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Chapter 690: Rewriting Destiny
Chapter 690: Rewriting Destiny
The River of Destiny was forcibly severed.
The artists of the Seven Seas Alliance were obsessed with their art, intertwining their abilities with it, even to the point of disregarding the concepts of good and evil.
These Awakened Ones were naturally adept at harnessing the power of emotions and souls.
And as a seeker of the Hero's Path, Xilude, upon witnessing the transformation of Alorn, who she had once considered an ordinary person, ignited a flame within herself.
Counterattack? Destiny? Source Essence Memory?
Xilude withdrew everything that was engraved in her soul, and in that instant, she regained the stance of a Seventh Stage Writer.
Whoosh—
Under the cover of night, a gentle breeze blew.
Most Awakened Ones and ordinary people couldn't see what was happening in the air.
But to a select few like Lindsey and the Great Merchant, an unmatched Source Essence Technique was taking shape in mid-air.
"Come!"
"Your story has ended, and mine has just begun."
"O enthusiasts of this pitiful life, join me on the unpredictable stage of destiny!"
Xilude's voice reverberated through the night sky, filling the city.
Whether they were slaves in combat or Awakened Ones in the Green Marsh, all were stunned by her voice.
The artist's soul rapidly expanded.
The overflowing passion infected everyone indiscriminately!
"Yes!"
"This is it, I've found it!"
Xilude burst into laughter.
Manipulating destiny couldn't create something from nothing; it could only search for and amplify possibilities within the existing trajectory.
And Xilude had found those possibilities.
Far away on the battlefields of the Western world, the armies of the Forest Capital, led by the Righteous One, were charging forward.
Slaves controlled by merchants clashed with people empowered by Lindsey's strategic skills, a moment when two concepts converged.
Xilude began to write.
Whoosh—
In mid-air, the pages of destiny slowly changed their course.
Lindsey felt it most acutely.
The Source Essence Technique within the Great Merchant, whom Lindsey had pinned beneath his feet, changed, responding to the defiance of destiny from across the world.
After decades of signing countless slave contracts, his fate was finally severed.
"..."
"Proceed."
Lindsey uttered a single word.
The Law Knight, his eyes devoid of light, remained silent and expressionless.
Following the inertia of life, he thrust his final strike downward.
"Damn!"
The Great Merchant struggled.
But Lindsey had no reason to hold back.
As he pressed down with the Extinction Blade, the external Source Essence Core of the Great Merchant shattered, and the value he had just mobilized dissipated.
Crack—
The pristine longsword pierced the crimson heart.
The Kingfisher's eyes widened in a futile attempt to struggle, but with his Source Essence Core destroyed, his ordinary physique made him no different from a common man.
Except for the searing pain in his chest.
He felt his life slipping away from the wound in his chest.
"..."
Smack—
Alorn's body slumped forward, finally releasing the sword he had been holding.
The Law Knight had fulfilled his duty.
"Heh..."
Across the street, Xilude's memory faded completely.
Destiny, causality, and her own skills were all refuted by her extreme emotions, and the cost was the total loss of everything.
The girl's body slid down the wall, about to collapse onto the ground covered in rubble.
"..."
Lindsey released his grip on the body of the Great Merchant beneath him.
He was about to support Alorn, who was about to collapse, and go to the street to help Xilude.
But at that moment, a powerful will surged forth from the corpse that should have been dead.
This wasn't the will of a merchant!
Lindsey immediately switched modules.
But before he could activate his Focused State, a grayish-black entity burst out of the Great Merchant's body and swiftly rushed towards the Death Core in the center of the ruins.
Crack!
The Corrupting Force within the Death Core underwent an unprecedented transformation.
The grayish-black will was merging with the vitality within the Death Core.
A vast and cold entity, assuming a dominant stance, began to manifest within.
The speed was beyond imagination!
Lindsey had just activated the Puzzle Game module.
The default skills took effect, and a dazzling white light enveloped his vision, revealing information naturally.
[Resurrected Divine Will - The Divine Will that tempted the merchant has transferred to the Death Core, rapidly extracting power to revive its own life. This process locks in the absolute nature of fate, unalterable.]
"The will of a god?"
"Locking in the absolute nature of fate?"
As he spoke, Lindsey switched modules and entered the Focused State.
Everything had happened in an instant.
Before his eyes, the lifeless body of the Great Merchant continued to relax, and the flow of blood from his chest wound almost stopped.
Alorn released his longsword, and his body, which should have fallen to the ground, remained suspended in that final act of will.
On the distant street, Xilude's collapsed body leaned against the wall, not fully fallen.
A smile of triumph, symbolizing her successful defiance of fate, still hung on her lips.
"..."
In a world where time flowed more slowly, Lindsey watched as the Death Core's power swelled.
He recalled the introduction Aeliana had given him about merchants back in the Forest Courtyard.
In Platinum City, where money was worshipped as the ultimate power, the capitalists were cold-blooded and ruthless, driven solely by profit, as common sense would dictate.
But merchants like them, who didn't view money as everything, were more moderate in their approach, not overly obsessed with monetary gain.
The Kingfisher's skill undoubtedly belonged to the latter.
The reason why this Great Merchant had transformed into this state in the Barren World might not have been his own doing, but rather the interference of a divine will that led him to make these terrifying choices.
Lindsey's gaze lowered.
Everything unfolding before him was revealing a deeper secret.
Deviators and the Abyss were not even the entirety of what was happening here. Those deities who had once ruled the world and had been defeated with great effort and sacrifice by heroes were also acting in secret.
They, like the Abyss defeated countless years ago, were operating in the shadows, attempting to achieve their goals during the critical moments of the City of Law's transformation.
On the Barren Land, the world's vitality was fading.
This was likely connected to the will that was trying to revive itself.
"Sigh..."
Lindsey let out a sigh.
Then, with a determined look, he held the Destiny Pebble he had previously searched for but not used.
[Consumable: Destiny Pebble]
[Using the Destiny Pebble, one can completely deprive a designated target of their fate and transfer it to another person or object.]
["Fate is but a puppet in my hands!
Have you ever read your own script? It's mine now!"]
[An extremely powerful fate-interfering item, its value is immeasurable.]
(End of Chapter)
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