— Frey Starlight’s Pov —
After night had fallen, I found myself standing there like a fool, facing the Engineer.
That damned man was still expanding the sect, building it larger and larger with every passing mont.
I had thought he would disappear the mont I woke up, but once again, he shattered my expectations.
Since the day I reincarnated as Frey Starlight, this was the longest ti I had ever spent with that cursed Engineer.
Yet despite that, he didn’t pay much attention. He simply continued to build the sect with so strange power I couldn’t begin to comprehend.
"What are you trying to create here?"
I asked without even thinking.
The Engineer, fully aware of my presence, answered calmly.
"It’s for the future."
The future...
Staring at his back, I realized then .. those blue eyes of his were playing so kind of ga with again.
Usually, it took going through hell itself just to get a single answer from him after endless suffering.
But here he was now, answering my questions out of nowhere.
Of course, there were still things he refused to answer. And even when he did, I couldn’t be sure whether what he told was the truth.
After all, he could lie at any mont if it served his own interests.
Still, I decided to set my emotions aside for now and extract as much information from him as possible.
"Do you really know the future?"
That was a question that had haunted for so ti. I could never escape the Engineer’s grasp because of that cursed ability of his .. to predict everything I knew.
"That’s right," the Engineer confird.
"Is that why you showed parts of it to my sister Ada? And to others as well?"
The Engineer nodded again.
"That’s also true."
"Why are you doing this?"
"To create the future I desire."
"And what kind of future is that?"
"I won’t answer."
Another dead end.
I sat down on the ground, lost in thought, searching for the right question to ask next.
Then, after a brief silence, I simply voiced the question that had been weighing on my mind.
"What am I to you? Am I just a vessel for the king you serve? Is that your goal? To resurrect your so-called king?"
Upon hearing that, the Engineer turned his head slightly, locking eyes with for a second ... then turned away .
"I won’t answer."
Another roadblock.
Frustration welled up inside , but I knew. I knew I couldn’t force him to reveal anything he didn’t want to.
The Engineer was a cunning being who never did anything unless it served his own selfish goals.
His appearance before now, allowing to ask these questions, was probably part of his preparation for so future event.
He knew I wouldn’t be able to resist the chance to clear away so of the mystery surrounding him .. and he was using that against , as always.
So I decided to use him in return, as much as I could.
"You said before that saving Danzo has many possible answers. What did you an by that?"
I shifted the conversation back to my friend, who was still on the verge of death. He was the reason I had co here in the first place.
This ti, the Engineer gave an answer.
"A complete Devil Seed is like a cursed object that fuses with its host’s body. To deal with sothing like that, you’ll need abilities far beyond human comprehension .. sothing that can be obtained from several sources."
I already knew that much.
"It’s for those very abilities that I was planning to leave this planet. Humans simply aren’t capable of reaching them."
As I stared at his back, sothing clicked in my mind.
"You’re not going to let leave, are you?"
"That’s right," he answered calmly.
My expression darkened.
So that’s why he was here.
In that mont, I rembered the obstacle the system’s direct advice always warned about.
Perhaps this ti, the obstacle... was the Engineer himself.
He turned to face once more.
"There’s no need for you to leave. The knowledge you seek is already within your grasp."
I knew exactly what he ant by that.
I slowly extended my hand, and a black tallic mask appeared in my palm.
The Naless Mask, its hollow eye sockets staring back at like the eyes of a hawk.
"What kind of trick are you trying to pull now?"
I had avoided putting on this mask, partly out of fear of the will that once took control of ..
And partly because I was unable to comprehend what lay inside it.
I still rembered what happened when I wore it in Londor .. the flood of information that tore through my mind at that ti.
Knowledge as vast as the universe itself.
I would’ve died right then if he hadn’t stepped in and forcibly removed the mask from .
But he simply shook his head.
"You won’t suffer any harm if you put it on now. Your body has already adapted to it. Though... how much knowledge you gain from it will depend entirely on you."
"What the hell do you an? Explain yourself, damn it!"
I asked again, impatience creeping into my voice, still uneasy about the Naless Mask.
This ti, the Engineer continued, satisfying my curiosity for once.
"Shadow Adaptation."
He spoke the na of my strongest ability, shedding light on sothing I hadn’t even thought to ask about until now.
I wanted to question him about the origin of that overwhelming power, but he began speaking on his own, leaving no room for interruption.
"In this vast universe, there are countless mysterious laws that bind it .. laws like causality, inevitability , life and death, chaos... and many more. You won’t even perceive their existence until you reach a certain level of power and understanding. But there are special abilities that transcend those laws. These are the powers that break the world’s fundantal laws."
Continuing his explanation, the Engineer delved deeper.
"Abilities like my foresight. The future I see is absolute, inevitable. That is inevitability. Then there are other abilities, like one possessed by your friend... the Last Survivor."
"That one reshapes the causes and effects of reality itself, creating sharp turning points that ensure his survival no matter what. That is causality. Abilities of this caliber do not simply appear out of nowhere. They are either inherited, bestowed, or created by the individual."
Listening to him, I felt my mind expanding involuntarily.
Of course, I already knew about the existence of such laws, though my understanding of them was still vague—this realm of power was far beyond anything I could fully grasp.
And as for Dawn’s ability, I was aware of it as well. I had written about it once before.
It had been given to him by ..
In that mont, just as I was about to speak the na...
A sharp wave of pain shot through my skull, forcing to clutch my head in agony as my eyes widened in shock.
’Who gave that power to Dawn?’
I questioned myself, unable to recall the answer no matter how hard I tried.
I knew I had known it.
I was certain I knew it just seconds ago... but now, no matter how much I searched my mind, I couldn’t find it—and the harder I tried, the worse the pain beca.
"What the hell is happening?!"
I scread unconsciously as the migraine tore through my mind. I felt as though I was just a breath away from seeing that being’s face, whoever they were .. but every ti I got closer to rembering, a strange fog blanketed the image, hiding their features behind a mysterious smile.
"Forget it," the Engineer spoke, his voice low, an uncharacteristic fear in his tone. "That’s one of his powers. When you forget him, you’ll rember. And when you try to rember, you’ll forget. A filthy creature, as always."
He spoke of soone.
Soone terrifying enough to unsettle even him.
But it wasn’t Agaroth.
I knew the abilities of the Demon King all too well.
Even though he possessed more law-breaking abilities than anyone else, this wasn’t one of them.
And that drove to ask:
"Who is this being?"
Who gave Dawn the Last Survivor?
At that mont, the Engineer’s eyes lit up, and he opened his mouth once more.
"I won’t answer."
With those words, I realized that the fog surrounding that person’s face would remain for a long, long ti.
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