Free Web NovelChapter 80: Chapter 80: The convergence and Divergence Principles
Lot appeared just as suddenly as he had disappeared.
He was now in the temple.
He was surprised to see Solomon there.
It had always been a possibility, but he was surprised nonetheless.
"Why are you here, Solomon?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" Solomon responded.
"This is our home. Where else would I be but here?" he added.
"You know what I mean. Don’t play coy or smart. It doesn’t suit you. It never has."
Solomon dropped the act.
His expression turned dead serious.
You could practically see the wrinkles deepen.
He wasn’t playing around anymore.
Neither was Lot.
"Where’s Zach?" Lot asked.
"He’s taking a test," Solomon replied.
"What? What test?"
"You’re trying to kill him."
"Don’t lie."
"Don’t try to spin it as some kind of test or greater-good nonsense."
"It’s not."
"Where is he?"
"Lot, you’re being impulsive," Solomon said.
"This is the will of Merlin."
He turned and entered a hall to the side.
Just then, Sigman and his team made their way out.
They were heading for a mission, but Sigman told them to stop.
He wanted to know why Lot was angry and charging at Solomon.
Lot’s voice was intense.
They all heard it.
They all felt it.
As if that wasn’t enough, Lot pulled out his staff and fired at Solomon.
It was an opening attack.
A question.
’Do you want to go?’
No words were exchanged, but that was clearly the meaning behind it.
Solomon noticed the students watching.
"That wouldn’t be appropriate." freēwēbnovel.com
He warped both himself and Lot into another dimension.
"Do we trace them? What do we do?" Gwen asked.
Sigman was worried, but as leader, this was his call.
"We have a mission, people."
"Head in and let’s go close some rifts."
He shouted it to encourage the others.
He wanted them focused on their mission, not the masters.
They didn’t have the full context.
They didn’t know what Solomon and Merlin were up to.
A few minutes later, a car pulled up at the temple.
Roe got out.
He was too late.
By the time he arrived, even Sigman’s team had left.
He ran around asking for Lot or Solomon.
Finally, one of the keepers gave him a response.
It just wasn’t the one he wanted.
"Master Lot charged at Master Solomon and initiated a battle," the keeper said timidly.
He looked like he wasn’t supposed to be disclosing any of this.
Yet he continued anyway.
There was just something about Roe.
"I think I’ve said enough."
"I don’t want to get into trouble," the keeper added.
"And you won’t. Thank you."
The keeper continued on his way to finish his chores.
Roe thought about what to do next.
He needed to act fast.
He just didn’t know how.
This was a very peculiar situation.
He was in over his head.
He placed a hand on the ground.
A mana read.
Just as the keeper had said, there were faint traces of both their mana.
’I can’t feel it.’
’They were here.’
’And they definitely used spells here.’
Roe stood.
He began walking back toward his chambers.
There wasn’t really anything else he could do.
Then he remembered his promise.
The promise he had made to Zach.
The one about protecting him until he was ready.
’If I don’t act soon, I’ll definitely be breaking that promise.’
’Act?’
’But how?’
Before he reached his room, he passed the general hall.
Chris was still there.
Suspended inside an orb.
Trapped in time.
Roe changed directions.
He wasn’t going back to his room anymore.
Instead, he sat beside Chris.
They talked.
Well, Roe talked.
All of the talking, really.
Chris couldn’t respond.
Roe just didn’t know what else to do.
This was supposed to be his first downtime in a while.
Yet even this couldn’t be considered downtime.
His friend was actively being hunted.
And there was nothing he could do about it.
He didn’t have a Space Talent.
He couldn’t trace the signature and follow Lot and Solomon.
Even if he could, he probably wouldn’t have been able to follow a high-grade spell like the one Solomon used.
He started thinking about Zach.
’What could possibly be happening to Zach right now?’
’I hope he’s fine.’
’What am I even saying?’
’I’m sure he’s not.’
’He’s barely much of a fighter.’
’He’s probably scared right now.’
’We were supposed to grow stronger together.’
He remembered their declarations.
’We were supposed to become pillars together.’
"How does one pillar hold when the other falls?"
A tear slid down his face.
"Oh, Mordred."
"It reminds me of Mordred and C-Chris."
His voice faltered.
The pain was obvious.
"Chris..."
Then he stopped.
The sobbing ceased.
"Wait."
Chris had mentioned trying to stop the punishment.
The counter to the convergence.
’What if that’s what this Fate guy is doing?’
’Vlad said he made it sound like fate.’
’Like all of this was necessary.’
’Zach wouldn’t have to die if there was another way.’
’A way to stop the punishment humanity would suffer because of the convergence.’
Roe still didn’t know what to do.
None of this mattered in the end.
The punishment was divine.
It was the universe’s way of maintaining balance.
Every convergence resulted in the emergence of four exceptional mages.
Mages capable of ushering humanity into a new era.
Mages capable of changing everything.
To maintain balance and prevent things from becoming too easy for humanity, the universe created a divergence.
A punishment.
A test.
A way to determine whether humanity deserved the gift it had been given.
The first divergence had been an apocalypse.
The sky and the barriers themselves came undone.
Monsters ran wild across the planet.
Mages and civilians died in droves.
It lasted for days until Merlin corrected the course and saved what remained of humanity.
That had been forty years ago.
The second divergence was less destructive.
Mostly because the world now possessed mages like Vlad and Solomon.
Anchors.
Pillars.
Even then, it had ultimately been Merlin who ended it.
What made this convergence so terrifying was simple.
Merlin wasn’t around anymore.
Merlin couldn’t fight.
Age had finally caught up to him.
Humanity could no longer lean on his otherworldly abilities.
The question was whether Vlad, Solomon, and the other master mages were enough.
The answer was just as simple.
’Probably not.’
’Then how does the Fate mage intend to stop it?’
’Why does it involve Zach’s death?’
’The God-Tier System is the key.’
’It and its...’
