69novels Chapter 60 Cause and Effect
Chapter 60 Cause and Effect
In the forest, Suren abruptly turned his head towards the direction from which the sound had come. There, Suren's first warning device was located, less than 60 meters away.
His hands were not idle either. He raised his left hand and held a bottle of "Intermediate Life Potion" in his hand. With a flick of his thumb, the wooden stopper flew off. Then he brought the bottle to his lips, tilted his head back slightly, and drank it all in one gulp.
Although the "Intermediate Life Potion" could only heal Suren's superficial wounds, it was enough.
His right hand was raised almost simultaneously, his entire arm taut and straight, his finger on the trigger, the muzzle of the gun steadily pointing in the direction of the sound.
He didn't fire, after all, the distance between them was too far, and it would be difficult to hit accurately with the range of a revolver. He raised the gun only to intimidate the enemy.
Only then did Suren have time to examine the newcomer. The man's appearance was very strange. If Suren hadn't been observing him carefully, it would have been almost impossible to tell that he was there. He blended into the surrounding environment like a chameleon.
Disguise ability? Suren made a judgment in his mind.
Seemingly unprepared for Suren's advance warning system, the man hesitated for a moment, then instead of advancing, he shouted from afar:
"My friend, I only intended to offer some small assistance because I saw that your injuries were quite serious. Why the hostility?"
The person's voice was sometimes near, sometimes far, extremely elusive, making it impossible to pinpoint its location.
Help? A cold smile appeared on Suren's lips. Did they really think he was a fool?
Suren braced himself with his left hand, pressing his palm onto the soft grass, and with a burst of strength, stood up.
His right leg wound was slowly healing, but even so, he could still feel a faint stinging pain when standing. Suren forced himself to endure the pain, showing no expression, while his gun remained steadily pointed at the man.
His mind raced as he considered countermeasures.
The feeling of being watched that Suren had previously experienced most likely came from this guy, who probably had ill intentions. Combined with Corrigan's warning, this guy was likely Edmund's way of retaliating.
Logically speaking, after being discovered by Suren, that guy should have left immediately. Given his ability to disguise himself, Suren would have had a hard time finding him in a short time.
Suren's abilities had been exposed, and he could have easily gone back to report, but the other party chose to stay and planned to appease Suren with a clumsy lie.
This can only mean that the person wanted to kill Suren and keep all the materials from the Demon Lord for himself.
After all, Suren had just gone through a fierce battle and was still injured. His "Source Knowledge" had also been significantly depleted. This was indeed an excellent opportunity, and the other party's decision was a choice that maximized their own interests. It also indirectly showed that the other party was very confident in their own abilities.
Thinking of this, Suren took a step forward with his right leg, his movements very slow, as if giving the man a chance to escape.
Suren's boots lightly touched the grass as she took a large step forward, but the other person remained standing still.
Suren stared at the hazy figure, took a deep breath, and raised his voice, saying, "How about we make a deal? I'll take the demon's 'Ruling Demon Heart Seal,' and you can have the rest. I don't want to fight you and then die here together."
"Deal!" a voice rang out, and the hazy figure swayed and began to slowly move towards Suren, but he deliberately avoided the puddles that Suren had left behind.
Suren took a few more steps forward, not expecting the other person to believe him. He had only said those words to make his approach seem more natural, and the other person probably thought the same.
Based on the other party's behavior, Suren deduced that the enemy already knew that Suren's abilities were linked to the water surface, which also proved that the person spying on him from behind was this person.
The figure did not attack Suren directly, but instead stalled for time and took the opportunity to approach Suren, which shows that the opponent's ability requires time and distance to activate.
Suren must strike before the opponent attacks, and he must kill them with a single blow!
Fortunately, Suren had a trump card up his sleeve. Ever since Suren stood up, his left hand had been at his side, tightly clutching a crystal-like object—Cole's "Spirit Bridge".
After some time of exploration, Suren has roughly figured out its purpose. It allows Suren to see the "causal lines" that Cole mentioned and use different abilities.
Its most powerful ability is to create a complete "causal line" from a tiny starting point, thereby reaching the ending it desires.
Of course, this ability also has many limitations. The more difficult it is to achieve the goal, the more difficult it is to construct the "causal line". The more event nodes the "causal line" involves, the more "source knowledge" and mental energy are consumed.
Like a snowball rolling downhill, it starts with small things, and through a series of coincidences, the snowball grows bigger and bigger, thus achieving the caster's goal.
Fortunately, Suren didn't need to complete a complicated causal chain; he only needed to get the guy into the water's reflection range.
As Suren activated his ability, faint silver threads appeared in his eyes. Time seemed to slow down, and he could precisely observe the events connected by each thread. However, Suren noticed something unusual: to the right of the hazy figure, about 10 meters away, there were "causal threads" in a shrub!
So that's how it is! In an instant, all of Suren's previous confusion was resolved!
Having grasped the whole picture, Suren began to construct a suitable "causal chain." Soon, a "causal chain" with not particularly long links was completed, but even with only a few links, his brain still felt a sharp pain, a sign of overworking his brain.
Without further hesitation, Suren pulled his consciousness back to the real world, raised his gun and fired, but the blurry figure didn't even try to dodge.
However, to the figure's surprise, Suren's aim was extremely poor, and he shot directly at a small rock five meters to the left of the figure.
"Hmph, so you're too tired, that's why your marksmanship has gotten worse?" the man thought with a sneer.
However, at the point where the bullet collided with the stone, a flash of light appeared, and a piece of gravel the size of a palm was sent flying, landing precisely on a waist-high patch of grass behind a rock.
In the grass, a squirrel was squatting and munching on a nut when a pebble struck the ground right in front of it with a sharp crack. Startled, the squirrel instinctively ran towards a bush.
However, instead of passing through the bushes, the squirrel seemed to have bumped into an invisible wall, where the real enemy that Suren had observed through the "causal lines" was hiding!
The man was staring intently at Suren when the squirrel bumped into his calf. He instinctively took a step back, but his foot slipped on a moss-covered rock. The rock was covered with slippery moss, and his foot slipped instantly, causing him to fall backward.
According to the original physical trajectory, he would fall within the water reflection range that Suren had previously reserved. At this moment, Suren had used the Alchemy Bottle to splash out a patch of water for the last time, which, together with the previous accumulated water, reached the range of "Mirror Demon". As long as the opponent fell, Suren would activate his ability!
This is the "causal line" that Suren meticulously wove for him!
However, an unexpected event occurred. A flash of blue light appeared on the man's body, and he and the hazy phantom switched positions. Although he was still in a backward-falling posture, this put him out of Suren's "Mirror Demon" range.
Suren straightened his arm, his revolver pointing steadily at the man. However, he noticed that the place where the man had fallen looked familiar. It was the spot where the old elf had been standing, and where the man had scattered the unknown substance.