Chapter 818: Ship of Theseus
"Karwenz is a bug."
This was no praise or insult. It was simply a statement about the existence known as Karwenz being a mistake of the entire "world".
According to my knowledge of the fundamentals of Order as well as the four elements that made up the world, only Time and Space were the most fundamentally Order type powers of all. Time and Space were like the X and Y coordinates of the world, creating coordinates for the entire world.
Yet, these two powers had forever been at the very bottom of the natural laws of Order.
Correct, the very bottom. They were the foundation for everything. All other natural laws and existences could only exist with Time and Space being relatively stable as the prerequisite. The powers of Time and Space were a foundation, but also a source and the very peak.
Meanwhile, the two major corresponding elements of Chaos were Souls and Life… well, I won't get into that for now.
The most incredible power of Time and Space wasn't the so-called miracle of stopping time, nor was it mysterious instantaneous teleportation, but rather the incomprehensible and mysterious ability to give "true prophecies".
Unlike normal prophecies, Time and Space prophecies didn't rely on trying to control the River of Fate, nor were such prophecies mere rubbish from some prophet. Instead, the power of Time and Space would be used to analyze the entire current situation as a data set and then extrapolate along the X-axis and Y-axis to obtain new coordinates that would be the likely future.
To give an example to make things easily understandable for my readers, an existence who had such a power could watch the world as if they were watching an anime episode. She would only need to drag along the episode's timeline to view the prerecorded data and skip to the story in the later parts.
This ability was obviously far beyond mortal comprehension, just as how those in 2-D would never understand the 3-D world. "The people in the anime episode" would obviously never gain the ability to drag the episode's timeline. Such a game master-like ability could only possibly be held by the entire world's game master.
Astrya, the Goddess of Order, was the only existence in this world who possessed such an ability.
However, this ability had an obvious weakness.
Whenever Astrya felt that the upcoming plot wasn't to her liking, she would have to try and personally change the present in order to change future developments. This was the equivalent of her giving up her "3-D status" and joining the 2-D world. In that case, she would naturally lose her ability to continue viewing the timeline as she pleased.
Astrya's very existence and all her actions had already changed the original plot of the game's history, making everything go out of control.
She only had one opportunity to fix things, so she naturally wanted to find the critical point.
"Karwenz is a bug. Karwenz should never have existed in this world."
The Abyss Prince, the Child of Fate, Cynthia's most precious illegitimate child, the crystallization of the power of Chaos, and the most important character to her for winning the Holy War.
In the original plotline that Astrya saw… the Abyss Prince named Roland would have knowledge from his original world and become the "protagonist" of the entire world. His fate was so wild that it would be enough for a novel of more than 20,000,000 words… but let's skip all of that. Roland would then be heartbroken with human society which was led by the Holy Church, and finally lose all his trust in humans as he walked into the Chaos Abyss in despair.
Roland would then one day lead demon armies to the mortal plane, ending the era of humans as the ruling species of the world.
Such a critical character was someone capable of changing everything. Astrya unhesitatingly used the same strategy as before as she attached her remnant soul to Roland's pregnant mother, quietly waiting for Roland to be born.
Unfortunately for Astrya, Cynthia had learned her lesson due to the "betrayal" of the previous generation's Abyss Prince Karolan, who even ended up creating Holy Light and the Holy Church. Thus, Cynthia also attached the will of the Chaos Abyss to Roland's mother's body, intending to personally guide the Abyss Prince's growth and shape his worldview.
Two thieves had reached into the same victim's pocket… ahem, I meant that two sisters joyously met each other unexpectedly, and had a major scuffle.
In the end, their fight was just like the story of the Judgment of Solomon, where two mothers both claimed the same child. The end result was that the real mother was identified because she gave up on the child because Solomon declared that the child should be cut in half… However, the wise Solomon had probably never considered another possibility. What if both mothers weren't the actual mother at all!
"Such a tragedy!"
The pitiful child was directly torn into two halves by two stepmothers before he was even born.
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