Aventine Tidea was born with a gift. 

It was the gift of [Absolute Awareness], the ability to sense anything and everything with unimaginable detail.

However, Earth seemed to lack the power to fuel his gift. He could only activate [Absolute Awareness] for half a second and with a cooldown period of one year. Nevertheless, Aventine did not find this odd. Instead, he followed his instincts.

The [Gate].

Something he had sensed when he was a child. A one-way portal to another world.

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The <Power of Death> Aventine used amounted to less than 40% of its true strength.


Corresponding to just a little above a D-Rank <Trait>, the invisibility he wielded was exactly the strength needed to elude Kuvie's strongest tracking ability.


…At least, it was stronger than a C-Rank spell lacking its caster's mastery. Such was the nature of <Traits>, unreasonable and perfect.


<Life Sense> was therefore rendered null and void, while making sure that Aventine's information would not immediately spread to Kuvie's higher-ups.


There was a need to hide the cards that one was dealt, after all.


Especially in this millennia-old game of chess.


This was exactly why Nievelt—Kuvie's captain—was sure that Aventine would show himself. The squad captain was a Sonarium, a race born from the union of two beautiful races—the merfolk and the elves.


This gave him an affinity for both Nature Magic and water-attributed mana.


Chapter 49 - Ever-Chaotic World - VI