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Chapter 78
Chapter 78
78 stunning shot
“Why are you here Phillip.” Ruth groaned out in pain and surprise as she saw the pale faced green eyed boy who staggered to her side, she had been sitting still in the spot where she fired the shot, her heart and blood was burning she guessed it was a sort of curse imposed by the person she just shot, she had no energy to even move away she could feel the life slowly slipping away from her and the intense waves of pain assaulted her mind.
“*Cough cough*, you finally said my name,” the pale faced boy who was Ruth summoner said with a shy smile on his face, “I came to see you” he continued calmly not fazed by the blood spattered around, as he stared at Ruth with a calm gaze.
Ruth sighed and said nothing she knew although her summoner was childish and shy most of the time but he was definitely not a simple sick naive teenager he definitely had a lot of secrets but she was not interested in knowing them so she just sat there staring at the bright sky enduring inhuman pain, after a few minutes of silence Philip finally spoke up in an eerily calm voice.
“I am going to die this night.” His tone was so plain and normal as if he was simply stating a well-known common fact.
“How do you know.” She groaned out curiously, she was not weirded out that Phillip was talking so calmly about his death after all Phillip had known for a while he had a fatal ailment.
“My eyes,” he said as he pointed to his bright green pupils, he then continued “they can see the future.”
“Since you can see the future why don’t you try and change it.” Ruth asked curiously.
Philip was silent for a moment before speaking “Do you know how the future looks in my eyes?” he didn’t wait for her to reply before he continued “Everyone’s destiny, everyone’s future is made up of countless intersecting strings, this threads at certain distances form knots, these knots are inevitable destiny, futures with such weight and gravitational pull that they pull other surrounding threads making the knot bigger and inescapable, rashly trying to change anything will just move the knot to another point but will also make it more complicated and harder to unravel, unravel the complicated knots then some interconnected strings close to knot will collapse causing more changes.” As he spoke he used his magic to realize a picture of countless strings and knots. Ruth was engrossed in the picture trying to comprehend his words temporarily forgetting her pain and slow death.
“My destiny has long been knotted, my death today is inescapable I have been moving my knot too much changing my destiny there is no escape today, even if I wanted to change it one more time I can’t change it anymore, I am simply not strong enough to do so.” Phillip continued showing her a very complicated chaotic knot which represented his own fate.
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“*cough cough*I believe you also know the danger of your body at a certain stage your body will collapse because of the use of genetic medicine unless you buy a special stabilizer, these eyes will help you stabilize it, let me complete my destiny and help you change yours,” Phillip finally concluded his tone firm and irrefutable.
With his words, Ruth was paralyzed unable to move an inch as she watched him draw an array with his own blood and then step into it.
She watched unable to move as the array activated turning him into a condensed drop of blood filled with golden lines, the peculiar blood then shot into her forehead, she felt complete a sense of elation and relief filled her entire being, the pain torturing her and her failing heart disappeared turning back to normal, in fact, she felt healthier than she had ever been in her whole life.
Apart from that She had no outward physical changes except her eyes which had changed colour now becoming a blue green shade.
Ruth’s mood was greatly shaken, although she had a faint close feeling to Phillip she never expected he would calmly sacrifice himself and send her such a precious power, she had mixed feelings not sure what she should feel, she just stared blankly at the boy’s illusory figure in front of her.
“I am just a time phantom I will soon disappear.” Philip said calmly with a hint of relief evident in his tone as he stared at Ruth’s changed pupils.
“Then, what do you want to do.” Ruth calmed her complicated mood and then inquired, for a person like Philip who was looking forward to his death to leave a phantom it was definitely to tie up some loose ends or accomplish a goal.
Sure enough, his next words confirmed her guess. “I just have one last thing to do, try to remember this feeling.”
Ruth felt her body being manipulated and she lost all control of her body’s actions it was a peculiar contradictory feeling but she didn’t resist she silently observed as she set up her rifle, filled the chamber with an ordinary bullet aimed at an empty space and then pulled the trigger.
Just when she was confused she felt it, her space power and the newly acquired time power in her eyes were activated and combined with each other, her plain shot had been divided into numerous parallel timelines and went through a wormhole of space-time to arrive at all participants in the holy grail war regardless of their current location in this parallel world or another.
She watched with fascination as the ordinary bullet seemed to be endowed with must hit and piercing attributes as it found all targets, whether they were killed by the shots were none of her concern her mind was focused on the berserker in this world, the only present contestant apart from her, she watched as the bullet tore through space-time locked the result she most wanted to happen in the illusory possible timelines and emerged going straight for the berserker’s head.
The berserker seemed to perceive the crisis and tried moving his head but he was unsuccessful as blood splattered from his neck area.
Despite seeing this Ruth was not happy as she knew the bastard had definitely survived, she could tell by the amount of blood that splattered from the shot, she sent a middle finger to the air, whether she was sending her finger to the heavens or berserker was known only to her as she disintegrated into light a sign of her eviction from the game.