System, what just happened? Leon asked the system in his head.

[What you just witnessed is how Fate works. At first glance, it seems like a coincidence, but that is how the woman you meet fulfills her Great Destiny. Until her Great Destiny is fulfilled, that woman will not die.]

Then, how does the Veil of Destiny that I have work with the holders of Great Destiny?

That raised a new question in Leon's mind. While holding a 7-colored Pixie that appears to be wrapped in a white cocoon. It is quite small in size and looks very fragile. As if just closing this cocoon could destroy this Pixie.

"Do you want to take any of these four people, Mr. Leon?" Rose asked quite nervously. This incident was completely unexpected and beyond both of their expectations. Maybe if their master was here, he could prevent that crazy person's interference from preventing the products they were going to sell.

Honestly, they were quite scared. This is a partnership that Austin Farmland has with outside parties and ends its history of maintaining neutrality. This meant the person in front of him was someone they truly had to serve with everything they had.

No matter whether Mr. Leon is strong or weak, it is not important. As long as Austin Farmland accepted the cooperation between the two, Leon's party was a guest they had to respect even if it was an ordinary human.

Is this strange?

Not really. Niki and Rose were just lowly slaves contracted to the Austin Farmland and taught under their master. If their Master respected someone, then that person would also receive respect and status equal to their master.

Maybe in other lower organizations, they can act as they please. But in an organization like Austin Farmland, they could only shut their mouths and obediently listen to the orders and rules that their organization had.

If they acted rashly and offended the other party, the anger of the other party might cause a great war throughout the universe.

This is a war across the universe. Not a small war on a planet that wasn't even worth looking at.

This is also the reason why the person who kidnapped the goods Leon wanted to buy immediately sent compensation to Leon and Austin Farmland. After all, if the problem could be solved with just a small compensation, wouldn't that be the best?

There's no need to kill and start wars just because of the small matter of stealing someone else's woman.

"Let bygones be bygones." Leon just showed a smile and accepted that strange phenomena might occur occasionally due to Trait Great Destiny.

When he was about to see the second woman, a strange light shone inside Austin Farmland, and a violent space distortion shook the place. The woman Leon saw was drawn into the spatial distortion and disappeared without a trace.

“…”

“Mr. Leon, I hope you can understand what happened. This is something that often happens when dealing with people who have the Great Destiny trait.”

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“That's right, phenomena like this usually occur. You can still choose the other 3 people who are here.”

Leon didn't say anything and looked at the last woman who for no reason became like a mummy and died. The woman's body shattered into pieces and became dust particles that flew in the air.

“You've got to be kidding me.” Leon looked at Niki and Rose who didn't dare look at Leon.

The two of them couldn't even give Leon an explanation because this incident was as strange as what he often experienced when dealing with people who had Traits of Destiny.

Leon looked at the two people in front of him and was silent for a while. In the end, he sighed as he threw two 'Oath of Sacrifice' Daggers.

"If fate doesn't want me to recruit both of them then so be it. Let them talk and see me.” Leon ordered the two remaining guards and they immediately carried out his orders.

“Choose, I no longer care whether you will disappear without a trace or die suddenly. You can join me and serve me as my loyal subordinate, or you can return to where you were before.”

“If you choose to follow me, stab yourself with this dagger.”

Both of them saw Leon throwing a dagger. Even when their handcuffs were removed, the two did not immediately grab the daggers in front of them.

After being silent for quite a long time, the two spoke at the same time. The language they both spoke was different but Leon could understand everything they said.

“I am a Knight who has a Master. My oath to the master I serve will not disappear even if I die. My name is Mantis, a Knight who swore to protect his Master.”

“I am the Hero of a destroyed world. I failed in my duties as a hero and my world was destroyed as a result. Erick the hero, someone who failed to protect what he loved."

Leon saw two people who were both Great Destiny Traits holders. Two people who have both been people's pride and hope. Two people who are similar but different from each other.

One is a great knight who failed to protect his master. But the loyalty he had was unwavering. A loyalty that transcends the realms of time and space.

Others are heroes who have lost everything. A person who was once the hope of the people in his world, but failed in carrying out the tasks he had.

Mantis and Erick said at the same time.

Mantis: “Even if my master is dead and I am left alone, the loyalty I have will not waver. Even if you offered me all the wealth the world has, I would not sell my loyalty.”

Erick: “I'm just a failure. Failure after failure has always been with me throughout my life. My friends died because of the weakness I had, my father and mother died at the hands of the imperial scum, and even my lover died at the hands of the Bandits with the child I had."

Mantis did not take the oath of sacrifice in front of him, while Erick…

He looked at Leon with a weak and sad look. “Was the life I had wrong? If someone had been the hero and not me… maybe things would have been better.”

Leon saw Erick who was looking at him as if he wanted an answer. “If you want an answer. You have to find it yourself. Either the answer you will get will satisfy you or disappoint you.”

Erick, who heard this, could only lower his head. Someone who has lost his home and a place to return to. Someone who had lost everything he had and loved.

Images of his girlfriend, family, and friends flashed through Erick's mind. They all seemed to be saying the same thing with beautiful smiles as if to say that it wasn't your fault.

Stay Alive, Erick. Even in the most hopeless situations, don't give up hope.

You were the one who taught that to us, Hero Erick.

“Hopefully the path I choose will lead me to the answers I seek.” Erick took the dagger and raised it up.

Even though it was a sharp dagger that could kill him, his eyes were already corrupted by the endless Darkness within the small cauldron. His eyes, which could no longer even feel light after being trapped in that terrible place, now seemed to see the light from the dagger in his hand.

The dagger looked like a key that could free him from this place.

“For the sake of my father and mother who I failed to protect. For the sake of my friends who died without anyone knowing them. For the sake of my wife and my child..."

Without hesitation, Erick stabbed the dagger into his heart. From there, it wasn't blood that came out or pain that he felt. But it was one thing that had been missing in his life for a long time.

Freedom and Hope.