Chapter 30: Causality

"The most prominent feature of this ability is that it has a touch of making dreams come true, of having one's wishes fulfilled..."

"But this also dictates that I must have a truly deep understanding of a certain matter."

The wish is the foundation, and the fulfillment is the result of his choice.

Chumen turned his gaze toward the forest outside the city-state; at this moment, he could already see that serpent of mercury.

"Let's call it 'Causality'; I am the cause, and he is the effect—perhaps it also needs to be connected to the Spirit World." The Spirit World is said to contain all possibilities of the past, future, and present, possessing the sufficient "causes" that Chumen needs.

Chumen pointed his finger at the Dream Book to perfect the second branch of authority for this illusion.

As this ability was perfected, the fog before Chumen's eyes seemed to dissipate significantly.

"I see you." This is the cause; Chumen learned of the existence of the serpent of mercury and the introduction to His abilities, linking the two of them together in fate.

"A visitor from the distant Spirit World will happen to appear at the location of the serpent of mercury, breaking His state."

This is the effect Chumen chose.

Crack!

The God of Luck suddenly opened His eyes; His luck plummeted sharply, and His spirituality sent out a warning.

The next instant, a Spirit World creature opened a Spirit World Gate and arrived in the Real World, but under the gaze of the serpent of mercury, its luck was emptied, it became unlucky, and it was devoured by a passing demigod creature of the Spirit World.

He used His ability to influence this world, and those ripples in fate spread outward.

At this moment, the God of Luck's own special fate could no longer be concealed and was revealed to others.

"Not good!" The God of Luck even sensed that the luck He had accumulated for hundreds of years was dropping at a terrifying speed.

Someone was attempting to influence Him through fate!

"This God of Luck, why stay so far away? I feel we could become friends." Chumen spoke softly, carrying friendliness.

But the symbols all over this serpent of mercury were about to explode, flickering on and off, as He only wanted to stay away from here.

"Space Barrier!" Chumen reached out and grabbed; the space where the serpent of mercury was located became a cage, surrounding and trapping Him.

A "Traveler" has already reached a very high level of control over space.

"Hiss!" A red light flashed in the eyes of the serpent of mercury; fate shifted, and He had already slithered out before the cage could fully form.

He glanced at Chumen, and Chumen felt a shiver, inexplicably giving rise to a premonition.

If not for the Dream Book, that glance just now might have bottomed out his luck and maxed out his misfortune, to the extent of choking to death even while drinking water.

Chumen subconsciously grabbed, and the "Fate Trojan Horse" ability related to the Marauder Pathway activated several times, stealing the luck of the serpent of mercury.

Hiss! Is this the illusion of luck?

Chumen even had the illusion that the whole world was revolving around him.

That was the terrifying luck where one would step on a Demigod Characteristic just by walking out the door, and could pick up Angel materials just by bending over.

It was... simply too exhilarating!

But at this moment, a rhythm of light and shadow appeared on the body of the serpent of mercury.

"Fate Cycle"!

The serpent of mercury fixed His own luck within a cycle; Chumen's act of stealing luck triggered this mechanism, causing it to activate.

The light and shadow stopped flickering, and Chumen's illusion also became unreal, shattering like a bubble.

"What a pity!" Chumen felt a bit regretful; who wouldn't want to be a lucky person?

The serpent of mercury in the Fate Cycle did not linger in battle and directly opened a Spirit World Gate.

"What a formidable Serpent of Fate!" Chumen couldn't help but sigh, "Much more formidable than Ouroboros."

"... Forget it, there's a high probability I can't win, and even if I win, I can't kill Him." Chumen watched the serpent of mercury leave from the Spirit World and did not stop Him.

Nowadays, relying on the Dream Book, he can forcibly raise the power of the Magical Items on his body by one rank, with corresponding abilities reaching the level of Sequence 1.

Even the upper limits of the two abilities "Causality" and "Illusion Dream" are unfathomable, depending entirely on how much power he can mobilize.

But that is the serpent of mercury, a de facto lucky person, and a "Restart" that can also be called a divine skill.

Most importantly, at this very moment, the Elf King might be watching!

The fact is exactly so; when the God of Luck came to this city-state, the Elf King's gaze fell here.

"Another Angel!" The Elf King's state is not good either, and the lightning around His body has dimmed quite a bit.

"That Sun has been plotting for a long time!" The Elf King's voice made the entire Elf Palace tremble.

"I even suspect that His birth was not much later than ours; He only appeared because He saw that we suffered too much damage this time!"

"Stupid Ormir! Betrayed Lilith! Let the Sun seize the opportunity!" The tyrannical Elf King even had the thought of slaughtering His way to the Giant King's Court.

"Sun God, truly a powerful opponent!" Queen of Calamity Gaoxinamu looked solemn.

She handed the stone tablet presented by the Elf guards to the Elf King.

"This is the Sequence Potion." What was recorded on the stone tablet was clearly a Potion Formula.

Missionaries had already spread the low-sequence Potion Formulas, and now they had all been delivered to the hands of the Elf King.

"This is blasphemy!" The lightning was tyrannical, flashing with destructive scorching light, "A potion that blasphemes the gods!"

"But we can no longer destroy it!" The Queen of Calamity said calmly, "We must control the inheritance of the potions!"

"I am prepared to send an envoy to the Sun Kingdom!"

The Elf King's gaze fell on the Queen of Calamity, forcing Himself to calm down and wait for an explanation.

"If you don't go, the other Ancient Gods will scramble to go!" The Queen of Calamity's expression was cold as she continued, "Potions are the future! Use the Magical Items in the Elf Treasury to exchange for the relevant Potion Formulas."

"A hundred years from now, all Elves must use this for advancement to stabilize their mental state!"

"Several hundred years from now, our Elf race will not fall behind other extraordinary races!"

The Elf King rarely suppressed His own tyranny, thinking, and finally nodded.

He probably also had worries.

The so-called blasphemy is naturally directed at the gods; could it be that that Sun achieved the status of an Ancient God through this Potion Sequence?

Wouldn't the state of the Sun be much more stable than that dragon's, and even its own?

"Let the newcomer Ornia go!" the Elf King commanded.

The Beauty Goddess Ornia, originally a subordinate god of the Vampire Lilith, now that Lilith had "died," had defected to the Elf King to obtain protection.

"Good!" The entire Elf race stirred into action, and a group of Elves equivalent to Sequence 5, led by the Beauty Goddess Ornia, headed toward the Sun Kingdom.

Most other places were the same; the Ancient Gods soon obtained the Potion Formulae spread by those missionaries and made the same decision.

Potions are the future of a race.

All Ancient Gods could realize this point, and then, out of a desire to pry into the mysteries within or to strengthen their races, they acted.

Every race had delegations carrying a truly massive quantity of Magical Items or Beyonder Characteristics heading toward the Sun Kingdom.

The impact of the Potion System on the current era had only just begun.