Lord Shadow

The system seals the Will of an Etherna and bestowed it to humanity. 

When those who have the system complete some quest, they actually were fulfilling hidden requirements of being bestowed the will of a particular Etherna. This is the reason why Unique class or secret class have different prerequisite for each one, none is the same

The concept of the Book of Secrets is the same as the system. Nathan extract the Will that resides in his being from the moment he took the Unique class of Observer. 

And put it in a book. The book might have been just an ordinary notebook. But when the Will is sealed inside the Book, the book then become Fate-bound with him.

Fate-Bound and Life Bound items are different. For Life Bound items, it is usually ownerless, an item sometimes created by the accumulation of the energy and the will of the world.

Like the Dragon of Krakow in Poland. While that Dragon is not an item, it could be tamed and become someone else mount. 

Life bound items could be bound by some rituals like dripping some blood or injecting energy. But for Fate-Bound items it is a bit different. Most Fate-Bound item is created.

The Book of Secrets is not only a book that contain secrets. It also holds all the abilities that Nathan possess

In other words, if someone were to try to extract ability from Nathan, they would fail since his abilities and all the essence of his power was sealed inside the Book of Secrets. Giving the Book of Secrets is as the same as giving all of his abilities to Loki

Loki was not surprised because in the future, there were some people who wanted to escape Death. 

Some of them even created Fate Bounds items to store some of their life energy so that if they reached a point where their life energy reach to the point of the end, they would be able to still live using their Fate-Bound item.

And there are also other uses of Fate-Bound items. 

As the name suggested, it is Fated. Hence, even if the item was to be chuck out of the planet, as long as the Universe had the Laws of Fate and Destiny, it will return through the machinations of fate and destiny

Some even tries to split their souls and hide it in items. 

That is Soul Bound items. 

As for the Book of Secrets, the moment it was extracted and put into a book, the Book of Secrets then became like a supercomputer. 

It has the processing power of a supercomputer and probably have some other shocking function

Loki did not know how but Nathan seems to find a way to observe information in a way he could not when he was having the power of Observer. 

His method of power then comes from the book. 

The stronger the book, the stronger he became.

And unlike him, the book did not have his restriction. His ability to gain information become even more powerful and faster. 

But because his abilities are not battle-oriented, instead of him becoming stronger when the book levels up, he instead become full of knowledge. 

Even though he is right now a Disk Formation leveler, this is only the level of his energy.

If he fought with a battle oriented leveler of Seed Formation level, he might even lose. 

But, what he lacks in strength, he makes up with intelligence. And that sometimes is even more terrifying. 

The Observer is like the Analyst. But there is a difference between them

Since the Book of Secrets is an item, and if Loki deduction is right, it is an item that could mask itself from detection and get away from the normal barriers of protection, then in the past six years, Nathan might have send his book to all the great powers and learn about the secrets of the Great powers by letting his book doing the job.

He did not even have to be there. One could only imagine the kind of information he possesses. 

Even though Loki was the Regent of Pandemonium, even when he was investigating many leads about the other great powers, he doubts that he would be as efficient as Nathan Fate-Bound Item.

Nathan did not know the significance of him able to seal the Will of his class into an item. But Loki who came from the future knows

That Will is a Will of the Etherna. 

When a Fate Bound items matures and level up, they might even form their own consciousness.

Items that have consciousness always are cranky and have their own personalities. If there is one that Loki could make an example, it would be the talking mace of Raymond

That mace had a potty mouth and have a way of making other people felt angry. It lacks manner unlike his wielder.

It is not exactly a bad thing for an item to have their own consciousness. But it would be very chaotic. 

Loki even felt threatened because of the Broker abilities. At the same time, Loki was thinking of all of this, Nathan also has his own thought

And his thoughts come with pressure. Loki came to his house and declare confidently that he would kill him. 

there was no hesitation in his tone and there is no denying that Loki is really determined to do what he said he would do.

As such, his mind is actually working in overdrive right now. he is trying to find that sliver of light that would show him the way of survival 

But other than feeling scared, angry, mixes of all this emotions, he also felt shocked when Loki talks about the Book of Secrets.

He did not think anyone would ever found out how the Book of Secrets was created. At least not in such details

The fact that Loki knows about the Book of Secrets in the first place is shocking enough. And now that he knows how that item is crafted, he felt even more worried.

It is not every day that the famous Broker knew less than the people around him. he was used to being the one knowing the most in the room.

Riana who was silent for all the conversation then said

‘You could have it. Take the book. Father, you don’t have to kill Nathan’ Loki frowned hearing Riana called him father

He did not mind being called that. 

The only one that did not spoke to him like that is Trisha. But for Riana and Greisha, they sometimes called him father when they are in private.

But now, saying father like that…Riana is pulling all the tricks she has out of the hat. She wanted to appeal to him, as the girl that he had raised.

Emotional attack. 

He taught her well. 

That is the thought running in Loki head. He might even be impressed if not for the fact that right now, he had his own plans that could not be violated.

At the same time, Nathan was frowning as he looks toward Riana. 

The reason he was frowning is because Rina spoke his name. The one that knows his true name is Riana alone

Since he knows that someone could put a curse on you if they know your name, Nathan had always been hiding his name from the world.

It is the reason why a lot of criminal since the massacre at Socotra uses codename. By now, most people know that Witches and Warlocks could curse a person using their name.

Riana shakes her head and said

‘If he knows all about your book, I bet he knows your real name too’ Loki nodded.

‘You still know how I operate’ Loki smiles a bit and then he added while his eyes look straight toward Nathan, he began telling him what he knew about The Broker.

‘Nathan Ford. A consultant for political candidates. There is not much I could get other than that. But I know you have an ex-wife, no children, a poor kid turning rich. Allegedly engaging in insider trading. A Wall Street guy before turning to become a consultant for politician’

‘You helped some Democrat candidates win some election, some Republican here and there. A peddler of misinformation, right? At least that is what I gathered from my information gathering’

Then Loki chuckles a bit before saying 

‘I must admit; your resume was very colorful. And very hard to dig out. Most of your colleague have died, or hidden by you. But there are some that you missed. After all, you could not harden your heart entirely’

‘Heh’ Nathan only smiles bitterly.

‘It seems you have found a lot. I should not have been so merciful. I should have eradicated every trace of me.’ He could only sigh

There were some people that he had spared. He did not want to be a cold heartless man entirely and so they were some people that he did not hide and kill

Old friends from an old life.

The story that Loki is telling about him seems like another person story.

It is the life he had before the Fall. He had changed a lot since then. He was quite arrogant, stuck up person in the past.

For many people, the Fall was a great reset button. They were able to change themselves into something else.

The same opportunity landed on him

Some people might like to reminisce the good old days before the Fall. But Nathan hated it. He hated his past. 

He was not the easiest guy to be around with.