Limitless Fortune: I Collect SSS-Rank Skills as Payment-Chapter 180: Why Is Lilith Here?

'Lilith?'

Lucien was stunned to hear the voice of Lilith in his head all of a sudden.

'Can this mark even work within a Scene?'

For a moment, he was totally confused. After all, he was sure that this place was bound by rules, and one couldn't just contact the outside with any method they had.

But he was completely sure that he had heard Lilith's voice from the mark in his mind just now.

'Lucien? Lucien, is that really you?'

Surprisingly, the voice became clearer and clearer in his head, filled with excitement. He even felt the Crimson Sigil vibrating more frequently as if it detected a similar existence nearby.

'Lucien…why don't you talk? I can clearly feel our connection. Did you also get transported to this pond?'

The voice became more urgent and a little anxious, getting no response. From how Lucien perceived, she seemed quite desperate.

'Oi, Lilith, is this really you? Where are you talking from?'

At first, Lucien thought he might be hallucinating or it might be the test of this pond. After all, the pond was named 'Mirage' and seemed synonymous with illusion.

But when he began to hear her voice clearly and her mention of the pond, Lucien began to believe a bit.

'Lucien…it is really Lucien…haha…I knew you would also come here. Haha…It seems my luck isn't over yet.'

After Lilith got his response, she became extremely excited, as evidenced by her laugh. She seemed quite relieved that she met him here.

'Okay, calm down. I don't have much time here. Tell me first, where are you? Why can't I find you anywhere?'

Lucien stopped her from being too excited and hurriedly asked. After all, he now had less than fifteen minutes left and couldn't waste too much time.

If Lilith was also really in this place, maybe she could help him complete his class ascension quest, who knew?

So, Lucien immediately began scanning the entire pond to see if he could find her figure.

Heck, he even looked at the shadowy figure in the far corner, but saw that the person had already disappeared.

Now that he noticed, he was all alone in this entire Mirage Pond, and there was not even a mouse anywhere.

'Lilith? …Where are you?'

Lucien asked again, genuinely confused. Now he knew that Lilith was also in the same place as he was, but he just couldn't locate her anywhere.

For a moment, he thought she might be obscured by those fogs floating atop the vast pond.

'Me?'

Lilith went silent at his question as if feeling a little awkward. But feeling that Lucien was in a hurry, she lightly whispered through the mark in his mind,

'Lucien, I-I am below you.'

She said, a little ashamed.

'Below?'

Lucien raised his eyebrows and finally lowered his gaze right below him in confusion. But besides the fishing rod in hand and the vast mass of calm water around, he saw nothing.

'What do you mean?'

He couldn't help but ask, although he already had a hunch about what Lilith was talking about.

Sure enough, after he asked, Lilith finally told the news that was just too absurd and unreal,

'Lucien, I-I am the fish that you wish to capture. Didn't you just think about me? That's why I can connect with you like this.'

Lilith said in one breath through the mark, feeling completely ashamed. She might have never thought that one day, she would be fished by Lucien from a pond like an object.

But what could she do?

Honestly, it was her luck that she had some connections with Lucien, and he happened to think about her while her sanity was still intact.

'Fish? You? What the heck happened?'

Although Lucien saw what was coming, he was still gobsmacked by hearing her words. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

'Lucien, let's not talk too much. There isn't much time. Instead, use your fishing rod and try to deepen our connection and fish me out of this place. Otherwise, I might lose my sanity forever in this place.'

Lilith didn't give Lucien much chance to loaf around as she was in urgent need of his help.

Just like Lucien, she was also transported to this place for her class ascension quest. Only because she entered before Lucien, she arrived far earlier than him due to the time dilation this place has.

Moreover, unlike Lucien, Lilith wasn't thrown randomly but given general information and a quest by the World of Origin.

And that quest was to leave this place alive.

She didn't need to fish something out of this lake, but just needed to leave this place, and she would complete her class ascension.

Simple, right?

Unfortunately, it wasn't so simple after all. Poor Lilith, she only had one bronze coin with her to play one time.

Her luck didn't seem that good until she encountered Lucien like this, of course.

Fortunately, she was smart, and before the frog came for inspection, thereby directly killing her, she instead directly entered the Mirage Pond, taking a huge risk.

Only, doing so did save her life, but she was also reduced to a fish all of a sudden, losing all her strength and form.

Heck, she even felt that as time went by, her memory was getting eroded little by little until she would truly turn into one of the countless fish in this Mirage Pond.

Until she heard a call from Lucien.

'Hurry up. If that frog appears, he might interfere with your fishing. Don't believe him.'

Lilith urged Lucien in an anxious voice as she felt that the pond was slowly affecting her more and more.

She didn't want to stay in this dark pond for one more moment.

'Okay, okay, don't panic. Be calm and feel my thoughts.'

Lucien also didn't want to waste time. So, he closed his eyes, recalling the connection he had with Lilith, trying to fish her out of the pond.

'Even if it is Lilith that got fished, it should still count for this quest, right?'

He thought with hope and concentrated more.