Shadow Slave

Chapter 1380

In the darkness of the flood temple, a second passed.

Sunny was still falling into the water.

During that second, Cassie had lost count of how many times her slender body was broken and mutilated by the monstrous sybil.

A thought was much faster than a blade, but it had the same effect on the future as an action. Every time she mentally changed her plan of action, the immediate future changed, as well - and currently, Cassie was thinking with stunning speed.

'A step to the right.'

'A step forward, high attack.'

'A step forward, low attack.'

'A half-step...'

She imagined a future and suffered the consequences, again and again. The sybil was too powerful, too sinister, too vile... but not insurmountably so.

Another moment passed, and finally, Cassie imagined the future where she did not die.

'Found it.'

In the approaching moment of time, she managed to evade the fury of harrowing tentacles unscathed and deliver a fatal strike. The Quiet Dancer whistled melodiously as she cut the air and plunged into the sybil's neck.

Cassie prepared to move...

But then, the fragmented future turned vague, disappearing.

Instead, there was more pain, more defeat, and more horror.

'Of course... thought so.'

was what she had been expecting. Cassie was not the only one oracle in this

just as much control over the future as

pulling over other outcomes from the abyss of possibilities. Instantly, whatever chance the graceful young woman facing her had

but furious and

second had

'Faster, faster...'

spinning feverishly. She had already found a path... knowing where to look, she would be able to find another one sooner. If the future was a battlefield, then she had just conquered a small part of it, gaining control of not only that single possibility, but also all possibilities similar to it. While simultaneously denying

rest, until the

left, aim for

start, aim for

to the right,

its cracked ceiling. The horror of the depths was shrieking as its flesh burned, long limbs lashing out madly to crush the hateful radiant. The Drowned were besieging Sunny and his

standing motionlessly in front of the

multiplied. With each one she found, finding the next one became slightly easier. But finding many was not enough... she had to have more, more. She had to

her mind burned, spinning faster and faster, the abomination grew more furious, too. The influence it exerted on the future became much more oppressive and suffocating, forcefully drowning harmful futures and pulling beneficial ones

And yet...

slowly usurping small areas of the

seer and the Defiles sybil remained still, as if frozen, the air between them was crackling with pressure. The darkness boiled, failing to contain

countless futures where the battle was

conquering

had to disarm the creature. She had to surround her enemy with only those outcomes that ended in the

the future into

lunge, followed by a feint, followed by a

the Quiet Dancer, simultaneous

the Quiet Dancer, dagger parry turning into

more gruesome than the previous one. But slowly, more and more fragments of the future she perceived

cage was

And smaller.

And smaller.

And smaller still...

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