Curse

Having reached an agreement with the Book of Causal Paths, it immediately got to work.

Golden pages tore free from the Book of Causal Paths one after another, rapidly burning away and releasing vast amounts of causal power.

Meanwhile, Charles kept his eyes fixed on the Book of Causal Paths. As its pages turned, scene after scene emerged.

In the scenes depicted upon the pages, Charles held the black crystal ball in his hand, continually changing directions until he finally arrived at a stretch of desert.

At last, he stopped. In the final scene, Kolsama's trail appeared.

After this scene emerged, the Book of Causal Paths wrote: "The outcome has already been woven for you!"

Charles gave a savage grin. "Very good!"

The next moment, he flicked the black crystal ball in his hand.

Whoosh!

The crystal ball pointed him in a direction.

Charles stretched both arms forward and tore open the space before him, creating a portal.

Charles slowly flew into the portal. When he emerged again, he had already arrived at an exceedingly distant location.

He flicked the crystal ball again, and it continued to point Charles in a direction.

Charles kept tearing through space, teleporting again and again.

The Book of Causal Paths had woven an outcome for him, but Charles still had to carry out the process step by step.

Each time, the black crystal ball could only indicate a direction. Charles had no way of determining the distance and could only keep testing his way forward.

Sometimes he would overshoot, and the direction indicated by the crystal ball would turn backward.

Then he would have to teleport back.

But every teleportation brought Charles one step closer to pinpointing Kolsama's location.

At the same time.

Kolsama, who was hiding within an underground cavern, suddenly felt