Sui Xiong had paid attention to Fela Kenji for a while before.
That pigman chef himself possessed no particularly outstanding talent, but Sui Xiong had noticed that his luck was exceptionally good. Not consistently good, but during a certain period, it had become astonishingly good.
This sort of thing was not uncommon. A person's luck was like waves on the sea, rising and falling, with peaks and troughs. It was just that ordinary people's luck did not fluctuate so violently. Generally speaking, someone with good luck would usually remain fairly lucky—for instance, Kabbalah, the chief priest of Dar Territory, was such a person. And someone with bad luck would naturally tend to remain unlucky—for instance, Combrona. Perhaps marrying a goddess had used up all the luck he would have in his life; over these years, his luck had never been much good. He often encountered all sorts of thorny problems at work and suffered constant bumps and scrapes in life. If his own abilities had not been strong enough, he probably would have been unable to keep going long ago.
Cases like Fela's, where someone's luck was ordinarily average but suddenly surged during a particular period, were relatively rare. To use an example from Earth, it was like an ordinary nobody suddenly winning a lottery jackpot worth tens of millions one day... that was roughly the feeling.
Of course, in terms of social standing, a jackpot worth tens of millions on Earth was probably not comparable to a high-ranking mage in this world. In this world, the social status of a legendary powerhouse was roughly equivalent to the core echelon of a mid-sized country on Earth, or the secondary core echelon of a great power. Using China as an example, they were probably comparable to those who held real authority