VIP Chapter 510: Outsider VS Anchor (1)
“The thirteenth time.”
As if Carver had long assumed Will could deduce this, he “admitted” it unusually, no longer “hiding” it as before.
“Thir…thirteenth time…”
Will began to reflect on why he hadn’t thought of it sooner.
If, if this explanation were used, it would make sense.
This meant that the memories of Carver he had seen before…
were “pieced together.”
His memories included… included things that were not in Will’s “present world” at all.
This was also why the memories Will read of him were fragmented. Instead of being a whole, as Shuna had described.
It was because it might not be continuous, and perhaps couldn’t be continuous at all…
Given that, it was difficult to experience it as a whole…
“So, everything I saw before was your memory from these twelve cycles?! And this… is your thirteenth cycle…”
Organizing Carver’s words, Will reached this conclusion.
“You are indeed smart.”
Carver took a step back, his attack ceasing.
“But, you call this ‘reincarnation’? Listen closely, experiencing an unchanging ‘fate’ is called ‘reincarnation’.”
“…Unchanging fate?”
This description felt “familiar” to Will.
Didn’t this sound exactly like the principle he had always believed in?
It was as if Carver had heard his words long ago, using what Will knew to “refute” him.
But…
Based on Will’s experiences so far.
The “fate” of this world was completely different from what he imagined. Not only had it “changed,” but the changes were immense.
It was even strangely connected to the “game” he had seen in the outside world.
If Carver, who had experienced countless similar worlds, also denied “fixed fate”…
Will’s eyes lit up.
The information in his hands would surely provide Will with the true answer to “fate”!
“The location of the Hysterm family, the location of the Adventurer’s Guild headquarters are all changing, you must have guessed it… Fate has been ‘changing,’ not only the people and things around us, but even the geography, politics, and economy of this larger world are changing…”
“But… how could you…”
“I want to know that too. But it doesn’t matter, just consider me special, the special one who can remember every iteration of its appearance…”
A smile devoid of any “pretense” appeared on his face, a smile filled with strong malice, hatred, and hostility, the first time he had shed his disguised smile.
“Anchor. The anchor of fate.”
Will’s eyes widened.
Carver had essentially confirmed his conjecture.
However…
This name…
What did this so-called anchoring refer to?
But…
Wait, assuming Carver could remember every iteration of its appearance.
Then… then wouldn’t that mean… mean…
That he, who only arrived here on his thirteenth cycle…
Would be easily seen through by him?!
“You… the reason you wanted to kill me at that time… it wouldn’t be because of that too…”
Carver didn’t immediately raise his axe. Instead, he dragged it behind him and walked towards Will, step by step.
The huge axe drew a long line across the sand, sinking deeper into the sand with each step, but this did not stop Carver from continuing to approach Will with immense pressure.
“Yes. I knew it long ago, you are not my stupid bastard son who resembles neither me nor her… my son.”
Will adopted a defensive stance, constantly retreating.
He could feel an intense…
anger emanating from Carver’s light blue eyes.
Their relationship, from the very beginning, Will’s intuition had not been wrong.
The two named Will Hysterm and Carver Hysterm, who were “father and son” in everyone’s eyes…
“And the name Will was given to the son she gave birth to with her life. Now, what should I call you?”
He swung the giant axe, scattering sand.
Immediately after, he hurled it through the air fiercely towards Will!
“Outsider.”
*Bang.*
The axe landed, and in a cloud of dust, Will saw Carver’s silhouette. He tightly gripped the axe.
The relationship between the two, who were “father and son” in everyone’s eyes, from the very beginning…
was “neither regarding himself as a son nor being regarded as a father.”
Even on this matter, both of them had their own “mutual understanding.”
The light blue eyes, looking at each other due to “blood relation,” momentarily froze in the sandstorm.
Next came a series of attacks in the thick sand.
Will could see afterimages of the axe.
They were repeatedly stopped by Iaar’s temporal stasis, but Will also saw that even though it was only on Carver, the duration of his immobilization was getting shorter and shorter.
The axe’s property always seemed to break through defensive skills.
It would just take a few more attacks.
“Cough… cough cough… you… you knew from the beginning that I… wasn’t from this world?!”
“Not exactly, after all, you played the baby quite well.”
“Then what exactly…”
“You dug up your own grave, and you still don’t know?”
He broke free from stasis once more, this time the stasis duration had reduced to 0.3 seconds, almost exceeding Will’s reaction time.
“Dug up my own grave…”
He hadn’t expected Carver to know about this as well.
But it was also normal, that area was within the Hysterm family’s territory, and he would have discovered it as soon as he set foot there.
In his grave, what could prove this point…
Will thought of the childhood glasses he had found in his own grave, from when he first needed them.
That was a “burial item” that Carver had placed in his grave.
With this item in his grave, Will had always considered Carver as his “father,” even believing so when he saw memories of his birth mother.
If, the Carver who wanted to kill him, did not consider him the original person at all?
Then, what was the meaning of this burial item…
“When I first needed glasses, you knew I wasn’t your son, but… but an outsider?! So, you placed the glasses inside… because this represented that you were burying… an ‘outsider’ and not Will!?”
“The outsider is debatable for now. After all, I’ve only met you. But at least, Will never actively told me he needed glasses. Hm-hm, you can’t expect a child who had a bad relationship with his father from birth and knew nothing, to ask for a pair of glasses, can you?”
Will never expected that the time he, as a child, proactively asked Carver for glasses would become the foreshadowing that revealed his transmigration.
“Unless, he already had prior knowledge, and… didn’t think that I, as a ‘father,’ should bear any responsibility.”
