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.

[Cover Art by @artcern on Instagram]

My guesses grew closer to certainties when a bunch of shady individuals somehow wandered onto my doorstep.


On top of these shady individuals, a bunch of the Empire's Guards were hunting them down. Next, a pair of demon assassins were stalking both parties, terrified of the guards, but still craving some data on the human Info-Hunter.


<Fate> wanted me out of my Mage Tower and off the streets of Walvaskaz. I was almost certain that the shady individuals were simply here as an… arrangement.


'Using that word feels oddly terrifying for some reason…'


After these hooligans, <Fate> would figure out a way to push me into the Layers Beneath.


It was a tedious process, but that was how Fleim operated. There was no outright way for it to force my hand.


Chapter 82 - Fate Convergence - VII