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As one of Orsaga's primary abilities.
The Source of Eternal Suffering possessed unquestionable absoluteness against those beneath it!
Even though this ability was currently being wielded through his main body and was greatly restricted, it was still far beyond anything lesser beings could resist.
Its composition.
Aside from pain, its other most crucial factors were fate—or rather, causality and possibility.
As everyone knew, the future was ever-changing, containing countless possibilities and branches, symbolizing the infinite potential of all things!
Under this characteristic, even a complete good-for-nothing could, through all manner of chance encounters and fateful circumstances, possess the possibility of leaping through the Dragon Gate like a fish, or even rising to rule as king!
Yet no matter the circumstances, those possibilities and branches could generally only be divided into those beneficial to oneself, those harmful to oneself, and the relatively rare, subjective category of neither good nor bad (PS: "relatively rare and subjective" meant neither good nor bad; in truth, most of it was merely self-consolation—deceiving oneself).
Once the Source of Eternal Suffering began to take effect, it would immediately and unconditionally steer the target's future, twisting it toward directions that could inflict greater pain—in other words, directions exceedingly harmful to them!
In the end, combined with its other traits—absorbing pain and creating pain—it formed an extremely self-serving ability that harmed others for one's own benefit!
The more miserable and unlucky others became, the stronger Orsaga grew!
It had something of a relativistic feel to it.
Your misery = my happiness.
Perfectly reasonable.
And it produced actual results—not empty talk or self-consolation!
It suited Orsaga's personality perfectly!
At this moment.
Following his will and thoughts.
From the instant Orsaga raised his hand, taking that instant of the purple-robed elder as the reference point, all of his endless future possibilities