The scroll was not very long, and perhaps because it had not been properly preserved, the ink had faded badly and the surface was riddled with wormholes. Still, the content written in characters from an unknown era could barely be made out. Worth mentioning was that the writing here resembled rows of earthworms.
They were snakes.
Rows of tiny black snakes.
"Is this... knowledge of the Ring?"
The scroll recorded a special item called the "Ring of Fate," a product formed from an entire segment of destiny condensing together. If the Ancient God Lord of the Ring represented the fate of the entire world, and the dice everyone possessed represented tiny destinies condensed from certain experiences, then the Ring of Fate represented destiny that truly existed.
Of course, although its name was very similar to the Ring Arcanists' "Wheel of Fate," the two were entirely different things.
"Hm? Isn't this what Luvia mentioned last night? The Ring of Fate? So the Falling Star that originally descended was actually that ring? People really had come into contact with something like this before? Luvia said that Ancient Diviners had a habit of branding rings onto their chests."
What the scroll described was very similar to the information Luvia had obtained through divination. Wherever a Ring of Fate appeared, it meant that some form of fate in that region had solidified and stopped moving. Only by shattering the Ring of Fate could destiny begin flowing again.
And if one embedded a Ring of Fate into one's own body, one could become a "Fated One." In that state, every encounter in one's life would draw closer to the fate revealed by the Ring of Fate. Any person or object that obstructed one from walking the Fate Trajectory would suffer inexplicable misfortune; meanwhile, any action