"What possibly could go wrong? Huh? That backlash didn't kill us, and all we'd suffer will be just the same backlash. Don't tell me you hated those ten days of vacation and rest."
"Being in the same place for ten days without being able to go out isn't nice," Ro complained, feeling like this wasn't as fun as William tried to present it.
"Not to mention in that monster tide, I felt terrible not being there and fighting," Lagn sighed, speaking the mind of most of his friends here.
"Just accept such little loss for a greater gain," William's tone didn't change, and was still filled with unexplained excitement to everyone, "Without risk, how do you expect to gain big? Let's go, we need to see if we can spy on that man or not…"
"Fine," Lara sucked in a deep breath, "but I'm telling you, this time at the first sign of that fierce resistance, I'll cancel everything."
"Fair enough," William shrugged, feeling somehow that such a thing wouldn't happen.
Lara thought about that man, and waited… She waited for the insane pressure to land, as everyone else, except for William.
And this time, it happened as William predicted. Nothing came to stop her, no pressure, no resistance, nothing at all!
She saw the previous scene she witnessed before, and this time the scenes progressed. It showed the man kneeling a few more times, on seemingly different occasions. In all, the man kept his silence, before he finally spoke up.
"Dear Chaos God, the almighty over any other, I'm here to answer your long hunger, presenting a chance to take down one more thriving place, with tons of foolish humans, aesthetics to your excellency and almighty. I'm here to gain permission to do it…"
He kept speaking nonsense for a few minutes, while everyone felt this man was indeed crazy. Yet William thought differently about that.
The word Chaos rang lots of alarming bells in his mind. He already read about this in the other world. It wasn't a god, and he knew this was just a mere spirit, playing the role of a god.
The man didn't mention any detail about the place he was speaking about, not anything about his plans. Yet everyone got what he planned to do.
The thriving place filled with foolish humans, those who were in love of peace and harmony, was indeed Lara's city. As for what he intended to do, they already witnessed it. And William knew even more than what they learnt.
Then the scenes shifted, showing this man arriving at Lara's cities. They watched a mixture of scenes that showed lots of things, ending up with this man's uprising in position and power.
But that wasn't all! The scenes showed also part of his doings, how he did what he did to the city.
"Interesting… He is indeed a reality bender…" William thought to himself when he saw the first scene showing this man's use of power.
The first scene William and others saw was for the man to stand motionless for an entire minute in the middle of the room. He wasn't doing anything, on the surface, but there was a copious and weird-looking scarlet red fog coming out from his body. It was so red that many even thought it was looking closer to black than red.
The fog spread covered everything in the room and filled the entire space inside. Then he opened his eyes, and two irises appeared there, two were scarlet red, the same colour degree as the fog he emanated.
His eyes flashed like they released lasers or something, and the fog started to shrink, swirl, and condense. Tons of things appeared, be it wealth, weapons, gears, and even treasures. Lots of stuff appeared, and Lara was the only one able to recognise a few of them.
"They are the gifts he gave to many city leaders, to curry and buy their favour…" she muttered in disbelief, not knowing how that man formed all this out of thin fog.
Such weird scenes kept playing and repeated often in front of their eyes. They forgot everything about their worry and fear of fate and destiny's backlash and got totally immersed in watching what was going on.
Even William lost himself while watching, analysing, thinking, and trying to pick anything that could be useful in identifying this man's weaknesses and points of strength.
This was indeed quite dangerous. If anything happened, there wasn't a single awakened person among them. If a backlash hit, then they'd eventually lose their lives.
Luckily that fearsome backlash didn't happen. The scenes progressed fast, reaching the moment when that man seemed to hear about what Lara said to other city leaders.
"Damn! Never thought that few of the city leaders actually went to warn him! And that meeting with William meant to delay things, give time to that man to escape!!!" Lara and others got shocked by that, as the scene which just played right now, showed a meeting between this man and five other faction leaders in the city.
They warned him of what was coming to him, then promised to buy him some time to escape. They also promised to make trouble for William and Lara, the two instigators who started all this in their eyes.
After things would settle down, they promised to tell him through Message Papers to come back. Yet the man didn't agree to using Message Papers, and gave the five of them a weird-looking crystal, and asked them to crush them if the time was ripe.
He mentioned something about opening a portal to the place where he was. And then the five left to join others in meeting William, while the man took a similar crystal out.
He crashed it on the ground while muttering something about it was too early to do this. Then the same kind of red fog appeared again, one that started out of him, from the world around, and started to get inside that crystal.
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