Chapter 333: The Scion’s Dilema

Chapter 333: The Scion’s Dilema

“Rea!” Rain screamed as he looked around. Moments ago when they were exploring this old dungeon, Rea seemed to have touched something and there was a bright light shooting up through the ceiling.Fịndd new updates at novelhall.com

When everything calmed down, Rea was nowhere to be found.

“Rea!” he yelled for her again.

“Shut up! Your Vulgar sound is hurting my noble ears” Tulip scolded as she lightly approached the place Rea touched. There was a strange symbol there. “Let me concentrate...” she said as she examined everything around it.

“What is it? Where is Rea?” Rain asked. He knew that Tulip had some extraordinary background, she knew many things.

“This seems to be a teleportation array.... The same kind they use in my family...” she said as she took a compass and placed it next to the array and watched it for a while. “Strange... ” she said.

“What?”

“The Array target is more than 250,000 Miles away in a negative space... Oh... This must lead to some live dungeons!” she said, striking her palm with her fist.

“What?” he asked again, but as usual, she only treated him as some bug and ignored him as she took the compass and put it in her ring.

“Follow me!” Tulip said without looking back as she made some symbols with her hand then stepped into the array and disappeared.

“Arrogant bitch! Just you wait, one day I will...” Rain cursed as he jumped into the array... Nothing happened.... Oops, Tulip forgot to tell him how to activate it.

...

Lily used her fingers to tap at the table as she looked around. Everyone was waiting for her to speak.

“First, let me ask you this... Do you believe in fate?” she asked Elise.

“Um...” Elise nodded. All little girls believe in fate. If not for fate, how would they meet their prince charming?

“Good... Do you know what fate is?” Lily asked. Elise frowned, not knowing how to answer this.

“Fate is the Maximum Entropy achievable in a certain set!” Lily said.

“Eh? What?” Margret asked, she was trying hard to understand what Lily meant. So was Elise.

Victor on the other hand frowned a little then nodded. Technically that was true.

“Let me phrase it in another way... Imagine there are infinite timelines and infinite possibilities...” Lily said. “Now, imagine that one of those possibilities has a 90% or even 95% chance of occurring. We call this possibility fate, as no matter what changes it will happen!”

“Oh...” Elise nodded. So did Victor. Margret was still frowning.

“Now... every moment everyone makes many choices, and those choices affect the fates of everyone around us to some extent...” Lily said. “Some people’s choices have more effects than others!”

“Oh...” the three listeners nodded.

“All creatures in this world have a hidden status called Fate Power. It is the one that determines how one will change the world! ” she began to explain. “Simply put, the more fate power you have, the easier it is for you to influence a certain fate and affect others' fates too!”

Elise nodded again, squinting her pretty eyes as she took a notebook and began to take notes. Did she carry that with her?

“Now, usually the strongest rank someone's fate can be is A ranked...” Lily said.

“They go from F to A?” Elise asked.

“Usually yes, but sometimes, very rarely, some people are born with an S, SS or SSS ranked fates!” Lily said, making Margret squint her eyes this time and glance at Victor who kept looking at Lily.

“Those are the scions?” Elise asked.

“Close enough, but not exactly!” Lily shook her head. “Having an S-ranked fate means that your choices have a major effect on the world. This is as powerful as it sounded, so usually those people are really scary to go against...”

“But?” Elise asked as his eyes twinkled. There is no free lunch in this world.

“But having an S fate is not a good thing, although you would be able to influence the world to your will, it has one drawback... The world would put a mark up your ass!”

“The world?” Elise asked.

“Yes... We call it the world. It is the collective consciousness or the hidden mysterious force guiding this world to be balanced.” Lily said. “We don’t know exactly what it is, but when something threatens to affect this balance the world will eliminate it..”

“And S-ranked fates might affect this balance??” Margret asked.

“Yes! Now, a Scion is someone who has both, at least an S-ranked fate power, and a destiny to benefit the world. They are the ones the world approves of their actions!” Lily said, “So, being a scion is like a blessing as the world would make sure that a scion’s fate would be fulfilled!”

“Isn’t that what I told you guys that time?” Victor asked.

“No! You said that the world gives a scion his destiny, which is completely wrong. The Scion’s destiny is born with it following the laws of causality! The world just makes sure that it will be fulfilled!” Lily explained.

“Oh...” Victor said. "That's what I meant!" he lied.

“So they can’t be killed?” Elise asked.

“Not only that, they can’t even be harmed in a way that would ruin their fates!r” Lily added. “So by any chance if you go against them you have three choices. The first is to run and hide, the second is to overpower them and make a deal, and the last is to find some other scions to fight them!”

“You can also scam them...” Victor pointed.

“What if someone has a fate that goes against the world?” Elise asked, ignoring him.

“Yes!” Victor nodded, “Though she is acting like a male for some stupid reason, and I am not planning to tell her that I know anytime soon!”

“And she is a Scion?” Margret asked. “Didn’t you tell us that she was meant to marry some other scion before?”

“I lied... In fact, she is a dark scion...” Victor corrected her.

“A dark scion?” Lily gasped, No wonder every time she was involved things went south. “You have been keeping her in the house knowing that?” Lily asked in disgust as if Alex was some dirty dog. It’s not her fault, but she has seen what dark scions are capable of.

“Yup... Don’t worry, as long as we keep her miserable no bad luck would hurt us!” he said as Margret finally got her answer. No wonder Victor kept torturing the poor girl. Lily thought that poor Alex was just some side project of his, or revenge from his previous lifetime.

"It seems like I need to up my game..." Margret nodded to herself.

“Why keep her in the first place?” Lily asked.

“A few reasons, I really feel sorry for her on one hand, and I want to test if I can change her fate!” Victor said.

“Does her being a beauty play any part in your decision?” Margret asked with a smile.

“Ah... I can’t deny that I like her...” Victor said. “She is also very strong! Without her, I couldn’t have really scammed Hana out of Sebastian’s hand! Only a scion might rival another!”

“You got a point there... “Lily said. “But what is her destiny? Why is she a dark scion?”

“The world hates her just because she does not belong here!” Victor said. “Alex is not human, but a phoenix!”

“What?” Lily asked with a frown. “Are you sure?”

“Yes, why would the celestial cock try to fuck her if she wasn’t!” Victor said. “When she awakened her bloodline another phoenix clone seemed to have been summoned and tried to kill her... If my guess was correct this must be some family feud...”

“Oh...” Lily frowned. “Do you know where she comes from?”

“The Thunder sect dungeon is my best guess... I plan to go investigate it, it might contain a gate to another world!” Victor said.

“Oh... “ Lily nodded, she didn’t know a lot about the thunder sect.

“I plan to take care of Alex by myself for now, so you don't need to worry... But just in case something were to happen to me, keep in mind to keep her unhappy, but not sad...” Victor said finally, “And if you ever feel that something is wrong around her, send her on some stupid mission somewhere...”

The girls nodded.

“Now... The next scion I met was Rain Cleaver.... SS ranked, Class is arcane knight” Victor said. “He was accompanying two girls. An unawakened Scion called Rea who has an S-ranked fate power, and an arrogant bitch called Tulip...” he added looking at Lily, “Your sister!”

Lily nodded, he already mentioned meeting Tulip before. “I know about those, they will form a team called the Ace Rangers who raid dungeons and hunt demons across the world.... What’s Tulip’s fate power and destiny?”

“Tulip’s Fate power is SSS ranked. I didn’t get to see her destiny as she attacked me immediately...”

“Oh... What were you doing?” Lily asked.

“Stealing an Edict shard...” he said casually.

“YOU GOT ONE OF THOSE?” Lily asked in shock as she leaned onto the table and looked at him.

“I got three... How do you think I managed to guarantee the wedding's safety?” he asked. "Do you know how much trouble we would have encountered if we didn't have those?"

“Oh...” Lily opened her eyes wide. She had no idea he went to that extent! To tell the truth, she was really amazed. No wonder he went adventuring before the wedding, he was collecting those!

“What is an edict shard?” Margret asked.

“Just an overpowered artifact... I will tell you about what they do when I install them around the mansion,” Victor said.

“I have a question... “ Elise asked again. “If Sions are as strong as you say you are, why aren’t they ruling the world?” she asked something that Victor was not really sure about.

“After the Reckoning, they will!” Lily said, “My family has a lot of scions after all!”

“But why not now?” Elise asked.

“Two reasons!” Lily said. “A scion who is destined to rule the world would turn dark the moment he decided to upset the balance... And the second reason is Scions are rare. Only recently as the world is preparing for reckoning are they beginning to be born!”

“Then are there old scions?” Elise asked.

“Yes...” Lily replied, looking at Victor who had no idea. “In fact, many scions who accomplish their destiny will sooner or later begin to feel that the world is rejecting them, so they will choose to leave this world!”

“Leave?” Margret asked.

“Gates to other worlds are very rare, but with a scion’s destiny, it is never hard to find one!” Lily said, looking at Victor who didn’t know about this.

“In fact, after the reckoning, many old Scions will return to this world. Some are to help, but many others to help the invading forces or build a fortune!”

“Wouldn’t the world reject them?” Elise asked.

“No... After the Reckoning, many rules will change, and as long as those guys keep their ambitions in check the world will tolerate them!” Lily replied.

“Yes...” Victor nodded. “This brings us to the real trouble and the most problematic Scion, the last one I met... “

Before Victor continued what he wanted to say he was interrupted by a knock on the door.

“Victor... You have to see this!” suddenly Lin called to him from outside. “The moon! There is a strange symbol on it!”

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