The Experiment High Tower shimmered with dreamlike radiance, as though it existed only in a fairy tale. At the center of its highest floor, Tang Qi sat upon Beckfast's Chair, which emitted Divine Radiance.
He maintained that posture in silence for a moment before slightly adjusting himself and asking, "Can your remaining divine power glimpse the future?"
"Yes, my master."
"But you must understand that the more distant the future, the harder it is to glimpse. At present, I can see no farther than one day ahead. After all, I am only a shadow. Fuck, I am not the real Beckfast's Chair. My true body has already been destroyed. Sob, sob, sob."
Secret Script appeared within the hazy light, and the shadow seemed to have become a crybaby.
Still, that was understandable. Its true body had likely been destroyed by the Origin Slaves.
"One day? That's too short."
Tang Qi had placed great hopes on the Shadow of the Beckfast Chair's ability to glimpse the future, but a single day was clearly far too brief.
Against ordinary enemies, even half an hour would have been enough.
But against the Origin Slaves, Tang Qi knew without needing to simulate anything that one day of precognition would not be of much use.
Worse still was Fuck's explanation that followed.
"Fuck knows what Master is thinking. You want to glimpse the future, make arrangements in advance, and stop those terrifying things, right?"
"Unfortunately, Master, that will not work. Even if you possessed my true body, the real Beckfast's Chair, it would still be useless."
"The future can be changed, but doing so will create even more terrifying consequences. Those who toy with time will inevitably be toyed with by time."
"The ones trying to capture Master now are the Origin Slaves. Their numbers