American Comics: The Serum
Chapter 309

Cassandra's Prophecy

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Cassandra was an exceptionally skilled—one might even say top-tier—seer.

Though she was advanced in years, she had gained the extraordinary ability to foresee the future after being exposed to the radiation from the Kryptonite meteor shower more than a decade ago. Any future she foresaw was bound to happen. There was one condition, however: no one could interfere with that future.

But interfering with the future could be easy or difficult, depending on the circumstances.

Since human power was limited, whether one could change one's own future depended on how powerful the external factors shaping that future were.

If those external factors were weak, the person whose future had been foreseen could easily change it through ordinary human effort. But when the external factors were extremely powerful, ordinary human effort simply could not alter the future.

Cassandra had thought this was an unchangeable rule, but twelve years after the meteor shower disaster, she happened to discover two exceptions.

One was Clark Kent, a boy shy in both appearance and heart. The other was Dilos Sullivan, sunny and handsome on the outside but as mature as an adult within. He valued both emotion and reason, knew when to keep a low profile, and knew when to be bold.

Both of them could alter the future to a certain extent without being affected by external factors.

However, compared to the former, Dilos Sullivan was even more unusual in Cassandra's eyes.

Clark Kent's fate often bore traces of having been planned by others. Dilos Sullivan, on the other hand, not only showed no such signs, but also always seemed to interfere with the futures of others without even meaning to.

Most remarkable of all, Dilos Sullivan's future could not be accurately determined. He was like a computer virus: while disrupting the destinies and

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