Walking through the hidden "phase gate" in the armory and entering the secret temple of Sindra, the goddess of fate, Roland's state of mind is no longer as nervous as it was when he first arrived here. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After a prayer with his father for good fortune, Roland got up and dusted off his trousers and paced around the altar admiring the exquisite carving of the statue of the goddess.

Walking behind the idol, he suddenly stopped, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, because he found that Sindra actually had two faces—a veiled face behind his head, revealing only a pair of cold eyes!

Intrigued by this, he turned to ask his father what the two-faced idol meant.

"The masked face represents Syndra's twin sister Timos, another goddess of fate." Rudolph walked up to his son, and the father and son looked at the other face of the Lady of Destiny side by side, and said slowly: "Sindra and Timoth, the twin sisters are the goddesses of fate of the entire multiverse, at the beginning of chaos and before the birth of the gods, they were born first and awakened to divinity at the same time, and they invariably chose the realm of fate as their main priesthood. ”

"Two ladies of fate, will there be a conflict?" Roland had a whim.

Rudolph nodded and smiled bitterly: "Of course, because the Destiny Priesthood is divided between two evenly matched gods, the endless competition between the two makes the fate of the long river difficult to fathom, and even often contradicts itself, which is the root of people always feeling that "fate is unpredictable". ”

Roland nodded and said with emotion: "It's hard to guess a woman's mind, let alone a goddess; The mind of a goddess is beyond comprehension, let alone two sisters whose relationship is hot and cold. ”

Rudolph continued: "As long as Sindra and Timos remain in such a state of oppositional competition, the chaotic nature of fate will not change, but the most ironic thing is that – people always crave what is not their own – the two goddesses who created this ultimate chaos, who were born of chaos, are both inclined to the camp of order. ”

He groaned, thinking that he might as well extend the topic and explain his feelings about fate to his son by the way.

"Both Lady Destiny want to plan the river of fate in their own way, trying to establish what they think is the most reasonable order, and when the two orders inevitably conflict, the long river of fate will inevitably fall into chaos from a macro perspective."

"This leads to the dissolution of order and the overflow of entropy." Roland silently added in his heart, and then continued to deduce along his father's train of thought: "If this contradiction continues, the chaotic torrent from the long river of fate will eventually flood the entire multiverse, exhausting all order, leaving only a piece of disorder, and all planes of the multiverse will become cold and silent, and there will be no signs of life, so that the long river of fate will no longer exist, and the two goddesses will die together and turn into chaos." ”

"I'm afraid it's possible." Rudolph sighed softly.

Roland frowned and asked his father, "Can't the two ladies of destiny choose to cooperate to establish order?" ”

Rudolph shook his head slightly, his voice soothing and low: "We can compare the gods to the rulers of the world, there is a Tao that there are no two heavens and no two people, which emperor is willing to share power with others and make wedding clothes for others?" The cooperation of the two goddesses is indeed very likely to sort out the laws of fate and develop an absolutely accurate prophetic magic, so that every minute of a person's behavior from birth to death can be deduced with sophisticated mathematical calculations, so that their followers can become prophets who foresee the future, and if they wish, they can even join forces to send a chosen person back in time, change an established history, and then crack up an infinite new multiverse, so that fate, the universe, and even themselves can reach eternal immortality. ”

Roland's heartstrings trembled slightly. In his opinion, his father's speculation was still a little conservative, in fact, there was no need for the cooperation of the two Ladies of Destiny, and the power of Sindra alone would not also send him from Earth to Vares?

"Wouldn't that be nice?" Roland muttered quietly, at least his own journey was interesting.

"Good?" Rudolph smiled strangely, "Maybe if all goes well, but again, if you really care about something, you won't be happy to share it with anyone." The same goes for gods, especially on the issue of theocracy, they are all selfish, they all want to establish a 'monotheistic worship' and make themselves the only gods in the multiverse, in this case, how can they cooperate without any guilt? They have to consider a very likely risk: her divinity will merge with each other after joining forces with her sister to determine the order of fate. ”

"Only an uncertain fate needs to be controlled by two goddesses, and a definite fate cannot tolerate dissent, so one goddess is enough, and only one goddess can be accommodated."

"Then you are willing to allow your competitors to take over your flesh, to devour your personality and memory, to enjoy your wives and concubines, to rule over your people in your name, and even the traces of your existence will be erased, and no one will remember you, including yourself."

"What a terrible curse, how unbearable......" Roland shuddered to hear.

"You're not willing to make such a huge sacrifice? God doesn't want it, my child. Rudolph had a look of sadness in his eyes.

Roland looked at him in surprise, wondering why such a man with a strong will as steely as he was so emotionally distracted in his mysterious theological debates, was it because those words just now touched his heart and evoked a past, or was his faith so pious that others could not understand it?

Roland didn't know the answer, and he didn't want to ask, he just suddenly found that the man Rudolph was more complicated than he thought before, and it was difficult to really understand him.

Coughing lightly, Roland tried to help Rudolph out of his melancholy meditation: "Father, we might as well make a more optimistic prediction...... Suppose there are two gods, absolutely rational, absolutely forgiving, absolutely self-sacrificing, absolutely far-sighted, they may be able to sacrifice everything they have to make each other perfect. ”

However, Rudolph's perception of fate is contrary to the word "optimistic".

"Unfortunately, the two gods in charge of fate have distinctly feminine characteristics in their divinity: they are both proud and inferior, amorous and cold, gentle and tolerant but full of personality, generous but narrow-minded, sympathetic and suspicious and jealous, but they do not possess absolute reason, so it is almost impossible to expect them to be fully self-sacrificing...... It's a big joke that fate has played on all of us, perhaps, fate itself is a joke. ”

Roland sighed. He had no choice but to change the topic simply and rudely: "Does Timos have his own believers and church?" ”

This trick actually worked unexpectedly, Rudolph perked up, nodded and said: "Of course there is, it is said that in the New World, the followers of Timos have already fought against the Holy Light Holy See, and I really hope that we will have that day in the Far East." ”

"There will come a day, I'm convinced." Roland said seriously.

Rudolph picked up his emblem and looked at it for a long time, then spoke again: "It is said that the emblem of Timos looks similar to that of my lord Sindra, both of them are sideways figures of masked maidens, except that one faces left and the other faces right, looking in opposite directions. ”

"Are the followers of Timos our sworn enemies?"

Roland reminiscent of the relationship between the two sects of destiny from the opposing shapes of the emblems. According to the experience of the earth, different sects of the same church often hate each other, which is why the saying that "heretics deserve death more than infidels" has been circulated, and there are countless bloody historical facts in this regard.

Rudolph shook his head and said, "That's not it, Lady Sindra taught us this: if you really need help, and you can't find brothers and sisters around who share the same faith, then go to the second best thing and go to the followers of Timos, they are at least not too stupid, and interestingly, Madam Timos also teaches her followers in this way." ”

He concluded: "So the two major sects of our belief in the goddess of fate are both competitive and occasionally cooperative, perhaps this is a reflection of the ambivalent feelings of love and hate between the two goddesses. ”

Roland scratched his head and looked at the Syndra statue with some weakness: "We are here to discuss the privacy of the goddess, is it considered a great crime of disrespect?" ”

Rudolph couldn't help but laugh and patted his son on the shoulder to signal him to relax, "Lady Destiny has great divine powers, she shouldn't mind the speculation of mere mortals, who can really see through the veil of fate?" Perhaps in her eyes, the conversation we just had was just a childlike naïve and childish silly remark to make her laugh. ”

"Does God laugh when man thinks?"

Roland looked up at the shallow smile on the corner of the Goddess of Destiny's lips, and tasted a different meaning from it.