Angel's gaze traveled over Reynolds. His soul was remarkably pure, without the slightest impurity inside it. Compared with other people's souls, Reynolds's was also brimming with vitality.
"What are you looking at?" Nis asked. Ever since the purple behemoth left, Angel had been staring at Reynolds, which made him curious.
"I'm wondering whether Reynolds has something on him that increases his luck." Angel voiced his suspicion.
Nis shook his head with a laugh. "How could that be? I examined Reynolds's soul as soon as I arrived."
Nis gestured toward his eyes. "As long as it's hidden inside a soul, nothing escapes my eyes. There's definitely nothing strange in Reynolds's soul, much less an item that increases luck like you're talking about."
Cindy had overheard them. She asked quietly, "Lord Nis, could Reynolds have been born lucky?"
"You think so too? You think that Demonic Beast left because of his luck?" Nis asked, puzzled.
Cindy hesitated, then nodded. "That sea beast came by once before. We saw it swimming straight toward us, but halfway here, it turned around and left."
"That happened?" Nis asked in surprise.
The plump apprentice on the other side thought for a moment. "Something else occurred to me. Since we started traveling with Reynolds, we haven't run into another storm. Before that, we kept encountering all kinds of terrifying weather in these waters."
Cindy nodded too. "And when we found Reynolds, Lord Feiluo called him a lucky fellow. Reynolds had been wandering deep in the Mist Belt without suffering a single attack."
As they brought up one incident after another, details none of them had noticed before came back to mind.
Taken separately, none seemed unusual. Strung together, though, all those coincidences began to look strange.
Reynolds truly seemed like a child favored by the heavens, always