Chapter 686: A "Deal" with the Will of the World
Strictly speaking, it is true that Cheruth did not pass the guardian test set by the World Will of the Continent of Arres, but she used a different way to complete a "deal" with the World Will that was enough to make Nien, York, and Mira, the three current or former acting agents, jaw-dropping. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Will of the World granted her temporary Guardian privileges, and she did everything in her power to quell the Scourge of Chaos, joining forces with Nien and York to defeat the existence of Tafel the Corrupter.
For Nien and the others, this kind of thing is absolutely unbelievable to them, the reason is very simple, as they have said to Chelus more than once, although the will of the world is called "will", it is actually not an individual with independent consciousness, but the selection tendency of the Origin Law System to integrate the current situation of all living and non-living beings on the plane of the continent of Ares, in order to make the world develop in a better and more stable direction. In other words, the will of the world will never make "decisions" like real people or creatures, but only like an intelligent system with exquisite logic and calculation.
This is also the reason why, after the War of Gods and Demons, even though the substantive role of the three agents on the plane of the continent of Ares, where the law order has gradually stabilized, has declined sharply, and it is even impossible to hide the uncertainty they have brought to the origin law system, making them become one of the largest unstable elements in the plane, if not the largest, but the will of the world still only uses various law constraints to limit the power of the agents without taking the initiative to cancel the existence of the three agents.
As early as during the war between gods and demons, after the choice of summoning agents from another world was forced to be made, according to the summoning conditions set at that time, the will of the world only had the right to give and supervise the functions of the agents, but there was no so-called "right of dismissal". This leads to the fact that unless Mira takes the initiative to request to give up the function of the agent and leave the plane of the continent of Ares, even if it is determined that it will be more stable if there is no agent in the world today according to the calculation of the will of the world, or the system of the original law, it is impossible to revoke the order of the agent, because this is not an "optional option" for the will of the world, and the will of the world itself cannot create a "dismissal agent" like a real creature in this case because it has no autonomous consciousnessThen "go your own way".
Because of this, after Cheruth opened the Guardian Trial, Nien and York decided from the beginning that there were only two outcomes of the trial: that Cheruth successfully passed the trial to become a substitute Guardian, and that Chelus failed the trial and was unable to become a substitute Guardian and then completely shattered and died...... Of course, if they knew the general content of the trial like Mira, the former acting guardian who was appointed as the overseer of the trial, they would have one more choice to conceive, "give up the trial and stay on Earth's plane", but in any case, the will of the world will not make those decisions with a high degree of freedom on its own, but will only make what it thinks is the best choice at a critical moment in the development of events.
But as a result, Cheruth completely broke their stereotype.
Strictly speaking, the results of Cheruth's trial did not escape the range of two (three) results they expected, Cheruth did not pass the trial, but although she did not pass the trial, the next script was very different from their expectations. The failure to pass the trial shows that Cheruth did not meet the qualifications of the acting guardian in the judgment of the will of the world, but the will of the world still handed over the qualification of the acting guardian to the wolf girl, although only temporarily.
This is like a king recruiting brave men in order to crusade against the demon king, if this is a poor sour king of a barren and small country, and he only has a few tattered swords at hand, then even if he sponsors these tattered and generous to the brave in advance, it is nothing, even if he is hacked by the other party and runs away, it is only the loss of a few tattered long swords; Otherwise, if the brave man who came could not convince the king, how could the king possibly hand over such an important treasure to the other party?
And even putting aside the question of whether Cheruth is really credible, as mentioned before, the will of the world, which has always only made "choices" in the minds of Nien and her people, suddenly made such a humane and mercenary "transaction" decision, which is enough to surprise them.
So, what amazing magic did the wolf girl use to make the thinking logic just a super-evolved version of the "intelligent machine" of the world's will produce such an amazing change?
The reason is actually so simple that it may make the three of them vomit blood - they specialize in art, and Cheruth, who used to be a super hacker, may not know the working principle of the will of the world as well as Nien and the three of them, but she knows very well how to find vulnerabilities in an intelligent system, or how to develop an intelligent system so that it has functions that it does not have.
This is actually the inspiration that Nien gave to Cerus, once in the Valley of the Moon, Nien once told Cerus how to use the loopholes contained in the contract law of the Baptism of the Moon to obtain the power that Sekaria and Getageris, who had made the vow of protection, to protect themselves even after receiving the baptism of the moon. That time, Nien not only told Celoth that she could make Sekaria increase her strength quickly at a lower cost than expected, but also made Cherus understand that the original system of origin laws, which was the absolute cornerstone of this ordered world, was not really so "sacrosanct".
Of course, having said that, it was not because of this that Cheruth had developed a set of methods that could exploit the loopholes of the Origin Law and the will of the world as she wanted, otherwise she would not have been bothered for a while in the earth's space-time. But in the end, she still found the so-called hole in this Guardian Trial that she could take advantage of.
Since the will of the world does not actually have the ability to make "decisions" on its own initiative but only the ability to make "choices" automatically, that is to say, if there is an optimal solution among the original "choices" that makes the will of the world think that it is more in line with the interests of the plane than the original choice, then the will of the world itself will immediately turn the trend of events to the best option by possible means through the power of the original law system, without any so-called persuasion work at all.
Of course, if it is a normal state, there are not so many things in this world that need to bother the world's will to make choices, and most of the process of things follows the trajectory of the law and fate line. However, for a matter like Cheruth to decide on the next acting guardian, it naturally requires the will of the world to make a choice himself, and this is also giving Cheruth the opportunity to directly provide a new "choice" for the will of the world at this critical juncture.
Cheruth knows very well that according to her attitude towards becoming a proxy guardian, with her truest character who actually only likes a peaceful daily life and is unwilling to take on too many responsibilities that have nothing to do with herself, it is almost impossible to pass the Guardian Trial, so it is almost impossible to make the will of the world make a choice of "recognizing her as a guardian" in this matter, so Cheruth will make a plan and gamble at the end of the Guardian Trial, through Mira to the will of the world to pass on the new choice she gave.
The new option she offers for the will of the world is illustrated in the simplest words, and that is what she herself calls a temporary worker. According to what she heard from Nien, York, and Mira after coming to the earth's time and space, she could see that the will of the world actually did not believe that the long-term existence of the surrogate was a good thing for the plane of the Ares continent, but whether it was the war of gods and demons back then or the current Tafel Chaos Disaster, the situation might have become worse if the surrogate had not intervened, so although it may be a bit rude for Nien to say this, in Cheruth's opinion, the practice of the world will of the continent of Ares to summon and appoint a surrogate is actually a product of the lesser of two evils when making choices。
So, at the end of the trial, Chelus made it clear that she had no interest in becoming the permanent patron saint of the continent of Arres, she just wanted to get enough strength to survive this crisis with her friends and return to Arales to solve Tafel's problems, and then continue to live with her friends like an ordinary person.
Perhaps to Mira, as well as Nien and York, such a request is nothing short of nonsense. It's like a brave man looking for the king and saying that he wants to borrow the heroic holy sword, and then use the holy sword to retreat from the demon king to rescue his childhood sweetheart who was captured by the demon king, and then throw the holy sword back to the king and tell people that he is not responsible for the rest of the matter, and the princess who was rescued together with the childhood sweetheart loves who to marry, because the demon king was repelled and the violent monsters love whoever is on whom, and even the new demon king is at your toss...... However, it is precisely because Mira and the others are all characters with true heroic qualities who will not make such a petty and childish move, so they will ignore that the king who gave the holy sword may not actually want such a brave son-in-law with the aura of a hero who once defeated the demon king to stay in the kingdom to share his reputation?
This metaphor may be inappropriate in some places, but that's basically the truth. Don't look at the will of the world is not really an independent consciousness but more like an intelligent computing system, but Cheruth, who has been a hacker, knows that it is the intelligent computing system that has no emotion that makes it more likely to make some choices that are so angry and even shameless in the eyes of ordinary people that ordinary people think that they are petty and even a little shameless...... Because it is not disturbed by any emotion, nor does it have any emotions such as shame because of anything that could reasonably be considered to be self-serving, the intelligent computing system will always follow only one rule - to always carry out the choice that best serves the ultimate good of the one it has created for it, within the limits of the rules.
So, after judging that the new "choice" proposed by Cheruth really did not have any false sincere thoughts in her heart, the will of the world surprised Mira, the overseer of the trial, and directly canceled the original two branch endings of this trial, and drew up a "temporary labor contract" with Cheruth on the spot.
The acting guardian of the plane of the continent of Arreth is still vacant, but Cheruth can temporarily use most of the abilities of the acting guardian, and these permissions will be fully withdrawn after Cheruth assists Nien and York in defeating Tafel the Morph to eliminate this chaos crisis, and Cheruth will only live on the continent of Areth as an ordinary creature after that, as for if in time for Cheruth to temporarily gain the power of the acting guardian and join forces with Nien and York, but still does not prevent Tafel from destroying the continent of Areth――Even if the world is destroyed, the authority of the agent will no longer exist, so there is no point in discussing it.
“...... So, you were thus appointed by the will of the world with the power of acting as a guardian - a temporary guardian?"
After listening to Cheruth roughly talk about her experiences before and after the Guardian Trial, Nien and York looked like they were in ruin.
They have been complaining that the will of the world that summoned them does not have much discipline, but now they find that they are actually wrong, not that there are not too many, but that there is no discipline to speak of.
Cheruth looked at the appearance of Nien and knew that to make these two people fully accept such a result, it is estimated that the difficulty of letting Mira accept it before she was not here is about eight or nine, after all, these three people are different from themselves anyway, but they have all passed the test of the three major agents for the truth, and have become the three major agents who have made the will of the world want to find fault with them for thousands of years and have no excuse, no matter how unreliable they seem, their hearts have the real selflessness and righteous qualities that are different from Cheruth, so that they can accept the will of the world that selected themIn fact, the existence of the orthodox body that only recognizes the ultimate benefits and has no real principles is not only difficult, but also perhaps not a good thing.
"Okay, I've probably explained the cause and effect to you, I know that there are a lot of things that you still need to digest for a while, but I propose that this be put to rest in the future, right?