Lord Shadow

Chapter 1610 Chess Piece

Her laugh is like a little child that is happy that something had gone her way. 

"If I am here, what does it mean for your plan?" Azief ask. And Borgan answer almost immediately

"It means I was not wrong. That there is hope. That destiny and fate…. could still be changed" 

Borgan seems to be in a happy mood and then she said

"I never thought you would succeed this time. I know I saw it but it is hard to imagine how you would change your future. You see, I saw you. I did not see the other variables. Like Loki"

Azief was shocked to know that Borgan even knows about Loki. Even though he and brogan are separated by countless of trillions of years, it was like they have known each other for all of their lives

That is what he felt when speaking with Borgan. Borgan spoke to him like they have known each other for years.

But if Azief calm down, he just met her. However, the way she spoke with him, the way she talks to him, it really felt like they have known each other for a long time.

And now, she even knows about Loki. Did she see it through the rings? Or did she it all of those years ago, in a time before Time. 

Azief thought about this and Borgan keep talking

"Loki is like a stone. And introduce a stone into a calm lake, and it would produce ripples. Who would have thought, he knows how just to stir it?" And she chuckles at this

"Not too much, not too little. Hahaha. Just enough. And just enough is good"

"It's good" she repeated herself

"To change destiny and fate, you could not do it drastically. The more you pushback, the more the correction power would be exerted. It was like that principle of physic of you mortals, "To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction." 

She chuckles a bit

Azief however is amazed that Brogan even knows this much about humans

She continues saying

"It is like that for fate and destiny. But it is also not exactly like that. It is confusing what is fate and destiny really is. You never know until it is you on the chopping block of destiny and fate. Only then you would know how terrifying it is to be targeted by Fate and Destiny and what a monumental task it is to change it"

She sighs a bit and then shaking her head she spoke 

"It is amazing what that Tricksters of yours had done. Changing this kind of Great Destiny is not easy. It is not easy at all" 

She paused for a moment. 

Azief did not stop her. He only listens. Because he knows he could learn something from it. 

And probably that is also the reason why Borgan keeps talking. To teach him. 

She smiles as she looks at Azief 

She could understand Azief desire

Azief had heard the Creator spoke about Fate and Destiny to him before but it was not as detailed. And at that time, the Creator is showing him cause and effect. 

At that time, he was shown how an act of righteousness, an act of kindness has sown the seed for future meetings.

The Creator owe him when He is in his mortal form. At that time, he also learns that not all Destiny and Fate are destiny and fate that is unfortunate. 

Arial become the Creator and His ending is a Great Fortune. Azief also leans that time, those who fight against Destiny and Fate are usually because their Destiny and Fate are bad.

But there is also a distinction in that. Destiny and Fate rarely bestowed you with a certain Destiny and Fate that is not suitable for you. 

If you play around the river, how could you not get wet? If you do bad things, why do you expect good things to happen to you. 

But of course, there is also bad people living a good life, and there are many more good people living a hard life. 

Destiny and Fate are not so simple that it happens only because of you or your action. Sometimes, even if it's not your action, things would move. 

Destiny and Fate would move. 

Because everyone is interconnected one way or another. There is an inviable force that governs this interconnectedness. 

Why does your Destiny and Fate is not always because of you? 

An example of this is when you ride a car.

 You are driving it. 

You follow all the rules.

 You stop when the light is red, move when it is green, you are cautious and your car always get serviced when it is time. 

You wear your seatbelts; you take all the necessary protection measure and you do not drive recklessly.

In an ideal world, such person should live until they are old and die of an old age. 

But a perfect world does not exist. Because there are people. Because there are other living beings.

Death is order. Living is chaos and the antithesis of that order. 

That person who rides the car could be the safest driver in the world and he could still die because of an accident. 

All it takes is a drunk behind the wheel, drinking recklessly and hit that person car. 

The variable is other people. That is the variable of fate and destiny. That is the inevitability of fate and destiny. 

Even if you are told by fate and destiny itself that you are going to die because of a vehicle accident, even if you take all the precautions, it did not matter

Everything is the tool of fate and destiny.

 The wind, the clouds, the weather, the people, everything and anything could be the tool of fate and destiny to achieve its objective and goals. 

And Azief is understanding it right now. 

The Creator told him about cause and effect and from that he understood certain methods. And now, Borgan is talking about Destiny and Fate. 

Of course, he would listen and he would listen to it intently

Borgan also notices and she continue

"The more impact you change, the more powerful the correction power of Fate and Destiny"

Then she chuckles again 

"But that Tricksters, just like his teacher, knows how to play the long game. Subtle, and sometimes, you even wonder, what did he change. It almost seems like he changed nothing"

"It is a long game. If it's a long game, the layout must be big. Only then it would be perfect. Only then it would be right"

"all of it is to pave a brick road….to divert the path. And the fact that you are here, means that he had successfully paved the road and divert the path" 

And at this Borgan laugh like never before. 

Azief had seen the vision before and he could see how depressed Borgan was as she looks at his former colleague sacrificed themselves into the fire. 

Azief did not feel much because he had no personal attachment to these Ethernas. But the same feeling probably could not be said the same for Borgan who shares hardship with these Etherna.

There were a few times when Borgan shows him her smile. But that smile always has this kind of sadness that is hard to describe. 

But now, as she laughs, she laughs so hard like she found something every happy in her life. 

Azief probably could not understand how hopeless she felt when trying to go against Fate and Destiney. Probably because she is the closet being to fate and destiny, she knows how hard it is to change it 

And that is why when she saw someone actually walk a different path from the destiny and fate that she had divined, she felt happy. 

She is still laughing when Azief said something

"did you plan with him?" Azief ask but before Borgan could answer he shook his head

"No. I guess you've seen it. And you adjust your plan accordingly" he paused for a second and shakes his head

"I never thought clairvoyance abilities is this terrifying"

And Borgan only smiles at this. Azief however once again refreshed his understanding of the horrors of the method of clairvoyance. 

Brogan sees the future and she lay out a plan that spans countless of years. 

Borgan then said

"All I see was a vague possibility. The possibility is very vague. Like a vision obscured by a fog. You sometimes wonder whether you are seeing it right. I bet on that possibility. Fortunately, enough, the bet is right"

There is silence and the Borgan continue her word 

"Even when you did something different, I could see the future that is in front of you is still the same"

There is a pitying smile on her face

"You are still a chess piece and you did not jump out from the chessboard to become a player"

And then she smiles

"But like a ripple that is hard to be seen, with each change, the future road become blurry. And now things have change. The future events that are set in stone is no longer so certain. And each change propagated another change. And now here we are"

And as she is speaking Borgan is slowly fading away. 

Azief understood that this is time to part. 

He looks at Borgan and shakes his head

"I still could not understand you" hearing this Borgan was not surprised. 

"Not now. Does not mean not ever. Maybe, someday, somewhere, when the rain falls, when the wind whispers songs, when the clouds pass by, maybe someday…. you would understand it all of a sudden"

She laughs

"Or maybe you would never understand. I just have to trust that you will understand" 

And she chuckles, a joke only she could understand.

Smiling Borgan slowly disappears. Leaving only him in the forge. Outside the forge, the sky is falling, the sun is collapsing, the core of the planet is heating up

Destruction dances, life is fleeing. 

Azief look at the outside filled with this destruction, feel the winds of the Etherna world blows from the outside entering this forge and he felt like the era spoke to him

And he shakes his head 

"Maybe. Someday. Somewhere" he answers to the empty forge, hoping that the wind would bring his answer to her. 

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