MY 10,000× DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM

Chapter 73 Scheme

scheme

the knowledge that the fate of everything within the dimension rested on him made christopher feel a sudden weight on his shoulders.

'i'd never thought about it before. but if i died, what would happen to the dimension and everything inside? since they are all connected to me?' christopher wondered, but he already knew the answer. if he died, the dimension would cease to exist, and everyone would most likely die as well.

'well damn now i have to stay alive no matter what.' he sighed. but at the same time, he felt... only strange.

his free hand slowly moved to his chest and he felt his heartbeat slightly increasing.

'huh? why am i feeling... excited?' he wondered.

how curious. he just discovered that if he wasn't careful and lost his life. the lives of his subordinates would be forfeit, and the dimension would most probably collapse.

and yet he was feeling excited.

'it would seem as though i have another goal besides chasing my complicated feelings.' yes, that's what it was.

christopher was excited because now, he had a new purpose besides trying to find joan.

'keeping everyone safe.' of course, christopher already intended to protect every single member of his cohort with everything at his disposal should something bad happen. it was a given.

but back then, he'd been doing it out of a vague sense of morality. after all, he decided to take them in. to him, it was his responsibility to keep them safe.

but now, knowing that dying would mean their deaths as well, it didn't become a simple responsibility anymore. at least, it didn't feel that way.

he had a clear objective now. and that was to keep everyone safe. and that excited him.

it took him a moment before he was able to calm down.

'right, my current objective hasn't changed.' he told himself as he focused on the task at hand.

he had made use of norn for a reason, and that was to peer into the threads of fate to see the possible outcomes of the future.

after a bit of fiddling, he discovered a few things about peering into the future. for starters, the farther he looked into different possibilities, the higher the mana cost. and it wasn't a progressive process either as there was quite the large jump in energy consumption for every second he went past.

but that wasn't a huge issue because, well, christopher had insane amounts of mana at his disposal due to his dimension.

as such, he was able to see quite far.

"it's nothing, don't worry about it. just do what i told you to do." he said calmly and the s3rvant nodded before leaving the room that had quite of it erased.

'strange, i could have sworn i felt a gaze on me. but from where? and whom?' the eminence thought.

"best to be on guard then."

***

"that was close." christopher mumbled as he stopped observing the conversation of the person he assumed to be the leader of the voidwalkers right before he got noticed.

one interesting thing about being able to peer into the tapestry of fate was that it didn't have to be things that could only happen in the future that he could observe. in fact, he could observe present and past events just as easily.

however the latter took just as, if not more mana than seeing into the future. and he couldn't do anything to change the past unlike he could with the future. which made sense.

well he thought so anyway.

"they wanna sow chaos huh? well, with how things turned out, it indeed makes sense." christopher rubbed his chin.

someone might think the decision was hasty, but it really wasn't and was actually really well thought out.

first of all, they had endured quite the losses due to christopher, and among those losses were many of their elite members, meaning their overall manpower had dropped significantly.

secondly, all their informants had been wiped out. so there was no way they'd be able to know who held the legend sword shards with them, and now that everyone knew just what the voidwalkers were capable of, they'd be far more vigilant than before. so planting spies would become nearly impossible.

as for why they couldn't just wait and bide their time,christopher could think of a few reasons for this.

but the one he suspected was the issue was that the voidwalkers singlehandedly pissed off every single race on the planet. whether those who had the shards or not. that's because everyone that had joined the auction was from one of the myriad of races in the world.

and holding them hostage and intending to kill them was more than enough to draw their ire.

as such, hiding wasn't really too smart since literally everyone, including the dragons, would be looking to get a bit of revenge against them.

as such, staying idle would only get them killed. now that they had taken the initiative, they needed to be even more aggressive if they wanted their plans to succeed.

if they managed to create chaos that was widespread enough, everyone would be preoccupied with themselves. and as such, their attention would deviate from the voidwalkers and give them time to breathe.

at the same time, if everyone was struggling to deal with something, cracks were bound to appear in their defences. and as a result, it would make it easier to slip in and steal the shards.

'cunning indeed.' christopher thought.

'still, they are underestimating me quite a bit.'