Chapter 585: Possible Future

Chapter 585: Possible Future



Hearing the term 'lotus' directly from the butterfly sent severe shocks through Adam's very

core.

His most closely guarded secret that no one in the world knew, except Valerian, was now being spoken by a mysterious creature of the Spirit World that he'd only met a handful of times.

The youth was thunderstruck, to say the least. For a long time, he didn't know how to react and simply kept quiet as he stared at the butterfly with a look filled with disbelief.

A few moments later he snapped out of his shock and involuntarily gulped in nervousness. "I- I don't know what you're talking about," he said.

The butterfly continued to hover before the youth, flapping its butterfly gracefully.

The silence was deafening and Adam didn't know what else to stay. His mind was somewhere else entirely and his heart was raging with tumultous waves.

How did it know?! He thought to himself in extreme alarm.

No... there's no way it should have known! Is it bluffing? No, that doesn't make sense either. It specifically mentioned lotus...

Damn it! What do I do? What do I do?

Even though his physical body was not present at the moment, he could feel his throat become parched and his forehead covered in a sheen of cold sweat.

Just as he was on the cusp of having a nervous breakdown, the white butterfly's words echoed inside his mind once again.

'Like I said, young magus, you're at a crossroads.'

Following that, a portion of the River of Fate close to the bank on the other side thrummed ever so slightly. Countless silver threads rose from the currents and flew toward Adam and the butterfly.

These currents then came together and coalesced into a small silver mirror that hovered mid- air. The butterfly flapped its wings and landed on top of the mirror.

With speaking another word, it flapped its wing yet again, causing the surface of the mirror to ripple outward. Then, a scene played in the mirror that caused Adam's eyes to widen.

In the scene, Adam, wearing his usual black robes and the black pointy hat, was standing amidst a sea of fresh corpses. He was kneeling on the ground and clutching at his face which was covered in his blood.

The scene changed, showing a different angle. Adam lowered his hands which allowed his bloody face to be visible.

His eyeballs had burst open, leaving behind nothing but dark hollow sockets!

The scene then blurred and things started to pick up speed almost as if it was playing in fast- forward. The blurry scenes were not visible at all and Adam couldn't make anything off of it no matter how much he tried.

A few moments later, another scene appeared.

To be able to control a portion of the River of Fate, transforming it into a mirror, and showing me my

future...

Just how powerful is that butterfly?

He didn't how long he was falling through the dimension. It felt like forever, yet it also felt like an instant. Throughout the entire time, his mind was occupied by the shocking events that had just taken place.

Suddenly, he was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the sound of something akin to a fabric tearing. He lowered his head and saw the tear in the void, and through that tear, he laid eyes on his physical body which was still standing inside his dorm room in Saratoga.

The next thing he knew, he dove into his physical body and then immediately opened his eyes.

He raised his head and looked up to see the tear in the void mending itself back. His vision was blurry but he focused it nonetheless. Then, he glanced at the hourglass on the table through

squinted eyes.

"Barely a minute has passed," he muttered to himself.

"Ughh!!" He suddenly fell to his knees and clasped his face. More precisely, he was covering his eyes which were now beginning to profusely bleed.

He had overused the lotus far too much earlier today. First, he kept it activated for hours when he was following Alvertos into the sewers. Then, he used it to perform the divination ritual, further increasing the strain in his eyes.

Through the pangs of pain that radiated throughout his head, Adam recalled the butterfly's

question once again.

'How long are you planning to abuse its power?'

He then recalled the future that the mysterious creature had shown him. He knew that if he continued to abuse the white lotus as the magical focus and cast spells, he'd be walking

toward his doom.

The youth wiped the blood from his eyes as he gasped for air, thinking to himself, If I continue down my current path, I'll die before I even step foot inside the Greater Universe, was it?

Adam took a deep breath and finally came to a decision.

"I see what I have to do now..."

As blood continued to streak from his eyes and down his face, his lips curled up into a bitter

smile.

"I must change my future."