Free Web NovelChapter 274: Fortune And Misfortune Sight
However, before the purple wisdom-type talent Shinichi anticipated had yet to arrive, two other talents that somewhat surprised him had already reached the edge of transformation first.
On the third day of the return trip to the Land of Fire, the army rested in an open area. As usual, Shinichi found a secluded place near the camp to conduct his daily training.
When he finished his training and slowly walked back toward camp, he suddenly felt a strange throbbing in his heart.
He immediately stopped and silently summoned his system panel.
On the panel, the two opposing green talents belonging to the fortune category, Auspicious Omen and Ominous Omen, were violently flickering like candles in the wind, on the verge of collapse.
Then, almost in the same instant, the words representing Auspicious Omen and Ominous Omen shattered explosively, transforming into two masses of incomparably pure and deep azure-blue light!
The flowing radiance gathered and condensed, finally reforming before his eyes into two entirely new lines of words radiating a mysterious aura.
[Fortune Sight (Blue): Your fate has connected with fortunes, granting insight into auspicious omens before they manifest. Fortune often accompanies you, quietly guiding your daily actions and decisions, making you more likely to encounter opportunities and avoid trivial troubles. At the same time, you may actively consume these fortunes surrounding you to perform a prediction about a specific event, goal, or your own future.]
[The prediction will reveal the underlying trajectory of favorable development, possible beneficial variables, and the optimal timing or method of intervention. After use, this talent will enter a frozen state. During the frozen period, all passive effects and active abilities will temporarily fail. The freezing duration depends on the importance and complexity of the prediction event, as well as its impact on the world line and your own fate trajectory. The greater the event’s influence, the longer the recovery time required.]
[Misfortune Sight (Blue): Your fate has connected with misfortune, granting insight into ominous omens. Misfortune constantly circles around you, helping you vaguely sense danger and avoid meaningless disasters, making calamities and malice unable to easily approach you. At the same time, you may actively consume this misfortune surrounding you to predict a specific event, goal, or your own future.]
[The prediction will allow you to glimpse in advance dangers that may descend, hidden traps, secret conspiracies, or unfavorable development trends. After use, this talent will enter a frozen state. During the frozen period, all passive effects and active abilities will temporarily fail. The freezing duration depends on the importance and complexity of the divined event, as well as its danger level and the depth of its connection to you. The more fatal the danger, the longer the recovery time required.]
Oh?
Shinichi raised his brows while greatly surprised inwardly.
After obtaining the two mysterious fortune-related talents, Auspicious Omen and Ominous Omen, over the past two years, he had first tried to understand their effects, eventually forming a rough outline.
Auspicious Omen made it easier for him to encounter good things and occasionally allowed him to passively sense signs that certain good things were about to happen.
Ominous Omen made it easier for him to avoid bad things and occasionally allowed him to passively sense warnings that certain bad things were about to occur.
For a simple example, if he only had the Auspicious Omen talent, then when he went out today, he might suddenly have a whim-like premonition: "Take the small eastern path, pass beneath the third locust tree at noon, and you’ll pick up money."
That was indeed a good thing, and he would obtain an unexpected windfall because of it.
But Auspicious Omen would not tell him that at the exact moment he bent down to pick up the money, a stone from the old, long-neglected courtyard wall beside him would happen to collapse due to the vibrations from his footsteps.
That stone might injure him, or even take his life. That would be the bad thing.
But with Ominous Omen, it became completely different. Shinichi could both pick up the money and avoid being struck by that stone. The two complemented each other, fortune and misfortune intertwined.
After figuring out the effects, Shinichi naturally considered upgrading them.
But he quickly discovered that doing so was extremely difficult.
Luck itself was an exceptionally abstract concept, difficult to define precisely and shape into a clear cognition. To create an effect that at minimum spread throughout the entirety of Konoha and left a shocking impression, making people sincerely believe from the bottom of their hearts that Shinichi Higashino is a lucky guy, was absolutely no easy task. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
After all, luck was unlike great strength or high speed, things that could be directly observed. It could always be explained away as a coincidence, ability, intelligence, or even the misjudgment of others. It was difficult to form a stable, universally acknowledged impression of it as a trait.
And Auspicious Omen was even more abstract, even carrying a somewhat ambiguous negative connotation. If the core cognition behind Auspicious Omen pointed toward always encountering good things and luck always standing on his side, then what exactly was the cognition required for Ominous Omen?
Unlucky? Or prone to getting dragged into trouble?
Shinichi had never been able to fully grasp the core logic behind its creation and advancement.
And now, after the trip to the Land of Lightning, these two talents had unexpectedly completed their transformation first, causing Shinichi to fall into deep thought.
"Maybe it’s making people think this person is always getting caught in all kinds of extreme danger, yet in the end always miraculously escapes disaster and survives impossible situations?"
What kind of grim reaper elementary school student constitution was this?
Shinichi mocked himself with a joke.
After giving an answer he himself was not very certain about, he stopped dwelling on this speculation that could not yet be fully verified and continued reading the descriptions of the two talents.
First, the basic passive effects had clearly been greatly enhanced.
Whether it was the most fundamental Fortune Sight and Calamity Sight, or those whim-like good thing/bad thing premonitions, both their activation frequency and clarity had undoubtedly risen alongside the improvement in trait quality.
Finally, there were the newly added active abilities. These meant he no longer had to passively wait for occasional flashes of intuition like before. Instead, he could proactively act, seizing a more advantageous position for himself at critical moments or avoiding deadly undercurrents in advance.
"Actively choosing... Using the loss of my lucky-guy constitution or grim reaper elementary school student constitution for a period of time in exchange for obtaining a..."
Shinichi pondered thoughtfully.
This ability was precious, but the price was clear. freewebnovel.cσ๓
If possible, it was better not to use it. The daily enhancement from the passive effects alone already held immense value. But if he did use it, then he had to play this card at the moment it would matter the most!
"I wonder what luck-type talents it will become after upgrading all the way to the end?"
As he thought this, a somewhat absurd image involuntarily appeared in Shinichi’s mind.
On some future battlefield, powerful enemies surrounded him from all sides, murderous intent freezing the air, while he merely stood calmly in place with his hands behind his back, seemingly doing nothing at all.
The next second, the heavens tore apart, and a burning meteor or some other outrageous thing came crashing down, accurately smashing into the center of the enemy formation and turning the enemy’s main force entirely into dust.
The enemy would die without ever understanding what they had actually lost to.
What kind of absurd image was that?
Shinichi shook his head, throwing this overly ridiculous yet not entirely impossible image out of his mind.
