Possessing Nothing Novel (쥐뿔도 없는 회귀)

Chapter 174 - City of Endless I (3)

Lee Sungmin closed his mouth and narrowed his eyes at Frau.

It was the first time he had ever heard the definition of fate, but when he heard Frau, he realized her explanation had a point.

The old yokai, Heoju, who had woken up and dwelled within his dantian and armor then his meeting with Rubia, spirit familiar. The dungeon with Baek Sogo and Wijihoyeon, the events in Travia Rubes, and his journey down South.

In fact, that wasn't all.

He found a stone in the dungeon where he died in his previous life and returned to the past, and ended up meeting Wijihoyeon. Thus, learning there was much more to the world than he thought.

From then till now, Lee Sungmin always had 'something to do', or a 'direction' of sorts. There were also times when he didn't know how to proceed or lost on what he wanted to do with this life.

At that time, Lee Sungmin trained himself again and again, going through arduous trials and gained newfound strength and ideals. And yet after those times of training, there was always work to be done.

At the Mountain of Mush, the next goal was meeting Denir, the god of time.

When he went down and worked as a mercenary in Behenger, he obtained Shaolin's pills and techniques from the dead Xeon, and had a reason to go to Shaolin.

After that? Through that unofficial visit, he was told that he made a connection with Namgung Heewon and that he would have a fateful encounter in the North later on.

During his stay in Shaolin, he got an errand to go to the Volcano Sect area and met Denir that time, he also became caught up with the Solitary Blade Dokgo who became a vampire, and earned his martial nickname.

And again after that? Lee Sungmin heard the story of Envirus from Denir, and while looking for Envirus, he arrived in the sleeping forest. Where he met Heoju and Rubia.

And he had to stop Baek Sogo from dying in the dungeon. After saving her, he went North to see this 'fateful encounter' he was going to have.

Through that process, he went through a lot when traveling to the North. The presence of Predator became known to him and he got muddled with their affairs.

Then after he had to go to the South after meeting the Crazy Heavenly Demon to learn how to control his powers and techniques that made him go crazy and find the origin of it. During the time of learning what to do there, he finally balanced his heart, mind and body through the fight with Baek Museon, the vampire-turned Bloody Heavenly Demon.

Then, his 10 year promise in Rubes. He arrived only to find that Wijihoyeon was placed under a curse.

By killing Ironclad in Rubes, he became a rogue, and became involved with 'Beyond the Heavens', the transcendent group that placed the curse on Wijihoyeon.

He met the Lord of the Sama Order, Sima Ryunju. And now, he was in the City of Endless Night after separating with Aladdur as well as trying to find leads on Kumiho.

All those things that had happened, were they fate? Destiny? What were they? He felt like he was being led around his life by something greater than him or was that all just some nonsense Frau was spouting at him? It didn't seem like it was.

Lee Sungmin rubbed his temples as his mind was throbbing with a headache.

Was this his destiny? There was no such thing as a coincidence in this world.

The words that Mush muttered, lingered in Lee Sungmin's mind.

If Frau's words were true, fate was a force that moved his actions in a predetermined manner. This meant that Lee Sungmin's life so far has been within the flow of fate within this world, not a series of coincidences.