Chapter 988 - Formless Fate
Chapter 988 Formless Fate
Cindral had just left when dust rose from the wholly collapsed crater. A towering figure stumbled out of the ruins, dragging something behind it.
Greem looked over and realized that the elementium magical machine was on the edge of being scrapped. Its body was badly torn up, covered in fearsome scratch and claw marks everywhere. Much of the defensive armor protecting the vital parts were almost entirely destroyed. The machine’s internal core array was exposed for all to see.
Be dragged along in its right hand was the Blade Princess Katherine, who looked to be in even worse condition.
She looked like a tattered bag that had been slashed full of holes. The elementium magical machine had dragged her out of the rocks by a few metallic appendages extending from her spine as if she was a limp dog.
One had to admit that the Third Grade mechanical adept was indeed one resilient person. Even as severely wounded as she was, she still clung on to life. A weak trace of life aura could be sensed within her body.
As Greem casually gathered a Vicious Fireball within his palm to properly exterminate this mechanical witch that had bothered him for so long, his eyes swept past the strange mechanical skeleton exposed on her abdomen. He hesitated for a moment and tossed the fireball somewhere into the distance.
A loud explosion rang out. The Vicious Fireball killed the Silver Knight–who had barely escaped from the volcanic mudslide and surging lava–before he could understand what was happening.
Naturally, Alice didn’t know how furious the mysterious First Witch of Fate might be. All she knew for sure was how incredibly overjoyed she was.
The mist hovering above the divination crystal had been mostly dispelled now. Fate’s trajectory indicated that Greem would be able to return soon successfully. Alice specially held a prayer ceremony because of this, using the power of the pseudo-artifact Staff of Divination to send Greem the blessings of Fate.
It couldn’t be helped. Alice knew that such ‘weak’ power could not compare to the likes of Great Witch Maysa, nor could it dispel the curse of misfortune that had been placed upon Greem. However, this prayer could still help Greem resist part of the effects of the misfortune.
Otherwise, if a Great Witch’s curse were to affect Greem without any hindrance, even the most unlikely misfortune would befall Greem as if it was an everyday occurrence.
Fate Witches might not be able to curse a person to death directly, but they could definitely plunge them into the deepest of misfortunes.
Greem might look unstoppable and dominant in Henvic Plane, seemingly invincible and undefeated. However, if he were dragged into a vortex of calamity, unfortunate things would happen to him every other minute. Running into a ghost upon exiting his home was a small matter, but running into a Fourth Grade Holy Knight upon exiting his house would be a disaster!
Pouring the power of Fate into Henvic Plane from a distant world in the realms beyond to subtly change the proper trajectory of the world and cause certain events to became ‘certainty’ all demanded a ridiculous amount of Fate power. Moreover, the planar consciousness of Henvic Plane itself would not allow an outsider to interfere in the operation of its system. The two forces would clash, causing the initially clear trajectory of Fate to become increasingly chaotic and turbulent.
There was the planar consciousness of a small plane, a powerful Fate Witch, and an incredibly weak Alice who continued to grit her teeth and persist. The formerly smooth and peaceful Fate trajectory had long since flown off the rails of its original path under the pull and distortion of these three separate forces. It was now rumbling and thundering down a track that no one could control or predict.
The only thing that Alice could do in this situation was to bolster Greem’s luck by as much as possible.
It didn’t matter where the freight train of Fate was heading. The more powerful the individual, the better they could take control of the chaotic and disorderly situation!
This chaos in Henvic Plane manifested itself in this moment. As Greem, Remi, and the army of plague beasts sprinted through the forest, just a small stream across from them were two powerful Fourth Grade Holy Knights rushing to Gangsas Volcano in the opposite direction with a large army of holy knights.
Under the guidance of the muddied fate, this mighty army of holy knights had given up on crossing the river, despite the idea having crossed their minds countless times. They were always deterred by one reason or another.