Limitless Fortune: I Collect SSS-Rank Skills as Payment-Chapter 60: Dimensional Treasure Vault

"We’re here."

Malcolm’s voice echoed around, drawing Lucien’s attention.

"Ugh... where are we now?"

Still feeling dizzy, Lucien grabbed his head and slowly lifted his eyes to look ahead, only to be stunned once again by what he saw.

"What the fuck..."

He couldn’t help but curse out loud, as what he was seeing was even more surprising than that globe in the previous hall.

"Hehe... now do you believe my Goldveil family once owned an empire?"

Malcolm laughed at Lucien’s reaction. He felt good slapping his grandson’s face with facts once in a while.

Unfortunately for him, Lucien clearly didn’t hear what he said, as he was too busy gazing at the massive treasure vault suspended in the void before his eyes.

As he focused his gaze, he found that they were actually standing in the void on a platform made of dark stone, shaped like a flat disc.

Due to the thin mist surrounding it, it almost looked like a drifting cloud.

But that wasn’t the point. Beneath the platform and all around him was an endless void he couldn’t fathom. It was so dark that just being there for a moment made him feel suffocated.

And within that darkness, Lucien noticed countless twinkling stars arranged neatly. Only, they weren’t stars at all.

"Are they... treasure chambers?"

Lucien couldn’t help but mumble in disbelief as he saw enormous treasure chambers hovering at various distances in the void.

Each looked magnificent, made up of colossal cubes of stone and crystal of unknown origin, suspended silently in midair.

Moreover, Lucien could still see inside those closed chambers clearly.

He saw that the closest vaults were brimming with mountains of gold coins, silver ingots, and jewel-encrusted armor heaped like nothing.

But that was just the beginning. The farther he looked, the rarer the treasures seemed to get.

With just a glance, he could already see chambers filled with armor, weapons, and relics radiating strong elemental energy.

Not only that, there were entire growing gardens teeming with unknown herbs, each one glowing faintly with magic, as if hiding secrets waiting to be uncovered.

"Haha... yes, they are," Malcolm replied with a smile.

"After all, our Goldveil family was a merchant clan. We flourished through trade back then."

He waved his hand, and the platform they stood on began to slowly drift inward.

Lucien noticed that the deeper and farther each vault chamber hung in this endless dark, the rarer and more dangerous the treasures inside became.

In one chamber, he even saw hoards of large magical beasts frozen in blocks of transparent crystal.

"This space is called the Dimensional Vault, developed by our Goldveil family in its prime," Malcolm said as he noticed Lucien’s growing curiosity.

"Don’t be too surprised. Vaults like this were quite common back then. They were generally used for trade and transportation."

"Of course, only those with the direct bloodline of the Goldveil family can open one," he added, with a hint of pride.

"Unfortunately, with the advent of the World of Origin, many such treasure vaults completely disappeared. I only found this one after so many years."

He sighed, a touch of sadness in his eyes.

"It seems the restrictions on this vault have loosened. Now, anyone with direct lineage of Goldveil blood can open it."

Malcolm was about to continue when Lucien suddenly cried out, interrupting him.

"What is that?"

Lucien reflexively pointed toward the farthest reaches of the vault.

Hidden among the drifting ethereal mists, he suddenly saw a massive shape coiled inside a chamber so large it resembled a fortress.

But that wasn’t even the point, as realizing what it was, Lucien couldn’t help but blur out in a loud voice:

"Is that a dragon?"

The creature he saw looked exactly like the dragons he’d known in his previous life, only this time, it was real and right there in front of him.

The massive dragon was covered in blazing red scales that shimmered like molten metal, its horns curving back like black spears. It coiled around the enormous chamber, eyes closed as if sleeping.

This time, Lucien was truly shocked.

’Did the Goldveil really dare to sell dragons?’

From what Malcolm had said, dragons seemed to be higher-level existences during Soren’s prime.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have had an entire massive continent to themselves, named after them.

Yet here was one, probably killed and placed in storage for trade. Of course, he was shocked.

"Haha... of course it’s a dragon. What else could it be?" freewebnoveℓ.com

Seeing Lucien so surprised, Malcolm stopped the moving platform and showed a proud smile.

"But you don’t need to be so impressed. It’s just a juvenile dragon. In its prime, our family even sold adults; this one’s nothing."

Now that he had a chance to show off, there was no way Malcolm would let it slide.

He even took the opportunity to taunt Lucien, since he doubted his stories about the family, basically calling him a braggart right to his face.

"See? Lucien, as my grandson and the sole heir of the Goldveil family in Soren, you should start seeing beyond that narrow little mind of yours."

"How can you doubt your own family?"

"Now do you finally see how awesome your grandpa is?"

Malcolm said with a smug grin, lightly reprimanding him, as if he were the one who had slain the dragon and stored it here just to flex.

Sure enough, hearing him, the corner of Lucien’s mouth twitched as he stared at the man, speechless.

’Why are you so awesome? Isn’t it the Goldveil family that’s awesome? You were kicked out of the empire, remember? What’s so impressive about that?’

Lucien wanted to say it out loud, but held back.

He still had some trace of filial piety left, and honestly, he felt like his grandfather’s ego was too fragile to take a hit.

"Just a mere juvenile dragon, and you’re gawking at it like a fool."

Malcolm didn’t stop, though,

"Tch tch... You clearly haven’t even grown hair yet. Still wet behind the ears."

’Okay, that’s it. Screw filial piety. This gramps has gone too far.’

Lucien finally couldn’t take it anymore.

He was standing there, having a life-altering moment staring at a real dragon, something most people would never even dream of, and this old man was dead set on ruining it.

How could he let him go scot-free after that?

"Grandpa, I understand. But... although you said so much about our family’s past, I’m still confused about one thing."

Lucien suddenly feigned a look of understanding, then tilted his head slightly and asked.

"Oh? What is it? Tell me, and I shall enlighten you."

Malcolm, seeing his grandson finally showing some sense, waved his hand grandly, clearly in a good mood.

"Cough... okay then..."

Lucien coughed awkwardly, then raised the question he had been holding back.

"You said that when the World of Origin engulfed the entire Velatrix continent, our Goldveil family disappeared completely with it.

And the reason you survived was because you were on the Carag continent at the time, away from the family, right?"

He asked, to which Malcolm simply nodded, acquiescing to his words.

"Okay, I understand. But... one thing I still don’t get is, why were you on this continent in the first place?"

Lucien pressed on, asking the question Malcolm had clearly avoided from the start.

"Since you can control this vault, we must be direct descendants of the Goldveil family, right? But if that’s true, why were you sent to this barren place at all?"

The more Lucien spoke, the uglier Malcolm’s face became, like he had just swallowed a fly.

Lucien already knew he’d hit a sore spot by the expression on his face.

So, fueled by excitement, he added more fuel to the fire.

Updat𝒆d fr𝑜m fr𝒆ewebnove(l).com