Limitless Fortune: I Collect SSS-Rank Skills as Payment-Chapter 181: Lilith-A Beautiful Koi Fish!

As Lucien slowly calmed down with the fishing rod in his hand, time slowly began to move forward at its own pace.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes…

Ten minutes, already ten minutes passed, and still nothing. Even the voice from Lilith seemed to have disappeared.

Fortunately, Lucien didn't panic and still sat silently on the shore just like a fisherman waiting for a fish to take a bite.

"Splash!"

Just as the time was almost over and the inspection bell was just about to ring, Lucien felt movement from the fishing line.

'Finally, did I catch her?'

Lucien snapped open his eyes with excitement and immediately stood up, pulling the fishing rod.

"Splash!"

As he continued to pull and loosen the fishing line, the splash over the calm surface of the water became more and more pronounced.

From how large the splash was, Lucien was sure the fish he got was much larger than the tiny one the short old man got.

"Swoosh!"

It didn't take long for him to pull the fishing line out of the surface of the water, immediately pulling out the fish attached to its end along with it in a beautiful parabola before the bell began to ring.

'Is this…really Lilith?'

But when Lucien saw what was at the end of the fishing line, he was truly dumbfounded.

After all, the fish he caught wasn't pitch dark like the one he saw before, but was similar to a beautiful koi fish he saw in his last life.

Only, its size was quite large, and with the swirling mana around it, it truly looked otherworldly.

To be honest, Lucien was quite amazed by seeing such a beautiful fish until he heard a sharp cry.

"Lucien…you did it, you did it…haha…fortunately you came at the right time."

It was the voice of Lilith coming out from the koi fish flapping on the ground in front. Listening to the voice, she seemed extremely excited and relieved.

But when Lucien saw the koi flapping so loudly, he felt that it was about to die from asphyxiation.

For a moment, he felt the situation was quite funny. He never thought he would see Lilith in such a state.

The poor girl might be bullied for life just because of this incident.

"Lucien, what are you looking at? Quick, release me from this state. As a fisherman, you can easily change the form of a fish as soon as he desires."

Feeling that Lucien was just silently looking at her, Lilith hurriedly asked.

"Be fast, otherwise I might die from suffocation!"

She said, feeling suddenly lethargic.

As a fish from the Mirage Pond, she couldn't survive out of water even though her true form was human.

That's why she was desperate for Lucien to release her and regain her true form. In fact, she was already dizzy from all the talking she did using the faint mana she could still use.

"Not so fast, Lilith. Stay in this form a bit longer."

Surprisingly, Lucien didn't listen to Lilith this time. Rather, to her amazement, he took out a huge flask from his mana ring, filling it up directly with water from the Mirage Pond.

Then, without giving her a chance to react, he stuffed the koi fish directly inside before covering it and storing it inside his mana ring.

"Mirage Pond, I want to leave this place."

After that, Lucien immediately asked the Scene to let him leave, not wasting even a single second. From how quickly he moved, it was clear he was in an extreme hurry.

"Swoosh!"

The moment he made the request, a strange force seized his body from all directions and yanked him out of the Realm with overwhelming power.

"Wait… damn it!"

That was the last thing Lucien heard, the furious shout of the frog and the sight of its cold, glaring eyes, before dizziness overtook him once again, dragging him into unconsciousness just like before.

"Fuck…I shouldn't have been greedy and should have caught him in the first moment."

Seeing that Lucien had truly disappeared from the pond, the frog cursed under his breath, crushing the cigar in his hand into a messy pulp in anger.

"Damn that midget, he even dared to share the hidden rules with others. It seems he really wants to die."

If he knew that the boy would suddenly leave this place before even releasing that girl's true form, he would have stopped him by force.

After all, contrary to what Lucien thought, there was another rule in the Mirage Pond that most people were unaware of.

And that was, whenever someone caught something from the Mirage Pond, if there happened to be a guardian nearby, the person had to pay him a commission.

At first glance, this rule seemed shady as hell, but it was indeed valid, granting a guardian immense authority to twist the rules here to his advantage.

In fact, this rule directly eliminated the ability of someone to continue fishing in this pond after catching something.

After all, who knew what this guardian would ask as a commission?

No wonder the short old man left this place immediately after catching something in a hurry.

Lucien was really right; there really was something wrong with this place.

Fortunately, he left on time, not giving a chance for the frog to react.

"Don't let me see you two again. If I catch you, I'll gut you where you stand."

Now that the person had totally disappeared, there was nothing he could do.

So the frog could only curse before rowing his boat once again, disappearing into the vast mist, ready for another lucky person to stumble into this place.

This time, he would definitely not allow anyone to take his precious fish from the Mirage Pond.

After all, the more fish he could collect, and the more luck he gathered, the greater his chance of entering the upper interface of the World of Origin.

He was quite close.