Season 2 Chapter 537

Season 2 Chapter 537

Chapter 537

Translator: Alpha0210

Surprising scenes continued to unfold one after another.

The fake Lucas, no, the ‘The Beginning Wizard’ suddenly shifted his gaze.

For a moment, the eyes of Lukas and The Beginning Wizard met. At first, he thought it was a mistake. That thought was shattered when a faint smile appeared on the guy’s lips.

─...Hmm.

The smile deepened even more.

With a brightly smiling face, the Beginning Wizard said.

─You wasted a chance. There’s not much information you can gain from looking at me.

It’s certain.

Right now, The Beginning Wizard definitely recognizes ‘Lukas’.

─Ah, can it be considered a gain just knowing my appearance? It wasn’t particularly something I intended to hide.

How that is possible, I do not know.

Not only Min Ha-rin, but also the 4 Knights – Pale, Red Knight, and even the Ruler Sun God. No one realized that Lukas was peering through the ‘Spring of Wisdom’.

Only The Beginning Wizard recognized the presence of Lukas and even spoke to him.

“...Why are you impersonating ‘Lukas Trowman’?”

I wasn’t sure if my words would reach him, but I said them anyway.

Then The Beginning Wizard let out a faint smile.

─Well... why indeed.

“......?”

─I don’t quite understand myself... Anyway.

The Beginning Wizard reached out his hand.

─This is all you can see.

His palm obscured the view, and soon everything went dark. There was no sound. It was as if a camera lens had been closed, and only a silent, dark scene continued.

And a little while later, the ripples on the water surface completely disappeared.

‘This footage’ had completely ended.

“...I should consider that he fully recognizes me, right?”

[Didn’t you even have a conversation with him?]

“I didn’t expect the fake Lucas’s identity to be the Beginning Wizard.”

[If you think about it simply, that’s right, but looking back, there may have been several hints.]

“Hints?”

[What I mean is, in your past life, that guy may have been constantly lingering around you while you were moving in the Three Thousand Worlds.]

“.......”

Constantly, huh.

There’s no way to verify that now, but the fake Lukas certainly intruded in the last battle that took place in the city. And before Lukas was about to die, he even showed his face directly.

‘There was something meaningful about his timing of appearance.’

If it wasn’t coincidence, and if his appearance in Manjuri City was not to attend some council but to check on Lukas’s movements, and if he made Lukas realize this fact intentionally...

...What is his purpose?

[He said he was your fan. The reason he is imitating you might be related to that.]

“...Is there any basis for that?”

[There is. The way The Beginning Wizard looked at you was almost slimy.]

What is that supposed to mean.

[Don’t you understand? He didn’t have even a hair’s breadth of hostility towards you.]

“The Exile said The Beginning Wizard was going to kill me?”

[Hostility and intent to kill are not synonyms. Love can become an obsession that one might wish to bind by killing.]

“That’s a scary thought.”

[You’d do well to be cautious. If my judgment is accurate, the Blue Knight might have a bit of that vibe...]

Hmm, Residue seemed to think that was unnecessary remark and cut himself off.

[Anyway, the Exile might have used our kind of speaking style.]

Our kind of speaking style, meaning the Ruler’s speech.

Not lying, but also concealing the truth.

[Do you remember the activities The Beginning Wizard conducted while acting as ‘Lukas’?]

“...Charity and relief work, conflict resolution, things like that.”

[From a human perspective, those were quite heroic actions.]

“That’s right.”

Before touching the spring, he first spoke to Residue.

“Then, with this power, it might be possible to spy on the Rulers, right?”

[Yes.]

“The chance of them noticing is......”

[Hard to say. It’s not impossible. In the first scene, the Sun God did not realize you were spying, but that might have been because he was in the form of an incarnation. If you were to spy on the true body of the Demon God or the Sun God... Hmm.]

So there is a possibility.

Lukas nodded and asked,

“What about you?”

[What?]

“Don’t you have anything you want to see?”

The response came a beat late.

[What are you babbling about now?]

“I mean the scene you want to see. There are three chances left, maybe I could give you one of them...”

[You dull fool... Are you pitying me?]

Residue burst out angrily, but he wasn’t truly mad. He was raising his voice to cover up his embarrassment.

Lukas pretended not to notice and continued,

“It’s not about pity. We just have completely different perspectives, don’t we?”

[And what of it.]

“Honestly, I don’t find the scenes I’ve seen so far to be very meaningful. There are too many ambiguous aspects.”

[.......]

“Whatever scene you want to see, it’s not completely unrelated to me. Maybe we’ll discover something unexpected from it.”

[Hmm, stupid. Spouting such flawed arguments eloquently.]

Though his words were still harsh, the anger in Residue’s voice had faded.

[Fine. Of course, there are scenes I want to see.]

“Then......”

[But I have no intention of seeing them through the Spring of Wisdom.]

Lukas paused before asking,

“Why?”

[Firstly, the scenes I want to see wouldn’t be of much help to you. Secondly, I feel that all seven opportunities should be used solely by you.]

“...Is that just a hunch?”

[Hmph. I don’t care for such vague concepts. ...The Beginning Wizard. I’m beginning to get a feel for his principles of action.]

“.......”

[It’s not yet time to speak definitively, so don’t ask any further.]

Residue spoke as if annoyed, and Lukas decided not to press any further. The opponent was a Ruler. Once they refuse, they wouldn’t backtrack unless the universe resets.

[What about you? Have you roughly decided how to use the remaining three opportunities?]

“Right.”

[Ho. What will you look at?]

Lukas voiced his planned intentions.

“The appearance of the previous Void King, actions of the Seven Fanged Dragon in the Void world, and lastly, the ‘Apocalypse’ that the Exile witnessed.”

[...Ha. You foolish guy.]

Residue criticized, and Lukas retorted.

“Why again. Is there something wrong with my thoughts?”

[It’s not that. What you just mentioned are things you must see at this point in time. There’s nothing worth leaving out, so to speak.]

“Then......”

[But you were trying to waste one of those chances, weren’t you?]

“...It’s not that I wanted to waste it; it just seemed like the priority for something like the Seven Fanged Dragon was lower, and maybe it could be more helpful for your side......”

[You’re wrong. The actions of the Dragon might be the most critical among those you mentioned.]

Since Residue’s assertions were almost never wrong, Lukas was persuaded.

[So, which will you see first?]

“The appearance of the previous Void King.”

[Hmm. That piques my interest as well.]

Splash-

Lukas dipped his hand into the water, recalling the Void King.

The water rippled, and a blurry form began to emerge.

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