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The mysterious and vast aura of the spatial elements felt during the moment of teleportation left a profound impression on Su Na.
Oh, and there was also the “experience fee” of ten high-purity magic stones per person~
Converted to currency, it came to nearly 12,000 gold coins per person, and they absolutely refused to accept equivalent value in gold. Levi, who traveled with her, still had a green face even now.
Magic stones were not some common, everyday item found on the street; their market price fluctuated very sensitively. The price of 1,200 gold coins for a single high-purity magic stone was merely the average price the Fafnir family had paid during their previous acquisitions.
They could be used in magic arrays for dust removal and cleaning, or to act as an energy source. In Su Na’s view, the high convenience of magic completely crushed the technological products of her previous life in many aspects.
If there were enough resources, one could even forcibly construct a super metropolis far exceeding the advancement of her previous life.
However, the cost-benefit ratio meant there was absolutely no possibility of it becoming widespread.
Its natural reserves were not very large. The low-grade magic stones circulating on the market were almost entirely inferior products created by the Mage Association using their advanced mage resources, so there was no room for the price to drop.
Unless the advanced mage population in this world increased a hundredfold, or an environment with highly concentrated magical elements was discovered, it would be impossible.
So far, Su Na only had plans to use magic arrays to control the temperature and maintain cleanliness in the high-density poultry breeding bases. Only such “cash cows” could bear the daily operational costs of magic stone consumption.
As for other things, Su Na had no intention of implementing magic arrays even for the steam engine manufacturing workshops—her nuclear-powered money printer. After all, the steam engines produced took a period of time to circulate and convert into money and resources, making them a heavy asset with low liquidity.
Perhaps this was the fundamental reason why a magical world was so backward in development, and why the utilization of magic was restricted to a select few.
To put it bluntly, the resources of this world had all been siphoned away by magic. The advanced mages, who could output magic to give back to society, had already stepped into the core circle of humanity, detaching from the masses and becoming the minority.
When magic was controlled by a minority, they, as the vested interests, naturally lacked the subjective initiative to popularize it for the masses. The lower classes, meanwhile, had no extra resources to develop anything else.
Ultimately, this formed a top-heavy, distorted societal structure.
With money, one could buy every convenience, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers in an instant. Without money, even the bonds of the earth beneath their feet weighed tens of thousands of pounds; how could they speak of anything else?
Of course, all the nobles were walking this path as well. Was it not the same for a rising star like Fafnir?
Her younger brother entered the Church for further studies, and she entered the Magic Academy to learn. Their expenses were entirely funded by the output of the land controlled by the Fafnir family. A vast expanse of land supporting two people—wasn’t that just circulating within the same system?
From this perspective, Su Na’s earlier idea of learning magic to use it to give back was unfeasible. The difficulty was roughly equivalent to popularizing nuclear energy for civilian use.
At the very least, large-scale application was extremely difficult, and with her current foresight, she could not see it happening in the foreseeable future…
“Su Na!!!”
As Su Na and Levi arrived at the academy gates, a cry of pleasant surprise echoed across the area, drawing the curious gazes of many students.
Looking up, she predictably saw the large face of the male lead, Charlie.
Su Na rubbed her forehead in pain. She swore that if it weren’t for the academy’s rules and her apprehension of the strange entity backing him, she would have loved nothing more than to dispose of this annoying pest without anyone knowing!
But the commotion caused by killing an advanced noble and a prospective mage would not be small. It wasn’t worth putting herself in a disadvantageous position for such a piece of trash.
This kind of “stuck-in-the-middle” situation was the most agonizing.
Charlie, however, lacked this self-awareness. It was as if he had completely forgotten the unpleasant past of Su Na repeatedly giving him the cold shoulder. He excitedly rushed up to her, asking about her well-being with such enthusiasm that the nearby Levi felt her fists clench.
[Ah~ What a wonderful aura! Slurp, slurp, slurp!]
The System suddenly let out a strange cry, followed by a series of indescribable noises that made the hairs on Su Na’s arms stand up. She spoke with a hostile tone: “I don’t care what you’re doing, but if you make that disgusting noise again, get out of my body.”
[Energy! This is the energy I wanted!!! You can’t kick me out, this stuff brings great benefits to you too! Hehehe.]
The System’s tone was filled with indescribable joy: [As expected of the child of destiny, his luck is as abundant as if it were free.]
Hearing this, Su Na fell into a rare silence and did not continue to rebuke the goofy System.
The System had explained “luck” (or providence) to her before. A normal person’s luck is extremely stable; what it is at birth is what it will remain for the rest of their life. This is the so-called “destiny ordained by heaven.”
But there are exceptions.
Individuals with profound luck are almost always direct participants in the future direction of the world. The clashes between them occur not only in the physical world but also in the intangible realm of providence. During turbulent eras, destiny is unfixed.
It’s like a gambler standing at a table: the winner takes all, absorbing the opponent’s luck to strengthen themselves. As long as there is even a sliver of a chance to survive, the probability of someone with strong luck turning danger into safety is always exceptionally high.
National destiny is also a form of providence. The fall of a dynasty, for instance, is inherently a process of its national destiny dissipating and being absorbed by others. Once it accumulates to a certain point, the transition from personal providence to national destiny is completed, giving rise to a new dynasty and completing the cycle.
For example, according to the System, Su Na’s own destiny was “unspeakably noble,” but “extreme prosperity must decline,” meaning she would face a fatal tribulation. There was a high probability she wouldn’t be able to bear the weight of her destiny and would die a violent death. Only by overcoming it would she have a chance to be reborn from the ashes.
The male lead, however, was different. Even if the world consciousness wanted to give him cheats, it had to abide by logic. Therefore, the greatest cheat it gave him was that his luck was always dynamic, allowing him to use his influence to pry away and absorb the luck of others.
Over time, his fortune would only grow increasingly prosperous, helping him turn danger into safety, survive great disasters with even greater blessings to follow, and so on. The price, however, was paid by the unlucky victims whose providence had been absorbed.
In layman’s terms, the deaths of the original owner’s family shared a direct karmic link with Charlie. His good luck and blessings were supplied by people like Su Na.
But there are no perfect mechanisms. Since he could absorb from others, others could naturally absorb from him in return.
Now that the System said it had absorbed Charlie’s luck, Su Na naturally had no reason to continue stopping it. After all, as long as Charlie was suffering, she was thriving.
And it seemed the condition for absorbing luck was that the other party had to hold favorable feelings toward you? If that was truly the case, then she was perfectly safe. She could jump off this building right now! Fall to her death! And she still would never fall in love with Charlie!
But without her dedication, where did his profound luck come from?
Her gaze swept past Charlie’s eager, smiling face and locked onto a girl standing five or six meters away in the direction he had come from.
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