The nineteenth item was a small crystal that innately glowed with the colors of the rainbow.
"That is a shard of the Core of Faust that dislodged naturally hundreds of years ago. If added to a piece of equipment, it will gain a random law of the universe as its thema. If you use it as the foci of a location or the core of a formation, it will boost the effectiveness by 1,000% at the least. Finally, if you find some way to graft it onto your body or imbibe it, you will instantly become a Grandmaster."
Darius omitted the part where one would never be able to leave Faust as a consequence, as it should not really matter that much to Faust's natives.
He then pointed to the final item, a bow that was carved from what seemed to be obsidian.
"That is the bow of Houyi. Arrows fired from it never miss their target and can travel through any medium, be it space, void of time to reach its target for sure. However, weak enemies will not be harmed by this bow, as it is meant for killing primordials. The more powerful and larger the foe, the more damage it will deal."
Finished, Darius placed his hands down and glared at Darla with murderous intent. Even Gunner, whose face displayed shock, suddenly had his greenish aura billow out as he moved forward to kill this woman.
What rubbish, how did she deserve to hold such items on her person? From now on, they would belong to his master!
Gunner was aware that Darius was slightly hesitant for some reason but he had no such qualms.
No matter what price Gunner had to pay, he would kill this woman and loot them off her body. Even if the whole camp came to protect her, Gunner would fight until his bones were broken. His resolve was hard as a rock.
Darius was extremely conflicted at this moment, so his aura was chaotic. A part of him, the cautious part, told him to play it safe and let this matter go. After all, he cannot possibly swallow all the good items on Faust, and a conflict now against this woman would end in unpredictable ways.
The remaining part of him was cursing him for his fearfulness, demanding that he quickly kill this woman and grab what he can.
What did he have to fear from the Thieves Guild when he already had Marasmus on his plate? Besides, would they even dare to seek trouble with him given their misconception about his power?
Even if he didn't need all the items, he at least had to secure Mjolnir by any means necessary!
The rewards were too good to pass up!
However, before Darius or Gunner could act, Darla laughed gleefully and clapped her hands. "Hehe, I always knew I've managed to collect some good stuff, but I could never tell what they were for."
Darla's eyes became playful as she leaned on the desk with her chin supported by both her knuckles. "Against two powerful and young Adepts like you in such a small place, there is a good chance for me to die, especially if you add your two undead into the mix."
"So why don't we do this. I'll gift you these 20 items to solidify our friendship, and you tell me the uses of the rest of my goodies. Don't worry I feel those are even better than these, but let's keep it to this level for now. That way, you'll get some good stuff and I'll have some good stuff. All us 'friends' will profit!"
Darius and Gunner's killing intent receded as they both stared at Darla speechlessly. Both of them felt what Jeanna and Jania/Junia Hu had felt when Darius had suppressed them, a natural feeling of respect burgeoning in their hearts, no matter how much they tried to suppress it.
Darius wrung his lips. He was certain that if he could see his own affinity towards others, Darla would be at least at Friendly lvl 2, and the same probably held true for Gunner, if not higher.
Just look at these 20 items. Who in their right mind could bear to give them away?
Basically for free, no less?!
What kind of mental strength and wisdom was needed to see the situation and bypass greed? Even Darius had struggled while Gunner had completely collapsed into greed.
Even if she had better items, that was only her guess. Until Darius Analyzed them, no one could truly know. She was taking a big gamble, because her second batch could have worthless products. It would take a great deal of Luck to… of Luck to…
Darius' expression changed as he gazed at the smiling Darla, who was still watching him playfully. For the first time, a smidgen of fear emerged within him towards someone, not based on their power but their mental prowess.
All this time, Darius had assumed that since Luck wasn't really something one could sense by someone's life level, Darla - and all other Faustians - could not tell their innate Luck. However, from the way Darla was behaving, she was clearly aware of her extremely high Luck!
In fact, Darius' shock made him forget one important thing. Darla had Luck at the Adept level, so she had naturally acquired the basic ability of Luck, Deflection.
Just like how other Faustians could instinctively tell how to use their basic abilities and why they got it, Darla too could tell that she was blessed with abnormal providence from getting the basic ability for Luck alone.
From her perspective, it was her Luck that had brought Darius here instead of the Assassins Guild to seek information! It was - literally - her Luck that had made Darius want to befriend her, leading him to appraise some of her goods!
Going one step beyond, it was even her Luck that had made it so that Darius - who had become a rare Itemancer - one of the few in the entire world who could actually tell the true use of her items, would appear today!
She was thoroughly convinced of that!
Her Luck had allowed her to gather these items easily and without much trouble, some falling down like a pie from the sky! It was her Luck that she got assigned to this encampment by her faction as the one in charge, meaning she could bring these items out easily!
It was her Luck that made it so that the camp was almost empty since apart from the gate guards, everyone else was busy gathering info!
Most importantly, even if she handed these 20 items over to Darius, her Luck assured her that the rest would not be any worse!
Her Luck practically guaranteed that something very beneficial would happen to her in the future through his hands, for that was how it had always been the case!
