When Nami Midori said this, it reminded Angel of what Parry had mentioned earlier: Six hundred years ago, Nami Midori suddenly began seclusion.
Looking back now, it should have been six hundred years ago when Nami Midori met Feng again and obtained a method of enhancement from him, which led to her secluded cultivation. Over the years, her power had grown increasingly formidable, causing the aura deep within the Lost Forest to become ever more terrifying.
While he wholeheartedly believed this was the answer, with Nami Midori’s continued narration, Angel realized that his speculation seemed to have deviated.
"Mr. Feng brought me hope," Nami Midori paused for a few seconds, her tone suddenly becoming more somber, "but this hope was not what I imagined."
Angel: "What’s different?"
Nami Midori: "I told Mr. Feng about my bottleneck—do you know what his response was?"
Angel shook his head.
Nami Midori’s gaze was complex, her thoughts swirling, memories rewinding incessantly, the present slowly overlapping with the past, as if time had returned to that day—
Faced with Nami Midori’s eagerness, Feng soothingly smiled and said, "I’m not an Elemental Creature, nor an Elemental Wizard; I actually know little about the breakthroughs of Elemental Creatures."
Upon hearing this, Nami Midori’s eyes immediately dimmed. Having eagerly awaited Feng, she thought he could guide her towards the right path and past her current bottleneck as he had during their first meeting. But now it seemed this path was also blocked.
While Nami Midori was disheartened, Feng suddenly shifted his tone: "However, while I may not know how an Elemental Creature can break through their bottleneck, I know how you can."
Nami Midori, who was feeling down, suddenly had her eyes light up at Feng’s words.
Nami Midori looked expectantly at Feng, hoping to hear the answer from him.
At that moment, Feng mysteriously smiled, looked up at the starlit sky that night, and asked, "Do you believe in the inevitable existence of all things in this world?"
Nami Midori didn’t understand what Feng meant, wondering why he suddenly veered onto this topic.
"Everything in this world, whether it be you, me, the stars, or the Void, is secretly controlled by a pair of fateful hands," Feng said after a moment of silence. "Do you believe that?"
Nami Midori instinctively shook her head, wanting to tell Feng that she didn’t know the answer either.
However, Feng seemed to have misunderstood Nami Midori’s response, as his voice suddenly rose: "You don’t believe? Good, because neither do I."
"My previous talk about fate is just rhetoric that some Prophet Wizards love to spout. They like to elevate everything to the height of supreme truth to showcase their omniscience and omnipotence. This, in itself, is a manifestation of ignorance."
"However, while I don’t believe fate can transcend truth, fate itself does exist; it can be deciphered if one has the right methods."
"Like I told you before, my journey to the Tidal World was a Chapter written by that book."
"And now, I want to tell you that the opportunity for your breakthrough is also recorded in the Chapter of fate."
Nami Midori had the closest relationship with Feng, so she knew about the power of ’that book’, yet she still didn’t understand: "Why would my breakthrough opportunity appear in the Chapter of fate?"
Feng: "Three thousand years ago, when I came to the Tidal World and met you, the Chapter of fate began to be written. According to the Prophet Wizards, your emergence was inevitable."
Nami Midori: "What does the Chapter of fate say about my breakthrough opportunity?"
Feng looked deeply at Nami Midori, slowly uttering a single word: "Wait."
...
Wait?
After hearing Nami Midori’s account, Angel still did not understand what Feng meant by wait. However, more than unveiling this answer, he was more concerned about the ’book’ Feng mentioned.
Angel had heard about ’that book’ more than once, and he really wanted to know what it was.
He had asked Gentle Breeze Uranos about it and also Frost Iser, but neither could provide a definitive answer.
Angel’s own speculations changed over time, from initially guessing that the book was just a fortune-teller’s allegory for fate, to later wondering if the book truly existed. Yet he never reached a conclusion.
The renewed mention by Nami Midori stirred Angel’s curiosity about the book once more, a curiosity that already surpassed the so-called opportunity.
Unable to contain himself, Angel asked, "What exactly is that book?"
Unlike Gentle Breeze and Frost, Nami Midori offered a relatively specific answer.
"The book Mr. Feng mentioned is called the Book of Kael."
Angel whispered to himself, "The Book of Kael? A specific name... could it be a Mysterious Object?"
Nami Midori had also heard about the concept of a Mysterious Object from Feng and shook her head, "I don’t know if it is a Mysterious Object; Mr. Feng didn’t say."
Angel: "Do you know what function the Book of Kael serves?"
Nami Midori: "Mr. Feng didn’t specify, but it seems to be related to writing fate. Because Mr. Feng once mentioned that the Book of Kael is also known as the book that writes fate."
Writing fate.
Angel furrowed his brows; the concept of ’writing fate’ made him uncomfortable, as if destined to become ensnared, with no control over his fate.
Putting aside his personal feelings, Angel believed that the ability to ’write fate’ was something that even Legendary Level Prophet Wizards couldn’t achieve. Higher-tier Miracle Wizards perhaps could, but Angel knew nothing about the miracle tier and didn’t even know if Prophet Wizards existed within it.
If it wasn’t wielded by Prophet Wizards, the ability to ’write fate’ couldn’t be achieved by ordinary alchemical objects. Therefore, if the Book of Kael had a tangible form, and its capabilities were truly as formidable as claimed, it was likely a Mysterious Object.
"Do you know any other information about the Book of Kael?" Angel asked again.
Nami Midori’s vertical pupils quietly observed Angel, remaining silent for a long moment before saying, "You seem quite interested in the Book of Kael?"
Angel: "Because the feeling of having fate manipulated by some object is unpleasant."
Nami Midori was silent for a moment: "... Mr. Feng was also very secretive about the Book of Kael and rarely mentioned it, so my understanding is limited. However, I remember Mr. Feng mentioned a piece of information that indicates the strength of the Book of Kael."
"He said that the Book of Kael and Augustine’s Twinborn Mirror belong to the same rank of items. However, I’m not sure what Augustine’s Twinborn Mirror is, so I cannot judge the level the Book of Kael has reached."
Once Nami Midori finished speaking, Angel was taken aback.