was still alive.

「Divine Artifact: Supreme Luck Scepter」

「Grade: Divine Artifact」

「Divine Artifact Effect: Center of the World for Absolute Luck — The holder of this divine artifact becomes the center of the world. All luck and miracles will flow toward this location.」

「Divine Artifact Effect: Luck Stripping — Strips away the luck of living beings, making their actions more likely to trigger miracles for the wielder.」

「Divine Artifact Effect: Create Miracle — Instantly triggers a critical miracle. But do not inquire where it comes from or why it happens. Triggering a miracle consumes a large amount of the wielder’s accumulated luck.」

「Divine Artifact Effect: Luck Accumulation — As the center of luck, constantly accumulates luck for the wielder over time.」

「Divine Artifact Effect: Chance and Coincidence — Interesting things always seem to happen.」

「Origin: The law of Yakatikutō, manifested in the form of a divine artifact — Divine Artifact Forger: Kanzaki Rei」

「Hidden Information: If this divine artifact is held by Yakatikutō ???」

...

This was the Supreme Luck Scepter.

It had to be said, Kanzaki Rei saw almost no direct combat capability from this divine artifact. It dealt no damage, nor did it amplify any other abilities.

"Phew."

"But... that’s awfully underwhelming."

With the scepter in his hand, Kanzaki Rei felt absolutely no feedback whatsoever. Things like the gathering of luck, becoming the center of the world—surely he should feel something, right?

Kanzaki Rei’s body existed across multiple spatial dimensions simultaneously.

He was extremely sensitive to everything.

Whether visible or invisible, he could sense it in time. Even completely intangible crisis premonitions and danger instincts—he could feel those too.

Yet the effects of this divine artifact—he couldn’t feel a single thing.

"Could it be... not working at all?"

"That shouldn’t be the case."

He turned the scepter over in his hand, examining it carefully from all sides.

His gaze pierced through the entire scepter.

"The forging is perfect. The talent triggered smoothly. A perfect success."

"My talents have never failed."

"And before forging, I even made a wish..."

"The wish for a successful forge also came true."

Kanzaki Rei pondered inwardly.

The next second, with a single step, he crossed an unknowable distance of hundreds of billions of light-years and arrived directly at the Boundless Mountains.

The Boundless Mountains had become Kanzaki Rei’s proving ground.

Whenever he had free time, he would come here to blast off a few shots. Any new ideas, any unformed concepts—he experimented with them here.

"Anyway..."

Click—

The moment he landed, Kanzaki Rei felt something hard beneath his foot.

His perception immediately swept downward.

He saw a crystalline gemstone.

"This is... Eize Soulstone?"

Boom!

The next second, the earth violently exploded!

A monster composed entirely of colorful gemstones burst up through the ground, lifting Kanzaki Rei high into the sky!

A living soulstone?

Kanzaki Rei was flung into the air, falling along a natural parabolic arc.

Upside down, Kanzaki Rei gazed at the monster before him.

His eyes were full of shock...

A soulstone giving birth to life?

Some extremely rare materials could gradually develop self-awareness, gaining the ability to think over vast spans of time... Such materials were also called living spirits.

Unlike magic beasts,

They didn’t necessarily harbor hostility toward intelligent life.

But... because of their extreme rarity, most people would covet them.

Regardless, they were far too rare.

Yet Kanzaki Rei had surveyed the Boundless Mountains so many times... If there was anything good here, he would have taken it already.

Where had this thing even come from?

Whoosh!

A crystalline, colorful gemstone hand reached out toward Kanzaki Rei falling from the sky!

Through that gemstone hand, Kanzaki Rei could see colorful souls shimmering within the refracted light of countless gems.

Eize Soulstone.

The highest-grade soulstone. Also, the material that legendary Tier 9 Puppeteers absolutely had to seek.

By nurturing a soul within it, one could grow even more subsidiary souls.

At the same time, after special processing, the soulstone could attach itself to anything—theoretically granting souls to all things.

Even blacksmiths dreamed of using Eize Soulstone to forge legendary living weapons.

"Bizarre."

"Is this... luck?"

Kanzaki Rei started to reach for the Emperor’s Sword at his back, but then thought better of it... Such a massive, intact, living soulstone—if he cut it apart, it would be an absolute waste of a divine treasure.

Then—

In response to the giant hand grabbing directly at him, Kanzaki Rei caught it with both hands.

Like an ant hugging a massive tree.

"You really are... one huge chunk."

Boom!

Yet that tiny, insignificant body suddenly brought the massive giant to an abrupt halt!

Then!

The colossal body was lifted high overhead!

Like a giant windmill, Kanzaki Rei swung the body that stood over twenty-five hundred kilometers tall.

Damn. That really was a massive chunk of Eize Soulstone.

This was a rare material?

All the Eize Soulstone in the entire world, added together, probably wasn’t even one ten-thousandth of this, was it?

Boom!

The soulstone was slammed violently into the ground!

It sank into the earth once more.

No matter what, the soulstone was still divine material. Colliding with ordinary soil and rock wouldn’t harm it.

Kanzaki Rei had only tossed it like that to test its weight.

Boom!

The next second, Kanzaki Rei felt a violent tremor in his spiritual sea of consciousness.

A surge of angry emotion slammed into Kanzaki Rei’s mind.

"Angry at me?"

"Because I woke you up? You’ve got quite the emotional range, huh..."

Whoosh!

Kanzaki Rei, still upside down, pressed one hand onto its head.

"Destroying you would be such a waste."

Boom!

The Emperor’s Sword hovered high in the sky, an intense pressure rolling down like an avalanche. Kanzaki Rei’s eyes instantly turned golden. Behind him, a vague phantom gradually materialized—the phantom of an emperor.

But the emperor’s face was blurred, impossible to make out clearly.

"But if you refuse to submit, I’ll have no choice but to destroy you."

Kanzaki Rei enunciated each word, each syllable radiating an overwhelming, heaven-crushing pressure.

The pressure field formed by the Emperor’s Sword surged mightily.

Within the living soulstone’s body, the waves of color trembled and churned. Then, its body began to shift. Its consciousness was not clear, its intelligence not obvious. It was like a newborn infant, ignorant and confused.

Yet even this ignorant, unknowing stone

Assumed a humble, reverent, prostrate posture.

It submitted to Kanzaki Rei.

...

Within a magnificent, golden-gleaming palace, a girl with short golden hair stood barefoot on a golden velvet carpet, her gaze sweeping across the palace.

This was her divine kingdom.

This was her treasury.

"Hmm... Porter is dead. The contract he made with me has finally ended. According to our agreement, its soul should have drifted to me by now."

"I even prepared the Eize Soulstone to house its soul."

"Why hasn’t the soul returned yet?"

The girl bit her finger, pacing in confusion.

But suddenly, her gaze snapped toward a particular treasury vault within the palace.

"Wait..."

"Where is my Eize Soulstone?"