Lord Shadow

Chapter 2081: The Three Fates

On Earth Fir Her Waz could not have known all of the things that is happening there in the Omniverse.

He could also not know that the Three Fates are looking so intently at him right now. Looking at him for the slightest change.

Because the Three Fates had already seen the change even before the change happens.

Time to them is not a straight line.

They already see the beginning and the end and everything in between

It is a book they could choose to read at any moment from any part of the story.

So, words like before or after could not really be ascribed perfectly when dealing with such beings that views times more like a book than it is a straight line.

Mortals could not defy the rules of time and space and because of that their vision and their movement is constrained by it

There is no way but forward. But that is not the case for beings like the Three Fates. Sometimes, the way is on the back. And sometimes, it is far froward.

The Three Fates had rarely look at the creatures whose fate they controlled. But today, they look back at this one particular moment.

Years had already passed and tens of thousands of years had passed or not passed since the Three Fates met with Fir Her Waz.

The reason why there is such a vague statement about time is because the Three Fates real palace lies beyond time and space and as such, they are very unaware of how much time is passing.

Time that passed for them is different for time that passed for mortals.

And so, they had to come here, to this time in particular, to see the change

The three fates could feel the ripples and they see the ripple affecting everything that is related to the End. And there is nothing more important than that.

And he himself could not feel the change or the ripple on the Omniverse right now.

But, precisely because of his connection with the Three Fates, he felt something.

He did not feel it as intensely but he felt it

This feeling is like an instinct.

He felt something had changed, but he doesn’t know what it is.

He only think it for a moment before he pick up the marker again, look back at the white board and begins writing again

The Three Fates are looking and then they sighed.

Certain things changes and there is none that changes the most than what is about to happen to Fir Her Waz right now.

When Fir Her Waz dropped that marker, it halted him to write his thoughts about a new formula.

That formula that he is about to write is the wrong formula.

And that mistake would cost him a lot of time, energy and effort to rectify. Because of this wrong formula he would meet many people, some would hinder him and some would lead him where he needs to go to fulfil his destiny

His destiny is to die, and to die with regret.

But one momentary stop, one distraction and then his thought changes.

And the moment that thought changes, it was like a stone is being thrown into an undisturbed still lake water

The stone is the thought, the water is destiny of the present. And once this stone is thrown, it creates ripple. And this ripple echoes throughout time and reach the future

With one thought, the present changes and once the present changes, the future also change.

Fate is not easily changed.

And many moments had conspired together to put Fir Her Waz on that position, on that time, to write that formula and to start his journey of meeting countless people

But now, because of this changes, the people he is supposed to meets....he would no longer need to meet and would not meet.

Even fate and destiny has a limit on how much they could force things.

And those people, those beings that he should have met and talk, and create connections and cause and effect....those people fate and destiny also changes.

Ripples that seems small somehow created a ripple so strong it is about to create a tsunami. And one could imagine the countless cause and effect that is severed with only one thought changing.

And now, tens of thousands fate and destiny is being changed.

The Three Fates saw this moment and for the first time in a long time....the Three Fates become pale in the face because of fear

In that moment where the marker fall down and the few second before he pick up the marker, he has a different thought

And that thought erase the thoughts about the formula that he had just written

You know like you are doing a mathematical problem and you already mapped it out all in your head. You believe this equation could help you solve the question and you mapped it out and you wated to write it down

You write it down so you could see it, concretely. And then if someone at that time appears in the room and shock you, those thoughts disappear or change

One moment and one thought and it could lead to the loss of an idea

But it also could be a happy accident.

Sometimes, you need a break. And in that one break, you suddenly notices something young didn’t notice before

And suddenly you got an answer to your question

A real answer with a real effect

Not all accidents are bad. Not all interruptions are unwise.

This is what happen to Fir Her Waz right now

And now that he pick up the marker again and look at the equation and formula on the white board, suddenly, Fir Her Waz tilted his head to the right and then to the left, like he was examining the formula

And then he notices something.

A mistake in the earlier formula matrix calculation

The time space equation was right but it did not take the spatial dislocation seriously.

When Fir Her Waz think again, he should have noticed this mistake before

The spatial dislocation frequency. If he wants any chance of finding the All Source, one of the most important thing is to seek out the frequency at which it vibrates.

At least, if a trace could be found, one could find a way to seek it. If not, he would be misled.

Fir Her Waz look at the calculation and smiles bitterly

”Ah. I nearly make a mistake. If I make this mistake, it would take years....or even decades in searching” he took the duster and erase that formula.

That was a close call.

If he had already finished the formula and try to revise it later, he probably would miss it again if he is stuck in a different formula.

Because if the beginning is wrong, it would be harder to see the mistake later down the road. Because there would even be many more mistake

It might not seem much, but to the Three Fates, the moment they saw this, their eyebrows rises a bit and their forehead creases

”Things change. I never thought it would be like this” And Atropos sighed.

One simple moment, one simple thought....and it changes the trajectory of this mortal life.

The Three Fates had an ambiguous attitude on what is about to transpire.

They know what is about to happen.

And their stance is ambiguous.

Though this could not be blamed on them.

Odin probably is seeking allies for his undertaking, meeting with the Sage Monkey, with an exiled Jotun, and probably many others

But even he would not go to the Fates or the Norns

Because these....beings are different from them and the same with each other

The Three Fates is in a way is the instrument of fates and destiny.

They obey destiny

This is because the three fates are not really mortal.

They are also not like the so called gods of Olympus or Asgardians.

They have more in common with the primordial gods and Etherna than they were with Olympians or the Titans or the Asgardians

These beings were born

They were not born by father or mother

They are born divine, forged by words and ”decree” and ”truths”.

They do not understand mortal feelings and they do not understand the sorrows and joys of mortal beings.

They understand the gods....to a certain degree but not everything.

They could not understand Zeus paranoia of his children or toward his wife, his complex feeling and nature, they could not understand the bitterness of Hera, the anger of Ares, the resentment in Hephaestus, the darkness of Hades, they understand none of it

And they are not angry at them or pleased with them. They are the....observer. and sometimes they do more than just observer.

This is because they are like the administrator of the system.

They see them as a programmer sees or coder sees codes like numbers or function

But as the system is bound by its programming, they the administrator is also bound by the system

They follow destiny and consult with it.

They did not so much determine the life and death of mortals as much as that they follow the flows and ebbs of destiny and fate

Do they support the Destroyer? Or do they support the hopeful future that the Creator envisioned?

No. they do not side with the Destroyer and they did not side with the Creator. They side with destiny

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