The command tent was pitched in the exact center of the ruined fortress courtyard.
Lucifer stood alone at the table.
He opened his Dimensional Vault. The dark spatial rift tore open the air in front of him.
He reached in and pulled out the small, intricately carved wooden box. He set it gently on the wooden table. It was the Sovereign's Casket, the legendary loot dropped by the vaporized Avatar of Malakor.
The box pulsed with ancient, unaligned magic. A complex golden lock secured the lid. There was no keyhole.
[System Warning: Item Locked by Fate.]
[Requirement: Nullify the localized probability matrix to open.]
In his past life, items locked by Fate were considered cursed. They required specific, nearly impossible conditions to open, like the blood of a specific royal bloodline or a spell cast during a solar eclipse.
Most adventurers threw them away or sold them to clueless nobles.
Lucifer was not a standard adventurer.
