Limitless Fortune: I Collect SSS-Rank Skills as Payment-Chapter 32: Seed Of Greed

In a small, dark cavern with smooth black walls, golden light flickered through swirling mist, casting shifting shadows across the silent, empty space.

At its center floated a black crystal, roughly the size of a human heart, its surface laced with golden cracks like veins of hidden treasure.

Every few seconds, those cracks pulsed rhythmically, releasing tendrils of translucent golden smoke that carried a faintly sweet, metallic scent.

Without a doubt, anyone who gazed upon it would feel an overwhelming surge of insatiable desire to own and possess it, for this was one of the Seeds of Greed.

It was a pity that there was no one inside to own it—

"Bzzzzzt!"

As the black crystal floated silently in the dark cavern, suddenly the silence was interrupted by the loud screeching sound of rupture, as if space itself was about to be torn apart.

And it was precisely that, as suddenly the empty cavern was filled by a human girl, thrown out of the space crack that swiftly disappeared behind her.

"Cough... cough..."

Lilith couldn’t help but cough lightly, covering her mouth as she struggled to steady her breath.

"The space is too unstable," she mumbled quickly, gathering herself.

Finally, she looked around at the place she had arrived in, only to see the floating black crystal emitting golden smoke that permeated the entire cavern.

"Is it... the Seed Of Greed?"

As soon as Lilith’s blue eyes landed on the crystal, they widened in shock... her breath quickened... and a deep, overwhelming greed began stirring inside her, growing stronger by the second.

Although she was born from the Seed of Lust, she had never seen what it actually looked like, so this was her first time encountering one.

Moreover, it seemed as soon as she gazed at it, she was instantly affected: her eyes flashed bright red, and her sanity began slipping away rapidly.

She was only a heartbeat away from lunging forward to grab the crystal with desperate hands.

The pull was almost unbearable.

’Veil of Desire!’

Fortunately, she suddenly activated her domain-type skill, Veil of Desire, just in time, surrounding herself with a circular dome of pink mist.

As soon as the pink mist appeared, it quickly repelled the golden smoke, finally bringing clarity back to Lilith.

’Hah... that was dangerous. I never thought that even as the bearer of the Seed of Lust, I would still be affected.’

Lilith breathed in deeply, causing her huge melons, tightly snug in her dress, to rise and fall rhythmically.

Too bad there was no one around to admire it.

Anyway, let’s try to take it away from here before nightfall. Otherwise, I might get teleported out of the dungeon.

Once Lilith felt stable, she once again looked at the floating black crystal, the supposed Seed of Greed.

Only this time, her eyes were devoid of the extreme desire to possess it. Her Veil of Desire skill, born from the Seed of Lust, managed to keep her urges at bay.

In a way, Lust was also a form of Greed, a desire to possess someone.

Only, it was sexual and related to bodily desires.

So, it was no surprise that she seemed fine as they both cancelled each other out.

As Lilith decided, she quickly came closer to the center of the cavern, right next to the floating black crystal rotating slowly.

Except for the golden smoke that incited greedy desire, she saw nothing else unusual around it, nor any traps or barriers that might stop her from taking it.

"It seems there will be no problem taking it down."

Seeing that even after coming so close, she was still fine, Lilith’s face visibly brightened.

Earlier, she thought she might be unable to take the Seed without the help of a container. But now that her skill was working fine, she had no qualms about trying to seize it with her own hands.

Still, being cautious, Lilith compressed a certain part of her domain, Veil of Desire, around her slender hand, covering it with pink mist, and slowly reached out to grab the black crystal.

She was extremely careful and ready to flee if something untoward happened.

’Hmm, no reaction.’

However, even after taking the black crystal into her hand and pulling it from its floating state, it showed no reaction. Only its slow rotation suddenly stopped.

’This is good for me. Let’s get out of here quickly before something happens.’

Feeling that she had secured her goal, Lilith relaxed and took out a metal box from her mana ring.

A Seed of Sin couldn’t be stored inside a space ring unprotected and had to be handled inside a specially crafted container to suppress its corrupting aura.

However, just when Lilith was distracted and was trying to store the black crystal in her hand inside the metal box, the once-silent crystal suddenly began to hum.

Then, in an instant, it suddenly unleashed a terrifying suction force, sucking up all the golden mist in the entire dark cavern, causing the entire space to become crystal clear.

"What...?"

Only, the situation in Lilith’s hand gripping the black crystal was different.

As soon as all the golden smoke was absorbed into the crystal, the black crystal suddenly began to rapidly dissolve, turning into a thick, dark liquid.

Then, it twisted and surged, transforming into a strange, writhing creature with countless thin tendrils, trying to actively drill into her body through the pink mist.

"W-What the hell is this?!"

The situation suddenly turned so creepy that Lilith shouted in horror, desperately trying to shake her hand and fling the thing off.

But it was nearly impossible to let it go.

Lilith had forgotten that while the Seeds of Sin stirred desire within a creature, they themselves were also manifestations of the sins they embodied.

Just as she felt greed for this uncanny object, the object itself also possessed its own insatiable greed to claim a host.

It became clear when the Seed of Lust inside her body also suddenly began to awaken in resonance, recognizing a fellow Sin Seed.

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