Elsewhere, after a fierce struggle, the Ninth Rank Diviner Gray Mist ultimately had the last laugh.
After paying a certain price, he used a Fate Avatar to deceive the Royal Guardians, while his true body vanished with the Crystal Core.
Yet although he had obtained the core of Oni Chaos's Sub-body, Gray Mist was in no pleasant mood.
He had already discovered the measure Anvis had left behind before disappearing. It was simple: Anvis had merely made a "plan" for this Crystal Core's Fate Line, entangling it with his own Fate Line so that, through various future accidents, it would eventually return to Anvis's hands.
Had events unfolded as Gray Mist had expected, he would not have cared about this. As long as he could leave this world, the connection would naturally be severed.
Even if he took a step back and failed to escape, with the strength of a Ninth Rank Diviner, he could still spend some time erasing it again.
But the greatest problem now was that, having been on guard, the combined attack of several Royal Guardians had destroyed the Fate Ritual Magic Circle and interrupted the positioning of the Abyssal Sea that he had secretly maintained.
Though he had successfully obtained the core, the ensuing backlash from the Web of Fate left Gray Mist in misery. As a diviner, the price of actively scheming against a Child of Destiny was exceedingly steep.
It was no different from a public official knowingly breaking the law—an offense compounded upon itself.
And Landon, a Child of Destiny whose fortune was at its zenith and who could practically be considered the protagonist of this era, had been used to forcibly resolve the cost of Oni Chaos's Sub-body. The price was that Gray Mist had now directly lost his connection to