Chapter 726: Transcendent Item—Reverse • Lucky Coin
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 726: Transcendent Item—Reverse • Lucky Coin
"The farce ends now."
At this moment, the gaze I directed at Yang Yunhan seemed stripped of all past sentiment.
In the past, even if I felt nothing but loathing for this younger brother of mine, that loathing still stemmed from a sense of "caring" rooted in my own identity.
A stranger could never feel such an emotion toward him for that reason.
It was just like when I first enrolled; I would look for all sorts of fun throughout the academy, yet I restrained myself from actively seeking "amusement" at the expense of my roommates, with whom I might spend many years.
I only feel annoyance, loathing, or hatred for people or things I care about, though I find it difficult to express joy...
Though... things didn't exactly go as I expected. Within less than a year, I had almost stopped living with them entirely, yet a place is still reserved for me there.
But now... regarding Yang Yunhan, once that final shred of sentiment in my heart vanished, I ceased to care about him at all. In my eyes, he was now nothing more than a source of amusement. He shared no blood relation with me, and even the familial affection from our upbringing had withered away.
I simply wanted to bring this fellow to the Witch Academy. Didn't he say that turning into a woman after going there would be disgusting?
Then I would let him watch with his own eyes as he became a girl!
Didn't he say that as long as I lived, he would never have his day in the sun?
Then let him stay at the Witch Academy and endure the misery of a life without prospects.
Sometimes, if a person hasn't reached a certain level, they aren't even qualified to feel deeper layers of fear and despair. Only when he stepped into the Witch Academy, touched the Transcendent, and set foot upon the Transcendent Path would he—no, would she—be qualified to understand the gap between us.
She could try to catch up. After all, the distance between us was only a year. Didn't he like skipping grades?
Then skip another one.
Let’s see if he was a true genius or just a jumping clown.
The moment I made this decision, I felt the Luck surrounding me surge, as if the gradually settling Luck had been reactivated because of me.
As someone who had long ago severed my Ley Line Shackles, this momentum of Luck was no longer as absolute for me as it once was.
However, before I consciously realized the push of Luck, my actions and behavior would still be influenced by it. Only by subjectively realizing I was being influenced could I actively break free.
But I had something else inside me that could influence Luck: that Luck Coin formed from the Luck Seed Phantom.
After I cut ties with that former family and let go of many things, it had undergone a transformation, yet it seemed something was still missing.
I reached out and made a grasping motion in front of my chest. Amidst the shimmering light of Luck, a coin materialized out of thin air in my hand. To those who could not see Luck, it appeared as if a coin had simply manifested from nothing.
Looking at this coin, I recalled what Teryx, the Luck Alchemist Witch, had said: make a choice of fate.
But right now, there didn't seem to be any multiple-choice questions for me to answer. Just a moment ago, I had already made the decision to bring Yang Yunhan into the Witch Academy.
And just as I thought this, I suddenly felt an abnormal fluctuation in the Luck.
Following the flow of Luck, my gaze eventually landed on the group of Wizards behind me.
"What tricks are you playing now?"
I looked at the Wizards helplessly. The weak always resort to trivial actions to obstruct results that are destined to happen.
"Sister Xiao Han! Leave these guys to us!" At this moment, the group of Witches on the side were unwilling to just stand by and watch.
After all, the battle just now, where dozens of Wizards were dealt with in such a short time, had made their blood boil!
In their eyes, perhaps the League Hunting Exam from not long ago hadn't shown just how powerful Sister Xiao Han was because of the restrictions on power. But now, Sister Xiao Han, with no holds barred, was crushing dozens of Wizards with the simplest spells and the most exquisite consciousness. That was what was truly terrifying!
"Yeah, yeah! Just leave it to us."
"Fighting them earlier was so frustrating! I'm still looking for payback!"
"Oh~ no need for now. Just watching is enough; I can handle this. If you don't want to watch this boring development, you can head back first. You've worked hard this trip," I said.
Although many of the Witch students looked disappointed, not a single one wanted to leave.
Boring development?
To them, this was top-tier entertainment!
However, the words I just spoke weren't entirely of my own volition. After the Luck was interfered with, I didn't resist the push directed at me; I allowed it to influence me.
For no other reason than this: I wanted to perceive and experience, in a state of total clarity, exactly how the influence and push of Luck naturally integrated into a person's instincts.
Just now, I had allowed Luck to prompt me into saying those words.
First, it isolated me from outside interference by rejecting their help and even suggesting they leave. Then, it induced a sense of arrogance and overconfidence, making me claim I could solve it alone...
Sometimes, the things one says feel very natural, but under the push of Luck, there seemed to be a traceable pattern or template.
"As for you, do you still want to put up a final resistance?" My gaze shifted back to the Wizards. The anomaly in the Luck was related to the Luck Wizard Tools in their hands. I began to wonder what had prompted them to make such a bold attempt.
"Yang Yuehan... we admit, we lost this time. We really can't beat you. Even... even with Luck's blessing, we can't beat you... However! Since you recognized the power of Luck at a glance, then you should know! This matter won't end so easily!"
"Oh. Go on," I replied flatly.
"You!" The people from the Wizard Academy were infuriated by my indifferent tone!
She didn't care about them at all!
"You don't actually think you've won for sure, do you? You have no idea how terrifying the momentum of Luck truly is. But we Wizards can leverage the rules of Luck for our own use! Yes! You can snatch Yang Yunhan from our hands, but so what? This is all just a game of Luck!"
"As a member of this world, as long as you haven't achieved the Transcendent level, you will never escape the fate of being manipulated by Luck!"
"Oh, you Wizards seem to know quite a lot. After all that talk, are you just bragging that you have the means to manipulate Luck?" I said, toying with the Luck Coin in my hand.
I could feel Luck pushing me toward a predetermined outcome.
It looked like I was talking to these people from the Wizard Academy, but only I knew that I was playing a game against Luck itself.
Luck was trying to push a certain ending toward an uncertain one—specifically, it was trying to turn the certain outcome of me bringing Yang Yunhan to the Witch Academy into a blurred possibility.
But I wasn't a fool; I wouldn't just walk blindly into that result.
The Wizards continued their talk, and I continued to respond, but I didn't care about what I was saying. Whatever words were spoken were mere appearances; the deep-level maneuvering was the reality on the plane of Luck.
Luck was pushing me toward a "gamble of fate," using my trait of not "breaking promises" to guide me toward a result shaped by chance.
Of course, I wouldn't be so stupid as to just agree. Thus, this gamble had a stake. The game was my Luck Coin; the method was guessing heads or tails—making a brand-new choice through the way of fate.
And the stake... was the Luck of this entire Luck node, which would serve as the ritual to complete the crafting of this unfinished Luck Alchemist item.
I have to admit... I was tempted.
This would not only complete the final refining ritual for the Luck Coin but also allow me to experience the fun of gambling against Luck.
Gambling against Luck... a year ago, I wouldn't have even dared to dream of it.
But now... it was as trivial as a game.
"Fine~ then I can spare some idle interest to play a game with you. Let's... flip a coin, shall we?" I said with a smile to the people from the Wizard Academy, still toying with the coin.
These people prided themselves on holding Luck Wizard Tools, yet they remained unaware that they had already become puppets of Luck. They never had the right to speak to me as equals.
But I had humored them for so long that they had actually started to feel confident.
"Let me introduce it. This coin... is called a Luck Coin. It's an unfinished Luck Alchemist item. Since you believe so strongly that Luck can change fate, I don't mind giving you a chance through the medium of Luck."
As soon as I finished speaking, the faces of the Wizards changed!
A Luck Alchemist item!
Their greatest reliance was the Luck Wizard Tools in their hands, but none of them expected that their opponent had one too!
Even if it was supposedly unfinished...
"Choose. The pattern, or the silhouette of my head?" I held the coin between two fingers and looked at them, my tone even carrying a hint of charity.
But that wasn't wrong. This was an act of charity.
The pattern side faced them, while the other side bore the silhouette of my image. One could see that the simplified profile possessed some of my facial features.
"We choose the pattern!"
The Wizard Academy side quickly made their choice.
"Then I'm left with the silhouette of my head."
A brief exchange had suddenly decided a person's fate. At this moment, Yang Yunhan, who was slumped on the ground, felt a flicker of hope in his vacant eyes upon hearing about this gamble.
He struggled to crawl up. As an ordinary person who had experienced so much in such a short time, he was already exhausted. But faced with this gamble that decided his fate, he had to force his body to witness it.
"Pattern... Pattern! It has to be the pattern! I don't want to go to the Witch Academy!"
Yang Yunhan prayed with his words, but what he failed to notice was that the moment he instinctively chose to rely on chance rather than immediately choosing to resist fate, he was destined to become a mediocre man.
Even if a person is destined to lack the power to resist, it doesn't stop them from having the heart to resist. His inner resolve had already been shattered time and time again.
Or rather... the family atmosphere he grew up in hadn't even fostered the seed of resisting fate within him. His hysteria and powerless resistance were all used to mask the cowardice of his own failure.
"Don't worry, it'll be over soon."
I looked at the coin. Since everyone had made their choice, then...
Ding—!
The crisp sound of a fingernail flicking the coin rang out. The coin spun at high speed as it was tossed into the air.
It was clearly just a momentary event, yet as many eyes watched the coin trace a parabola, it felt as long as several years.
This perception of time gave me a brand-new understanding of the concept of Time Sense, though it hadn't reached the level of a qualitative change yet.
And as the coin flew, the Luck here surged along with it!
Golden threads of witchcraft and majestic Luck poured into the coin, following its rhythm!
It was as if this toss, representing a choice of fate, was the final ritual for the completion of this alchemical item.
Finally, I reached out and caught the coin in one hand.
This feeling of holding Luck in my palm... made me somewhat impatient to know the result, even though I had already roughly foreseen it before even uncovering it.
I turned my right hand over, palm up. The side with the pattern was presented before me.
"Pattern! It's the pattern! Hahahaha! It's the pattern!"
"What? Is it the pattern? Is it really the pattern!"
"We won?!"
The result instantly sent the people from the Wizard Academy into a frenzy of excitement. Even Yang Yunhan stood up in a daze, so happy he looked ready to howl at the sky to vent his inner joy.
I looked at the pattern on the coin in my hand as the final remnants of Luck continued to pour into it.
It was as if it were waiting for the final moment—as long as I accepted the outcome of defeat, the refining ritual for this Lucky Coin representing Luck would be completely finished!
"Heh..." I let out a light chuckle. This result was truly as expected.
"You! What are you doing!"
Seeing me reveal such a smile, Yang Yunhan's heart skipped a beat.
Especially when I turned my head to look at him.
At this moment, my voice rose slowly, as if recalling certain events from the past, my tone carrying a hint of both sentiment and resolve.
"I learned about the concept of Luck after losing my first confrontation match upon entering the academy. But after that, I never lost again. My foolish younger brother... today, I will teach you one last lesson."
I flipped the coin in my palm over, revealing the side with my silhouette to everyone.
And in that final instant, the refining ritual that was about to be completed suddenly underwent a violent change!
Luck instantly boiled over on another plane, as if furious at my failure to keep my word!
But... I never give promises lightly. From beginning to end, this was nothing more than the wishful thinking of Luck. Facing an existence I was destined to resist... Heh, I am a Little Witch.
How can you trust the words of a Witch?
It's not like I wrote it into a Witch Contract~
"I never believed that Luck represents a person's fate. If this is fate... then I am the one who defies heaven to change it!"
As I finished speaking, the Luck Coin that had been on the verge of collapsing underwent another transformation.
The "Lucky Coin" alchemical item, originally stained with golden Luck, seemed to pierce through a final barrier at this moment. It was complete!
But it did not achieve the refining ritual of an alchemical item; instead, it fulfilled the birth ritual of a Transcendent Item.
A strange power of blood-red Luck—distinctly different from golden Luck yet originating from the same source—burst forth from the coin, making it look exceptionally eerie.
And on the side with my silhouette, the expression on my simplified image now bore a demonic smile, as if mocking the incompetence of Luck and Fate.