Luvia and Iluna soon ran into Shade on the street. Iluna was quite angry:
"What just happened? After we signaled the ship, we wanted to go support you, but these people immediately surrounded us. Quite a few of them directly displayed plague-mutated traits. I fought them in the alley, but Luvia wouldn't let me kill anyone, saying it would cause very serious consequences. That was such a despicable trick. Where is she?"
Shade put away his mask.
"She left. She can turn people directly into Infinite Snakes, and she is exceptionally good at escaping. I suspect she was the one who first made a deal with Mr. Snake. Also, she possesses Ring of Fate - The Fool. This wasn't entirely fruitless either. At least we confirmed her main body and learned about her powers."
Iluna voiced the same complaint as Shade:
"The Fool? How does that snake have so many Rings of Fate?"
The instant Luvia heard "The Fool," a series of blurred images flashed before her eyes. They seemed to be events from a long time ago. Alone, she climbed a Snow Mountain through a long, blizzard-filled night, eventually standing before a tall tower at the edge of a square. The tower's entrance was a purple barrier.
Luvia was certain she had never experienced such a scene, so she suspected that she had foreseen the future.
But only the girl in the dream knew that it truly had happened a very, very long time ago. Back then, the concept of the Past did not yet exist. The one who had once held The Fool was not Halonin, but another girl who, though foolish, had ultimately glimpsed infinite possibilities.
The Myriad Phenomena Tower now contained infinite possibilities, but in the beginning of the Sixth Epoch, when every story had only