Aventine Tidea was born with a gift. 

It was the gift of [Absolute Awareness], the ability to sense anything and everything with unimaginable detail.

However, Earth seemed to lack the power to fuel his gift. He could only activate [Absolute Awareness] for half a second and with a cooldown period of one year. Nevertheless, Aventine did not find this odd. Instead, he followed his instincts.

The [Gate].

Something he had sensed when he was a child. A one-way portal to another world.

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Aventine's senses dove past Taylor's surface thoughts and lingered deep within his psyche.


'Even here, <Fate's> threads exist, huh?'


Somehow, that was scarier than simply being physically bound by its machinations. It meant that even one's own free will wasn't truly… free. Everything about oneself, be it their personality, looks, and philosophies, would have been dictated by a predetermined force.


After all, how could <Fate> have manipulated the whims of those who had been targeting his Mage Tower?


If <Fate> had no way to influence the inclinations of those it had entangled, was it truly the world's grand designer?


For a moment, Aventine paused and observed his own subconscious mind. Seeing that he was clean of any wispy threads, he sighed in relief.


Because Aventine arrived at the area of Taylor's consciousness where the <Trait>, <Indomitable Human Spirit>, technically 'resided.'


Chapter 86 - Fate Convergence - XI