What is calamity, or what kind of existence can be called calamity? It's a very subtle thing, and it seems to mean something very clearly, like all the words used in everyday life, but on closer inspection, its meaning begins to blur again, like all the words used in everyday life. On the clear side, disasters are clearly defined, including droughts, floods, fires, insect plagues, and other natural phenomena that are not caused by man, and are difficult to be quelled by manpower. Calamity is devastating, terrible, and nightmarish, often interpreted as the wrath of the gods or the machinations of demons, although some beliefs see it as a test for believers. However, no matter how the calamity is explained, the individual and even the community are powerless in front of it.

The problem is that this interpretation of the calamity is all from the perspective of the creatures who have been harmed by the calamity. Of course, this is true, after all, most living beings in this world are small individuals in the face of calamity. But there is always a lingering antecedent view of such thoughts, and that is the origin of the calamity. Whether it's a god or an evil spirit, calamity seems to have a cause, harming living beings with some purpose. Even those who do not believe in demons in this way, such as shamans, feel that calamity is justified.

Floods are due to abnormal tides, fires are due to wind direction and dryness, volcanic eruptions are due to collisions in the depths of the earth, and so on, but their understanding of calamity is not much different from that of people who classify it as mysterious and unknowable, but they only transform the initiator of a calamity with a definite subject and name into some kind of law or natural law without a concrete body, and they think that by this they have insight into the nature of calamity. But they still don't understand the root of the problem, calamity, which is the name given to the creatures who are harmed by calamity, and it doesn't exist for calamity itself.

This non-existence is like a wave, when we say the word wave, we can't specify which wave we are describing, because the wave appears and disappears, comes from the body of water, and returns to the body of water. The water body itself does not increase or decrease due to the appearance and disappearance of waves, for the water body as a whole, waves only occur on the surface, like a hair on the human body. The calamities that people talk about are also, as far as nature as a whole, whether it is a tsunami or a wildfire, it is just a small episode, and it comes and goes quickly. After the most intense wildfires, new shoots sprout in the charred soil, and the burned land will soon be lush again, as if the fire had never occurred. It's like a tornado that happened in an uninhabited sea, did it really exist? Maybe.

Not appearing for the sake of destruction, not retreating for the sake of re-creation, this may be the essence of calamity, it is the same as rain, snow, wind, sunny day, but it is a phenomenon without self. Those who recognize this may feel hopeless, lamenting that their own life is just a wave in the face of the great power of nature, and that life and death do not come and fall according to their own will, and there is nothing to be done and nothing to rely on. But that inevitably takes life itself too lightly, the existence of life is powerful, even in the face of such a great force as calamity, life can still show no inferior strength, to adapt, to avoid, to change, to fight.

These efforts may be a mantis arm to stop the car, but isn't that what it means to survive? Blooming in a dry world, swimming and wandering in the dark deep water, no life is leisurely. Nature does not give life the right to exist, but it also does not give life the right to not exist, because nature does not speak, so life itself is responsible for survival or destruction.

From this point of view, it seems that Alei' should not be called a calamity, its existence is indeed a calamity, and its appearance is also a doom for living beings, but it has an entity after all, after all, it has a living name that no one would understand as something else. When Harold IV stopped and said that he was not willing to take another half step forward, the figure had already fainted at the edge of his vision. Even if it is pitch black, people can see it, because it is deeper than the dark night, not only does it have no color, it devours color, and even darkness cannot escape.

"Aleigh. Now Lothar knew what they were up against, and he was there when Batu and Atta came back to tell them they had seen the being, and he heard the name.

"The natural disasters on the grassland, the source of all evil, I didn't expect it to take shape so quickly this time. The cat fairy stood on the grass, his body tense and straight, and his words were irrepressibly trembling.

"It smelled war and bloodshed, and last night there was so much blood, too much blood, too much blood. Cheese dismounted from his horse and nodded to the Count. The latter patted the horse on the neck, and Harold IV turned his head and galloped away with a low scream. It is the instinct of animals to seek advantage and avoid harm, and only a few have learned to fight this instinct, which is not progress or regression.

"Whether it was the smell of blood that brought the calamity, or whether the calamity brought the bloodshed, is a question that is really inexplicable. Kailas sneered. The reason why Aleie is called the root of all evil is that its appearance not only brings natural disasters in the conventional sense, but also triggers large-scale bloodshed. Any disaster, when mixed with man-made disasters, will become ten times more tragic.

Cheese unhurriedly took the lantern in his hand and lit it, the faint light illuminated several people, but in the face of the darkness that covered the sky, even the dawn seemed so small, "I only know that without Alay, the wolf lord's children still have to inherit his property, just like thunder will rain, and when the rain stops, it will be clear." As for whether it will rain first before thunder, or because of thunder, I don't think it makes sense at all. If you have to find a truth behind things, sometimes it's quite tiring. ”

These words made the other two look sideways at the mage. It's not like what Cheese would say, the search for truth has always been his public goal in life, and his current words seem to overturn the thing that sustains him. Cheese noticed his companion's surprise, he smiled, the nervousness just now calmed down after seeing the shadow in the sky, "It's nothing, I just felt it, I used to think it must be like this, but now I find that it doesn't seem to be like that." Looking back at today's events in the future, maybe the same is true. So instead of worrying about having to have a final idea at the moment, it's better to do what is at hand first. Come, woe comes. Woe came, and Aleigh came. Whichever one is, if you block it here now, there may be fewer deaths. Gotta try. ”