In Another World with Absolute Awareness

—Clang! Clang! Clang!

A steel blade parried a pair of chitin incisors, forcing an abomination formed from dark mana back a few meters. The monster looked like a convoluted chimera of insects and reptiles, with no static form.

"Run!"

It shifted and morphed as it pursued Clementine and her friends down a wide hallway.

Aventine, who was leisurely floating after them, was intrigued by this abomination.

’What simplistic biology...’

With [Absolute Awareness] scanning through the chimera, analyzing the root cause of its existence took Aventine only a few minutes.

’I can slay it with a single slash from the <Sword of Light>.’ He thought, ’No wonder the Hero of Leisha was so highly revered.’

While Aventine was in thought, Kuvie suddenly spun, and a wave of mana surged out of her body, pouring nourishment into the surroundings.

—Crack!

From the gaps between the stone brick flooring, a vivid green suddenly burst into the scene.

—SKRIEEEEEEE!

Razor-sharp vines pierced into the chimera, halting its advance and even severing several abstract portions of its body.

"Burn!"

—Vwoosh!

Reazue’s roar was accompanied by a raging blood-red fireball. Unlike Kuvie’s magic, this one was a <Trait>, requiring only the Werebat’s willpower.

—BOOM!

The portions that Kuvie had sliced off were incinerated.

The chimera had grown a few kilograms lighter, shrinking in size at the same time.

Suddenly, several silver flashes swept through the hallway while the chimera writhed in pain. A dozen cuts appeared on its body, oozing a black liquid that might have been blood.

—Sizzle!

The acrid scent of acid wafted over from the chimera’s wounds, a direct product of the poison on Clementine’s blade.

—SKRIEEEEEEE!

Howls of pain erupted from the chimera once more. Splotches of its body flew through the air, but the acid had somehow dug deeper into its being.

"Let’s keep going," Clementine said as she produced a small, glass sphere from one of her pockets.

—Crack!

With swiftness and haste, she smashed the sphere into the stone-brick floor, fleeing as fast as she could at the same time. A cloud of poisonous smoke filled the corridor.

Aventine blinked and raised a brow before speeding up as well. He moved through the poison smoke despite the traces it would leave.

—Whoosh!

Luckily, there was no one there to notice that an invisible object just charged through.

Behind the four, the chimera’s howls reached a peak before slowly weakening after several more minutes.

The prey it had been hunting had long left, leaving it aimless and dying.

None of the treasure hunters spared it any more attention.

After descending a few more staircases and squeezing into even narrower corridors, luckily, no more obstacles presented themselves in their way.

About time, too.

Clementine felt a warmth emanating from the map in her hands.

"We’re here."

***

Feeling the resonance between Clementine’s map and the wall beside me, I nodded in approval.

’A very intricate system of enchantments.’

With about 300 points of mana, I confirmed that the solitary strand of <Fate> was the cause of the resonance.

Without that strand, the enchantments would react with suspicion—teleporting the Vielour Family’s legacy away even before they could get close.

To anyone aside from Clementine, the legacy was basically unreachable.

My patience was going to pay off.

—Click.

After a brief moment, several grooves appeared on the wall, forming the insignia of the Vielour Family. It was a gourd used for storing old liquor, marked with burns and poison.

Right where the gourd’s opening was, Clementine left a drop of her blood.

A heavy thud sounded behind the wall. Followed by another.

Then another.

Like huge stone dominoes, the thuds sped up.

Until the wall cracked open.

Dust and debris filled the air as a bright, golden glow spilled forth. The smell of herbs and cedarwood shelves tickled my nose.

There was also the faint hint of camphor and ethanol swirling about.

Of course, my heightened senses could isolate even more chemical scents. However, my attention was instead drawn to the lighter mana expenditure I experienced upon the legacy’s opening.

I could hear Clementine’s heart pounding in excitement. Kuvie and Reazue had both been frozen by the golden light.

’Ah yes, the awe one bears in the face of mountains of wealth.’

A smile tugged at my lips.

’Let’s begin looting, then.’

I was the same as them—standing in frozen shock when I truly faced the treasures I had merely sensed beforehand.

The mana within my cores boiled.

[Absolute Awareness].

Thus, I began to analyze the locks to the succeeding chambers. Once Clementine and her friends took everything from this room, I would rush through the rest of the legacy and empty it of its entire history.

***

Suffice to say...

It took Clementine and her friends about a week of back-and-forth just to transport all of the larger alchemical artifacts. To give a better measure of their struggles...

"It’s like hauling appliances up a snaking labyrinth, then up about ten flights of stairs, before finally dragging it around several city blocks."

It was a struggle to do that... but it was even harder to keep it a secret.

I almost had to fight a few Lizardmen after they stalked the trio down into the depths. Luckily, they weren’t that bright.

Clementine and her friends had it all under control—after a bit of scrambling beforehand, of course.

"Honestly, it was quite comical."

When the Lizardmen found the trio, Kuvie led them to the nearest runic trap. With the right timing, all the Lizardmen were then drenched in flames at the same time.

It was brutal... but indeed comical.

Their screams sounded like a horror story’s choir. Until, of course, their screams lasted a little longer than expected.

Kuvie had glanced at Reazue and Clementine—an awkward expression was plastered on her face.

"I... I didn’t think they would be suffering for so long."

Even though those Lizardmen were aiming for them, they were just treasure hunters of the same trade.

Had Kuvie been more desperate, she would’ve opted to do the same.

Thus, she couldn’t help but feel a pang of sympathy after listening to the Lizardmen’s endless cries.

It was too... morbid.

Honestly? I agreed. It felt like a little too much suffering for the sin of thievery.

Clementine thought the same, and sent a crescent wave of silver sword light hurtling through the air. All of the Lizardmen lost their heads one by one.

At least, they were finally out of their misery.

For a moment, I wanted to mourn them. But it felt hypocritical of me.

My actions had indirectly caused an apocalypse. My meddling with fate would probably doom millions.

Though I had never killed a man with my own two hands...

My sins were probably heavier than most murderers in existence.

Still, would I have chosen not to go through that <Gate>? Would I have opted to leave the <Sword of Light> with Melia as it was rightfully hers?

If given a second chance, I would still choose the same. Even if my Gift allowed me to become aware of all those deaths, dooming billions to suffering...

Perhaps it was because I was aware of so much that I didn’t mind doing so.

So many interesting stories had been born out of those deaths.

So many heroes were born.

So many villains were slain.

...And vice versa.

It was, in a way, a miracle of reality. There was a certain mystical air enshrouding all those changed lives.

That was exactly why I was so excited to finally have the Vielour Family’s legacy for myself.

After eight whole days, Clementine and her friends were finally moving the last artifact out of the first legacy chamber.

Once they left...

I could finally unlock the rest of the chamber’s secret rooms.

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