The Golden Hour.
"...It feels like there's something in my head. Is 'Harmony' starting to take effect?" Aventurine held his forehead as a filter of floating purple blotches appeared at the edges of his vision.
"You want me to investigate, yet you won't give me a single clue... Just like you, you bastard with wings growing out of your head."
He shrugged, sounding slightly regretful.
"Looks like luck's favor isn't with me every moment."
He had originally planned to find Bai Heng and have the curse on him removed.
Unfortunately, Bai Heng was out of service range. Aventurine had no way to contact him and could only wait for Harmony's influence to fade naturally.
Still, when it came to Bai Heng, Aventurine found him quite interesting.
The two had met at the Ten Stonehearts' regular meeting a week ago. Though they had known each other only briefly, they had found similar traits in one another—for example, being approachable through sheer wealth.
Beyond that, Bai Heng's temperament was also part of what drew Aventurine in.
"It's hard to imagine that a newly ascended Emanator renowned across the universe would spend all day with ordinary people whom those of his standing disdain... Though it looks more like he's idling his days away."
"Besides, 'Abundance' and 'Destruction'—I don't think I've ever seen him practice either of those Paths."
Why had Bai Heng become an Emanator of both Abundance and Destruction in such a short time? Why had no one noticed any signs of Bai Heng practicing those Paths?
Those two questions remained hot topics of discussion within the Corporation to this day.
It could be said that Bai Heng might be the freest Emanator in the universe. He did not even need to become a Pathstrider of a Path to directly wield the