Chapter 2332: Now, forget everything you have heard.

"Alright, it’s done."

Orravyn spoke in an indifferent tone.

Seraphielle looked at him, then her eyes fell on the relic hovering in the middle of the room, and the instant she looked at it—

She turned silent.

Not just her, the rest of the Infinities stared at the Relic in silence, waiting for Orravyn to explain what the thing was.

The relic itself looked like a broken crown made of dark, old, worn metal. It was clear that Orravyn didn’t use the best possible materials to create this.

And he didn’t need to.

As exceptional as Vashti was, at the end of the day, she was only a Transcendent. She was weak, her soul was far weaker than an Eternal’s, not to mention her soul had been divided trillions of times. He had no reason to use any more precious metal on this.

Thin golden cracks ran across the relic’s surface, glowing faintly, like ’something’ inside was trying to break out.

Yes, that was Vashti, still crying, still begging, still trying to... save herself from the fate that awaited her.

But it was no longer possible.

She was now trapped.

For Eternity.

Around the crown, different symbols that Orravyn mentioned were comprehensions of Vashti’s Law floated, something that made it possible for the relic to use Vashti’s powers. These symbols moved in circles and continued glowing softly.

At the very center of the crown, there was an Eye.

It wasn’t normal, no, it was... familiar.

An eye with no whites, no pupil, a completely black eye, filled with tiny stars, an endless void, and deep within it, a faint red star pulsed slowly, like something... alive was watching from the inside.

Yes, it was similar to Vashti’s eyes.

*Picture of the Relic*

The air around the Relic felt... wrong.

It wasn’t dangerous, it just felt... unnatural. Almost as if it was something that shouldn’t even exist.

"Is that... her?"

Equarios asked as he glanced at the relic, then at Vashti’s body, which was lying on the ground without a soul.

"That is correct."

Orravyn nodded.

"How does this thing work?"

Ul’Thakar asked with a curious look on his face. He had left the room before since he couldn’t be bothered with Seraphielle’s antics, but the moment he sensed the completion of the relic, he returned.

Orravyn looked at him for a moment, then he started explaining.

"That girl is the only being in the entire Universe who predicted and reacted to Anomaly’s movements before they happened, which normally isn’t possible since the Anomaly, for some reason, cannot be sensed. Not through time, nor through the power of Fate."

The Infinities nodded, they understood all this as well. The powers of Time and Fate were the first powers they used to find and capture the Anomaly, but...

It didn’t work.

Heck, they couldn’t even sense his existence.

This was also the reason the Infinities so quickly believed that the Anomaly came from a different Universe, that he didn’t belong to their Time, that he didn’t share their fate.

This was why the Infinities never thought of these people from the Temple of Time themselves, in their eyes, it was a pointless endeavour against a being from another Universe.

But...

"This girl, however, was different." 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Orravyn spoke, looking at Vashti’s body.

"She had the Law of Absolute Projection, a Law that allowed her to project time itself, be it the past or the future.

This Law allows her to predict the future at some level, and while even she cannot predict the Anomaly’s future because he doesn’t belong to our time, she could predict hers.

This was how she did it in the past—

She didn’t sense that the Anomaly was coming for her—

She just sensed that someone was coming for her and quickly rushed to her master because that was the only thing she could think of.

She couldn’t predict that the Anomaly, at that time, wasn’t strong enough to defeat her master, neither could she predict how strong he actually was.

She couldn’t even see his face, she just knew someone was coming, and based on that feeling, she reacted.

That is what we are going to do as well."

Orravyn paused.

The Infinities looked at him and he continued the explanation.

"Even now, she—"

Orravyn pointed at the crown hovering in the air, still not calling her as if she were already an inanimate object.

"—cannot sense the Anomaly.

What she can sense, however, is that something is going to happen, something she cannot see, that blindness that she will see, that will be our cue.

Because at her level, the only being who could blindside her... is the Anomaly."

"So once the Anomaly decides to target the world she is set up in, she will predict that something wrong will happen to that particular world in the future, she will look into it, and if she doesn’t get the answer as to what is going to happen and sees blindness instead—

She will inform us."

Equarios asked, and Orravyn—

"That is correct."

He nodded.

"So she is not sensing the Anomaly himself, she will sense the... oddity around her."

Ul’Thakar commented, and once again, Orravyn nodded. This, however, made Ul’Thakar frown.

"Why her then?"

He asked.

"Why couldn’t we use this method?"

The question made sense.

For whatever reason, the Anomaly didn’t exist in their time. This was the reason they couldn’t read his past, present, or future, but...

The Worlds he targeted do exist in their time, their fates could be predicted.

So why couldn’t they predict the fate of the world the Anomaly was going to target?

Because even now, even as Ul’Thakar was using his personal relic to sense the fate of the Worlds in the Main Universe—

He doesn’t see any oddities. According to him, almost all of those worlds would survive for the next few hundred thousand years. As for those that would perish, they won’t perish because of an oddity, but because of a War instead.

This... didn’t make sense.

Did it mean that the Anomaly would stop his attacks from now on?

No, that much Ul’Thakar was sure about. He had actually seen the fate of his worlds before as well, and even when they showed everything was fine, the Anomaly still attacked, those worlds still disappeared, and he...

He was proven wrong.

This was why Ul’Thakar couldn’t understand why Vashti could pull it off while they couldn’t.

And Orravyn understood that question, and he had the answer ready—

"As I said, she is... quite exceptional.

Her understanding of time is far richer than any being I have met, even after reading her memories, there are comprehensions that even I do not understand."

Orravyn admitted openly.

There was no shame in it, the girl had given all her life to the study of time and she was exceptional at it, probably the best in the entire Universe.

"The Anomaly doesn’t exist in our time. This is the reason his presence does not affect our time. In our Universe’s perspective, the Anomaly simply does not exist, his actions... never happen unless they do.

This is why every time we predict the future, the possibilities we predict are of what would have happened if the Anomaly did not exist."

"Doesn’t that make it all fundamentally inaccurate?"

Equarios muttered with a frown.

Reading the future was complicated because there was no definite answer, there were only... possibilities...

Quadrillions of possibilities, each varying with even the slightest of change.

As for a change as big as the existence of the Anomaly?

That would mean every single prediction that had been made so far, they were all inaccurate because they never factored in the Anomaly’s existence.

"Yes."

Orravyn nodded at those words.

Ul’Thakar, however, frowned—

"Don’t change the topic, explain how she does it."

He asked. He was now curious, and it was getting more and more difficult to hold back his curiosity.

Orravyn looked at him and nodded—

"As I said, her understanding of time is far richer than any being in our Universe. So even when the Anomaly, a being who does not exist in our Universe, makes a move, she... senses something.

I do not know what exactly it is that she senses or when she senses it—

I believe it is the oddity the Anomaly brings just from being in our Universe.

If someone who shouldn’t exist does exist, that should make something look... wrong. She must be able to notice that—

And this is how she makes her predictions."

"So basically you do not know."

Ul’Thakar spoke directly. Orravyn looked at him for a moment, thinking whether he should explain it or not, but in the end, he just sighed and—

"Yes, I do not know."

He shook his head.

He was in no mood to continue this conversation any further. Then he turned towards the rest of the Infinities and—

"Anyways, our work here is done.

Let’s leave."

He spoke as he grabbed the relic hovering in the air, then with a wave of his hand, he picked up Vashti’s body, in case it becomes useful in the future, and walked out of the room without even looking at Tenzin.

The other Infinities were no different, they too walked out, only Seraphielle stayed behind. She then looked at Tenzin and—

"Alright then, I believe our time with each other is over. I had fun talking to you."

She smiled gently, as if her previous demonic appearance were merely an illusion. Then, she approached the monk, gently placed her hand on his cheek and—

"Now, forget everything you have heard.

As I said before—

We might still need you to train another prodigy that we can use."