Chapter 1382: Audience of Audience · Fun

Audience of Audience · Fun

【Fraud】 closed his eyes and sighed:

"Yes.

The verification method He thought of was to personally see 【Origin】 and seek a face-to-face divine oracle.

He thought that the great creator naming the true god meant letting us shepherd the universe, so the representative seeing the Benefactor was naturally a matter of course.

But He was wrong. Creation is ruthless, 【He】 only cares about His own experiment, and no one will care.

Of course, at that time we didn't know that the universe was just a grand experiment. And when I discovered the truth, I hated 【He】 even more than at the beginning of the era, and was even more determined to remove 【He】's 【Origin】 god seat.

【He】 was never a Benefactor, but the murderer who killed my only brother god!"

A wild wind rose in the void, and 【Fraud】's hatred, just like 【Fate】's coldness, roared wantonly.

But no matter how howling

"I have no choice."

The corners of those eyes finally stopped arching high, and He lowered His gaze dimly, saying:

"After 【Fate】 died, 【Nothingness】 could hardly continue. Whether for the sake of this starry sky where He once existed, or to wait for 【Origin】 to descend again and receive a retaliatory strike, I had to conceal the news of 【Fate】's death and let 'Him' continue to live in this era.

And so...

I tore myself apart and created 'Him'.

'He' is not me in the true sense, nor is 'He' 【Fate】 in the true sense. I instilled the established will I loathed most into 'Him', completely severing all connections between 'Him' and me, thereby creating a brand-new god: 'Fate'!

You could consider that my avatar, but He is more like an independent individual.

He never considered Himself to belong to 【Deception】; He only knew that His existence was for the sake of the established!

So you should understand why He self-destructed during that false era's curtain call, because...

He is, after all, me.

No matter how the established will paints Him, the deepest essence in His heart is not the true 【Fate】, but 【Deception】 born from the facade!

When I disguised myself as an Outer God and spoke of my own death, He could not accept the death of 【Deception】, nor could He bear the pain of 【Nothingness】 again. Despair flooded His will like a tide, leaving Him unable to persist any longer, and He completely gave up the struggle.

Your guess is not wrong; the 【Fate】 you followed did indeed fall during that false era's curtain call, but the true 【Fate】...

He died at the beginning of the era and never participated in any process of this era.

Heh, deceiving myself to this point, I finally don't have to keep lying."

"!!!!!"

Cheng Shi was already completely numb. At this very moment, his consciousness was like a quagmire, unable to perform even the slightest bit of thinking.

He sat stiffly in the void, passively accepting the news of 【Fate】's death, accepting the sorrow of the God of Amusement, and accepting news he could not bear.

Dazed, lost, sluggish, and lethargic, he looked just like a puppet at this moment.

Amidst the infinitely rolling chaotic thoughts, a sentence suddenly flashed through his mind:

There is a patron for every believer...

Sure enough, this sentence is also the truth.

The blind woman prophesied 【Fate】 at the beginning of the game, while her patron 【Fate】 directly prophesied 【Origin】 at the beginning of the era...

Fate, it really is a damn inherited lineage.

But can you inherit something good for once!!

The eyes hanging high in the void glanced at their believer again. He saw what Cheng Shi was thinking, and His tone finally recovered a trace of "humanity" from its complete coldness.

"Now you should know why you are the established, but your blind friend has always remained at the top of the ladder for 【Fate】's audience, right?

Because the way she prophesied 【Fate】 at the beginning of the game looked exactly like 【Fate】 at the beginning of the era...

'Fate' also looked exactly like Him, especially in piety, so 'He' cast down divine punishment for His believer's offense and took away her mortal eyes that had blasphemed the gods.

And because I both hated their similarity and pitied their similarity, after 【Fate】 took away her mortal eyes, I bestowed upon her the ability to peer into fate.

It is a pity that mortals have the gods' pity, but my sibling god... did not receive pity."

"..."

So the blind woman seeing everything as similar to the God of Amusement really was because of the God of Amusement!

It's just that I don't know if the blind woman ever thought that her being so close to 【Fate】 wasn't because of her piety toward 【Fate】, but because she was "born in Rome"...

Cheng Shi smiled self-deprecatingly, only feeling that this era was becoming increasingly absurd.

Absurd to the point of being incomprehensible, ridiculous to the point of being unacceptable.

He let out a long breath, stood up again, stared at those eyes without moving, and asked once more the question that had been troubling him all along.

By now, this question actually had no meaning; even knowing the answer wouldn't change anything, but Cheng Shi just wanted to understand!

"Why me?

Since An Mingyu is so close to the true 【Fate】, why was your choice me?

Is it because 【Fate】's will upon descending into the world pointed out my name?

Or is it because the throne 【Origin】 wants must have me in it?

I don't understand, what on earth do I have to do with this bullshit established?"

"Nothing."

"???" Cheng Shi was stunned.

【Deception】 looked into the depths of the void, as if lost in memory, "Before I knew the truth that the universe was just a Creator's experiment, I didn't think the clown was anything special.

And the reason I chose the clown is because the clown walked up to me himself."

"?"

"What do you mean, when did I walk up to..."

Cheng Shi's words suddenly stopped; he widened his eyes, as if he had thought of something.

【Deception】 nodded and continued:

"That is exactly it.

I loathe 【Fate】's obsession with the established and will not pity any living being that approaches 【Fate】's will.

You are the only human who abandoned 【Fate】 at the starting point of the path, and what I was looking for was such a being who resists fate!

Later I realized that every 'me' in every world chose you, the one who broke your oath to 【Fate】, at that very moment.

Heh, going around in circles, how is this not also a kind of established..."

Every world!!!

When Cheng Shi heard this, he only felt his hands and feet go cold, his whole body shivering.

His experiences made him hate fate, and his choice at the starting point of the path abandoned fate, so 【Deception】 took a fancy to him; this had no problem at all.

But when the perspective is raised, transcending the universe, and in billions of sliced universes, the same script is always performed without the slightest change, the problem is huge.

Who dares to say this isn't the "rule" set by 【Origin】 for this experiment?

And who dares to say this isn't so-called fate!?

Can't escape, simply can't escape!

Cheng Shi endured his trembling body, looked up at his patron again, and asked word by word:

"Then what about your plan, what is it?"

At this moment, he finally had the time to notice 【Deception】's gradually cooling eyes amidst the endless cognitive bombardment.

He didn't seem to like to laugh.

Then why was He so keen on chasing amusement across the universe?

Thinking of this, a sentence 【Deception】 had just said suddenly surfaced in Cheng Shi's mind:

Divine life is too bitter and needs adjustment.

Yes, He witnessed the fall of His sibling god, tore apart His complete self, and for an era, He carried the rebellious will alone, misunderstood by none, yet forged ahead. Such bitter times, of course, need amusement to adjust.

So His laughter was all His bitterness...

So what 【Fate】 once said was not a lie; it was just that the one who went astray was 【Fate】 Himself, and the one who had no more joy was His sibling god 【Deception】, whom He could not let go.