episode_0045

“Oracle? Why are you here?”

My mind immediately became confused and my thoughts accelerated.

Isn’t Oracle in Europe?

trap? Can you run away?

In the first place, there was only one person in my extra senses?

Even when I focused my senses again, the mestizo woman and the oracle were still outside of my extra senses.

The Oracle is an S-class extra-sensory type, so it’s not surprising that he avoided my perception, but he comes out so suddenly?

Could it be that he saw something in me with his future prediction?

“That is to mediate between Mr. Lim Yu-han and Mr. James.”

“If it weren’t for Oracle, you wouldn’t have even been able to walk to this hotel.”

As the oracle finished speaking, the man sitting cross-legged on the sofa chuckled.

When I met him in person, I was able to guess the man’s identity.

“You… are the one who was connected to that biological weapon at that time.”

“Call me James. Deputy Director of the CIA.”

“He was a high man.”

The extra senses I was feeling were telling me that the other person was also a class A hunter with extra senses.

In Anthony’s memory, there was no information about the Deputy Director being such a capable person.

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The Oracle claps his hands to gain attention.

“Now, stop fighting, Lim Yu-han, and talk to me here.”

I calmly sat down on the chair facing Oracle’s words and gestures.

It makes no sense to be hostile to her, who has S-class abilities. I’m still at level A. It is a famous story that Jiang Wei fought against 13 A-level talents in China and won.

Moreover, the Oracle did not seem hostile to me, and there was a man named James who was presumed to have mental abilities, so he would not attack Babel in the name of it.

Also, there is something I would like to ask Oracle.

“Are you really here to mediate between me and James?”

“Of course. It would be such a waste for humanity if either James or Lim Yu-han died.”

“Humanity… James, is that person really human?”

I asked the Oracle directly about James’ identity.

The spirit of James that I encountered in person seemed foreign to my senses.

I was confident that I had connected with many spirits through Babel. James’ mind is not a human mind.

“Have you even noticed that far? Yes, Mr. James is not human.”

I furrowed my eyebrows at the oracle’s words.

If you’re not human, can you be anything more than an alien?

“Are you the alien who created the Gate that is causing a stir?”

“Hey, kid. Don’t consider me the same as them.”

James is glaring at me with burning eyes.

“No, to be exact, they are victims like us.”

“Victim?”

“Yes, James is a refugee from the planet Alexaio, which was destroyed by the Gate.”

The oracle’s words contained many things.

‘Alexio…’

I have heard that name in Stone Gu’s memories.

“I think I need to hear a detailed explanation.”

“Lim Yu-han is also a level A hunter, so he is fully qualified.”

The Oracle paused for a moment and then made a bombshell statement.

“The Earth will be destroyed in 30 years.”

“Yes? Suddenly?”

There’s still 30 years left than that, right?

Isn’t global warming shorter than that?

Moreover, in my case, I can live in the martial arts world for 150 years, or until I die of old age by ordinary people’s standards.

Half of the tension had evaporated.

“Not suddenly, but the Earth is harvested according to the plan of the Menas star people who opened the gate.”

“Harvest? Is it really psychic energy?”

My brain raced to interpret the contents.

Psychic energy is energy that the paranormal mind generates on its own as long as there is an initial influx necessary for the formation of the paranormal mind.

A space civilization capable of opening the gate would need numerous artifacts and superpowers as its foundation.

To create a relic, a Class A ability was needed, and a Class A ability requires enormous psychic energy to be created.

In other words, it was assumed that the reason the aliens, the Menas Saints, created the gate was to turn our human mind into a paranormal spirit and extract psychic energy.

The reason humanity was not completely destroyed by the Gate is probably because the aliens adjusted it appropriately.

My extraordinary mind guessed everything at once and got to the truth.

I nodded and spoke confidently.

“I see. Everyone understands. What the Menas Saints are aiming for is the paranormal spirit of humanity, right?”

“Yes? No, it’s because of the spirit of the stars?”

“…”

James taunted openly.

I suppressed my embarrassed feelings and quickly changed the subject.

“The spirit of the stars. Is it the Gaia hypothesis?”

Gaia hypothesis.

It was a pseudoscience that viewed life on Earth as one cell and the Earth as one life.

“It’s similar. To be precise, it is a way to rip out the source of the stars using humanity as a medium.”

“Source of stars? Are they different from the inner core and the outer core?”

“Yes. It is presumed to be a different energy from psychic energy. I don’t know the details, but… I’m sure that 30 years will pass and the Menas star will appear and all of humanity will melt into wealth.”

A moment of silence.

I thought about the story I had just heard.

‘There is more time than you think.’

30 years is enough time to start a family and for the children to become adults.

If you use a universe with a different time flow… no, you can even abandon Earth and escape.

Dealing with people in person is difficult for me right now.

The Menace Star People are presumed to be a space civilization with technology far superior to that of Earth, and seeing as they pluck out the source of the stars and seek to exploit humanity, their level of superpower may even surpass S-class.

Just thinking about it makes you feel the strength of men named Starmen.

With a heavy heart, I opened my mouth and asked the oracle a question.

“What measures does Oracle or the government have regarding this? It’s not like you’re going to be destroyed with your eyes open quietly.”

“That’s a secret. If you are really curious, ask the Korean government directly.”

He’s resolute, but it looks like he has some kind of solution.

However, it is unclear how effective it will be against men named Menas.

I felt the need to be stronger here.

“I’ll stop talking about business matters here!”

Oracle stretching out.

And I suddenly felt the presence of the Oracle grow.

No, that’s not it.

I was already inside the paranormal spirit of the Oracle.

“…!”

I jumped up, raised my psionics and paranormal abilities to the extreme, and tensed.

A powerful spirit that cannot be resisted.

Both the blood demon energy and the soul demon statue stopped due to the powerful force, and only psionics could barely move.

“Shall we tell a secret now? Personally, I’m slightly interested in that.”

Oracle stands up from his chair and walks trotting over.

“In less than one quarter, I went from D-level to A-level, or why there is so little future I can see…”

The oracle’s eyes look directly into mine.

I reflexively tried to turn my head away from those eyes trying to see through me, but I couldn’t move my body due to the pressure of the paranormal spirit pressing on my body.

The intersection of gazes, the feeling of the oracle’s eyes slowly walking into me.

Your extra senses sound the alarm.

If this continues, all existence will be foreknowledge.

Now, Oracle is trying to explore myself by going against my potential.

I gritted my teeth and tried to use every means possible.

The circulation of blood magic energy, thin as a thread.

Magical energy, psionic resistance, telekinesis, and Babel’s mental protection are of no use.

Still, there was a gap that was barely created by psionic resistance.

I activated my magic eye and faced the oracle’s eyes.

Oracle’s eyes were ordinary, but the light reflecting from them contained something different from reality.

The magical eye changes to mirror the oracle’s eye.

After a moment of silence, the Oracle steps back with his eyes wide.

“I can’t see it…”

And Oracle’s presence is shrinking.

The Oracle turns around, walks away, and sits down on the chair again.

“I can’t help it~ Shall we play the truth game? You can ask each question one by one, but you can stop at any time, and as a handicap, you go first!”

Something strange emanates from the Oracle.

‘Is this… mind reading? No, it’s distorted.’

Variant mind reading. The efficacy is probably truth detection.

My head spun.

To be honest, I thought I could run away at any time since I had non-combat abilities, but that was not the case at all. S class is S class. The battle will be successful only when Class A attacks Handas.

I thought about how to respond for a moment and then spoke to the Oracle.

“You won’t harm me, right?”

“Of course! Put my mother’s honor on the line!”

Oracle’s mood becomes serious and then playful.

Honestly, I feel like a crazy bitch.

But this is most likely a deception by the Oracle. A ploy to catch the opponent off guard.

“What future did you see in me?”

It was an important question.

An opportunity to measure the limits of Oracle’s future predictions.

“Ah, the question I expected! Was it three weeks ago? At that time, Korea’s hope! Korea’s best A-level hunter! Irregular that upsets Japan and surprises America!”

Oracle speaking playfully.

Not only I but also James in the room looked dumbfounded.

“Currently, the only A-class that has faced an S-class hunter, a high-ranking official of the New Human Alliance, the owner of the corporate nation of Babel, Korea’s life-long president, and a mysterious superpower are all that I have observed. This is a very unusual case? Usually, I see more than 60 futures.”

The Oracle suddenly gave a serious answer.

For a moment, he smiled brightly again and said.

“Now it’s my turn to ask a question, right? Don’t be so nervous. Because it is very weak at first. Please just tell me whether I am human or not.”

Honestly, it was an easy question.

Rather, not answering will raise strange suspicions.

Moreover, just by answering this question, you could ask Oracle a question.

There were many things to ask.

How to become S-class, Menas star people, trends of other S-class abilities, alien refugees like James sitting over there.

However, I remembered the preparation plan for predicting the future that I had thought about after returning from the Madou Universe.

“You won’t answer, so can I go to my house?”

“Yes! You can just leave!”

Oracle answered, pointing to the door with his hand, as if he knew how to say that.

I bowed my head and went out to the hotel’s door.

I thought as I left the hotel door slamming shut.

‘Preparation for dealing with future prophets. ‘No information is given at all.’

It’s a simple principle.

I answer the oracle.

The Oracle sees it as a prediction of the future.

Oracle asks a different question.

I answer that too.

Oracle also sees this as a prediction of the future.

Oracle asks another question.

…

By repeating this process infinitely, Oracle already understands me to some extent.

I thought of a way to utilize short-term predictions by overlapping them and maximizing them.

I don’t know if this is actually possible or impossible, but I figured it would be possible since it was S-class.

So when I met the Oracle, I swore to myself that I would not answer any questions.

Even rejection of a specific answer can become information, and no matter how trivial the information is, once it accumulates, it cannot be ignored.

Additionally, I was confident after hearing what the oracle said about my future.

‘The Oracle’s predictions of the future are real, except for the dimension mirror.’

I’m already 30% ready to leave Earth.

Even if not, I plan to spend 80% of the next 30 years in another universe.

However, according to the Oracle, there is no future in which I disappear, go missing, or go into hiding.

The most crucial thing was that the Oracle’s foresight was blocked by barely casting the Demon Eye.

The foresight was wrong due to the variables created by the dimensional mirror.

Although it may be an indirect method, we estimated that it is difficult to predict variables that are directly connected.

‘Still, it was too dangerous. The Earth will have to leave for the time being.’

To be honest, when Oracle revealed his power, I almost took out my dimension mirror and ran away.

Rationally, I thought Oracle wouldn’t hurt me, so I held on.

I hurried away from the hotel, looking for Yuna Kim.

*

Hotel room.

The Oracle was lost in thought with a cold, hard face.

And James sat down in front of her and drank tea and said.

“You’re a smart guy, you don’t leave even a single possibility open.”

“…”

The Oracle still said nothing.

“That guy is so strange. I’ve never heard of such a variant of telekinesis. Plus those eyes…”

“What do you want to say?”

“Is it okay if I just send it?”

“Yes, I decided that if I deviate from my foresight, the other person cannot have foresight either. It could be a joker’s trump card, and our situation is not good to kill or be hostile based on suspicion alone.”

“If that’s you, then it’s probably like that. But you humans will also be responsible for the results.”

The Oracle closed his eyes and made no reply before changing the subject.

“What happened to the attempt to stop the Ark Project?”

“After possessing President Biden, the security was strengthened too much. Now I can’t even access the inner circle where the most powerful people on Earth are members.”

“In the end…”

Monica, a mestizo woman, lamented.

“Now we can no longer allow the indulgence of those in power.”

“Well, this was expected, right? I find it strange that you have hope in the first place, looking at the future like that.”

James chuckled, but the Oracle paid no attention and turned his head to the mestizo, Monica.

“Please tell Jiang Wei that we will cooperate with the New Human Alliance.”

“Okay.”

“Have you finally decided?”

James clapped, and Monica bowed her head.