A Guide for Background Characters to Survive in a Manga - Chapter 344 : Chapter 344

Chapter 344

With this matter settled, Su Bei truly lived a life free from worldly disputes. From the endless news on the official Ability user website, it was clear that various humans collaborating with Nightmare Beasts were now continuously causing trouble all over the world, with the goal of destroying the defenses of various countries.

Many of the defenses they destroyed would take a long time to repair. The consequences of this were obvious: when the Nightmare Beasts launched their final assault, a large portion of the defenses would definitely not be fully repaired.

But the government could do nothing about them. All they could do now was passive defense. After all, you can be a thief for a thousand days, but you can’t guard against a thief for a thousand days. The Nightmare Beasts and the reactionaries were causing trouble regardless of the cost and consequences, and they simply couldn’t stop them.

But despite this, everyone’s mentality was quite optimistic. Everyone knew that as long as they survived this final assault, humanity would have a complete victory in hand. So although this final assault would certainly be very difficult to endure, with a delicious carrot dangling in front of them, everyone was very motivated.

The manga plot updated once again, this time paving the way for the grand finale of the second season.

After lazing around for several months, Su Bei finally welcomed his unsealing. I regained my Ability and Mental Energy. I felt like my strength and methods were back.

After briefly reacquainting myself with the Ability I hadn’t used for several months, I began to develop it according to my previous inspiration. Although I didn’t know how long it was until the grand finale, I presumed it wouldn’t be more than two months. I had to research a new ability as soon as possible to amaze everyone when the time came.

“Actually, with your current abilities, you’re more than enough to play a role in the grand finale. There’s no need to be in such a hurry to research a new ability.” Seeing that I hadn’t gone out all day for the sake of research, the “Manga Consciousness” couldn’t help but advise.

Su Bei shook his head. “Right now, I don’t have to go to school and there’s no danger, so it’s the best time for research. I’m not doing this to show off in some grand finale, but for my life afterward.”

What I wanted to research was a way to transform destiny into causality. The cycle of cause and effect was originally a form of destiny, but if I could master it, I could change the past and the future.

Right now, Su Bei could only change the future, and this change was not stable. Although the direction of the large pointer was already very clear, multiple possibilities could still arise from the same position.

Take the commonly used “go out” point, for example. Leaving this house was “go out,” leaving this town was “go out,” and leaving this world was also “go out.” So every time I adjusted the pointer, there was an element of gambling involved; the only difference was the probability.

Besides, although the large pointer had more than twelve points, in reality, after exploring many of the smaller points, Su Bei found that they were somewhat repetitive types, at most only increasing his precision a little. As for the lower half of the compass, don’t even mention it; I hadn’t even finished exploring it. After all, that side was full of ways to die, and even if I tried them one by one with Nightmare Beasts, there weren’t that many opportunities.

That was why Su Bei had to develop it from a new direction. Since my Mental Energy didn’t support the breadth of my Ability, I could only dig into its depth.

Digging deep into an Ability was of course a very difficult thing, but fortunately, Su Bei had already received inspiration for an Ability before and had long since planned out his research route, so the research went quite smoothly.

By the middle of the fourth month since his fake death, Su Bei had successfully developed a new ability.

“I shall name it ‘Causality Correction’!” Looking at the brand-new Destiny Compass, Su Bei said with a sense of accomplishment.

The “Manga Consciousness,” which had witnessed the entire process, played a clapping sound effect in Su Bei’s ear. “Congratulations, congratulations. This new ability is indeed very strong.”

It wasn’t complimenting Su Bei; it was just speaking the truth. Su Bei’s new ability was indeed very powerful, a skill that could distort time and reverse causality.

“Causality Correction”, as the name implied, could modify the cause and effect of an event. It could either modify the effect through the cause or modify the cause through the effect.

However, this Causality Correction couldn’t truly change destiny; all it could do was correct it.

For example, Xiao Hong had an allergic reaction because she ate an apple yesterday. The result of the allergy couldn’t be changed, but the cause of the allergy and what happened before could be changed.

That is, I could go back to the past and use another method to make Xiao Hong allergic. A change in method could naturally affect the result. For example, if I used medicine to make Xiao Hong allergic in the past, then when I returned to the present, I could give her the antidote and directly end her allergy.

Similarly, if Xiao Hong died in the past, as long as I could go back to the past in time and give her a resurrection item, I could also create the effect of coming back from the dead.

Here, “in time” referred to delivering the item within its usage time. After all, after changing the past, I would still return to the present. The present couldn’t be changed. Xiao Hong was still in a state of death, and only if the item could still be used on her could she be resurrected with it.

However, I could only act on one causal line; my actions couldn’t leave this causal line. Using the apple allergy example, it meant I could only appear at the two time points of Xiao Hong eating the apple and Xiao Hong having an allergic reaction. The more time points involved in this causality, the more time I could trace back.

Once the range was exceeded or the causality was destroyed, this correction would fail, and the Mental Energy spent would not be returned.

And most importantly, this skill didn’t consume much Mental Energy. Although I went back to the past, the established destiny wouldn’t be changed, so it only consumed Mental Energy according to the time point I returned to.

However, the CD was a bit long; it could only be used once every ten days, making it the longest CD among all my current skills. The same causality couldn’t be corrected a second time, and a failed correction also counted as a correction.

It was worth mentioning that the maximum limit for this skill’s traceback was my birth time, which was sixteen years ago. Before that, I didn’t exist in causality, so naturally, I couldn’t go back.

This skill wasn’t used for combat, but it was an unexpectedly good tool. Used at a critical moment, it could definitely turn the tide. Most importantly, Destiny-type Abilities had always been difficult to defend against. If I went back to the past to change causality, what could people who only existed in the present do?

Perhaps only a time-type Ability user like Elvis would have some counter-measures, but at least he couldn’t do it now.

For the time being, I couldn’t use this ability, but Su Bei wasn’t in a hurry. Unless Jiang Tianming’s trio directly left the academy in the third season, I would still have plenty of opportunities to use my Ability, so I wasn’t worried about not being able to use it.

Having developed a new Ability, Su Bei was in a great mood. For the next few days, he played to his heart’s content, looking as if he was trying to make up for all the days he had missed. At that time, Jiang Tianming and the others had dealt with the avalanche very quickly, so the tourism industry here was not affected, and Su Bei had a great time.

However, staying here for a long time was like staying in the Nightmare Beast world for a long time; it would be uncomfortable. After all, it was cold, sparsely populated, and the scenery was monotonous. Staying for a day or two offered some novelty, but staying for a long time would make one feel bored.

Just as Su Bei was hesitating about whether to find an opportunity to leave this place, he finally received an invitation from the main plot.

The one who sent him the message was Principal Wu Di, and the message was sent on the notebook of the “Destiny” organization. To put it simply, it was a sincere invitation for the leader of the “Destiny” organization to participate in the final battle, hoping that he could play a role for humanity in the final battle.

“Looking for the leader of the ‘Destiny’ organization?” Seeing the message, Su Bei raised an eyebrow. “Is this also designed by the Author?”

The fact that the leader of the “Destiny” organization was Su Bei was something no one knew better than the “Manga Consciousness,” besides myself. And the Author obviously couldn’t be completely ignorant of this matter.

“The Author intends to use this to shock the readers, but it’s all up to you. If you don’t want to expose this identity, you can also refuse and then appear as an elite member,” the “Manga Consciousness” replied. Su Bei appearing as the leader could add icing on the cake for the hot topics, but not doing so wouldn’t be a big deal either.

After all, to be honest, if my identity as the organization’s leader were to be truly revealed, it might actually cause some trouble for the Author. Both choices had their pros and cons, so the Author naturally left the decision to Su Bei.

Su Bei thought for a moment. First of all, I definitely had to participate. Although the “Destiny” organization was a neutral faction, it was definitely on humanity’s side. If they didn’t participate in the final battle against the Nightmare Beasts, their status would surely drop significantly after the matter was over.

When the manga ended, the manga world wouldn’t stop running. I still had to continue living here, and the “Destiny“ organization was the biggest card in my hand. It had to be managed well, so I had to participate in this kind of collective activity. Not only participate, but I also had to play a major role to prove my own value.

This was also the real reason Su Bei was willing to agree to the Author’s request. I didn’t care about the hot topics in the real world; the actual benefits in the manga world were what I needed to pay attention to.

As for revealing that I was the organization’s leader, at first glance, apart from shocking them, it didn’t seem to have any benefits for me. I was still a student and needed to study at the academy for another two years. Revealing my identity would only bring me endless trouble and harassment.

Besides, the organization I was in wasn’t some righteous institution; it was a neutral intelligence organization! If the identity of the organization’s leader was revealed, the entire organization would then fall into a precarious state.

After all, even if they didn’t understand the internal structure of the organization, they should be able to guess that as the leader, I definitely had good things in my hands, maybe even something that could reveal all the intelligence within the organization. Capturing me would be almost entirely beneficial and harmless, no matter which side it was for.

But if only the readers knew, or guessed this matter, the benefits to me would not be small.

When they discovered my transcendent identity, then no matter what extraordinary abilities Su Bei displayed afterward, the readers would probably be willing to believe it. After all, since I was already the leader of an organization, being a bit stronger was normal, right?

Moreover, letting the readers know this had no disadvantages for me; it was completely beneficial and harmless. There was no reason for me not to do it. If it were before, some readers might have suspected I was royalty. But it was different now. Which royalty would disappear from the manga for four or five chapters straight? Su Bei wasn’t worried about the readers misunderstanding at all.

Now that I had an idea, I had to design how to implement it carefully. I wanted to appear in the manga world as Su Bei, a member of the “Destiny” organization, and at the same time, let the readers outside the manga guess that I was the leader of the “Destiny” organization.