Chapter 160: The Ghost Beyond Fate

After a moment of deliberation, Veya continued.

"At that time, the powerful forbidden curse power sealed off the altar."

"Even the attacks of five Transcendent Masters could hardly break that forbidden curse."

"Coupled with the counterattacks of the other alien Transcendent Masters, the Barbarian Saint, and the Scion of the Evil God."

"With so much power, several Transcendent Masters at the time almost believed that the Sog Ruins City would be completely destroyed that day."

"However..."

"No one expected that suddenly, the summoning ritual became unstable."

"Then, as you saw, the sacrificial ritual to call upon the Dominator failed, and an angry voice transmitted over, instantly freezing the entire Sog Ruins City, and the destructive backlash caused a massive explosion."

"The powerful defensive forbidden curse constructed by several Transcendent Masters of the Evil God Church could not be shaken in the slightest even by the combined efforts of several Transcendent Masters from the Vanguard."

"But in the backlash of the slumbering Dominator, it was as fragile as tofu."

"The five Transcendent Masters presiding over the summoning ritual inside the forbidden curse melted on the spot along with the curse, leaving no remains."

"Seven alien and heretical Transcendent Masters, along with the Barbarian Saint and the Scion of the Evil God, were all immediately affected by the backlash."

"The transmitted backlash power killed two more Transcendent Masters and the Scion of the Evil God."

"Then, the Barbarian Saint and the other five Transcendent Masters began to flee."

"I don't know the specifics of the subsequent battle."

"But I know the outcome."

"Of the five Transcendent Masters, three died and two escaped. Even though they escaped, they were severely weakened, and it's likely impossible for them to regain their peak strength."

"The heroic Barbarian Saint was also beaten nearly crippled and fled."

"The Barbarian Saint escaped too?" Gune rubbed his brow.

"The reports in the Transcendent Daily and some rumors differ from what Veya said."

"Indeed, the information reported on the surface and some rumors are not very reliable."

After a moment of thought, Gune laughed.

"Regardless, this time, those guys took a bloody loss at Sog Ruins City."

"Of the fourteen strong ones, eleven died, and the remaining three all fled severely crippled."

"And with such severe injuries, they must have left behind blood and flesh."

"Collecting these things, we can use some ritual spells to track them down, or at least establish a curse ritual to place an unending curse on them."

"Indeed, this time at Sog Ruins City, they suffered a crushing defeat."

Veya nodded slightly, then continued.

"Besides these matters..."

"When my teacher discussed these things with me, he also mentioned some very secretive things."

Veya lowered her voice.

"Oh? Secretive things?" Gune became interested.

"Based on necromantic interrogations of some corpses and information obtained from interrogating captured aliens and heretics,"

"when my teacher and the others later integrated the information and performed divination and deduction, do you know what outcome they deduced?"

"Oh?" Gune listened carefully.

"The answer they got was—the Sog Ruins City would be destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people would die overnight."

Gune's eyes narrowed slightly as he waited for Veya's further explanation.

"What's even more terrifying is that this was not a divination performed before the event."

"It was a verification divination performed after the fact, yet it yielded a false outcome that severely contradicted, even opposed, reality."

"This is truly strange."

Veya continued her explanation.

Meanwhile, Gune sat completely composed on the sofa, listening quietly.

"Fortunately, my teacher and the others had many methods."

"Based on the fact that the Sog Ruins City was not destroyed, they constructed a very powerful divination ritual to perform a reverse deduction of the established fact—a causal divination method that deduces from the outcome to the cause."

"This... makes it very easy to find the truth."

Veya's explanation caused the expressionless Gune to shift slightly on the sofa, changing his posture.

"The clues ultimately pointed to a place called the St. Mary Monastery."

St. Mary Monastery!

"As expected..." Gune thought to himself.

"The shackles of fate on me haven't been completely severed; some traces can still be found." Gune rubbed his temples.

"There, my teacher and the others discovered a failed transcendent gate."

"And behind the transcendent gate... there was nothing?"

"Nothing?" Gune raised an eyebrow.

"Since there was a transcendent gate, there should be something behind it! At least a cave or cavern, right?" Gune said tentatively.

"No... there was nothing. What was there was just soil. My teacher and the others examined the soil for dozens of meters around and found nothing."

"Also, the main cavern of Incident 9970 disappeared after the Winter Extinction Night."

"Disappeared?"

"Yes. The originally empty main cavern area of Incident 9970 was restored overnight. After investigation, the soil there was identical to the surrounding soil, as if the soil that had covered and filled the main cavern of Incident 9970 was originally meant to be there, and the existence of the cavern vanished like an illusion."

"I suspect that what your teacher and the others sought behind the transcendent gate was related to the main cavern of Incident 9970, and now both have disappeared." Gune said thoughtfully.

"As it seems now, that should be the case." Veya nodded.

"And the trail ended there completely."

Hearing this, Gune's expression remained calm and indifferent, but inwardly he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Although no clues can be found, it doesn't mean we can't guess." Veya said softly.

"My teacher told me that it should be some mysterious ghost, a ghost that cannot be spied upon, a ghost beyond fate, that changed something there."

"Along with creating an illusion that nothing had changed."

"This illusion, like the truth, would mislead all divination and deduction abilities. Based on this real-seeming illusion, they would deduce step by step forward."

"As a result, whether it was my teacher or the Barbarian Saint, they all believed it was real."

"What they thought was real turned out to be a huge pitfall."

"The illusion deceived them, and they plunged into it without hesitation."

"And this might be the reason for their crushing defeat this time."

"This... is really... somewhat unbelievable." Gune exclaimed.

"It is indeed hard to believe, but the outcome is most likely so."

After speaking, both fell into a contemplative silence.

"This is truly a bloody case triggered by a piece of flesh!" Gune thought to himself.

"False truth."

Gune's mind dwelled on this important piece of information, turning it over and over.

From beginning to end, Gune had done many things using his special identity.

The clearest feedback to Gune was that the enemy could not find his traces.

On a deeper level, when the enemy used divination, deduction, spying, causal reasoning, and other mysterious means to deduce information about him, they almost completely ignored the impact he had caused. He was simply not within the scope of their deductions.

For instance, this time, Gune took the indescribable flesh.

In the deduction, Gune could hardly be spied upon or discovered, a negligible factor that did not affect the outcome at all.

Since Gune did not exist in that divination, the fact he created—'the indescribable flesh has disappeared'—also did not exist.

Consequently, in the deduction, the threads of fate naturally gave rise to a false reality for that divination, i.e., the 'indescribable flesh' was still there.

The result was an epic catastrophic collision.

"When you try to spy on me through the means of fate, the spying method will ignore my existence and also ignore any impact I cause."

"Because, in the world of divination and spying, I simply do not exist."

"Isn't this the perfect form of breaking free from the shackles of fate?"