CHAPTER 581: CHAPTER 578: THE END OF HUMANITY’S REASON

"Ronald," she said, "when you dealt with that Fake God earlier, I never saw you use the Complete Technique."

Ronald fell into a deep thought.

However, Catherine reacted quickly.

She seemed to not want Ronald to delve deeper into the topic, so she proactively raised a new concern:

"I’ve helped study some original texts before."

"Perhaps I could offer some assistance if needed?"

"..."

Ronald looked seriously at Catherine beside him.

The smile on Catherine’s face revealed determination and indisputability.

If he were to pursue the prior topic now, the outcome would undoubtedly be anything but good.

"Sigh..."

Heaving a small sigh, Ronald still chose to respect Catherine standing before him.

"The original text I use most often was actually split into three parts at the beginning and only after enduring many events was it collected once more. However, ever since the complete recovery of the text, one of the books hasn’t shown any activity..."

The issue of the Divine Comedy - Purgatory had always been on Ronald’s mind.

When he obtained this part of the text, he immediately gained the ability to enhance his physical fitness, but Ronald had never encountered any opportunities to activate other content from Purgatory.

Right now, he found himself in the final layer of trials of the Heavenly Chapter.

Indeed, this was a problem that needed to be solved.

On the other hand, Catherine also fell into a pensive state, hesitating for a long time before she finally asked:

"Ronald, you said this part of the text was wrested from someone else. Was there anything particularly special about that person?"

"She... She was an accidental product of an Abnormal Magic experiment."

Ronald had just started to explain, but Catherine quickly responded:

"Was that experiment related to this original text?"

Ronald nodded:

"Yes."

Slap—

Catherine smacked her own forehead.

A second later, her expression turned to one of sudden realization:

"You wizards from the outside world sure know how to play!"

"This is the original text we’re talking about. How dare you involve it in such schemes?"

"..."

"I didn’t have the say over it," Ronald said to Catherine with an embarrassed smile, "I didn’t own the rights to the text when the experiment started."

"Alright, alright." Catherine waved her hand dismissively and then said seriously:

"I’ve got the picture now."

"Let me tell you, Ronald. Because the previous holder and the original text came from the same source, part of the original text’s Spell is linked to her existence. Either you find a way to eradicate her from the concept of existence, or... you’ll have to use a more primitive method."

Lumier’s words were intended to prevent her from resurrecting in other puppets.

The character had been sealed by Alya using Tales of the Arabian Nights in a small bottle, then thrown into the sea to create the most stable magical seal.

Now, to have Ronald of the Infinite Negative Realm erase Lumier from the concept of existence...

Frankly speaking, the difficulty was equivalent to impossible.

As for the more primitive method...

Ronald’s eyes hardened as he quickly asked Katherine upon realizing she was conscious:

"You mean the original method refers to the canonical trial?"

"Exactly," Katherine nodded. "But you don’t need to rush. The canonical trial is disgustingly demanding and also highly dangerous..."

As she spoke, Katherine suddenly stopped.

She was about to issue a reminder, but in the next second, with a strange expression, she chanted the spell:

"His name is Gale Donik, originally just a country boy who had never been to Turda before.

Perhaps it’s better to say he never really came..."

The spell of "Psychohistory" activated, and Katherine immediately fell into a state of concentrated prediction of the future.

But this time, it was vastly different from before.

Leaning against a tree trunk, she struggled to compute for nearly three minutes; Katherine persisted in this predictive state—until a sudden burst of magic power erupted from her.

At that moment, Ronald instinctively took a step back.

The intensity of the magic power emanating from Katherine, while only marginally higher than a Great Wizard in the "Infinite Negative Domain," gave Ronald the impression that ’it was entirely a coherent entity, indestructible.’

Compared to the various other casters he had encountered before, and even when facing the man-made deities directly, Ronald had never felt such a strong and vigorous will.

If forced to describe it, it was as if...

Katherine’s magic power had its own thoughts and life!

Ronald’s astonishment didn’t last long.

Katherine entered this state for only a few seconds before her ability of "Psychohistory" to predict the future successfully concluded.

As her eyes returned to clarity,

The extremely peculiar magic fluctuation disappeared from Katherine.

"This is my Complete Technique—’Galaxy.’"

"How does it feel, quite shocking, isn’t it?"

She was the first to explain the situation, even joking about her own Complete Technique.

Feeling the essence she had just possessed, all Ronald could do was nod in response:

"Extremely shocking, it even makes me look forward to my own canonical Complete Technique."

Katherine nodded, all the magic disappearing from her body as she continued to answer Ronald’s question:

"You really can look forward to it."

"Though you certainly can’t beat me, your three-in-one canonical book will provide a Complete Technique that is definitely of the utmost practicality."

Ronald scratched his head:

"I’m not Bapulor, constantly brooding over the need to compete in strength. To measure the value of something by the ability to destroy—it has its merits, but I’m actually not very fond of it."

"Hehe," Katherine laughed, shaking her head, "You might not like it, but there are plenty who do. It’s not just about combat ability. Previously, some wizards on Barrier Mountain even thought about ranking spells in the canon by their strength!"

"And what was the result?" Ronald was curious.

"The result?" Katherine’s expression was one of mockery, her gaze drifting to where Barrier Mountain loomed in the distance, "The result, as expected, depended on the person!"

"With the same canonical book, different people holding it can yield completely different results. A pure comparison is just foolish. It’s like a knife and a sword, both are sharp weapons that can kill, but if two people duel with them, it’s the individual’s ability that counts."

"All right, time’s almost up; let’s not talk about this meaningless stuff."

Katherine appeared to greatly despise this sort of ranking behavior.

With abundant irony in her words, she turned to walk toward the campsite, while issuing one final piece of advice to Ronald:

"Ronald, the ability you will acquire in the future is called ’Anthropics Endpoint.’"

"Remember, it’s extremely important to make timely decisions when necessary, for everything."