Chapter 4258: Side Story 9: The Truth of the Summoner of Gods

Side Story 9: The Truth of the Summoner of Gods

(This story takes place at the same time as Chapter 3880)

This was some day after the end of the Battle of Fate, and it was past ten o'clock in the morning, and for some reason, snowflakes were falling on the island again.

The President of the Divination Association, the Thirteenth-Ring sorcerer "Mr. Crystal" President Lenormand, who carried the entire association on his shoulders, was looking at the loss report of the association during this Battle of Fate in his office on the third floor of the association in the City of Time Wheel with annoyance.

Whether it was the association's personnel in the local area, the ring sorcerers supported by the association headquarters, or the diviners drawn from all over the Old Continent, they all had losses in the great battle that night.

And looking back at the situation that night, the man in front of the desk still couldn't imagine how mortals would resist such an enemy if the "Summoner of Gods" didn't exist in this world.

However, although the association had losses, the gains were also huge. During the fate oscillation, diviners were more likely to capture the trajectory of fate than other ring sorcerers, and thus find the opportunity for their own promotion.

And besides the diviners who were promoted one by one, the acquisition of a large number of arcs filled the deficit of the association during this operation, and the friendship with the "Summoner of Gods" and the 【Clown Troupe】 provided new possibilities for the future.

Not to mention the news that the old rival 【Doom Cult】 was almost wiped out, which was worth a grand celebration for the association.

Of course, during the Battle of Fate, many young people with great talent who hadn't been noticed before also appeared in the association. For example, Luweiya Anatt from Tobesk City, who had participated in many major events in the past, and even provided clues to the 【Fate Pedestal】.

And this time, the Fatum people praised the contribution made by this young female diviner in the town defense battle in a very exaggerated tone in their letter. Given the relationship between the association and the Fatum people, the local tribesmen were willing to praise her like this, which meant that the young female diviner's contribution was indeed extraordinary.

"It seems that I will have to add more burdens to her in the future... and she is a joint training student of St. Byron's Comprehensive Academy, and has a close relationship with that Xia De Hamilton..."

The Thirteenth-Ring diviner pondered, and the only regret of this Battle of Fate was that the final Chosen One was not the old keeper of secrets, Mr. Charatu, on their side.

However, President Lenormand only regretted it and didn't feel that the old keeper of secrets hadn't done enough. After all, no matter how hard their own keeper of secrets tried, it was really difficult for him to go and win against a unicorn of unknown origin that could turn into a human.

Just as he was thinking, there was a knock on the door, and then old Mr. Charatu walked in quickly:

"President, I got it."

The old man said with a smile, and the pure white transparent ring in his hand was the Fate Ring named 【Truth】 that he had just condensed in the Upper Spring.

The diviner wearing a crystal monocle nodded with satisfaction and put down the information in his hand:

"Very good, your talent was originally in your eyes, and being able to obtain such fate is within expectations. Charatu, then how do you want to handle this ring? Keep it yourself, keep it in the association, keep it in the Ring Hall on the top of the mountain, or sacrifice it directly to the Snow Mountain?"

He fully respected the opinion of the holder of fate, and the old man, who had already thought about it on the way here, turned and closed the office door:

"President, do you want to know the true identity of the 'Summoner of Gods'?"

"Oh?"

The Thirteenth-Ring diviner showed an interested expression, and there was no diviner who wasn't curious about this, but he still said:

"This isn't good, right? The Summoner of Gods is our ally, and wantonly prying into his secrets is a bit immoral."

Old Mr. Charatu said:

"Isn't it a tradition since ancient times for diviners to pry into the secrets of their allies? But this time, only the two of us will try to divine, and no matter what information we get, we will swear in the name of the ancient gods that we will never let anyone else know in any way.

This is just to satisfy curiosity. Now that we have this fate but do nothing, isn't it a bit of a waste of fate's good intentions?"

President Lenormand only hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement:

"That's fine, let's swear first, and then divine. But do you have a way to use this ring?"

"Of course, the ring resonates with me, and I have already seen how to use it for divination in the Upper Spring. President, please follow me, let's use that most hidden room in the association's basement."

So the two first came to the association's prayer room, and the things after swearing to the ancient gods were just to satisfy curiosity, and the news would not be spread, and then they hurried to the association's basement impatiently.

They opened three heavy doors, unlocked the rune locks, and entered the deepest room. There were no decorations on the four walls of the room, and they were all painted white. There was only a wooden table in the center of the room, and there was no other furniture.

Old Mr. Charatu brought a basin, and after President Lenormand poured the "Upper Spring Water" that the association had secretly collected into it, the 【Truth】 Fate Ring was immersed in the water.

There was no complicated process. Old Mr. Charatu performed the preliminary preparations according to the standard water divination method, and then he used the powerful ability that must be assisted by the Fate Ring and combined with his unique talent—

"Divine Art: Eye of Truth!"

The golden light bursting from his eyes shot into the water, first making the originally white transparent ring radiate golden light, and then dyeing the entire basin of water golden.

So blurred images appeared in the water surface, and the old man, who was shedding tears because of eye irritation, and President Lenormand leaned over immediately.

But the image was a bit unexpected. They first saw a curtain woven from starlight, and then the curtain was pulled to both sides, and a cat with unclear fur color but looking exceptionally petite appeared, and it was playing with another cat that looked a bit larger and kept coming up to offer courtesy.

Or rather, it was the petite cat pushing the other cat that kept coming up to offer courtesy.

"This is... what does it mean?"

The old keeper of secrets asked President Lenormand for advice, and the latter pondered for a moment, and both of their faces were reflected golden by that basin of water:

"Maybe the truth is—the true form of the Summoner of Gods is actually a cat? Since a unicorn can turn into a human, a cat can probably too. Could it be that the unicorn's human transformation technique was taught by the cat?"

"Hiss~"

Old Mr. Charatu gasped because of this bold guess:

"We divined before that the Summoner of Gods walks the cat without a leash. Could it be that we misunderstood the result of the divination at that time—that the cat was the Summoner of Gods? Then in this image, is the Summoner of Gods the big cat or the small cat?"

President Lenormand touched his chin and continued to look at the blurred image in the water:

"It should be the big one. It's hard for me to imagine the Summoner of Gods being bullied by an ordinary cat, unless the other cat is also not an ordinary cat."

"Or, is the other cat its lover?"

The old keeper of secrets, who had seen all kinds of things, put forward his own view.

And while the two were discussing, the image actually changed. This time, the image changed into two wolves chasing and playing, one big and one small. The small one had light fur color but couldn't see the specific color because the image was blurred, while the big one could vaguely be seen as a gray wolf.

"Wolf? What does this mean again? Is the Summoner of Gods actually a werewolf?"

After the image was maintained for more than ten seconds, new changes occurred again. This time, what appeared in the image of the water basin was a dragon, and it wasn't just one dragon.

The familiar moonlight dragon was lying in the dragon nest in the middle of the image, while the red dragon, black dragon, green dragon, blue dragon, and pink dragon were lying around it, looking very intimate.

"Dragon? Does he have dragon lineage too?"

Then the image changed as expected. This time, a snake with a very small body appeared. However, there was only one snake in this image, but the snake was wrapped around something blurred. Looking closely, it was found that the snake was wrapped around the ankle of a maid wearing a black and white maid skirt, stepping on small black leather shoes, and wearing white long socks.

"Hmm?"

Crack!

A clear cracking sound came, and then the golden light in the water basin disappeared suddenly. And after all the light dissipated, the ring that had originally sunk to the bottom of the basin had cracked and was slowly disappearing, and in the end, not even an arc was left.

"Fate backlash?!"

President Lenormand and old Mr. Charatu looked at each other, and after a long while, the old man said hesitantly:

"I didn't expect the Summoner of Gods' fate resistance to be so high. In this way, is what we just saw true or false? If it's true, what do so many images represent? Is the truth of the Summoner of Gods actually a spirit cat that possesses werewolf, dragon lineage, and snake blood at the same time?

This is too fake, right? We divined a long time ago that the Summoner of Gods possessed merman blood. But how can a person express so many dominant alien lineages at the same time?

I divined the true form, not the Summoner of Gods' transformation ability, I won't be wrong."

President Lenormand thought of a possibility:

"I thought of it! Maybe what we saw were all the 'Summoner of Gods' true forms. Yes, whether it was the merman blood from a long time ago, or the series of animals before, these are the true Summoner of Gods."

"Is there more than one Summoner of Gods?"

"No, no, this is impossible. I mean, these are the true forms of the Summoner of Gods, and the Summoner of Gods is actually—a changeling!"

"Hmm?"

Old Mr. Charatu naturally didn't believe it:

"Changelings went extinct in the Fourth Era. The materials left by the witches of the Fifth Era only mentioned a few words about this peculiar race

President Lenorman himself was actually somewhat skeptical, but all the clues could only lead to such a conclusion:

"Then what other reason could there be? It couldn't be that the God-Awakener has practiced transformation magic to the extreme, so all his transformed forms are his true self, could it?"

"This... very well, perhaps this divination still failed to let us find the truth. Compared to this result, the previous results are more credible."

"Then let's not record this divination result as previously discussed; we can just keep it to ourselves as an interesting anecdote. I think the truth is likely that the God-Awakener's prophecy resistance deflected the truth."

President Lenorman thought for a moment more:

"The only thing I am curious about now is why the animals that appeared just now did not look very old?"

The old Shoumiren Society member had already lost interest in such matters that yielded no results:

"It is normal for anything to happen to the God-Awakener; perhaps the God-Awakener's true age is only two years old."