Chapter 111: Law Inscriber |
Miles shook his head and stood up.
"It seems I can't stay here any longer. Thank you for the warning, too."
This spot was the most heavily polluted area in the entire memory, and the base point in front of him was also the strongest among the six he had found.
Staying here would only waste time and spirituality while also having to resist the pollution.
Not worth it.
So he decided to go check out the youngest base point he had found earlier.
Since he had already been there before, it wouldn't take him long to get back.
"Leaving already? Won't you stay for a meal?"
"Wu Lang" glanced at the untouched water glass and smiled.
Having "fought" for a hundred years in a spirit space without time, he had only now realized just how much Samuel had been holding back during their struggle.
Just contacting a mere projection from his memory for a short while had nearly gotten him polluted to the point of being unable to leave. If they actually fought, he would stand absolutely no chance.
It felt far more ridiculous than even the strongest Sacred Law Knight he had ever encountered.
At least that squad leader would have to stretch out a hand to squash him.
"Well then, take care, and no need to see me off."
"Wu Lang" smiled and waved goodbye.
"The door is over there. You can see yourself out."
"Alright." Miles nodded and walked toward the door.
He reached the door, placed his hand on the handle, and turned back to ask.
"Aren't you going to stop me?"
He didn't think there was anything wrong with asking this question.
After all, he no longer cared about winning or losing this contest with Samuel. It was more out of curiosity.
As a Law Contemplator who had forcibly ascended, he was very curious about how true experts actually gained this kind of power.
He felt that when facing "Wu Lang," he had no "privacy" at all—he had been seen through completely, even his innermost thoughts were laid bare.
Therefore, he guessed that "Wu Lang" probably knew what he was here for.
"Wu Lang" rolled his eyes, shifting his gaze away from the speech bubble above his head, and nodded matter-of-factly.
"You guessed right. I can indeed read your thoughts, and I know why you came here."
Just now, when he was pretending to be emo on the windowsill, a speech bubble kept popping up next to him. It was impossible not to notice.
"If that's the case, shouldn't you be stopping me?" Miles asked. "Or do you not actually know what happens if your own 'Law' is broken?"
"Hmm... I don't know."
"Wu Lang" rested his chin on one hand.
Miles was momentarily stunned, his expression odd, probably because he found it strange that someone as strong as "Wu Lang" didn't know such basic knowledge.
"But if you could break it that easily, then I wouldn't be me, would I?"
"Wu Lang" said matter-of-factly.
That confident?
Miles's hand rested on the door handle.
"Wu Lang" had just saved his life with that warning, so he hesitated whether to tell him this information.
Probably sensing Miles's hesitation, "Wu Lang" smiled.
"As for the consequences, why don't you just tell me directly? Consider it payment for me not stopping you from destroying the other base points."
After thinking it over, Miles nodded.
"Alright."
After a moment of consideration, he explained.
"It's because this concerns whether you can become a [Law Inscriber]."
"Oh?"
"Wu Lang" dragged out the sound.
"A Law Inscriber can never deviate from their own 'Law,' but this isn't because the 'Law' itself imposes any constraint on them. It's because they first need to be firm in their 'Law' to a certain degree before they can become a [Law Inscriber]."
"As for how much that degree is..."
He organized his words.
"One of the prerequisites for becoming a true [Law Inscriber] is to be so firm in your own 'Law' that from the moment you set foot on it, past, present, and future, until death, there is no possibility of change."
"So every time you break your 'Law,' you are setting up a hurdle on the Law Seeker's path to becoming a [Law Inscriber]."
"Although directly influencing the people in a memory is a shortcut, it is undoubtedly a 'possibility.'"
"The more such 'possibilities' exist, the less likely a Law Seeker can become a 'Law Inscriber,' and the greater the obstacles they face."
"At the same time, the closer a [Law Contemplator] is to becoming a [Law Inscriber], the harder it becomes for them to become a [Law Inscriber] if their Law is broken."
"If a [Law Contemplator] is affected during the period when they are just one step away from becoming a [Law Inscriber], it will completely cut off any possibility of becoming one."
"That's roughly it."
"Although I don't know the principle behind it, this is indeed the case."
"Wu Lang" smiled and nodded.
"I see."
He actually had no idea what a Law Inscriber, Law Contemplator, Law Seeker, or even what Law was.
But it wasn't hard to understand—it was probably some extraordinary means that Miles had mastered.
"Thank you."
He said it in a light tone.
It didn't matter if he himself couldn't understand it; as long as someone else could.
Samuel, who was watching from the sidelines, looked thoughtful.
Miles didn't know the principle, but Samuel, observing from the outside, had a possible guess.
"Maybe... parallel worlds?" Samuel's imagination ran wild.
From the past, to the present, to the future—absolutely no possibility of deviating from the Law.
Speaking of possibilities, Samuel immediately thought of the parallel world theory.
Perhaps, to become a [Law Inscriber], one needed all versions of oneself across all parallel worlds to make the same choice.
Building on that assumption, perhaps a Law Contemplator infinitely close to becoming a [Law Inscriber] could already influence their parallel world selves to some extent.
Then, perhaps every choice he made would create a new possibility. If he deviated from his own "Law," it would be equivalent to creating a parallel world where "I would deviate from the Law," preventing countless versions of himself across worlds from achieving unity.
In that case, naturally, there would be no such thing as "no possibility of deviating from the Law in the past, present, or future."
Of course, this was just Samuel's own guess. Whether it was true or not, he wasn't sure.
It just felt instinctively possible.
Thinking this far, he casually tossed the thought to the back of his mind.
What did this have to do with him?
He was just a Law Seeker.
What he needed to consider now was how to become a [Law Contemplator], not a [Law Inscriber].
Even if the Travel Guide claimed otherwise, the fact remained that he was still just a Law Seeker.