Limitless Fortune: I Collect SSS-Rank Skills as Payment-Chapter 62: Lucien Is Too Greedy!

"I say, rather than just leaving the imprint of my blood, why don’t you..."

Lucien suddenly rubbed his hands like a typical merchant and said,

"...transfer this entire Treasure Vault to me?"

Sure enough, just as Malcolm thought, Lucien once again managed to say something outrageous.

He was just joking that his grandson didn’t outright ask him for the entire treasure vault.

Now, he really did exactly that.

’Did I jinx myself?’

He couldn’t help but doubt.

"What do you mean? Isn’t it yours already? Whatever you want, just tell me... why do you need the entire vault for nothing?"

Malcolm scolded Lucien with a dark face. Then, he pointed at those chambers that were deeper than the others and said,

"Don’t think that just because you own this vault, you can take everything here easily. Each treasure chamber requires specific strength to access it."

Malcolm felt that his grandson seemed to be dazzled by the wealth and lectured,

"Do you see that dragon?" He pointed at the place where the magnificent figure was entrenched as if sleeping,

"Without the realm of a Sage, you cannot even go near that. Otherwise, do you think I would let it rot here?"

Malcolm rolled his eyes,

"So, don’t think about such stuff too much. Now that you have awakened your class at a young age, you are considered a part of the World of Origin. So, be strong first and then think about other things later."

Lucien could see that his grandfather was annoyed by his ludicrous demand.

’Sigh, I knew it won’t be so easy to convince him.’

However, no matter what, he had to get this Dimensional Treasure Vault under his name.

This wasn’t because he was greedy.

Well, he might be a little, but that wasn’t the point.

The point was, the moment he appeared at this central chamber, he heard a prompt from his system:

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[Ding!]

[An immense level of wealth for your current strength has been detected. The host is advised to increase his personal wealth to enjoy multiple features of this system.]

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The prompt was bland and as robotic as before, but the content made Lucien’s heart skip a beat.

To be honest, from the beginning, Lucien was quite confused about his system and how it worked.

At first, it declared Devan insolvent and refused to collect debt.

But then, it suddenly directly killed a D-rank Earth Dragon during the debt collection.

It was able to extract the same skills multiple times from entities affected by the Sin series. However, it would directly strip others of their skills.

To be honest, he had a hard time understanding his own system due to its randomness. freewebnσvel.cѳm

So, when the system asked him to increase his personal wealth, Lucien was quite surprised.

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[Wealth (Personal):

Funds: ~250,000 Gold, Estate Holdings: Goldveil Manor, Minor Properties

Treasure: Seed of Greed, A fragment of Seed of Lust]

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This was his current wealth. Although it seemed luxurious for a mortal, it was quite pitiful in Lucien’s opinion.

After all, such wealth did make it hard for him to issue debt when the opportunity arose.

He couldn’t just wait to get something and then issue a loan, right? He wouldn’t always be lucky.

’I must get this treasure vault in my name no matter what.’

Lucien thought greedily, already imagining how much strength he could gain by manipulating this amount of wealth.

’So many treasures... even if I don’t turn them into debt, can’t I still become strong?’

Just the mere thought made him so excited...

However, in his thrill for the future, Lucien totally forgot that he was still under the effect of the Seed of Greed.

Although he had managed to gain control over it, it didn’t mean it couldn’t sense his emotions.

Greed was the manifestation of one of the seven demonic powers. It couldn’t be controlled so easily.

There was a reason why every sane person would advise staying away from demonic forces.

While you may feel that you control it now, when the roles are reversed, you wouldn’t even know.

Like now, just a spark of Greed in Lucien’s mind was enough for it to affect him and amplify his desire a hundredfold.

Lucien didn’t even realize that while musing over things, his eyes had already begun to turn red, his heartbeat was pounding, and the urge to own all the wealth in front of him—no matter the cost—was becoming incredibly pronounced, already on the verge of eruption.

"Lucien, WAKE UP!"

Fortunately for him, Malcolm was at his side, who clearly noticed the shift.

Without wasting a second, he placed his palm firmly on Lucien’s shoulder, channeling a calming pulse of energy to jolt him back to his senses.

"Huh? What happened?"

Lucien suddenly came out of his thoughts and saw his grandfather looking at him seriously with a dark look. Extreme worry was visible on his face.

’Hmm? Seed of Greed? Did it just affect my emotions?’

Only then did he notice the shift in position of the black bead inside his body.

"Lucien, are you hiding something from me? Why can I feel the demonic power in you? What did you do?"

Before he could make sense of his situation, though, he heard the cold voice of his grandfather laced with worry.

Malcolm had already warned his grandson not to get involved with such demonic forces. But now he realized that he might be too late.

"Forget it. Let’s leave this place first. Otherwise, you might lose control again in your greed."

Malcolm decided and directly placed his hand on Lucien, activating the teleportation array beneath the platform.

He didn’t want to take any chances now. Better to think about it once they were away from the treasure vault.

"Wait... Grandpa, don’t."

Lucien was taken aback by how serious his grandfather suddenly became, even going as far as to leave right away.

So, he hurriedly stopped him, as he couldn’t leave just yet.

Since the system already gave him a prompt, he couldn’t lose this opportunity.

No matter what, he had to increase his personal wealth if he wanted to fully unlock all the features of his system.

"Don’t resist. We will talk when we are safe."

But Malcolm was clearly in no mood to play games.

During the outburst of emotion from Lucien, he had already sensed the presence of the Seed of Greed in his body.

Although he didn’t know how Lucien could keep such a dangerous object inside like this, he wasn’t going to take any chances with demonic forces.

’I shouldn’t have let him go to that dungeon for awakening. Damn, it must be that bastard Dorian’s plan.’

Malcolm gnashed his teeth in hatred. After all, he also knew about Lilith and knew that the royals had ways to harness power from the Demonic Seed.

So, he thought, Lucien might have been unknowingly plotted against by them.

"Wait... don’t use teleportation..."

Lucien saw him adamant and tried to stop him, but he wouldn’t listen at all.

"....Damn, old man. Can you please calm down for a bit and talk?"

In his desperation, he finally had to activate his skill, Shadowstep, to disappear from the range of the teleportation array.

"Hmm?"

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