Chapter 389: Realization...

Chapter 389: Realization...



Ever since the very first time Rio encountered Alverto's clone, he's always had a question in his mind.

Why did Alverto send his clone to that dungeon during the final exams, and what was his actual purpose for doing so?

Rio was unaware of Alverto's purpose, and he had never once seen the character's name appear in the novel he had read.

Someone as significant as Alverto wasn't mentioned in the novel, which is very strange.

If Alverto truly existed in the original novel's timeline, he should have appeared when Fade was executing Demons during the 'Second Demon Extinction War'.

A genius spear master like Alverto, who can use the power of time element to utmost levels, could not have been an ordinary person who was ignored at random.

Up until now, Rio had no idea what was causing this strange change in the timeline.

Although Rio indeed messed up the original plot a lot by stealing various chances and opportunities, he never went to the Demon Continent after all.

Which means he never really caused changes in the plotlines related to the demons.

Right now, there are two possibilities: either Alverto is an 'Anomaly' like Rio, or the problem lies with Rio from the start altogether.

'I kind of have a feeling... I don't know how to describe it, but I feel I have felt that unique aura of Alverto before...'

Originally, Rio thought that this body might have sensed Alverto during the Drift City

Massacre, which happened before his transmigration, but now that Shadow has awakened, his memories of the past have become clearer.

The original Rio never knew Alverto, and he didn't even see that guy during the drift city massacre as he was running away with his mother and had no time for anything else.

In other words, the one who sensed Alverto's aura wasn't Rio but the original him, the him before transmigration.

'But the biggest problem is... I have forgotten a lot of my memories...'

Rio can't even remember his past life's name. Apart from numerous personal memories, Rio has also forgotten the appearance of the friend who initially gave him this book to read.

Rio has forgotten all these important things.

'Wait, have I met Alverto in my past life?... No, that's not it...'

Although Rio's memories are partially gone, he is sure he never senses that unique aura that Alverto has.

'There is something more complicated going on in the background that I don't know about... Something that likely happened in the time gap when my soul traveled from the previous world to this one...'

Rio's last memories of his past life end where he slept after reading the book; he doesn't know what happened afterwards, and next he found himself in Rio's body.

'All things aside, the biggest confusing factor was how Alverto was tracking those fragments.' After Alverto appeared in Oaklum to kill Zach and snatch the fragment away, Rio figured out one key thing, and that was that Alverto can track these 'fragments'; he definitely has the way to track them.

After all, the moment Zach got that fragment from the tree of blood, Alverto immediately came right after to snatch it.

As the fragment's description says, you can't take this fragment from someone by force; you must either get it from the other party by either getting their approval or by killing the other party completely.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

But until now, Rio wasn't sure what method Alverto was using as a tracking target.

Now that he has two fragments in his possession, he has a deeper understanding of the situation.

lives...'

After all, you can't sense who got the fragment in such a big city, so Alverto chose the easy method; he likely thought that killing everyone would eventually reveal the fragment

automatically.

At that time, there were only Ashtel and Neo who were the sole SS-rankers; Raji was still

young.

Neo probably didn't even bother saving the people, and Ashtel was raiding an SS-rank dungeon; thankfully, James and the other S-rankers arrived on time; otherwise, Rio would

have died that day already.

'Thinking about this now; this body has escaped death so many times now, it kind of feels like the 'Law' of 'Death' itself doesn't have a hold on this body...'

'Maybe this is also another side-effect of being an 'Anomaly' perhaps?'

Ever since Rio mastered the sword intent and came into contact with the 'Law' of 'Sword', he has sensed that various 'laws' of the 'world' actively avoid him.

Although he can't really see the 'laws' with naked eyes, he can sense their presence faintly

with his sword heart's help.

'It's like I am some kind of glitch in the software of a computer that the software actively avoids in fear of getting affected... This is quite the strange feeling...'

This world doesn't reject his existence, but it doesn't seem to accept it completely either; there's a gap between him and the 'world' that can't be crossed.

'Just getting this second fragment has given me so much new information that it's hard to digest everything at once...'

Rio saw strange memories; he saw a certain 'creator' go against the flow of the 'Primordial Chaos' to create life in a newly formed world; he saw the birth of the 'laws'.

'Even now, these memories seem vague and bizarre that they don't seem real at all... The

same thing happened when I got that first fragment; those memories I received were also very

vague...' Rio's mind is completely jumbled up; right now, not only he has his own memories in his mind, he has original Rio's memories, and then there are these two vague, unknown

memories.

'If this goes on, my mind will be completely jumbled up, and I will have difficulties finding what is the real and worst-case scenario... I might even forget my own identity too...' There's only one thing that's keeping Rio sane and is forcing him to never forget his existence, and that is his 'Love'. That is the only emotion keeping him intact.

'Yet again.... I have become indebted to you, Lia...'

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Author's Notes.

Yo! It's your beloved author here!

Question of the day.

What are your thoughts on this situation? What is Alverto planning?

(Tell me your thoughts in the comments)

By the way, don't forget to use those power stones!!