I Can Copy Curses

69  69. A Possible Future

Orion felt as though he were a cloud hovering above a battlefield.

Below him stretched barren land, littered with rocks and small cliffs. Amidst this desolation lay the bodies of humans, monsters, and creatures resembling humans, strewn about like fallen leaves beneath trees.

Their lifeless bodies created a somber scene throughout the land, a reflection of the brutality that had occurred in that area.

Rivers of blood flowed along the corpses sactered there, making the ground painted red.

From up above, Orion only saw dead bodies and blood pools all around the battlefield when his attention was suddenly drawn by a movement in the distance.

Turning around, he looked towards the source of the movement and saw that it came from a man. He couldn't tell exactly the age of the man, but from what he could tell, it would be around 18–25 years old, approximately.

Seeing that, Orion felt surprised that there was still someone alive on this battlefield.

He floated closely towards the man to see him closely, but when he saw his face, he felt shocked, unlike anything he had before.

Because the face of the man resembled his face too much. It was like looking into a mirror, but the mirror showed a more mature and grown up version of him, and if Orion ignored the age difference and maturity on that face, he would believe the person standing in the distance was him.

'What's going on?'

He couldn't understand the thing he was witnessing right now.

Soon, he saw that the man started limping towards a heavy sword embedded in the ground.

'He is injured.'

Because of the shock he felt when he looked at his face, he unintentionally ignored the man's injury.

Slowly, by slowly limping, he appeared in front of the sword and held it in his right hand but didn't lift the sword up. Instead, he continued his limp and dragged the sword along the ground before he appeared in front of a boulder.

The point at which the man looked at the boulder didn't appear to be in Orion's field of view as he was standing behind the boulder, so he floated around the boulder when he saw something that shocked him to the core yet again.

He saw an injured man leaning his body against the boulder, breathing heavily. The thing that shocked Orion was that the man appeared to have the same appearance as him, just like the man who dragged his sword here. He also looked around the same age group as the man with the sword.

"How can there be two of me at the same time?!"

Orion couldn't comprehend what he was witnessing right now. He already felt shocked when he saw the man with the sword with the same appearance as him, but now yet another one appeared.

As he thought about it, he saw that man with the sword move again after coming in front of the other one.

He held his sword high as if he were about to strike the man leading the boulder.

"This... isn't...how it is... supposed to end." The man, leaning against the boulder, uttered some words with difficulty.

"You think I don't know that? HAHAHA" The man with the sword laughed like a madman. "I just don't care anymore."

"Our fate is already cursed. But I didn't believe it would get even worse." The man leaning against the boulder smiled, laughing at his fate, for he believed there had never been another one killed by a version of themselves.

"You started this all," the man with the sword said coldly. "And this will end with your fall."

As he finished those words, he swung the sword in his hand without any hesitation.

"HAHHAHA, you think this will end if you kill me? No, it's just the beginnin—"

The man leaning against the boulder couldn't complete his sentence as his head rolled to the ground by the man's sword strike.

Orion, who witnessed everything, couldn't speak a word because of the shock he felt. He saw a version of him killing another. This was too surreal of a thing to happen.

This whole time, he thought he had been dreaming because he didn't believe anything like that could be possible in real life, and what he just saw made him hope that it was really a dream and nothing more.

Soon, he saw cracks appear all around the world he was witnessing, and before long, these cracks spread to each corner of the world and shattered into pieces like mirrors in no time.

With the world being destroyed, Orion once again found himself standing in front of Isis.

"What just happened? What did I see? My future?" He asked quickly when he saw Isis.

"No, it was just a single possible future out of billions out there," she said, her face appearing solemn. "But it was also the worst possible one too. You see, when someone uses Fate Core on themselves, their fate and luck become so high for a moment that they can see their own fate. However, I don't know why, but everyone sees the worst possible outcome of their fate—their death. But don't worry, it's just a single outcome out of billions, and what are the odds this will become true?"

Orion nodded. He also felt that if it was really one out of a billion possible futures, then there wasn't a need to worry since those odds seemed impossible to be true.

"Alright, now what?" he asked Isis. "I just go and hope that, because of my luck, that stupid god will let me go."

He didn't feel anything had changed within him and despaired at the thought that if we were to go back, the result would still be the same.

"Don't worry," Isis reassured him. "Just use your brain for a bit. What will you do if you have all the luck in the world?"

Orion pondered for a bit and had some ideas on how to use luck in his favor if he had indeed become lucky, as he said.

"But be aware," she warned. "Luck is a factor of chances and possibilities, so don't do anything that doesn't include chances and think of impossible situations; otherwise, even with all that luck on your side, you would still end up dead."

Orion nodded.

At that moment, his body began to dissipate little by little.

"It looks like your time has come," Isis said. "Go and be sure to become stronger as soon as possible."

Orion nodded before his body fully dissipated into nothingness.

"I really want to know what he saw in his vision," she said to herself as she looked at the stars twinkling in the darkness all around her. "All those who had ever seen those visions tried their whole lives, their very best, but couldn't change the outcome they had seen. It was as if fate had shown them how they would die and given them all the powers to change that possible outcome, only to die the same way as in the vision. It was as if trying to change those possible outcomes led to the very outcome one wanted to avoid the most. What an ironic fate it is."

"Forgive me for lying to you, Orion, but I wonder if you can change your fate," she thought to herself. "I wonder if I can change my fate... I have done according to what was asked in the prophecy. I have done my job. Now it's your turn, Orion—your turn to fulfill your end of the prophecy."

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