100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 795 - Divination

When Lucien returned to the Big World, he did not immediately resume his usual work.

Alanthuriel’s warning remained fresh in his mind.

The future would no longer narrow around a single dominant path as easily as before.

Lucien knew exactly who would notice that change first.

Aurelia arrived quickly after receiving his summons.

Elunara followed soon afterward, and the Grandmaster of the Obsidian Collegium came last.

The three of them entered one of Lootwell’s quieter halls expecting a discussion about the Black Mass.

Instead, Lucien looked at them and asked a simple question.

"Has anything changed when you look into the future?"

Silence followed.

Aurelia’s expression shifted first.

Elunara stared at Lucien with obvious suspicion.

The Grandmaster simply narrowed his eyes.

Lucien almost smiled.

That was already enough of an answer.

Aurelia was the first to speak.

"You noticed too?"

"Something happened recently."

Lucien settled into his seat.

"I want to know what it looks like from your side."

That was when the three exchanged glances.

Apparently, all of them had noticed abnormalities but none had yet understood what caused them.

Aurelia leaned back slightly.

"My visions have become wider."

Lucien listened.

"Before, even when the future was uncertain, there was usually a dominant continuation."

She paused.

"That has changed."

Her eyes grew distant as she recalled what she had seen.

"Now there were branches."

Lucien’s attention sharpened.

Aurelia raised one hand.

A faint projection formed above her palm.

It was not a true vision, only a simplified representation of what she experienced.

A single line appeared first.

Then it divided.

Each new branch divided again.

Some faded almost immediately.

Others continued.

Soon the small projection had become a web.

Aurelia watched it quietly.

"If I look toward tomorrow, I can still see what is likely to happen. The difficulty begins when I look farther."

One branch brightened.

Then another.

"An argument that ends peacefully may continue toward one future. The same argument ending badly can create another. Someone arriving late changes something else. A warning being delivered one hour earlier can preserve a path that would otherwise disappear."

The projection continued spreading.

"Before, there is one dominant future."

Now they did not.

Lucien understood.

Divination had not become useless.

The future itself had become harder to compress.

Aurelia continued.

"I can still follow the stronger branches. I can also trace backward and see what decisions allowed a particular future to remain possible."

That caught Lucien’s attention.

"So if you find a future we want..."

"I may be able to identify some of the conditions required to reach it."

Aurelia’s expression remained careful.

"That does not guarantee we will arrive there. Another choice can still create another branch."

Lucien nodded.

That was exactly how Alanthuriel had described the change.

The future was no longer one road becoming clearer with every decision.

It was becoming a network of roads that remained viable for much longer.

That made Aurelia’s gift more difficult to use.

It also gave her far more information.

•••

Elunara’s change was different.

She had been unusually quiet while Aurelia explained.

Lucien turned toward her.

"What about Fate’s Debt?"

Elunara’s expression became complicated.

"It has become cheaper."

Lucien blinked.

That was not the answer he expected.

Fate’s Debt had always demanded a price when Elunara forced herself to look too deeply into another person’s future. Lifespan was one of the most dangerous costs, especially when she tried to uncover events causality resisted revealing.

Now that resistance had weakened.

"The future doesn’t fight me as strongly anymore," Elunara explained. "At least not in the same way."

Her ability revolved around people.

She could not look across nations and civilizations with Aurelia’s breadth.

Instead, when Elunara focused on someone, their possible paths unfolded around them.

Before, those paths had rapidly narrowed as fate settled around important decisions.

Now more of them survived.

She could see a commander accepting an order and the possibilities created afterward.

She could examine what might happen if the same commander refused.

She could follow how one person’s choice touched another person’s life, then another, until the consequences became too distant for her ability to maintain clearly.

More importantly, the loosening of causality meant Fate’s Debt no longer needed to force open something as tightly sealed as before.

The price remained.

Looking too far, targeting beings too powerful, or pushing through heavily obscured events could still hurt her.

But ordinary divination no longer devoured her lifespan at the same rate.

Lucien’s expression brightened.

That was an enormous improvement.

Elunara noticed.

"Do not get excited."

Lucien immediately looked innocent.

"I wasn’t."

"You were."

Lucien ignored her.

•••

The Grandmaster’s own divination had changed the least in principle.

That was precisely why he adapted to the new reality fastest.

The Obsidian Collegium had never relied on divination merely to predict what would happen.

Their methods had always leaned toward battlefield calculation, danger evaluation, and the identification of catastrophic possibilities before they became unavoidable.

The Grandmaster folded his hands.

"For me, the additional branches are useful."

Lucien expected that.

"When I examine a course of action now, I see more ways it can fail."

That sounded deeply unpleasant when phrased that way.

The Grandmaster continued without concern.

"I also see more ways those failures can be prevented."

Aurelia glanced toward him.

He nodded toward her faint projection.

"Lady Aurelia sees the roads. Lady Elunara can follow the people walking them. I am more interested in where those roads collapse."

Lucien went quiet.

That was useful.

Very useful.

He looked at the three of them again.

Aurelia possessed the broadest view.

Elunara could isolate the consequences created by individuals.

The Grandmaster could identify danger across the resulting paths.

None of them possessed a complete picture alone.

Together, however...

Lucien smiled.

The three diviners noticed.

Elunara immediately frowned.

"You look very pleased."

Lucien leaned back.

"Because something terrible happened to causality, and somehow I think we can make it useful."

Aurelia sighed.

The Grandmaster looked interested.

Elunara looked as if she already regretted coming.

•••

Lucien finally told them what Alanthuriel had revealed.

He did not discuss Omniarch.

He did not mention the threat beyond the universe.

Neither subject was necessary for what they needed to understand.

He only explained the Prime Continuum.

He told them the Parallel Timelines had been sealed away and that the seal had now been unlocked.

He explained what Alanthuriel had told him about causality.

More possibilities could now survive.

Branches that once would have collapsed beneath the dominant timeline could persist.

Some might eventually stabilize into complete timelines.

When Lucien finished, nobody spoke.

Elunara stared at him.

Aurelia’s projection slowly vanished.

Even the Grandmaster looked unusually still.

Lucien gave them time.

Aurelia eventually rubbed her forehead.

"So that is why."

Her voice sounded tired.

Lucien nodded.

Elunara looked toward the floor.

"I thought Fate’s Debt was malfunctioning."

"It might actually be enjoying itself," Lucien said.

The Grandmaster was the first to move past the shock.

"If the structure of causality has changed, our methods must change with it."

Lucien smiled.

"Exactly."

They could no longer ask only one question.

What will happen?

That question had become too simple.

Now they needed to ask which futures remained possible, what decisions led toward them, and what dangers emerged along the way.

Lucien looked between the three diviners.

"What if you work together?"

Aurelia’s eyes narrowed thoughtfully.

Elunara slowly looked toward the Grandmaster.

The Grandmaster understood first.

Aurelia could identify viable futures.

Elunara could isolate the decisions of important people inside those futures.

The Grandmaster could examine the danger surrounding the resulting branches.

Three incomplete perspectives could overlap.

Lucien did not need certainty.

He needed enough information to make better choices.

Aurelia looked toward him.

"You already have something you want us to examine."

Lucien smiled.

"I do."

Elunara sighed.

"Of course you do."

Lucien ignored the accusation.

For once, the return of the Parallel Timelines had given him something other than another problem.

If the future insisted on branching, then Lucien intended to learn how to read the roads before choosing one.