Chapter Twenty-Five: A Leisurely Game
Inside the Crystal Heavenly Palace, the ancient chessboard that has lasted since the beginning of the world is still there, and there are countless chess pieces on it. Or a king on earth, or a hero of praise, or even a weak woman, or a loving mother, or a strong warrior...... Regardless of status, whether good or evil, all living beings are chess pieces on this chessboard, and on both sides of the chessboard, the gods and demons who control the fate of countless people fall in this silence.
How many lives have been involved in this chess game, which has lasted for tens of thousands of years? How many lives have been changed unconsciously? I am afraid that there is nothing else to know except the gods and demons on both sides of the chessboard.
The Dark Thing's hand was playing with a chess piece at random, and it stared at the chess game in front of it, pondering, and suddenly spoke.
"God, on this chessboard, would you like to make a small bet with me?"
And on the other side of the dark thing, the voice of the god shrouded in light, was noncommittal, but calm.
"Bet on what?"
The black chess piece symbolizing the fate of a human king in his hand was flying carelessly in his palm, and the power that inadvertently emanated from the dark object was slowly passing through this chess piece, gradually infecting the fate of the human king who was still unaware.
It doesn't take any action, it doesn't even need any thoughts, it just touches, contaminates, sees, and even involves anything related to the dark things that are known as the "enemies of God, Satan", and they will gradually be affected, just like the matter captured by the huge gravitational pull of a black hole, slowly but firmly, a little ...... A little...... Little by little, he fell in the direction of the dark black hole......
The mad fate of the human king was thus sealed.
"Boom!"
Casually landing this newly added chess piece on top of the complex and chaotic chess game, the dark thing then pestle its head with its hand, and then casually spread a hand towards the god and said.
"How about gambling on the loyalty of the Angel King Metatron to you?"
The cold and tyrannical inhuman pupils dilated slightly, with a bit of interest in them.
It was as if it was thinking about something.
"Why? I don't think there's anything worth betting. ”
But in the presence of the things of darkness, God only spoke quietly.
"Metatron's loyalty to me is unquestionable, it is a derivative of my will, like human hands and feet. Can the angel Rachel resist the will of man, can he go against the will of man? No, the thinking of the angels comes from me, the reason of the angels comes from me, everything of the angels comes from me, the angels are my messengers, and it is impossible to rebel against me. ”
God's tone was calm, unebb, but with some unquestionable divine authority.
As God said, angels, messengers of heaven, are the embodiment of God's will, and they are the beings who deliver missions and carry out missions for God.
However, the dark thing shook his finger negatively, and then said word by word.
"But what if you want to make the angels fall?"
Inside the palace, there was silence, and God did not immediately answer the words of the dark thing.
Then, the dark thing stroked his forehead and looked with interest at the god in front of him, shrouded in endless light.
"Tens of thousands of years of chess, I have already discovered it anyway...... God, you don't really care if the world evolves the way the legends I have heard, or you are even interested in driving those legends to happen. ”
"Eden, Adam, Eve, Cain, Noah...... Or that there is the Son of God Jesus who has not yet appeared, and all the legends are being born one by one, and you see all this in your eyes and do not stop it, or rather, you actually enjoy it. ”
"It's like a director who reads a script, directing the actors to interpret the plot of the script with great interest, and then casually modifying some of them. God, you don't really care about the fall of human beings, nor the fall of angels, as far as you are concerned, as long as the drama on the stage is interesting. ”
As he spoke, the dark thing couldn't help but laugh, and then it picked up a piece from the chessboard and continued as it observed the situation on the board.
"I once heard a legend, a legend about the fallen angel Lucifer, a legend about an angel who was once favored by God but eventually rebelled against God. ”
"Of course, that is actually just a mistake in copying, the original meaning of the original text was just 'the morning star, why fell from the sky', originally used to ridicule the fallen king of Babylon, but in multiple language translations and transmissions, the 'morning star' was mistakenly translated into 'Lucifer', and later gradually personified the word 'morning star', which was originally only used as a metaphor, and finally derived a legend about the fallen angel Lucifer......"
The black piece representing an unknown assassin in his hand casually knocked down a white piece, and the piece representing the fate of a great hero who was praised was immediately assassinated by the assassin's dagger.
Black falls.
To put it mildly, a fate is established decades later.
"And yet...... God, I can be acutely aware that you are interested in this legend. ”
A glimpse of the eyes of the dark thing.
"As you say, the angels are the derivative of your will, your hands and feet, but if you have the idea of making the angels rebel, then ...... What will Metatron, the king of angels, do?"
"God loves the world, but does God love angels?"
"In my temple, I once asked Metatron that, and naturally it did not answer me, but finally tried to fight me in my temple after time flowed again, and made a lot of trouble, destroying dozens of my underwater temples, but it is also because of this that I find it so interesting......"
The dark thing that couldn't see clearly chuckled with interest.
"What do you think of the result?"
In front of the dark things, the gods shrouded in endless light calmed down.
The dark thing pleaded its head, and in the other hand held a black chess piece, scrutinizing it and replying casually.
"Naturally, I don't know how it will turn out. ”
Its tone is calm and unpredictable.
"I can fully dominate the material world, but I can't fully dominate the mental world yet, because I can't fully understand the mental world yet. ”
"I can understand what loyalty is, and understand the loyalty of the snake woman to me, which is a complex feeling of fear, awe, dependence, worship, and so on, and she fears me, so she is loyal to me. ”
Looking at the black chess pieces in front of him, even when talking about the subordinate who had been loyal to him for the longest time, there was no fluctuation in the pair of cold pupils, as if he was talking about an insignificant ant, only indifference.
"There is no doubt that the Serpent Lady is loyal to me, but that loyalty is not absolute, and if one day I command her not to be loyal to me anymore, she will resist my command, for even though she fears me, she has her own will, and for some reason she will still disobey my commands if the circumstances allow. In other words, I wouldn't be surprised if one day the snake girl suddenly rebelled against me. ”
"However, Metatron's situation is different from that of the Snake Woman, Metatron was born completely according to your will, so to speak, a part of you, I can understand the loyalty of the Snake Woman, but I can't understand what Metatron's loyalty is to you, naturally I can't understand how it will ultimately choose, but because of this, it's still interesting...... Isn't it. ”
The erect cold snake pupils glanced at it.
The god in front of him was shrouded in endless light, and from the endless light around him, it was as if he could see the entire universe......
Cold, dead, deep, hollow......
Light does not mean warmth.
God didn't answer the dark thing directly, but just glanced at the dark thing in front of him and said.
"Rachel, I have given thee the duty of overseeing good deeds, and testing the faith of all living beings in the world, so that whatever is in heaven and on earth is under thy watch, and the depraved will fall, and those who are steadfast should keep the right way, angels and men, without exception. ”
God didn't answer directly, but the meaning was clear, and the dark thing scoffed and stopped talking.
Neither the gods nor the demons talked about any specific details of the gamble, such as the choice of the bet that should have been there, or the bet, because it was not necessary, it was just a leisure gamble, and what made the gods and demons pay more attention to it was the ignorant child named Noah on the earth......
"God loves the world, but does God love angels?"