The final scene seemed to freeze in place.
The changes in the Book of Causal Paths came to a stop. The rune chains that had been spinning at high speed began to contract back into the book.
The Book of Causal Paths rapidly flipped through its pages and wrote: "I took a huge loss this time!"
"Absorbing the Fruit Core only added thirteen pages, but obtaining the plane coordinates you wanted cost me seventeen pages!"
"You need to disrupt other people's causality as soon as possible and make up for my losses!"
Charles did not care in the slightest. He asked, "Did we really obtain the plane coordinates?"
The Book of Causal Paths wrote: "Are you questioning me!?"
"Of course we obtained the plane coordinates!"
Charles precisely caught the hidden meaning in the Book of Causal Paths' words. He asked, "What do you mean, 'of course'?"
"You didn't truly obtain them?"
The Book of Causal Paths was clearly offended by Charles's words. Its pages flipped rapidly, as though it were exploding with anger.
The Book of Causal Paths wrote in enlarged, bold words: "Of course I obtained the plane coordinates, but I have no way to tell you directly."
"Don't you understand yet? I found you a future outcome in which you obtain the plane coordinates."
"The 'result' is that you obtain these plane coordinates, but the process cannot be skipped!"
"Do you want to hang in the sky like Alasta?"
"Oh! I forgot. Your power is so feeble that you couldn't possibly be hung in the sky. At most, you'd be turned into a pile of scraps!"
Watching the angry Book of Causal Paths, Charles instead felt a little more reassured.
A Book of Causal Paths like this possessed a faint trace of humanity.
Charles hurriedly apologized. "I was