Dice of Destiny Replaces Future

Chapter 48: Dice of Destiny Replace the Future

The magic circle's light flared, and the Gold Coins on the high platform began to melt rapidly.

Countless lights flickered to life, resembling footage of Alchemy City from various angles, with many blurry figures constantly coalescing and dissipating.

Harvey exclaimed excitedly, "Success! I've connected to destiny!"

Harvey had indeed improved significantly, but controlling this powerful magic circle was still a bit beyond him.

After these lights appeared, he felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him. Immense pressure washed over him, making Harvey's heart race and his body tremble.

Amber Xiu immediately reminded him, "Don't resist. You're capturing fragments of the future, not fighting destiny. Don't you believe in fate? Death will come eventually, whether it's now or later doesn't matter!"

Harvey gave a wry smile. No matter how much one accepted fate, it was impossible to be indifferent to death. It was easy to say, but difficult to do.

Harvey could only try his best to concentrate, attempting to find what he wanted amidst these constantly shifting images.

"The secret of the sewers..."

As Harvey murmured this, the flickering images began to slow. The city scenes started to diminish, and the dark, damp sewers began to occupy more of the frame.

"Well done!" Amber Xiu praised.

This kid was truly talented. He wondered who his teacher was. The School of Prophecy was notoriously difficult to enter. It was rare to find such an intelligent student, and to have him serving as a consultant to a fallen Lord instead of being nurtured personally was a terrible waste.

As Harvey focused, the images slowed further, the lights freezing and forming a fragment shimmering with blue light.

Harvey excitedly declared, "Success! This is destiny!"

This fragment seemed to have been stolen from the river of time, constantly replaying the same scene.

A blurry figure appeared in the sewers, holding a glowing divine artifact. Immense power descended from the heavens, piercing the earth and striking the figure. A Divine Spark began to coalesce, and phantom images of countless Deities appeared. Amidst their blessings and curses, a mortal ascended to godhood.

It was a detailed scene. Apart from the blurry figure and the incomprehensible attributes of the Divine Spark, all other details were incredibly realistic, as if they were bound to happen.

Just as Harvey prepared to disperse his magic and end the ritual, Amber Xiu said, "Don't relax. This is a false destiny."

"False destiny?" Harvey asked in surprise.

Amber Xiu explained, "Indeed. Those lunatics in Alchemy City created a false destiny that has misled all beings with prophetic abilities. Earlier, I encountered a group of Druids and a Hag in the sewers; they were all lured into the sewers by this prophecy.

'Prophecy is merely a glimpse into a corner of destiny. You can't expect every peeper to see the same scene through the same peephole, unless someone deliberately faked it.'"

Harvey had never imagined such a possibility. To create a false future and deceive all prophets? What kind of magic was this? It likely surpassed the Legendary rank.

"What do we do now?" Harvey asked. He couldn't even distinguish between true and false prophecies, let alone find the hidden truth.

"Use your power! The power of the School of Prophecy! Don't tell me you haven't prepared anything these past few days. Whether it was for escaping prison or killing me, you must have prepared many futures!" Amber Xiu said.

Harvey suddenly felt embarrassed. So, all his little schemes had been observed by Amber Xiu.

Preparing futures was a mystical concept, and in practice, it was indeed mystical.

Mages of the School of Prophecy could materialize destiny through meditation, for example, turning it into a twenty-sided die.

Before a future arrived, one could roll this die and fix the outcome. Then, this die roll could be used to replace the future outcome. A high roll could replace a bad future with a good one, and a low roll could replace a lucky future with a bad one.

Even more outrageous was that the Dice of Destiny could not only replace one's own future but also that of others.

Amber Xiu had used this method before when he encountered the Hag in the sewers, replacing the Hag's randomly teleported future with one that sent her to the same nearby location, making her unable to escape.

This was the ability of the School of Prophecy: to alter outcomes, akin to a Deity.

No one could definitively say whether this replaced future constituted altering destiny, or if the act of replacement itself was fated.

Amber Xiu had conducted numerous tests, only to find himself lost, without any answers.

And now, Amber Xiu wanted Harvey to use his own dice to replace this future.

If this was a false prophecy, it could be shattered by the Dice of Destiny.

Harvey took a deep breath and began to gather his power.

Dice emitting starlight appeared and began to circle and dance around Harvey, his prophetic power materialized.

Seeing this, Amber Xiu wasn't entirely pleased, thinking with annoyance, "Tsk, only five dice... In my plan, at least seven dice would be needed to reliably shatter this false destiny."

Harvey, unaware of Amber Xiu's lowered evaluation, was fully focused on controlling his Dice of Destiny, attempting to use their power to alter the prophetic fragment before him.

All versions are correct and without error!

One die flew out and landed in the fragment, causing only ripples.

The scene within the fragment remained unchanged: the blurry figure becoming a Deity, as if nothing had happened.

Seeing this, Harvey hardened his resolve and hurled his remaining four Dice of Destiny at it.

This time, the false prophetic fragment finally showed changes. Numerous cracks appeared, and then it exploded completely.

Amber Xiu sighed. Dozens of Dice of Destiny appeared around him, shattering these broken futures into even finer fragments. The entire laboratory was like a rain of light.

Endless motes of light dispersed and then coalesced again, forming seven small crystals, each reflecting a different future.

Amber Xiu sighed; ultimately, he still had to act.

But having abandoned the path of prophecy, every time he used the power of the School of Prophecy, it became harder for him to walk a new path, forever remaining a subpar Legendary.

But since it was used, Amber Xiu couldn't dwell on it. He quickly checked the new future.

In the first shard, Amber Xiu saw a small mountain of gold, millions of Gold Coins appearing in his Laboratory.

Good, very good. Heaven's will! It's only fitting that I'll get rich!

But what does this have to do with the sewers?

In the second shard, a bizarre beauty appeared. She possessed a noble aura, but her skin looked as white as paper. She was holding Amber Xiu's head... just his head.

Amber Xiu's worst fear had come true.

If a favorable future was Heaven's will, then what about an unfavorable one? Did he have to say, "My fate is mine to control, not Heaven's"?