Chapter 770

In some regions, a childling's fate was also referred to as a childling's calamity. But in mysticism, a childling's calamity typically referred to misfortunes and disasters. Simply put, a childling's fate could cause chronic illness, but a childling's calamity was the underlying cause of early death for those with a childling's fate. Trying to bear the misfortune on behalf of someone with a childling's fate as the substitute childling was a way of obscuring destiny's natural order. "In mysticism, there are proper ways to ward off calamity. But if you've used a substitute childling to ward off the calamity, you won't be able to use it again for other misfortunes even if it worked and helped avoid an early death," Shannon explained. There was a simple reason behind why. Once a substitute childling was used to ward off a calamity, the Divine Power would become aware of the person's childling's fate. Any further attempts to use a substitute would no longer work and might provoke the