12 12: The Inevitable

'Just what is my purpose? To take other people's bodies?' A heavy sigh escaped from Caleb's mouth. He thinks that his way of occupying other people's bodies is too chilling. What's worse, children's bodies, were too immoral. Doesn't that mean he was robbing kids' futures?

It wasn't the same as passing through at all, and it was not really a reincarnation either. He was more like a thief or a ghost borrowing the bodies of random people, and this thought made him a bit uncomfortable. However, isn't it the time slime fault? What can he do? He's also just a victim himself. After all, he doesn't want to die either. If he wants to prevent stealing other people's lives, he needs to survive! 'Damn it...' Caleb stood up from his bed and massaged his sore temples.

Every time he dies, the possibility of transmigrating to another world is infinite! The river of time was vast and almost endless. The blue slime wandered aimlessly and successfully hit two children's bodies accidentally. How lucky Caleb is? That's not the case at all. As long as the time slime continues to wander in the river of time, no matter how long, thousands, or even millions of years... The possibility of transmigrating to another body was infinite!

Such a thing cannot be attributed to luck. Once or twice, the more it happens, it's not luck, but inevitable.

The more Caleb thinks about it, the more he understands how frightening the situation he is in. Time slime would just continue traveling the river of time... It's damn eternal! And what's worse, it carries his consciousness. That means he will live eternally, a true eternal! But Caleb wasn't happy. Is living eternally really something to be happy about?

To other people, immortality is more of a curse than a blessing. Who wants to see their loved ones or the friends they have to die one by one? It's just too lonely. You have to live in solitude alone, all your life.

'I'm a damned eternal... One day, even if I wanted to kill myself, I would just get transmigrated again. This is too... too much.'

Caleb shook his head. It's too early to think about such things. 'Well, let's just think about it in the future. For now, I will enjoy life while I still can and strive to survive!'

'I don't even know where the time slime will carry my consciousness every time I die. It's fucking impossible to speculate.'

In other words, it is possible to bring Caleb's consciousness to children over ten years old. But the river of time is endless, just like the ever-expanding universe. Beyond the human's cognition. So the possibility of collision with a human again was extremely slim. No one would think it would happen. Not even Caleb himself.

Yet the most amazing thing is that as long as time is still flowing, any probability, no matter how slim, will become a reality in the distant future and will happen.

'Just like what Thanos says, it's pretty damn inevitable.'

So in a sense, as long as the time slime continues to wander, Caleb's consciousness will definitely find a new body to occupy.

'Bastard, every time I wake up, how long is the interval? A hundred years? Thousands? Or even a million!? I'm not a twenty-five-year-old human any longer, am I? I wonder how long did I slumber before the slime managed to collide in this child's body.' Caleb thought with genuine fear. He looked at his trembling hand and took a deep breath to calm himself down.

Maybe more exaggerated than that.

The interval of time might have already exceeded his cognition, and it's just beyond measure.

'Just how valuable it is every time I reincarnate?' Caleb began to realize that every time he reincarnated, it was extremely precious. It was a small probability event in exchange for endless time!

Suddenly, a sense of conviction appeared in his heart. He promised himself to do his best and live his life well.

In the next three years, Caleb cherished his life very much, every moment of it. Not only that, every three days in a week, he would listen to Gaddi. Gaddi taught him a lot of knowledge about Taboo fighters and gave him detailed information on how to ascend from grade 1 to grade 5 properly. All of this would be helpful once he finally awakened.

During the three years, Caleb lived a paranoid life. On the road, he always watches his surroundings with vigilance. He lived a mindful life, and it was too exhausting. He also discovered that the world he was in wasn't much different from Earth in terms of technological level.

His motto was life first! Survive no matter what!

On one particular day, on the road, he saw a fight between a grade 3 Taboo fighter and a Taboo criminal. The Taboo fighter ran in the air with a wind blade hovering in his air. He split a towering tree in two. His opponent, the criminal, on the other hand, could breathe flames like a dragon and he had diamond scales on his skin that gave him a terrifying defense.

Fortunately, Caleb had Gaddi on him that time, so he didn't get implicated in the chase. Because one or two passersby died in the process, which made Caleb aware of how dangerous the world was.

At the same time, it made Caleb even more determined about the idea of becoming an awakened Taboo fighter. In the future, practiced the ability he would receive, temper his combat style, and explore the world.

The idea was beautiful, but the reality was cruel. Because on his 16th birthday, also the day of his awakening. When he received his first ability and turned into a grade 1 Taboo fighter, he felt heavy pressure around him because of the sheer volume of Taboo energy in the world.

The ability he got was what killed him and made his body explode. It was "Taboo Energy Sensitivity" which allowed him to sense the Taboo energy 12x clearer than anyone and absorb it faster than anyone.

In such an environment rich with Taboo energy, as long as he activated his ability, his fate was sealed. Just like that, his body exploded because it couldn't bear the torrent of Taboo energy that rushed into his body!