The fate threads came from the place where the painting was floating, In his vision, there was a hole in the void in its place. They were crawling toward Theta’s delicate body as if to devour her. It took Victor a couple of seconds to understand what was going on here.
Those were destiny lines connecting her to another world, some were bad, some were good. Does this girl have another story?
Reading the words, ‘Soul artifact’ in the description log, he realized that this was not happening in the material world but in the sprite one, no wonder his appraisal skill failed.
In the real world what he saw was just that the painting was sending many bursts of energy. But in the Fate world, Victor could not see those, they were fate neutral. What he saw was something else. In addition to the fate threads, A dark red worm made of many entangled black and crimson threads was materializing. It came out of the void hole and was making its way toward Theta’s mouth.
Victor was not sure, but he knew what this was. He had heard of it in his previous life. A soul transfer. Something in another world was trying to enter this world through Theta. And it was probably using some kind of energy as camouflage to fool the world’s defense system.
Once it takes its target body, it will gain its ID and would no longer be discovered by this world as it was now a part of it.
In the future, they would call those Demon Agents. They were agents that the major forces in the other world planted in this world using various techniques just before the reckoning. But why Theta? And how did they send the painting to this world? Too many questions that he couldn’t answer. He had some theories, but this was not the time to think about other things. He had to act.
After some thought, he took out a bottle of the soul poison, then after opening it, he used his disguise skill to hide Theta and replace her with a pillow, making sure that the poison bottle was in the place of her mouth.
…
It didn’t work. The worm kept heading toward Theta, This thing operates on the soul and seems to ignore the illusions of the material world.
Victor watched as more energy poured from the painting and as Theta’s body was getting hotter, she even began to moan in pain.
Victor cursed himself for being useless, if she was his blood slave things would have been much simpler, but he had no more slots in the skill.
Should he leave Theta to her fate? Victor realized that getting the painting was not luck, but fate. Something in the other world has used fate to tie this artifact to Theta.
And the luckiest thing that happened to her was meeting him. There should be a way…
Victor looked at the worm, it was crawling through the air as if it was battling a strong tide, and was only supported by the other energy. It was weak. Void travel was a very dangerous thing it seems.
He had read about the souls when he was studying the book of time, as what was transferred to this timeline was his soul that merged with the one from this world. So his soul must be much stronger. This was also the reason why the book of time could only be used once, as in the second transfer the soul would be too big to be sent in time without a big sacrifice.
After some thought, Victor decided to do something crazy, Too crazy even for him. But this was a gamble, and if it succeeded he was sure to gain a lot.
He had to do it fast Though. He used his disguise skill to change his name to ./SYSTEM 11c54h/ first then made all his attributes including his authority into ones,
Then after one last thought, he opened his mouth and ate the illusory worm.
…….
The grand elder was busy carefully trimming the hairs inside his nose when a fat servant barged into his private room.
“Grandmaster….” The man stopped to catch his breath.
“Ahhh….” The grandmaster yelled as the man's shout, made him insert the scissors a little too deep. He quickly pulled it out and touched his nose to feel the red blood dripping.
He quickly used his handkerchief to cover his nose and took his sword and put it at the servant’s neck.
“You better have a good excuse,” He said angrily.
“The orb…. It broke.” The servant said, not caring about the sword.
“What orb?” The elder asked with a frown.
“The awakening artifact.” The servant said, making the elder blink twice then throw the sword and hurry into the ceremony room. Where the Orb that was the key to creating the Von Weise family lay shattered into a hundred pieces.
I really don't see those things as errors that must be fixed.
Twins are useless? So what? %80 percent of people I know are useless. That means you should add character development, not a rewrite.
Lily is not convincing enough as a main wife? Bullshit! I don't see a reason to be all powerful if he can't make a girl he loves main wife. Alas main wife should be his wife from other timeline. Untill then, Lily is the best girl.
Contract skill too powerful? F**k yeah! It must be! The man has infinite authority.
Merchant skill useless? Nope it isn't. It made him save his grandma thus earn him years to plot peacefully.
Who's putting these things in your mind man? Don't fix something that is not broken. You are already in the top list consistently. Take a break if you must.
But remember if you do, this would be your second rewrite from scratch. I have dropped a few stories for exactly that reason. I am not saying that I am going to drop this one. This rewrite was better (for me) than last one. It worked because not only this rewrite is better but also you were in the beginning of the story in the first one. But there is no guarantee that the second one would work too.
And coma? Really? Make it too long and it would scream like author is out of ideas so trying to add drama with a coma. One or two days max. If the family hears, he is dead.
well i agree with you, but the author may have other feelings or get ideas from the outside or the inside but hopefully it won't be a detour from author akaichi's original idea
Yeah I agree with you, especially on the part about the contract skill because it's literally the only powerful skill he has the rest are just normal strong and without it we would just see the MC taking lots of ls(loses), however I do think he should give the MC back the original Merchant skill instead of the current nerfed one
I agree contract skill is fine if not why give him pretty much infinite authority. Also I don't think I've seen any problems really besides still waiting for the school semester to begin? Also I feel like there should be some dungeon grinding soon since he and majority of his slaves are low lvl or not even players yet my last problem his when shall he awaken the bloodlines or upgrade them I forget which one it was. Other then that I've enjoyed your story so far keep up the good work!!!
Merchant skill didn't even get that much exposure and explanation... why is it useless? For all we know it may be super OP but locked because of low level or just not be the right tool for the job...
@Fuxy yea your right only time it was used was to buy the detox pill for patriarch and the girl in the dungeon other the that I don't think it was used? soo it's not that the merchant skill is useless but it has no use ATM I recall MC saying that it won't have to much use until the day of reckoning I forget the reason but I believe that was said.. also it might be just that his lvl or the skills lvl is to low
But the coma is a good chance for him to sort the other characters out and also flesh out their lives.
In other words Victor can be out of the story for a while and the family wouldn't notice since they have to deal with the orb problem
Yes. I totally agree .
I hate this kind of shitty development.
Mc is gone for a month or so and everything is changed or in problem.
Normally they could wait till next year ceremony peacefully. Even if the orb broke.
But no. Everything must change for some reason.
@Jmills1999 I agree the MC doesn't have any combat skill at all and that's just bad because we are talking about the MC of a Plot and they usually have amazing ability the author should fix that and also bhelp the MC with character development with is current girls instead of adding new ones every chapters.