Journey Of A Legend

Chapter 198: An Easy Trick

"What? How is this possible?"

Eliana was quite shocked at the sight that she was watching right at the moment. Before her, the moment Greg and Carter stepped onto the very first carvings, their body turned blurry, while hundreds of their figures appeared at different positions around their body in the hall.

When something like this happened, Eliana knew that the one she was watching was in an extremely dire situation, because each of the figures represented a totally different outcome that could happen in the future.

For example, if one was attacked there could be at least 2 outcomes. Dodge and then counter-attack the enemy or defend without avoiding the attack. Naturally, if there were more Elian should be able to see them too, those two were just basic outcomes.

She could see all of these outcomes with her ability, and there was once when she saw a specific person have a thousand outcomes, putting that person's life right before death's door. But luckily that person survived thanks to Eliana's power.

However, there was not a single moment in the past where she could remember seeing so many confusing outcomes at the same time, like right now.

The moment when around both Greg's and Carter's body hundreds of figures appeared, suddenly Greg's hundreds of 'clones' vanished and his body turned visible again.

However, this didn't happen with Carter at all. Eliana could see as his hundreds of figures moved and died one after another and only one remained alive.

Eliana was so confused because if there were more than one person in the same place who was under the same danger, Eliana should be able to see both of their outcomes to be the same no matter what. Yet, right now for some reason, Greg's outcomes vanished leaving his fate unknown, while Carter had a visibly lower than 1% chance to survive.

But the most shocking thing that Eliana saw was not this, but the fact that she was not able to see Greg's outcomes. She has never met with a person whose outcomes wouldn't show before her eyes, which was extremely shocking, because her power was not about prediction, but was based on pure luck.

With her power of luck, she can calculate and see things that normally should be almost impossible, so no matter what, she should be able to see Greg's outcome.

"The only explanation is that he has something that blocks my power.", said Eliana quietly and continued to watch Greg and Carter run toward their way, while behind them the place started to collapse.

Zane and Cloud next to Eliana watched as the Earth Temple before them started to form even bigger cracks as time went on, and not long enough the back of the place started to collapse.

Like a huge sandcastle under a huge water wave, the temple's walls turned muddy and in small pieces of rocks and dust, they started to fall, ready to bury Greg and Carter alive.

While this happened, however, Eliana was able to see everything as clear as day. She could see as Greg ignoring everything ran toward the exit, while behind him Carter was jumping here and there on the carvings, while around him hundreds of figures died because of different traps and attacks.

However, even under is many death outcomes, Carter was doing perfectly fine and with the cube in his hand, he was following Greg quite closely.

"Well, it is not a surprise he is in the God rank. His speed, observation ability, and power are extraordinary indeed.", said Eliana with a compliment.

After a few minutes later, Eliana saw as Greg and Carter finally arrived before the entrance, but just as they were about to exit the place, suddenly the carvings around the door lit up with dim brown light.

Instantly as this happened, thousands of outcomes appeared around Carter's body, each showing death without a single showing survival.

When Eliana saw this she knew that if Carter was in danger then Greg was too, so she was about to move and use her Guardian's power to help them, when suddenly a strange sight happened.

Before her, around Greg's body, white light broke out, making Carter's outcomes to vanish instantly.

"!"

When Eliana saw this she turned speechless, but just as she could have reacted, the whole entrance before her exploded into debris, while Greg's and Carter's escaping figure burst out instantly.

*BOOOM!*

And just as they have escaped, the whole temple collapsed, leaving behind only a huge pile of debris, rocks, and sand all over Black Mountain's summit.

"That was close...", said Greg slowly as he unsummoned the demon mask from his face and stood up.

Behind him, Carter glanced at the temple's ruins and after thinking for a while he looked at Greg and asked, "What is that mask?"

Greg hearing the question looked surprised, but a small while later he just smiled and said, "It's a secret."

"..."

Carter after hearing this looked totally unfazed and like just losing interest he looked at the cube and said, "Well, at least I have obtained it. Now that I have this, I will take my leave."

As he said that, Carter was about to turn around and leave when suddenly he was surrounded by Eliana, Zane, and Cloud.

When Carter saw this he raised his eyebrow and asked calmly, "What do you want?"

Cloud pointing at the cube started to say, "Until we didn't come here, you weren't able to obtain that key, but now you were, because of him. Don't you think that key should be rightfully ours?"

When Carter heard this he glanced at Cloud and with an ice-cold glare, he said calmly, "I don't think it should be yours. This temple was in our territory so it is only natural for me to bring it back to my Family. Also, to begin with, you agreed on to come here to only help us, so no matter if you have helped us find the key or not, this is ours. No question." 

When Eliana heard this she looked angry, but suddenly Greg's calm voice sounded from the side.

"He is right. We came only to help. We didn't agree to take that key away, so let him take it."

"You!"

Zane turned to look at Greg the moment he heard what he said, but the instant he saw Greg's calm expression he felt something was not right.

Staying silent and thinking for a while, suddenly Zane's eyes brightened, but only for a second. After the next second, he sighed and stepped back.

"Sure, you are true. Also, even I don't want the respected Voodoo Family's wrath on me, so please excuse our sudden heated act. It was our mistake."

When Cloud and Eliana heard what Zane said they looked surprised, but Carter on the hand just smiled with a nod and said, "I will look away on this matter because our family is in debt for your past help. However, there will be no next time."

With that said, Carter turned around and without saying anything else he walked away hurriedly with the cube in his hand.

When his figure vanished completely, Eliana turned to look at Zane and was about to shout at him, when suddenly Zane asked a question from Greg.

"How are you feeling?"

Greg hearing the simple question, before answering at Zane he looked at Cloud and asked with a wry smile, "Can we finally leave this place? I feel sick staying here even for a second more. Especially that we have been observed ever since we set foot inside Iron City." 

"?!"

Eliana hearing what Greg said looked around, but even like this, she wasn't able to see anyone around. Or at least that was what she saw without her power because the moment she used her ability she noticed that several figures were looking at their way among the shadows.

Seeing this, Eliana looked at Greg with surprise. While she was speechless by the fact that a boy who was only on the Ascender rank was able to detect enemies sooner than her, Cloud on the side nodded and summoned his fluffy cloud.

"Let's go then.", said Cloud with a nod, and after all four were on top, he controlled the fog to fly away into the distance with crazy speed.

"So? What happened?", asked Zane calmly from Greg, making Cloud and Eliana to turn toward him too.

Greg who was sitting on the cloud with a calm expression started to smile and raised his hand.

Instantly as he did that, out of nowhere, a key that was made out of pure earth started to form above his palm, making the three experts to look at Greg with both surprise and happiness.

"But how? I could clearly feel the strong presence of the key inside that cube. I have truly believed that it was the key, so how?", asked Eliana curiously as she looked at the key above Greg's palm.

Greg hearing the question started to smile and said proudly, "How did I do it? Well, it was quite an easy trick."