"YES!" Kyle shouted as two enormous bursts of green appeared in his vision.
The next moment, he managed to see two green lights, which had been connected to the green bursts.
The lines were turning blurrier.
'No! Stay! I wanna look at you!' he thought as he really focused on them.
They turned even blurrier…
And then, they stopped.
Kyle was straining his eyes, and he could see the faint outlines of them.
They had not completely vanished, but he knew that, if he looked away, they would fuck off.
'Focus! Keep them in your mind!'
He could still see their faint outlines.
Then, he looked away for just an instant before looking back.
He lost track of them, but after a few minutes of trying, he managed to see them again.
He looked away and looked back.
This time, he only needed one minute to see them again.
He tried it several more times, and eventually, he managed to keep them visible.
Their traces were still very faint, and it wasn't easy to see them, but his feelings told him where they were.
'I can see them! I can see Karmic Lines!' he thought with excitement.
Seeing Karmic Lines was not easy, and not many people could see them.
One's Realm had nothing to do with being able to see Karmic Lines.
One had to have gone through tremendous changes in Karmic Luck while also trying to see them.
Not many people had gone through such significant ups and downs in Karmic Luck as Kyle.
He had gone all the way to a True Sin Aura before getting back to his current level.
Suddenly, Kyle's eyes widened.
The red aura around his body…
It was vanishing!
Over the next few seconds, the aura completely vanished.
'It's gone!' he thought. 'My Minor Sin Aura is gone!'
Kyle sighed in relief.
'I'm no longer being targeted by beasts, and people will no longer look at me like I'm a pile of shit.'
When Kyle had killed the 500 people with True Sin Auras under Lady Arrowstrife's orders, she had said that he would either reach the Second or Third Karmic Curse.
He had still had the Third Karmic Curse until now, but Lady Arrowstrife's words meant that Kyle had been on the verge between the two.
The help he had just provided to the team had pushed him over the edge.
It was clear that Kyle's words had had an effect on them.
Most likely, if he hadn't told them about the danger of the third level, they would have attempted it.
Kyle's warning had saved them from almost-certain death, and that was a significant contribution. He had saved the lives of two Fulfilled Transcendents while also giving them True Battles and rewards.
Kyle relaxed.
It had worked.
But then…
A thick burst of red appeared in Kyle's vision, and the next moment, his red aura returned.
"What the fuck?!" he shouted.
He quickly searched for the origin of the red burst.
Did those idiots do something?!
However, he quickly realized one thing.
The red burst was not related to the people in the trial.
It came from somewhere else.
"What the fuck did I do?!" Kyle shouted in protest.
He had just received a burst of negative Karmic Luck, and he had no fucking idea what he had done to deserve that!
He was just standing there, doing nothing!
Kyle looked at his emblem and saw that his two teammates were still alive.
Then, he tried to think about any of the people he had been in contact with.
'I didn't do anything wrong!' Kyle thought. 'I didn't influence anyone!'
'Why did I lose Karmic Luck?!'
'This is bullshit!'
Kyle tried to find the origin of the red burst in the same way he tried to find the origin of the green bursts earlier.
Yet, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find the relevant Karmic Line.
Then, several more bursts of red appeared in Kyle's vision, but they were much smaller.
'I'm just standing here! I'm not doing anything!'
At the same time, a couple of small bursts of green appeared, but they were drowned out by the red bursts.
Kyle summoned his certificate for the Desperation Trial. "Do something! Why are- oh…"
Kyle sighed as he realized what had happened.
'For fuck's sake. Someone died in the trial I own, right?'
'The first burst was their death. The smaller red bursts came from their loved ones, and the green bursts came from their enemies.'
Kyle groaned.
"You'd better pay out," he said to the certificate before putting it away again.
'Speaking of, how fast did they make that thing? It's barely been a couple of hours, and someone already entered it. That's crazy fast!'
Meanwhile, a seemingly infinite distance away…
A person's corpse was being consumed by a powerful but injured beast.
This had been the last level of the Desperation Trial.
A proper True Battle.
Sadly, the person hadn't been strong enough, and they had died.
Magic Lady noticed the negative burst of Karmic Luck she had received.
After all, she had constructed the Desperation Trial.
'Bad luck,' she thought.
The next moment, she looked at a Karmic Line leading to some place in the Supreme World.
When she saw that line, she just smiled knowingly.
Then, she returned to work.
Meanwhile, Kyle groaned once again.
He just hoped that his Desperation Trial would pay out soon.
'Well, no point in waiting. I should get back to my Law Comprehension.'
Kyle entered the stream of Yin-Wind again and focused on it.
'Where was I again? Right! Yin-Wind's Movement!'
Kyle went deeper into the stream to look at Yin-Wind's Movement.
This time, he wasn't disturbed, and he could finally focus on the Fragment.
Since he had undergone another True Battle, his comprehension had become even faster.
It was like the concepts were trying to storm into Kyle's brain.
Within just two years, Kyle finished the Fragment of Yin-Wind's Movement.
Four of five Fragments were done.
'Now, I'm only missing the Fragment of Yin-Wind's Weight, which is the Base Fragment.'
Yet, just before Kyle started his comprehension again, he looked at his Karmic Luck.
What he saw surprised him.
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