Chapter 193: Chrono Snare (SS-rank)
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Ding!
[You are being targeted by a Prophetic Skill: Chrono Snare (SS-rank)]
[Your time has briefly paused. Your S-rank skill: King’s Grace cannot nullify its effect.]
[Do you want to use the GAP stat to evolve into the Passive: King’s Will?]
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’Where am I?’
Soren thought, feeling the darkness surrounding him all of a sudden.
Just now, he was talking with Mireya Solhart, and suddenly his vision changed abruptly out of nowhere.
In the entire time, he didn’t even realize someone used any skill on him. In fact, even now, Crimson Queen Lash was still silent as if he wasn’t attacked at all.
But looking at the huge blue panel floating in the darkness in front, Soren knew that wasn’t the case.
’Prophetic Skill: Chrono Snare? SS-rank skill?’
Weirdly though, despite being attacked, Soren found himself absolutely calm as if nothing would faze his mind.
’So that Mireya is a Prophet? Why don’t I know about this?’
In the game, she merely appeared as a side character who helped Evan occasionally. As far as he knew, she was a Mage in the game and not an Elemental Mage like Aurelia, though.
’Interesting! So, she is a natural awakener?’
He readily guessed the situation he was in the moment he got a tip from his system. If Mireya possessed another class alongside being a mage, then the only reason behind that was she was a natural awakener.
It meant she awakened her class from birth. Generally, hunters awaken their class only after a certain age, but Mireya seemed different.
She awakened a class from birth and then awakened another one normally later on, wielding dual classes this way.
Although it was a very rare case, it wasn’t that surprising, to be honest. Soren knew a few more figures in the Lover’s Labyrinth like that.
For example, the notorious demon servant, Black Witch, was one who was a healer by birth.
In the world of Gaia, such individuals were often regarded as blessings from the gods or reincarnations of great figures from the past. Because of this belief, their value was extremely high everywhere.
Not to mention, the Prophet class stood in a league of its own even there. Given all this, it made sense for Mireya to conceal her true class.
’So...she noticed my weirdness, huh. No wonder she wanted to meet me suddenly.’
All the confusion that had plagued Soren completely disappeared, and instead, a faint smile appeared on his lips.
After all, in a way, wasn’t he also the prophet?
He who played this game before knew the events of this world, maybe more clearly than Mireya.
Maybe that’s why this revelation didn’t really make him falter much. Rather, it managed to make him curious.
’Come to think of it, wasn’t there a weird organisation later introduced in the game. What was its name?’
Soren was trying to remember when another prompt from the system appeared suddenly,
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Warning!
[Someone is trying to enter your soul and tamper with your consciousness.]
[Since your time has stopped briefly, you may not be able to stop the intrusion.]
[Do you want to use the GAP stat to evolve your passive, King’s Grace, immediately?]
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This time, the warning was serious. So, Soren didn’t waste time and immediately nodded lightly,
’Yeah, evolve it.’
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Ding!
[You have used 1 GAP point on your passive skill.]
[Skill: King’s Grace (S-rank) has successfully evolved into King’s Will (SS-rank)]
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The moment the system prompt sounded, Soren immediately felt the change. Except this time, he wasn’t in his physical body.
Instead, he found himself within a part of his own consciousness.
So rather than sensing the shift in his physique, he felt it in his mind as his perception expanded rapidly, tearing through the surrounding darkness with absolute force.
’This...’
Only then did he realize where he was, as he saw those complex runes suspended high in the void, like tiny stars.
The same skills that he got from Elise before, with his Link feature.
Only, this time, besides those, he also saw other stars around, brighter than them, representing his class and skills in their purest form.
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Ding!
[Your Passive, King’s Will has successfully nullified the effect of the Prophetic Skill: Chrono Snare (SS-rank).]
[Your time had resumed. You can now leave your consciousness at any time.]
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"What? Why is his soul so strong? Why is it so hard to use my skill?"
Soren heard Mireya’s voice the moment the system gave its prompt, right inside his consciousness.
With just a thought, he could even see her tall figure anxiously biting her lips, her hand atop his head.
Soren could feel her using some kind of skill on him, trying to pry into his mind.
Unfortunately for her, Soren’s soul was too strong.
He directly increased it to 20 points before.
She might not have any issue doing this to Evan because his soul was weak, but now...
"My SP is at 15 points, and yet I can’t enter him. Should I... force my way through?"
She didn’t have much time left. Chrono Snare was an incredible skill, but it was also heavily draining. For reference, just the cooldown alone was a month for this.
Besides, it wouldn’t work twice on the same target again.
"But if I do that, his soul might get injured."
No matter what, Soren was just a variable after all. He wasn’t an enemy of hers.
Although she didn’t have a good impression of him, attacking his soul was going too far. For a moment, she was in a dilemma.
’Tch... now you are thinking of me? Isn’t it too late?’
Soren thought, a bit speechless.
To be honest, if not for them being inside the Elite Hunter Academy and knowing that Mireya wasn’t hostile, he might have directly blasted this girl into oblivion.
After all, she was dangerous.
Just like he was a variable in her story, she was one in his too.
If he let such a person go who already had eyes on him, he would be on edge constantly.
But...
’She is quite useful...’
Soren didn’t do that, though, all because he found her incredibly attractive. Of course, not looks-wise, but her potential.
’If my guess is right and she is indeed behind that organisation called The Axiom Registry, then... it is best for me to get her when she is still young.’
He thought, remembering the events in the game.
The Axiom Registry was the sole SS-rank information guild that was later introduced in the game, Lover’s Labyrinth.
An information guild but SS-rank. Of course, it was an anomaly.
For a moment, a sensation swept through the world of Gaia, filled with extreme curiosity.
But in the end, nobody really knew who the guild master was.
There was only this rumor that the person behind it might be a Prophet due to how accurate the information given by that guild was.
In fact, Soren would have thought none of it if he hadn’t realized Mireya’s class just now.
’Even if she wasn’t the one behind that guild, it doesn’t matter. As long as I can get her...’
Soren needed an investor and a helper for his goal, and his luck directly brought that person right in front of him.
Of course, he didn’t want to lose her.
’System, open the Eros Treasury.’
But that didn’t mean he would be lenient with Mireya. She dared to attack him like this even though he did nothing to her.
Then, Soren also had no qualms using equally nefarious methods on her for his goal.
To be honest, Mireya came at the right time as he really wanted to use those absurd artifacts for once.
’Just... what should I use?’
