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"Fate guided me to meet you, so the opportunity for me to advance to Chaoswalker must be with you. It hasn't appeared yet, it's just not the right time."
"I have waited for seventy years, and I don't mind waiting a bit longer."
This Misfotune Mage, who had waited seventy years for his advancement opportunity, was much more rational than Leyton had anticipated.
Leyton had originally worried that the other party would lose control of his emotions after he said he didn't know the other party's advancement opportunity.
"Fate guided me to meet you!"
Leyton repeated the sentence. The old man's words made Leyton unconsciously recall everything that had happened today.
From throwing a coin for divination, meeting the great detective Isengard Stanton in Cherwood Borough, getting information from him, then coming to the Dock District to test the ability of the Flame Demon with the Raven Gang, to finally entering this tavern.
All of these developments were both very logical and coincidental.
"I had some unpleasant encounters in that dance hall, so I gave the other party some bad luck."
The white-haired old man next to him said, as if sensing something.
"So that's why I happened to find the Raven Gang at this time?"
"There are factors in that regard. You'd best throw away that amethyst-inlaid ring. That unlucky instigator encountered some unimaginable misfortune before he died."
"There's also a certain residue on that ring. You were influenced by the misfortune on it, which is why you walked into this tavern."
The old man glanced at Leyton's right pocket, which contained the ring, and calmly reminded him.
Leyton was speechless for a moment. The development of this matter was a chain reaction, even more preposterous and logical than a writer's script. He finally let out a sigh:
"Fate is truly a wonderful thing!"
Leyton took out the ring from his pocket, placed it on the table in front of the old man, and said:
"Sir, how should this ring be handled?"
The old man picked up the amethyst-inlaid ring, looked at it for a moment, and then handed it back to Leyton:
"I have suppressed the misfortune on it to a certain extent. You can try to pray to the great existence who controls the authority of the Fate pathway, and strip the misfortune from it to make a charm."
"Or crush it and retrieve the instigator's characteristic."
Leyton took the amethyst ring and nodded slightly. The great existence who controlled the authority of the Fate pathway, the first person Leyton thought of was Klein. He could mobilize the Sefirah Castle to respond to his prayers.
"Hmm, I'll go ask Klein tomorrow. This operation should be feasible."
Leyton quickly made up his mind.
Then he looked at the old man next to him. Having waited seventy years for his opportunity, the other party certainly wouldn't let him leave so easily.
"My name is Destiny Yisi. I was once a member of the Fate Council of the Life School of Thought, but later I realized my Fate was not within the Life School of Thought, so I left them."
"For a period of time, I will stay by your side, waiting for the opportunity guided by Fate to arrive."
"I have a premonition that this opportunity will appear very soon!"
Destiny Yisi briefly introduced his identity. When he spoke of the opportunity he was waiting for, his tone clearly became a bit more excited.
Leyton nodded understandingly. Seventy years was already most of his life.
After a brief thought, Leyton asked the other party about the Primordial Moon. Some Followers of the Primeval Moon were part of the Life School of Thought, and as a former member of the Fate Council, Destiny certainly had a good understanding of the Primordial Moon.
"The Primordial Moon? She has some problems, or She herself has always had problems."
"I once speculated that the Primordial Moon was the incarnation of Lilith, the former progenitor of the Sanguine, but later I denied this speculation."
"She has been overtly or covertly influencing the Mother and Moon pathways, fabricating false oracles to influence the Beyonders of these two pathways."
When he said this, Destiny narrowed his eyes slightly, seemingly very wary of the Primordial Moon.
"However, the Primordial Moon has undergone significant changes recently. Her oracles have a strong sense of fragmentation, just like—"
"It's like the oracles were issued by two completely different existences!"
Leyton continued Destiny's unfinished sentence.
Destiny looked at Leyton in surprise, nodded slightly, and said:
"Yes, I even suspect that the Primordial Moon is not one evil god, but two or even more evil gods, incarnations used to exert influence on the Mother and Moon pathways."
Leyton nodded slightly with a serious expression. This basically matched his own speculation. The Primordial Moon's alias was now being co-opted by the Mother Goddess of Depravity and the Mother Tree of Desire.
Thinking about the situation of the Primordial Moon, Leyton's thoughts quickly drifted to the Earth Mother:
"Lilith must also really want to reclaim the characteristic of the Beauty Goddess. If She could control this part of the torn-off Mother Tree on Earth, that would be truly spectacular."
After finishing his conversation with Destiny, Leyton took him by carriage back to Minsk Street.
Although this former Life School of Thought member did not show any malice, Leyton was still somewhat wary of a strange demigod and did not directly pull him into Spirit World travel.
Upon returning to Minsk Street, Leyton spoke up to remind him:
"I don't have any spare bedrooms at home. You'll need to find a place to stay yourself."
Leyton was telling the truth. All the spare rooms in the house had been converted by Leyton into storage rooms and Bugs Bunny's laboratory, leaving no extra rooms.
Destiny waved his hand indifferently:
"It's alright, there will be a room!"
Under Leyton's somewhat puzzled gaze, Destiny walked to the house next to Leyton's and gently knocked twice on the door.
Soon, the owner of the house came to open the door. He was a man in his thirties, looking a bit tired. He looked at the white-haired old man at the door and said somewhat impatiently:
"Sir, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Are you planning to rent out this house for a period of time? I'm looking for a house that can be rented for about a month, you know, it's a bit hard to find."
Destiny didn't mind the other party's attitude and politely asked him.
Leyton witnessed the homeowner's expression change from impatience to surprise, then to delight. The impatient look on his face instantly changed into a polite smile:
"Sir, you've asked at just the right time. Due to some changes in my work, I will be temporarily leaving Backlund for a month, and I was just worrying about what to do with the house I'm renting, since I'll be coming back in a month."
"If you're satisfied, we can go find a lawyer tomorrow morning to draft a contract. I need to leave Backlund before noon tomorrow. As long as you're satisfied with the house and the price, and promise not to maliciously damage the house and the furniture inside, that's fine."
"I have no objections."
Destiny and the homeowner reached a deal with incredible speed, and the homeowner even allowed him to move in tonight. There were still spare bedrooms in the house, and he could choose whichever he wanted.
"Is this the luck of the Fate pathway? It's not much different from having your wishes come true!"
Leyton sighed. After Destiny found a place to stay, he returned to his own house.
The next morning, as Leyton had just come downstairs and was sitting in the dining room eating the breakfast Bugs Bunny had prepared, there was a knock on the door.
Crow Anu commanded a spirit to open the door.
The scene in the hall then became: one indentation after another appeared on the plush carpet on the floor, extending to the door. The doorknob turned by itself without anyone touching it, and with a creaking sound, the door opened.
"This scene is perfect for a horror movie."
Klein, who was standing outside the door, complained and then stepped into the living room.
When he had knocked on the door just now, the scene inside the room had naturally appeared in his mind. Images from horror movies he had seen before also appeared in Klein's mind simultaneously, and he naturally took a step back.
"This is no longer Earth, and I am already a Beyonder."
Klein muttered to himself, adjusted his state, and waited for the invisible spirit inside the room to open the door for him.
Klein walked into the dining room, pulled out a chair, and sat down.
Bugs Bunny quickly brought a pile of fruits and bread and placed them in front of Klein.
"Thank you! I've already had breakfast."
Klein politely thanked Bugs Bunny. Then he turned his head to Leyton and said:
"Bugs Bunny is truly a good helper. Seeing him makes me want to keep a Beyonder creature by my side too."
"Go ahead and get one! I just acquired an Assassin characteristic a while ago, do you want it?"
Leyton suggested enthusiastically.
Klein's expression towards Leyton became strange, looking as if he wanted to speak but hesitated:
"Be a human being! You can actually say things like giving an animal an Assassin potion!"
Another knock on the door interrupted Leyton's attempt to promote the Assassin potion.
At Leyton's signal, Crow Anu commanded the spirit to open the door. An old man in a dark grey robe with white hair and beard, eyes tightly shut, walked into the house.
"Fate has given me a revelation: it is not suitable to open my eyes today."
Destiny, with his eyes tightly shut, walked freely into the dining room, found a chair, sat down, and explained.
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