Ever since the very first ti Rio encountered Alverto's clone, he's always had a question in his mind.
Why did Alverto send his clone to that dungeon during the final exams, and what was his actual purpose for doing so?
Rio was unaware of Alverto's purpose, and he had never once seen the character's na appear in the novel he had read.
Soone as significant as Alverto wasn't ntioned in the novel, which is very strange.
If Alverto truly existed in the original novel's tiline, he should have appeared when Fade was executing Demons during the 'Second Demon Extinction War'.
A genius spear master like Alverto, who can use the power of ti elent to utmost levels, could not have been an ordinary person who was ignored at random.
Up until now, Rio had no idea what was causing this strange change in the tiline.
Although Rio indeed ssed up the original plot a lot by stealing various chances and opportunities, he never went to the Demon Continent after all.
Which ans he never really caused changes in the plotlines related to the demons.
Right now, there are two possibilities: either Alverto is an 'Anomaly' like Rio, or the problem lies with Rio from the start altogether.
'I kind of have a feeling... I don't know how to describe it, but I feel I have felt that unique aura of Alverto before...'
Originally, Rio thought that this body might have sensed Alverto during the Drift City
Massacre, which happened before his transmigration, but now that Shadow has awakened, his mories of the past have beco clearer.
The original Rio never knew Alverto, and he didn't even see that guy during the drift city massacre as he was running away with his mother and had no ti for anything else.
In other words, the one who sensed Alverto's aura wasn't Rio but the original him, the him before transmigration.
'But the biggest problem is... I have forgotten a lot of my mories...'
Rio can't even rember his past life's na. Apart from nurous personal mories, Rio has also forgotten the appearance of the friend who initially gave him this book to read.
Rio has forgotten all these important things.
'Wait, have I t Alverto in my past life?... No, that's not it...'
Although Rio's mories are partially gone, he is sure he never senses that unique aura that Alverto has.
'There is sothing more complicated going on in the background that I don't know about... Sothing that likely happened in the ti gap when my soul traveled from the previous world to this one...'
Rio's last mories of his past life end where he slept after reading the book; he doesn't know what happened afterwards, and next he found himself in Rio's body.
'All things aside, the biggest confusing factor was how Alverto was tracking those fragnts.' After Alverto appeared in Oaklum to kill Zach and snatch the fragnt away, Rio figured out one key thing, and that was that Alverto can track these 'fragnts'; he definitely has the way to track them.
After all, the mont Zach got that fragnt from the tree of blood, Alverto imdiately ca right after to snatch it.
As the fragnt's description says, you can't take this fragnt from soone by force; you must either get it from the other party by either getting their approval or by killing the other party completely.
But until now, Rio wasn't sure what thod Alverto was using as a tracking target.
Now that he has two fragnts in his possession, he has a deeper understanding of the situation.
Right now, Rio can feel a new vague sensation in his mind; he has a newfound tracking ability
now.
It feels as if he can see through the space-ti fabric itself and can sense things happening in great detail.
'No wonder Alverto was able to detect it both tis...'
Right now, Rio is sure that wherever those fragnts are in this world, as long as they appear in the open, Rio can easily sense them while directly ignoring the distance.
As long as those fragnts are within ten light-years of him, Rio can easily sense their presence if they appear in the open.
(1 light year = distance traveled by light in a year in the vacuum of space. It's around 5.88 trillion miles.)
But of course, if those fragnts are in soone's body, Rio can't sense them at all; only if the fragnt's user dies or passes it to a new owner can Rio sense its presence.
'This ans, when that octopus died and transferred the fragnt to , Alverto sensed that instantly and launched an investigation...'
'He then likely figured out that around that particular date and ti, only the ship of the academy students had passed by that area of the sea, and thus he waited for the perfect opportunity...'
'When the opportunity finally arrived, he sent his clone and his subordinates into the dungeon, where he wanted to likely find the person who had taken the fragnt for himself...'
'In other words, that clone's main motive was all along...'
If that day, Alverto's clone had killed Rio, then Alverto's plan really would have succeeded
right there, and he would have gotten the fragnt easily.
But Rio tricked the other party and won the battle, thus Alverto's plan failed.
'The sa must have happened in Zach Senpai's case too...'
Alverto likely sensed it when the tree of blood transferred the fragnt to Zach; thus, he went
to Aaron's hidden cave, killed Aaron, and did soul-search on him to find out about Zach and
the others.
Then he laid out the plan to beat them while taking into consideration that Jin might be on his
way.
That day, Alverto was pressed on ti; otherwise, he would have definitely wiped out the whole team, Astra, and by killing Rio, he have gotten another extra fragnt that day.
'In other words, Alverto already had two fragnts from the start, and now that he has Zach Senpai's fragnt, he has three of them in his possession...'
But one thing that Rio has yet to figure out is,
'What actually are these fragnts for? Why is that Demon Prince so obsessed with them, and why is he looking for them in the first place?'
Although Rio got answers for his question, new questions popped out again, and now he has even more questions than he already had.
Not only is he missing key information about what happened during the ti when his soul ca to this world, he's also missing information on what Alverto might be planning. 'Right now... I can't sense the presence of a single fragnt in my whole ten light-years big detection range...'
The main effect of having two fragnts on you is that you gain this detection range, but this detection ability will only work for the fragnts; it's completely useless for other things. Rio can't use it like 'Mana Detection' that is used for tracking enemies and other stuff; this detection range is solely focused on the fragnts alone.
'Maybe... the reason why Alverto massacred the whole Drift City was because he had sensed the presence of a fragnt there too? Maybe that was his real purpose for destroying so many
lives...'
After all, you can't sense who got the fragnt in such a big city, so Alverto chose the easy thod; he likely thought that killing everyone would eventually reveal the fragnt
automatically.
At that ti, there were only Ashtel and Neo who were the sole SS-rankers; Raji was still
young.
Neo probably didn't even bother saving the people, and Ashtel was raiding an SS-rank dungeon; thankfully, Jas and the other S-rankers arrived on ti; otherwise, Rio would
have died that day already.
'Thinking about this now; this body has escaped death so many tis now, it kind of feels like the 'Law' of 'Death' itself doesn't have a hold on this body...'
'Maybe this is also another side-effect of being an 'Anomaly' perhaps?'
Ever since Rio mastered the sword intent and ca into contact with the 'Law' of 'Sword', he has sensed that various 'laws' of the 'world' actively avoid him.
Although he can't really see the 'laws' with naked eyes, he can sense their presence faintly
with his sword heart's help.
'It's like I am so kind of glitch in the software of a computer that the software actively avoids in fear of getting affected... This is quite the strange feeling...'
This world doesn't reject his existence, but it doesn't seem to accept it completely either; there's a gap between him and the 'world' that can't be crossed.
'Just getting this second fragnt has given so much new information that it's hard to digest everything at once...'
Rio saw strange mories; he saw a certain 'creator' go against the flow of the 'Primordial Chaos' to create life in a newly ford world; he saw the birth of the 'laws'.
'Even now, these mories seem vague and bizarre that they don't seem real at all... The
sa thing happened when I got that first fragnt; those mories I received were also very
vague...' Rio's mind is completely jumbled up; right now, not only he has his own mories in his mind, he has original Rio's mories, and then there are these two vague, unknown
mories.
'If this goes on, my mind will be completely jumbled up, and I will have difficulties finding what is the real and worst-case scenario... I might even forget my own identity too...' There's only one thing that's keeping Rio sane and is forcing him to never forget his existence, and that is his 'Love'. That is the only emotion keeping him intact.
'Yet again.... I have beco indebted to you, Lia...'
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Author's Notes.
Yo! It's your beloved author here!
Question of the day.
What are your thoughts on this situation? What is Alverto planning?
(Tell your thoughts in the comnts)
By the way, don't forget to use those power stones!!
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