Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 4: Time Travel Diary

"...I don't know if the ancient sun god will teach Amon a lesson. Alas, I can't stay in this place anymore." Rowling shook his head, picked up the Time Worms on the ground, and without staying in this area for long, he quickly packed his luggage and prepared to run away.

Although the ancient sun god blocked the space when he beat Amon, the blockade has now been lifted. Who knows if he will be found by official extraordinary people or Amon himself? Luo Lin thinks it would be better for him to live in another place.

As for the subsequent tracking - the mystical tracking, Luo Lin is actually not worried. As the container of Naa's power, it would be strange if the extraordinary people in this world could predict his whereabouts.

As for the physical traces, Luo Lin, who had extensive experience in being tracked, naturally knew how to eliminate them.

When the official Beyonders noticed something was amiss and came to Rowling's original residence to investigate, Rowling had already blended into the complex city of Backlund like a drop of water.

That afternoon, a house on a street in the Hillston area welcomed a new resident.

After sending away the maid who was temporarily hired to help clean the room, Rowling closed the doors and windows, put away the beakers and other tools that he had just cleaned, then took out a small suitcase and took out materials such as pure water, golden mint leaves, colchicum essence and elf flowers from it.

These were the auxiliary materials needed to prepare the "Fun Man" potion. Finally, he took out an iron cigarette box from the small suitcase. After opening it, he saw a time worm lying quietly in the box.

Of course, there were more than one Time Worm left behind after Amon's clone exploded, but the others were collected by Luo Lin for future use.

However, Rowling was not in a hurry to prepare the "Fun Man" potion. Instead, he took out the last thing from the small suitcase. It was a blank notebook that was deliberately made to look old. On the title page were a few large Chinese characters written in Chinese: "Time Travel Diary".

Luo Lin then opened his notebook with a thoughtful expression, as if he was compiling the plot of a story in his mind. After a few seconds, Luo Lin smiled happily and wrote on the first page:
"September 6, sunny.

It has been three days since I came to this world. Even if I don’t want to admit it, I have to admit one thing, that is, I have traveled to another world and there is no way back.

Well, there are so many people who have time-traveled in this world, so it doesn't seem particularly strange that it's my turn. Let's be optimistic. At least I have enough money now to eat and drink, so I can just lie back and save myself decades of detours."

“August 6, cloudy.

I want to take back what I said yesterday. It turns out that extraordinary powers exist in this world. Although I am just an ordinary rich young man on the surface, I am actually a member of a mystical family with a long history of wealth and extraordinary people in every generation.

Good news: I can become a Beyonder, and even choose to pursue a path among the Diviner, Apprentice, and Thief.

Bad news: I just learned that our family has a super powerful enemy named Amon, who will equally eat every member of the Zoroast family he encounters.

It’s so funny, I can’t even lie down.”

"August 7, cloudy.

I decided to become a thief. After all, this path is the most fully mastered by my family. Apprentices and fortune tellers in my family only have low- to mid-level sequences, making it more difficult to progress further.

Although I don't think I can become a demigod, there's an easier way, so why bother? Anyway, I heard that Amon treats fortune tellers, apprentices, and thieves equally.

“On October 7, there was heavy rain.

It's terrible! It's terrible! It's terrible!

I met Amon! I almost got eaten. Luckily, Amon is a pleasure offender and decided to keep me for a while until my sequence is higher before eating me.

I need to think carefully about how to escape before He eats me.

Fortunately, Amon doesn't know Chinese, so I can write down my ideas and plans in Chinese and fill in the gaps to avoid forgetting them."

"Done!" Rowling put down his pen and looked at the diary he had just made up with satisfaction. The reason why he wrote these diaries was of course not for anything else, but to disguise them as Russell's diaries and sell them to members of the Tarot Club to fool... Oh no, use the diaries to remind a future Mr. Fool of the dangers he might encounter, provide him with some small help, and by the way, make up a story about Amon.

Of course, you can also write about other people in your diary depending on the situation.

To be fair, Rowling was quite interested in Klein. He himself had never considered himself a good person, so he particularly appreciated this kind of truly good person.

It is the existence of these good people that makes Rowling feel that the world is not that bad and that being alive is not such a bad thing.

Moreover, as the future Lord of Mysteries, Klein is an excellent investment target. If he can gain some favor now, Rowling will be able to borrow half-Old One level power in three years. Isn't that wonderful?
So in Rowling's schedule, he certainly planned to contact Klein, and he didn't mind helping out within his ability. Moreover, Klein would always be surrounded by fun people and bigwigs, which could just meet his two needs at once.

Rowling even planned to inadvertently reveal his identity as a "fellow time traveler" when interacting with Klein, wanting to see how Klein would react.

Maybe he would be surprised, but would not recognize each other directly. Instead, he would observe secretly first?
After all, Mr. Fool is a cautious person!

Thinking of this, Rowling laughed, closed the diary and put it aside, picked up the beaker not far away, and held his right hand over it. The next second, accompanied by a slight sound of bubbles bursting, a light blue translucent object the size of a baby's palm fell into the beaker. This was exactly the characteristic of the "fun man" separated by Yug.

Luo Lin stared at this beautiful Beyonder for a few seconds, and then meticulously began to prepare the Fun Man potion. He first added pure water, colchicum essence and other auxiliary materials into the beaker in turn. After all these ordinary materials were put in, he stuffed Amon's Time Worm into it.

The moment the Time Worm entered the beaker, the solution in the beaker took on a strange texture, like some kind of liquid gem. Seeing this, Rowling's expression remained unchanged as he neatly added the last of the Fun Man's Beyonder characteristics into the beaker.

"Gulu—Gulu—"

Like some kind of chemical reaction, the potion in the beaker turned into a chaotic darkness at this moment, but this dark color only lasted for a second before being replaced by silver-white. At this moment, the pattern in the cup was like a blooming flower and stars in the sky. The whole cup of potion presented a chaotic yet dazzling beauty.

"It does look good, but it doesn't look like something you can drink." Rowling looked at the prepared potion and gave a fair evaluation. Then, without any hesitation, he tilted his head back and drank the potion.

(End of this chapter)