Inside an illusion, everything wasn't real. And so even if he tried to use his spirit sense to see through everything, he wasn't actually using his spirit sense in full power, or even half of it.
If he managed to use his spirit sense in full power, then the entire illusion would be broken. And so, he built another array, one that could augment his spirit sense to some extent.
He knew his breaking array would cause a change, subtle and minute that could easily be missed, happening somewhere away from him and he'd not notice it.
He built the second array to make sure he'd miss a single thing. He stood in the middle of that array and activated both.
*Sizzle!*
"As expected…" he saw a little change, some sort of a flame that appeared just one kilometre to his northwest. The fire spark just appeared and vanished in a blink of an eye, yet he managed to capture it.
That single moment was enough to confirm his early doubts. And so he started to think about how big the formation he'd make to tear this entire illusion down.
As he thought about this, there was another thing that he had to think about… "Any illusion would either aim to kill someone, or entrap the person inside an endless loop… From the nature of this place, I can tell that the monster aimed for the latter. And that's very weird…"
William knew that monster wouldn't do something wrong, wouldn't commit a mistake. This illusion was meant to entrap him inside, and that meant something bad was going on out there.
He was right. The moment he vanished into that bubble thing, and the world started to tremble and crack. The clouds in the sky started to shine in dangerous grey lights, showing many weird looking symbols there, ready to get activated.
The moment William stepped inside the academy and the two deadly traps got activated simultaneously. The monster left the entrapping illusion there just in case William managed to find his way out from that deadly fog.
The monster wanted to entrap William inside for long, long enough for the two traps to get fully activated. The ground trap wasn't that deadly with the measurements William and others took. But the sky trap was indeed lethal.
The monster had a way to see through fate and destiny machinations just like how William suspected. But as it was weak, its abilities were limited, and it had to pay a hefty price for doing this.
He saw that William would get a way to survive the falling of the ground, but not the sky trap. The monster placed all of its hopes over the sky trap, and wanted to let William get sealed inside the illusion until the grand trap of the sky would be activated.
Yet the monster didn't even consider the possibility of its actions to attract the attention of another force, one that was experienced in dealing with the sky trap, the deadly curse it laid for William.
"Leo, look! It's happening!"
Leo was standing on the edge of this region, never stepping a single foot inside. He knew how this curse worked and wouldn't risk himself or anyone on his side to get in the middle of such a deadly curse.
Yet he already scattered his men all over the region, placing them in the right places to counter such a curse. Jeremy was by his side, and the latter just punched Leo's shoulder, extricating him from a long and harsh meeting with the higher ups.
Leo started to speak with the Cardinal Council after ending his talk with William. He knew what William wanted was against the rules, but the latter got a chip to bargain with.
Yet things didn't go easy as Leo expected. The council mistook what happened and blamed him for all this. He tried to convince them that William was special, but the only special folks in the cardinals' eyes were those blessed with the fate and destiny spirits.
But the main issue still remained unsolved. William knew the identity of the one who caused all this, and he hinted that this person or thing was going to cause more trouble later on.
The code of their work dictated that they had to find the source of any trouble and seal it. This fate wasn't like killing, as they had to purify the troublemaker spirit and fix all the wrongdoings it did to the entire fate and destiny world.
This was always an easy task, as anyone daring to touch the realm of fate and destiny would be stuck beside the disaster they caused. But on a few occasions, the ones causing such disasters weren't found easily. And in each and every single case like this, they'd end up suffering a lot to capture that troublemaker.
William didn't know that the chip he randomly thought of was something quite valuable in the eyes of that cult.
And that was the reason behind all the intense discussion that happened in that meeting. Leo didn't say much, as he knew these old geezers would first hammer him down before finally accepting what William requested.
After all, the value of having such a troublemaker outweighed the risks of letting a single master learn more about their methods and world. Besides, William already knew about their world thanks to this incident.
So, letting him in and telling him more wasn't going to hurt. Leo knew as long as the master didn't have any spirit related to fate and destiny, learning about such information wasn't going to help or change anything.
Yet in the middle of all this, Jeremy disturbed the meeting by what he said. Leo was too focused in speaking with the higher ups and didn't notice what was going on in the world around.
The clouds were indeed changing. The black clouds started to shine brightly with black light, giving the impression that the world was coming to an end. Many mysterious symbols flashed up there, giving anyone seeing them an eerie feeling.
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