Just when Neo thought the Sphinx would question him about the reincarnation, its words surprised him.
"I don’t know why Hades has reincarnated, but I can’t predict his future. He is too strong."
"...?"
"The Akashic Record is like a supercomputer capable of predicting the future.
"Where do you think the energy to run this computer is coming from?" the Sphinx questioned.
Neo remained silent, and the Sphinx continued.
"It’s a power source named ’Causality.’
"Predicting the future consumes Causality.
"Creating new Instances consumes Causality.
"Everything the Akashic Records does consumes Causality."
The Sphinx explained.
"The stronger a person is, the higher the Causality needed to predict their future," the Sphinx said.
"Isn’t the knowledge of their future already in the Akashic Records?" Neo asked.
"It’s outdated knowledge," the Sphinx replied. "People like you have created massive butterfly effects and changed the entire future.
"Now, to predict the future of powerful people again, it consumes too much Causality. The Akashic Records doesn’t do it unless it’s an emergency."
Before Neo could say anything, the Sphinx added.
"Hades’ future can’t be predicted even if the Akashic Records consumes all of the stored Causality.
"Trust me, I’ve tried, and it almost caused the Akashic Records to shut down."
Neo clicked his tongue.
He had been hoping to use this chance to see how the curse would try to kill George and Mira and use that information to his advantage.
"You know," Neo suddenly said, an irritated expression spreading across his face. "Have you seen that meme about the super-strong enemy boss joining your team and turning out to be useless?"
"I haven’t. Why are you asking me about it?"
"Look in the mirror. The joke will give you a good laugh."
The Sphinx felt insulted.
The Akashic Record administrator looked through the Records to find out the information about the ’meme’, and use it to counterattack.
Unfortunately, there was nothing about it.
"If you can’t show me the future of Dad, show me the future where Arthur and others go for the bone excavation," Neo said, his tone shifting back to seriousness.
"Oh, you want to use your reward for that?"
"Yes," Neo replied.
He did not feel ashamed of extorting the rewards out of the Sphinx before he started the task.
"You lucked out on this one," the Sphinx said.
It snapped its fingers, and a new hologram appeared.
The hologram showed Mars, with long flaming red hair, attacking Jack, who was using corrupted undeads.
Sean, Clara, Nathan, Luna Barten, and Morrigan’s corpse lay on the ground.
Arthur was in a half-dead state—alive, but not for long.
"You don’t seem surprised by it," the Sphinx said as it studied Neo’s reaction.
"I’m very surprised," Neo replied.
He was not lying—not fully, at least.
’It’s more or less as I expected it to go.’
"How much do you know?" the Sphinx questioned Neo seriously.
"Know what?"
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