Death to Power
Copyright© 2025 by TheSmartOne
Chapter 64: Divine Luck and Greedy Girl
“No, really ... did I anger some divine being?” Kaden asked, this time seriously, as he stood in that strange place of darkness.
How could someone be this unlucky?
Even dying to the right monster was proving to be difficult.
He sighed inwardly and shook his head. He’d had enough. Might as well be done with it.
And as if the system understood that exact thought—
[You have died.]
[At what point in time do you wish to return?]
Obvious question. No hesitation there. But then—
A thought crawled in.
“Will I still have everything I’ve obtained ... even if I return to a time before I had them?” Kaden asked, a flicker of real curiosity in his voice.
It was a pretty important thing to know.
[You will still have them.]
The system’s answer was cool, mechanical—but it made Kaden’s heart skip.
Because if that was true ... if that was really true...
Then he could obtain the same treasures, the same potions, the same artifacts again.
Again.
Stack power upon power.
“ ... Well. Things are getting interesting,” Kaden muttered with a grin before focusing back on the question.
When did he want to return?
Obvious.
Hell no he was going back to the part where every beast in the zone wanted his blood.
“I want to return to the moment the bear died because of its own incompetence,” he declared.
[You will need 650 Death Coins.]
[Do you wish to continue?]
“How many Death Coins do I have?”
[1250.]
“Then do it.”
[DING! Confirmed.]
Then—
[You have been killed by the rare-type intermediate-rank monster Acidic Slime. You have gained a hidden trait fragment from the slime. You have gained the trait: Synthesis.]
[Trait—Synthesis: You are able to transform and obtain something better almost everything by combining them.]
Kaden blinked.
Stared at the description.
“ ... You’ve got to be kidding me,” he muttered.
He’d wanted to die to the shadow panther. That thing looked rare. Dangerous. Mysterious.
But no. A slime had gotten him.
A jelly blob.
And from that ... he got this?
A trait that could combine techniques, traits, materials—everything?
Kaden stood frozen.
“ ... Okay. Fine. It’s the last time I’ll ever curse my luck again,” he said at last.
Because he wasn’t unlucky.
He was too damn lucky.
A grin crept onto his face as he kept reading the trait description, rereading it, memorizing every line. With this...
He could do so many things.
Like obtaining a treasure, dying, going back in time, and getting the same treasure again
—then combining them into something better.
So many applications.
So many ways.
The only limits now were his mastery of the trait...
... and his imagination.
He grinned once more and dismissed the panel.
“Death, revive me.”
The black clock appeared.
Tick—
...
Kaden opened his eyes inside the poison fog once again.
In front of him—the dead body of the bear.
First thing he did was check his space ring and relief rushed through him when he saw both the old bear corpse and the Terraclaw Devourer were still there.
“It’s real...” he muttered, smiling to himself as he approached the bear’s body.
He took out the old bear’s body from his space ring then placed the two identical bear corpses side by side.
Using the trait was easy. You have to touch the things you wanted to synthesize and will it.