Chapter 280: Chapter Fifty-Five Fate and Accident

However, despite being watched by many vigilant and hostile eyes, Zero was completely unconcerned, as if these gazes were not directed at him.

“Ladies and gentlemen, there’s no need to guess anymore. Following the investigation by Lord Dark Abyss and myself, the traitor is indeed…”

As he spoke, Star suddenly clapped his hands softly.

Although it was only a projection, it eerily made a crisp ‘snap’ sound.

“Uh-oh—”

With a brief cry of alarm, the projection of the seventh black-robed figure on the left, who was next to Zero, suddenly shattered and went out.

“Oh…”

The crowd was immediately startled, causing a slight stir.

“It’s Chi Yi! He is the traitor!?”

“Unexpectedly, I had even collaborated with him before…”

“…”

After the crowd’s murmuring gradually ceased, the Leader spoke calmly.

“Now, everyone, there’s no need to worry too much about this. The organization will not let a traitor off the hook, nor will it wrongly accuse any loyal member.”

As he spoke, his tone suddenly shifted.

“Of course, those who are making secret moves behind the scenes, please hold back for now! Do not take the organization’s tolerance as a reflection of your success in hiding!”

Listening to the Leader’s words, everyone couldn’t help but look at each other. However, since their faces were covered by dark shadows, they couldn’t see the expressions of others.

But what they really thought, only they themselves knew.

“Leader, what should we do next? Should we continue to act?”

The second black-robed person on the right side spoke up, asking a question that most people there wanted to know.

“There’s no time left, let’s wait for now. Wait for the event that will disturb the Continent Destiny Net to occur, and then react accordingly based on the situation.”

The Leader shook his head, negating his view.

“Grey Mist, please elaborate on the latest prophecy information.”

“Yes, Leader.”

Upon hearing this, the projection of the Prophet Grey Mist stood up and nodded slightly to the crowd.

“A day ago, the Continent Destiny Net suddenly underwent a complete oscillation.

This phenomenon indicates that a change that will impact the entire Continent’s situation is about to occur.

Perhaps some of you don’t have an intuitive understanding of this, so let me give an example.

The last time this phenomenon occurred was due to the emergence of the lost Mechanical main city of the Goblin civilization—Tarkeshia, which led to the addition of a brand new profession system of Magic-guided Mechanical!”

As Grey Mist’s words ended, the gazes of the people present became significantly more solemn.

After a brief pause to let everyone digest the information, Grey Mist spoke again.

“The Continent Magic Council grasped the source of the last change and reaped many benefits, as you all are aware.

They gained control of a system with a potential for development no less than Alchemy and the central core of the Mechanical City. I believe everyone here has used the various Mechanicals produced by the Magic Council.”

As he spoke, Grey Mist tapped on the table.

“Last time, because of the interference from a Ninth Rank Prophet, we all ended up empty-handed, going to the wrong time and place, allowing the Continent Magic Council to monopolize the entire Imperial City of Mechanicals…”

“But such a method of cheating destiny cannot work a second time. Combining the previous prophecy information, we have already pinpointed the approximate location and time of this upcoming change.”

“It will be located on the southeastern side of the continent, which is within the borders of the Gloria Empire, and it will happen within the next three days.”

After speaking, he nodded to the leader at the main seat of the dark silver long table and sat back down.

The leader then slowly stood up, looking at the many black-robed figures.

“The situation is as it stands now. If you have your own arrangements after hearing the intelligence, please feel free to proceed.”

His gaze slowly swept over everyone’s faces, the leader’s tone growing heavier.

“However, take note of one thing, do not let your personal actions endanger the interests of the organization! Otherwise, Chi Yi’s fate will be an example!”

“Lastly, Speaker of the Dead, how are things in the Underworld?”

“The situation is not optimistic.”

From the fourth seat on the right side of the table, Speaker of the Dead stood up and slightly shook his head.

When he spoke, intermittent sounds of magic explosions and monster screams came from his projection, making his words somewhat distorted.

“I am currently positioned at the frontline resisting deep Underworld dark creatures. This is probably a once-in-a-millennium massive Dark Beast Tide!

I have just repelled a local assault of the beast tide and transformed two Eighth Ranked Undead Eight-Headed Pythons. My little pets are now cleaning up the aftermath.”

“Have you discovered the cause?”

The leader’s voice turned a bit solemn.

Dark creatures seemingly come from the depths of the Earth’s core, but in reality, they are pouring out from hidden dark fissures deep underground, connected to special subspace.

A massive Dark Beast Tide indicates that the attack range of dark creatures will cover all explored areas of the Underworld.

Most importantly, when the scale expands to a certain extent, leader-level dark creatures will emerge within this Dark Beast Tide.

Based on the scale described by Speaker of the Dead, the strength of a leader might be comparable to a dark creature at the Ninth Rank Limit, and there’s more than one of them!”

“No cause has been found yet, but I suspect it might be related to recent changes in the Net of Destiny.”

Speaker of the Dead said with a hoarse voice.

“The advancing direction of the beast tide is towards the southeastern part of the continent.”

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Gloria Empire, Pamir Academy.

At this moment, Anvis, who was in his study, was exploring the unexpected gains from this operation to suppress negative rumors.

This time, by merely lifting a finger, writing a few letters and sending them out, he directly stirred up the civil situation of the entire Empire, which is exactly the application of the power of identity.

As the players of the Secret Ceremony Society spread rumors and hunted down enemies, Anvis suddenly noticed that his fate feedback total began to rise gradually.

Tracing the source through higher Destiny Vision, he discovered, to his surprise, that these fate feedbacks seemed to originate from those players who were fulfilling tasks!

Though each player contributed only a tiny amount, about one-thousandth of a unit, the players who took on his tasks numbered in the tens of thousands.

During this half-month, his fate feedback has been growing by tens of units daily, and his long-stagnant Prophet profession level also started to show some loosening.

After some research, Anvis realized that his ability to gain fate feedback through players might involve the High Rank Prophet theory of fate harvesting—Destiny Manipulation.

By leveraging the players’ power, he directly influenced the political situation in the Empire and indirectly affected the fates of many Children of Destiny.

There might have been some youths whose families perished in monster attacks and who, after an unexpected adventure, seek revenge on the summoners of those monsters.

Originally, without the Secret Ceremony Society, they may have focused on the Olivendi Family as the culprits based on rumors spread by Eye of the Pupil and would try their best to obliterate them.

But once Anvis arranged for the players of the Secret Ceremony Society to spread rumors that the real culprits were someone else, due to uncertainty about which side to believe, they would first try to confirm the identity of the real culprits.

This leads to a change in their original fate trajectories, and those players executing Anvis’s will would act as transfer stations, gathering the tiny strands of fate feedback and channeling them to Anvis.