Chapter 237
Chapter 237 Fate and Variable
Perhaps knowing he couldn’t get the answer he wanted from Greem, the youth didn’t wait for one. He turned and ran out of his hiding spot.
One hour later, at a slum at the bottom of the mountain, Greem finally met the man behind the youth.
It was an old man with a black cloth wrapped around his eyes.
Greem couldn’t ‘see’ any trace of magic circulation about him, nor sense any powerful mental flux. Yet for some reason, a sense of respect surged within his heart when he saw him.
A sage? A diviner? Or a prophet?
This blindfolded old man lived in a small and tiny grass shack.
Greem had seen numerous odd characters in the nearby alleys on his way here. These people looked exactly like that youth that led him here. There was nothing remarkable about them on the surface, but their weak bodies always hid a powerful, volatile-yet-suppressed strength.
“What is fate?
“This is a question whose answer every prophet has sought for their entire lives, to no avail.
“Some prophets believe that fate is a certain end that results from the systematic operation of all the rules and laws in the world. As long as all the conditions remain the same, there will only be one result. When the numerous results, ends, and conclusions accumulate, they form fate.
“Meanwhile, some prophets believe that fate is a unique force that exists independently, outside of the ordinary rules and laws. Even though it coincides and walks along the current world most of the time, it also concurrently and continuously changes as it does so. The river of fate is winding and extends to infinity. It might even be divided into many levels, filled with unpredictable variables at every level. Thus the direction of the river of fate’s flow is also ever changing. It is also accepts and admits new factors.
“This viewpoint clearly puts fate on an extremely high pedestal. It believes that fate is one of the most superior, powerful, and highest-order force laws in the multiverse. This higher-order law is not something that ordinary and inferior creatures can hope to control or manipulate. The only thing they can do is to understand and accept it, then use it to their advantage.
“In all seriousness, every single person, every single substance, and every single elementium within the multiverse has their own unique fate. And this fate, this path they are to walk on can become more or less certain, more or less strong, and more or less definite with the existence of the fate’s host, as well as the multiple factors in the multiverse.
“However, if a plane chooses to go into isolation, then everything within the plane would become fixed and predictable. At a certain point, even the plane’s fate itself will become predictable!
“Thus every planar world has to admit outsiders intermittently if they do not wish to become a stagnant pool of water. In doing so, they create variables for the fate of the plane. It’s just that most of the time, even the plane’s power of fate cannot determine whether this variable will be a beneficial or harmful one.”
Greem’s body couldn’t help but tremor as he listened to this other-world diviner’s enlightening knowledge of fate.
At this very moment he felt like he vaguely understood the reason he had accidentally appeared in the World of Adepts.
Possibly, maybe, perhaps… he was one of the ‘variables’ the World of Adepts had drawn in from the multiverse!