Chapter 28 - Speedrunning Good Karma
Mason spent six hours becoming the weirdest civic hero in Nevada.
He exposed a rigged street shell game.
+4 Fortune.
He caught a restaurant owner skimming server tips and forced him to return the money.
+7.
He used Thread Sight to find a missing dog trapped behind a storm fence.
+2.
He helped a tourist realize the "winning lottery ticket" she was about to sell for cash was fake.
+5.
Tasha drove.
Ivy tracked black fortune knots.
Raymond complained that none of this counted as traditional cultivation.
"Traditional cultivation involves mountains," he said.
Mason climbed onto a parking barrier. "Mountain."
By sunset, he had ninety-nine Fortune Points.
"One more," Tasha said.
A luxury car nearly hit a cyclist in the crosswalk.
Mason pulled the cyclist back with Empty Pocket Step.
+1.
[REQUIREMENT MET.]
[ANCHOR OF GENUINE VALUE REQUIRED.]
The system asked him to sacrifice something he truly valued.
Mason looked at Lou's token.
No.
His phone.
Definitely not.
Then he took out his old Aurora Crown employee badge.
The thing represented humiliation, rent money, friends, survival, and the last year of his old life.
He placed it in the Ledger.
The badge dissolved.
[KARMA VAULT CREATED.]
Inside Mason's chest, a silver space opened.
Then the whole city groaned as the Clearinghouse began its final pull.
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