Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality

Chapter 473 - 131: Truth and Harvest_2

"So it’s said, humans are always contradictory."

"When something doesn’t belong to you, you detest it intensely, and then the next step... is wanting to make it something you can control."

Many things were like this, and Laine was no exception, hating something often only because it wasn’t under his control. Like now, ’unchanging’ and ’changing’, the criteria that determined the order of all things... It was almost self-evident what these three Divine Artifacts together aimed to counter.

After repeatedly confirming that nothing untoward remained in the Divine Artifact following its absorption of the Fantasy World, Laine then sent it back to the Spirit Realm.

Once Hemenu’s affair was concluded, another ’feast’ awaited it, so it was best to assimilate the gains of this trip quickly. After all, unlike the other two Divine Artifacts, it was perfected step by step, enduring the entire second epoch.

Rapid growth necessarily required more time to adapt, to avoid leaving behind any problematic aftermath. Especially as part of the three Divine Artifacts, if it had any issues, it would likely affect the other two as well.

"Finally, we come to the source of all this."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Suspended in the void, Laine at last turned his attention back to the matter at hand.

He had originally ventured here on a spiritual journey to inspect memories concerning Zeus, but he hadn’t anticipated the journey would take such an unexpected turn. Although the outcome was equally favorable, he couldn’t simply forget his original purpose.

Athena was no longer here since, after all, whether it was Laine or her, they hadn’t truly entered this place in their physical forms.

With the first mystery unraveled, Laine’s second question was about the ’fated death’ on Athena’s person.

It seemed normal, Zeus had swallowed Metis, so Pallas’s birth was thus rendered impossible, and his fated ’death’ was only natural... but upon closer inspection, it was full of loopholes.

Gods are immortal, hence any possibility would only be postponed, never completely cut off.

So what if swallowed by Zeus, or even imprisoned in Tartarus? As long as Metis still lived, there was a chance of release, and thus a chance for Pallas to be born. Yet his fate was already ’dead’, recognized by the world as an unalterable outcome.

This implied that even Chaos denied his existence, to the point that attempting to ’rebirth’ him through any means would only bring about the world’s own Destruction.

Laine had not understood why a being once favored by the world would instead invite its malice... but now it was clear to him. Metis became the Sacrifice, and the moment the world accepted it, Pallas was deprived of any chance of birth.

The world wouldn’t deny its own actions. If Athena’s destined brother was still born, it would be tantamount to negating the present world itself. Unless Chaos itself broke its own rules and ’released’ Metis — but this was undoubtedly impossible, and without surprise, Pallas had no more opportunities to be born.

"This indeed poses a problem... I had previously wanted to bring him back to ’life’ in another way, to then challenge the predetermined fate of the present world."

Furrowing his brow, Laine found it a bit troublesome.

Now this ’arrogant divine king’ prophesied to emerge had been definitively negated by the world, and if he wished to be born, he had to do so within the Laws of Chaos World, otherwise he couldn’t inherit this segment of dead fate, creating a catch-22 situation.