The stars above seemed to pulse with an almost living intensity, as if they too recognized that the moment of revelation was at hand.
With the Experience Card now active and thirty minutes of enhanced perception before me, I was ready to demand answers from the universe itself.
I reached for the bowl and prepared to begin the ritual anew.
This time, I will nots top until I find a way to escape this situation. I need to find the reason for this danger and way to escape this.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breathe, I need to calm down my fear, getting scared in this situation is just wasting the opportunity I get. So making up my mind, I looked at the hut, there Yuki and other children are sleeping peacefully, oblivious to the danger that is approaching them. I need to save them.
Getting enough motivation, I looked at bowl trying to invoke the technique again. But this time something strange happened, my mind is flooded up with a lot of information, it felt like my head will burst out.
Along with this system' notification sounded in the background.
"STAR SEER TECHNIQUE IS CHANGING DUE TO INFLUENCE OF EXPERIENCE CARD."
"STAR SEER IS UPGRADING REACHING 50% OF ITS TOTAL POTENTIAL."
"BEACON OF TRUTH IS INFLUENCING THIS UPGRADATION PROCESS, MAKING THE GROWTH TOWARDS RIGHT PATH."
"SIGIL OF EVOLUTION INFLUENCING THE PROCESS, MAKING THE STAR SEER TECHNIQUE REACH THE GROWTH BEYOND ITS LIMIT."
"STAR SEE TECHNIQUE IS UPGRADING AND EVOLVING REACHING 50% OF TOTAL POTENTIAL"
"UNABLE TO SEE TOTAL POTENTIAL OF STAR SEER TECHNIQUE DUE TO INFLUENCE OF BEACON OF TRUTH AND SIGIL OF EVOLUTION"
"CURRENT POTENTIAL OF STAR SEER TECHNIQUE IS UNKNOWN."
"STAR SEER TECHNIQUE IS TRANSFORMING INTO ANCIENT ASTROLOGY"
System's notification stopped as information in my mind soon transformed into knowledge about stars and constellation, my Star Seer technique is now transformed into something new something more ancient.
I don't have time to look up in details as I only have 30 minutes, so I just focused my mind on invoking this technique and finding the danger that my future hold.
Soon the information in my mind which is in chaotic state start arranging itself in an orderly manner, and I finally get the steps to invoke this technique. Fortunately this technique does not have any difficult requirement, it did not even have any requirements just knowledge about star and constellations is enough.
So let the bowl filled with ash mix water lie of the side, while I myself looked at sky towards the celestial bodies and constellations, calculating the information about the danger.
First, I calculated the future of Yuki. Her future or should I say her fate is to shine in the sky becoming a great figure defeating every one of her enemies and becoming an invincible figure that is remembered through generations. This was her original fate, but something changed an unknown factor had influenced her fate making a situation, where she would die tomorrow.
I try to see the source of this danger, but I found something more unsettling. This source or the danger is not for Yuki, meaning that who ever is going to kill her is not someone who originally targeted her, she is just dying as a collateral.
I try to find more about it, but I only get some visions in which sky is torn apart and thousands of swords rain on her killing her.
Unable to find the source, I looked into fates of children, same as Yuki. I find their original fate, which is very good all of them are supposed to shine like stars in this sky called human federation, but due to something all of them are fated to die tomorrow.
All of them have different visions, some are killed by flying swords, other burned to death, and some are just die turning into dust.
Seeing fate of all those children, I finally understand that whatever danger is coming, it is not coming for them. The only one left is me, maybe this danger is fated to come for me.
Without wasting any minute, I looked into my fate and future.
Something changed this time, I mean this time I am felt difficulty to look into my fate. If looking into the fate of Yuki and others were like reading a book behind a glass then this time it felt like reading a book behind a glass filled with muddy water or fog.
But still thanks to my experience card, I am able to see my fate, but only thing I see in my fate is chaos. My fate is totally chaotic, with only my fast and immediate future can seen through, and everything else is shrouded in a dark fog.
I did not put much thought on my chaotic fate, as I don't have time. I just focused on my immediate future, on the danger that is coming. And as I thought that danger is something related to me, that is something tied to me since I was born.
Maybe it is some kind of enemy of my father or my family, I don't maybe that city lord father of mine had some strong enemies. Still feeling that time slipping through my hands, I focused my mind on that source, if I get clear picture on the face of that danger then I can at least see how to deal with it.
Soon, vision flooded my mind. As if entering simulation, I entered a simulation.
With a heavy headache, I looked around. I am sitting inside my hut along with Yuki and other children. It was like seeing a movie, because I can't control my body and action, its like seeing future without any option to interfere with it.
Soon the door to hut opened as Yuki, me and all children went out. Our destination is Grandma Rose's bakery, as she will waiting for us. This is new beginning of our life as all of us will be, even looking from a third men's perspective I can feel happiness in those eyes.
But it should be time when that danger show itself, and just as I thought, sky above us tore open as someone descended from up. Looking closely, it is man in white cloth with striking features and a blade at his waist.
But more than anything, I felt surprise cause I know this man. It was the man who is called father of this body, father of Ryuk Ashborn, City lord Reynolds Ashborn.
Looking at him, I don't anything he was supposed to be in prison in some other city out there. But he suddenly came here, he looked at me with cold eyes and without even saying anything he just lifted his hand, Killed Yuki and other children almost decimated half of this settlement. But he kept me alive, seeing it from a observers perspective I felt immense anger and dread but I can't do anything, I can only watch the future unfold.
Soon my body which is still alive looked at him and asked, "Why?"
He did not say anything and muttered, "You lowly martial pill, you really dared to cultivate and wasted precious resources of my lady."
He could not continue as another person descended, this a lady in golden clothes, with her face covered in a golden mask. As she descended my father kneel towards him, he dropped his head and said, "My lady, I failed that martial pill dared to cultivate."
The lady did not reply just looked at me and said, "Good talent indeed, pity you are a martial pill only destined to become my resources. We really took a lot of effort to cultivate you since your birth now it is time to fulfill your role."
She, waived her and hand and said, "It's okay servant, he still did not awaken Immortal Pupil and Life stone, they are is perfect condition."
As she said a heavy pressure descended on me, I went unconscious, but still as an observer I can see they went towards my body. Healing it and making me conscious, then they took my eyes which is kept in a container by that lady and lastly my heart was pierced by her hand taking out a green pearl in my heart.
I finally the title Martial Pill in my status, it is not any physique it is destiny to be used as a resource, as pill by someone else.
The vision went blank as I opened my eyes now finally seeing the source of danger, there is still few minutes left before this experience card expires, so I decided to use that time in finding a way out of this predicament.