Chapter 343: The Fate devouring test
Translated by: La0o9
Proofreader: Arya
One night pa.s.sed.
The second day.
Fog Isle.
In the Inst.i.tute.
Divine Sacrifice Square.
Fate is ready.
The girls from yesterday have been eaten by the spiders.
But at this time, there are still over a hundred Disciple candidates who came to take the qualifications test.
Everyone gathered around the Square, carefully leaving s.p.a.ce.
“That is Fate?” someone asked in a low voice.
His tone seems to be shaking a bit.
“That’s right, according to the records, that is indeed Fate” the one who answered him was also very nervous, but slightly better than he was.
“No wonder the Square had to be built this big” someone else spoke in awe.
The one they’re calling “Fate” is currently sunbathing in the middle of Divine Sacrifice Square.
It was a gigantic beast unlike anything anyone has ever seen before, similar to a crocodile, but also closely resembling a dragon.
A fully grown person standing couldn’t even compare to a single one of its nails.
The gigantic beast occasionally opened its mouth to breath, exhaling intense winds across the entire Square.
From afar, you could already see the forest of sharp, jagged teeth in its mouth.
——it almost seems like there was nothing but teeth in there.
The most noticeable thing about the beast is its eyes.
It didn’t have a round pupil, nor a vertical one, instead it is a dull, blurry white.
Looking at its eyes, the first thing you’d think is that it’s blind.
But if you look carefully, you’ll find that the whites of the eyes are actually animated and full of vitality.
This is a manifestation of Fate as a beast.
It comes from the Inst.i.tute’s Dean, one of his many G.o.d’s Chosen Skills.
The Fate beast glanced around the Square, then slowly stood up.
All partic.i.p.ants are here.
It’s time for their test.
There were no Gurus here, nor are there any executives of the Inst.i.tute, only the slight-over 100 Disciple candidates.
“There’s no one here? What should we do now?” one of them couldn’t help but asked loudly.
A booming voice suddenly echoed across the entire Square: 「 I say, could it be you’ve never went to the library? 」
The one who spoke was the Fate beast.
“I’m sorry, I only revived yesterday, please explain to me what I should do, sir” the person hurriedly explained himself.
The voice came again: 「 Ah, so you only revived yesterday, that’s understandable 」
The Fate beast looked over at all the Disciple candidates in the Square and explained simply: 「 You will need to be devoured by me 」
A few were frightened into backing off, some others even fell down on the spot.
The Fate beast spoke with disappointment: 「 Seems like none of you has come to the library at all. That isn’t good, knowledge can change your fate, yet you wouldn’t love it 」
Its tone contained disdain.
Everyone was silent.
Su Xue Er didn’t bother to wait and came forward: “I know the process, please let me go first”
Half of her time up until now was spent in the library, so she knew everything that can be learnt about the Fate beast.
She has prepared herself.
No matter what happens, I will be the first to take the test.
Before everyone has finished, no Guru will come to interrupt this divine ceremony.
Not even Isa.
Since that’s the case, if I take the test first of all, I’ll be able to give myself some precious time.
I can think of the next steps while waiting for the others to finish.
——I can better plan my next move according to the results of the test.
In the large Square.
The Fate beast heard Su Xue Er’s voice.
It brought its large head close, opened its white eyes wide to stare at Su Xue Er.
The eye peered straight at Su Xue Er, observing her.
Su Xue Er was confident and didn’t try to dodge the Fate beast’s gaze at all.
—–despite this eye being as large as she was.
The beast’s pupils were obscured by a blurry white something, the white was changing intensely, shrinking and expanding.
This is the mist of fate that the books mentioned?
Su Xue Er thought to herself.
After a while, the beast’s voice boomed so loud she almost couldn’t maintain her standing posture.
「 No, you are a rare delicacy, you should be left for last 」
Saying so, the Fate beast bit and devoured another person standing next to Su Xue Er.
It chewed them bit by bit, ignoring the person’s agonizing screams.
Streams of blood flowed from the cavities of its mouth.
Being crunched by countless sharp, jagged teeth, chewed on, crushed to bits while still maintaining consciousness, this isn’t pain that a normal person can handle.
This whole process is practically torture to the partic.i.p.ants.
The abrupt and intense pain is said to be worse than the punishments of h.e.l.l itself.
Everyone else could do nothing but stare at this.
「 Hmm… tasteless… but still one who escaped their original fate… 」
The Fate beast stopped chewing, then spat out a blob of blood.
The blood reshaped itself into a person as it hit the ground.
It was the same person from before.
They were still visibly shaken and screamed at the top of their lungs.
After a while, they suddenly noticed something wasn’t right.
They reached up and touched their face.
No wounds.
“I clearly died just now, how miraculous!” he muttered in shock.
From the void of s.p.a.ce, a card suddenly appeared in front of them.
Their shock quickly turned into bliss.
“I, I did it! I’ve successfully been reborn as a G.o.d’s Chosen!”
Su Xue Er was a bit curious so she came a bit closer to look at the card.
It was a grey card.
From afar, all she could make out was that it was some sort of weapon.
Quite a few people looked at them in admiration.
Su Xue Er only curved her lips lightly and didn’t say anything.
——-awakening only one card, not to mention a grey weapon card, that’s the lowest level of awakening.
Following the first person’s success, the rest began to become rowdy in antic.i.p.ation
「 Next, you 」
The Fate beast looked at another person and spoke.
It was the one who said that he revived yesterday.
The Fate beast didn’t bother to wait for his reply and devoured him whole.
It began to chew.
Despite knowing that he was about to awaken, he still couldn’t stop himself from screaming.
「 Hm, quite talented 」the Fate beast evaluated him while chewing.
Suddenly, it stopped.
Roarrrrr!!
It roared furiously.
All the Disciple candidates were scared stiff.
Quite a few went jelly-legged and fell on their b.u.t.t.
They expected the Fate beast to spit him out, not to roar in such a terrifying manner.
「 Just revived yesterday!? You clearly revived 5 fives ago, you even stole quite a few things as well」 the Fate beast roared like thunder in the sky.
「 Fraud! Thievery! Trying to fool me! Hmm…」
Its tone became exceedingly cruel.
In front of everyone there, the Fate beast’s throat moved.
It had swallowed that person.
They were eaten.
The Square became silent.
After a while, the Fate beast bared its b.l.o.o.d.y teeth towards the candidates.
「 Alright, who is next? 」it spoke.
Quite a few people shrunk back.
A handsome youth stood forward and spoke: “Let me do it”
His eyes were full of determination.
「 Ah? I’ve just eaten a person and you still dare to step out? 」the Fate beast was intrigued.
The handsome youth answered: “It doesn’t matter to me what happens to anyone else, because I will definitely awaken, I will quickly grow, finally becoming my world’s ruler ——-this is my one and only true destiny”
「 Hm, good bravery and ambition, then as you wish 」the Fate beast said.
It opened its mouth and devoured the youth whole.
Being crunched and chewed by the numerous jagged teeth, the youth couldn’t help but scream in extreme agony…
After a while.
The Fate beast’s throat moved and swallowed the youth.
「 Next 」it spoke with a heavy tone.
Everyone exchanged glances.
Someone couldn’t help themselves asking: “Where did the youth just now do?”
「 As you saw, I ate him 」the Fate beast answered.
He was stunned, then hurriedly asked again: “But why? Why did you not let him awaken?”
The Fate beast answered: 「 I am not to blame, it’s because he didn’t have the appropriate talents that he died 」
「 Death, is also a kind of destiny 」it added.
Silence.
Absolute silence.
A sense of dread started to fill the minds of everyone on the scene.
So you will also die if you’re not talented enough.
Being chewed to death by the beast before being swallowed whole…
Someone burst out screaming: “What kind of sick joke is this? I —–I won’t take this test! I want to live; I have to live!”
He went insane from fear, sweating profusely while tears dripped down his face.
After staggering for a few steps, he started to desperately run away towards the edge of the Square.
The beast only looked down at this and ignored him.
From the void of s.p.a.ce, numerous voices were suddenly heard discussing.
“This happened again huh”
“It’s been quite a few years since the last time…”
“This generation is so subpar”
“Another who ran from being peered at by Fate”
“It’s quite rare as well”
In just a few moments, these voices seem to reach a unanimous decision.
“Then let him become a janitor and die old on the Isle”
“Hm”
“Agreed”
“Agreed”
All the voices disappeared.
At the same time, a hole appeared beneath the running man’s feet.
He fell straight down and out of sight.
The hole slowly faded away.
It was now that the candidate finally realized.
So the Gurus have always been here, it’s just that they can’t see them.
It’s possible that the Gurus have been silently observing them from the start.
「 Who else wishes to excuse themselves? 」the Fate beast asked.
It then waited for a few moments.
No one said anything.
「 Then I will continue 」the Fate beast spoke.
Regardless of what these candidates think, the Fate beast’s devouring had resumed.
Candidates were being swallowed one after another before turning into all sorts of things as they were spat back out.
Occasionally the Fate beast spat out a blob of blood, sometimes it was flesh, there were even times when it spat out bones.
No matter what it spat out, as long as it did, the candidate would always be reborn.
When the Fate beast finally spat out some water, countless discussing voices came from the void of s.p.a.ce.
“Look, it’s water!”
“The soul’s power was condensing into a sign of water after rebirth, how rare”
“A good seed”
“Hm, I want to take this one as my Disciple”
The puddle of water quickly reshaped itself into a candidate.
Before him were 3 leaves.
From the start of the test until now, he was the one that received the most G.o.d’s Chosen items!
The rest of the test went quickly as well.
Finally, it was Su Xue Er’s turn.
The Fate beast’s movements suddenly became tame.
It brought its head over, hovering just in front of where Su Xue Er stood.
「 I know your father and mother, during the great calamity that year, they gave their lives for Fog Isle 」
As the Fate beast spoke, its voice shook the air.
The void of s.p.a.ce itself became silent.
It was almost like all of them immersed themselves in their memories.
The Fate beast continued: 「 Do not worry, if you do not have the talent, I will use my power to make sure you reborn as a normal person, giving you a peaceful life on Fog Isle for the rest of your life 」
Su Xue Er seriously listened until the Fate beast finished.
Almost without going through any thought at all, she smiled innocently.
“Thank you, but if I really have no talent, please treat me the same as the youth from before and eat me”
「 Why? Is it not good to stay alive? 」
“That isn’t the case” Su Xue Er answered: “Being unable to resist fate, having to live my life like a living corpse trapped on the island. Rather than going through such a life, I would rather become a soul and return to the place that I miss, to meet the one that I long for, even if I die, this Su Xue Er will not hold any regrets”
「 These are your last words? 」
“That’s right, if I don’t have the talent”
「 I accept 」
Saying so, the Fate beast opened its toothy mouth and bit down.
Su Xue Er is about to be bitten whole.
At this moment, the void of s.p.a.ce started to hold their breaths.
Su Xue Er stood in the Fate beast’s mouth, waiting for the intense pain of being chewed alive.
Due to fear, her body couldn’t stop shaking.
The light in her eyes started to become dark.
This was because the Fate beast was slowly closing its mouth.
All of a sudden, the fright in Su Xue Er’s eyes all went away.
Within the millions of sharp teeth, she softly whispered: “Qing Shan…”