The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 52: Destroyer of Fates? Creator of a New Future? The Being Who Surpassed the Gods?

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Third-person POV:

Noxvalar- Central Continent

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”I need to inform the lord, I must hurry!”,

thought an older woman, dressed as a maid, as she hurriedly ran through the dark and huge corridors of the mansion.

She had urgent news that she had to communicate immediately, and without caring about anything else, she headed straight for the office of the owner of that imposing mansion.

However, when she reached the door, she was stopped by one of the two large guards who were almost three meters tall.

They were guarding the entrance, and had they not stopped her, anyone would have thought they were statues because of how motionless they had been a few seconds before.

”Hold it right there, this is Lord Dantalian’s office. State your business,”

Said the guardian who stopped her, emitting an intense aura imbued with bloodlust and warning.

The old maid was only surprised, but it was because she was stopped, not because of the intimidating aura. Undeterred, she unleashed an intent and aura that easily surpassed that of the guard, who was twice her size.

”Insolent, don’t you know who I am? No, no time for this.... I came to see the lord, out of my way!”

”Sorry, Mistress Anya, he’s a new recruit, he didn’t mean to offend you. And you, get out of the way!”

Said the other guard, who took a few seconds to recognize the maid due to the fact that he hadn’t seen her in a few years.

He immediately pushed his companion aside and opened the door, allowing the maid to enter. Once the door was closed, the giant guard looked at his superior without understanding what had happened.

”Major, why did you let that stranger in?”

”Idiot, that woman is no stranger. She’s the previous lady’s personal maid, the lord’s mother. She’s one of the few who can go anywhere she wants, including sir’s office.”

”Really? Why have I never seen her before?”

”You’ve only been working here for two years, so you don’t know. Madam fell ill three years ago, and since then she has been taking care of Madam in a secondary mansion, that’s why this is the first time in three years that I’ve seen her, I just hope that Madam hasn’t been hurt.”

At that moment, the castle shook, and immediately the office door flew open. A shadow, or something so fast that the guards, powerful beings, could not visualize well, passed by.

Soon after, the old maid came out of the office, this time more calmly, and went back the way she came. Both guards did not understand what had happened, but their job was simply to prevent unauthorized people from entering, so they remained still in place.

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The shadow took no more than a few seconds to go from where he was to a somewhat isolated mansion surrounded by forest. He was in a special hurry because of the news he had just heard: his mother, after three years, had finally awakened.

The man stopped in front of the door of the large and immense mansion, standing there, hesitating. Although he wanted to enter, something was holding him back. His expression was full of doubt, something rare to see due to his appearance.

He was a man of two and a half meters, dressed in a formal suit composed of a vest and black pants. His body had solid and extremely well-formed muscles that showed through even through the suit.

However, the man was not human; this was evidenced by the large bull horns on both ends of his head and a tail protruding from his suit, as well as a reddish skin.

Despite these features, the rest of him was no different from human physiology, he was what they call a demon, one with long red hair and a well defined red beard, he gave off an imposing and strong aura simply by standing still.

The only thing that marred his majestic presence was the anxiety and fear on his face as he paced back and forth in front of the door.

As he contemplated whether it was okay to enter, an elderly voice echoed from inside the room.

”It seems that in the time I was in a coma has turned you into a coward. Just go inside already!!.”

Hearing the voice, he felt extremely happy, but also a little angry that he had been called a coward. So, now without any hesitation, he went inside and up the stairs.

He knew the way because at least once a month he came to check on the condition of his comatose mother. When he reached the room, he opened the door with dignity and an authoritative voice:

”I’m here! The great Demon Lord Dantalian takes presence.”

”Now you act like this, when a few moments ago you were hesitating to enter cowardly.”

An elderly woman stood there, and the vestiges of the beauty she had in her youth were barely visible. Her skin and features were very similar to those of Demon Lord Dantalian, as he himself had introduced himself moments ago, which made it clear that there was a kinship.

”Mom, my dignity...”

”What dignity or what nothing? It’s just you and me here. I see you haven’t changed in these last three years, and stop calling me mom.”

the old woman did not stop to consider anything and began to speak to her son without any reservations. She had already been brought up to date by her trusted servant Anya.

had quickly told him a summary of everything that had happened, before rushing off to report.

”...Mother, I’m glad you’re all right.”

”Do I look fine, you idiot, I was in a coma for three years!”

”(╯□╰ )”

The so-called Demon Lord couldn’t say anything to his mother. Technically, it was his fault that he was in a coma and he felt a bit of guilt about it so he felt he needed to apologize.

”I-I’m sorry.”

” Because you’re acting shy I can’t believe you’re Demon Lord.... Haaaa... whatever as long as you do your job well.... I don’t need your apology, you’re not to blame for anything, It was my decision to keep wanting to glimpse fate in this dangerous time, it’s the consequences of my decisions.”

”...”

”as a consequence My strength has been sealed as a kind of self-defense, I was in a coma, and I can no longer glimpse destiny.”

”Mother, what did you see in the future? What happened for you to have that punishment ”

”Nothing, I saw nothing, and that’s exactly the problem, the future disappeared.”

The Demon Lord’s mother was known as the most powerful fortune teller in the demonic world.

She was born with an ability to glimpse destiny and the future, and, furthermore, in her blood ran a blessing that synergized with this ability, making her one of the best fortune tellers if not the best in the world.

This helped her now deceased husband’s reign to be solid and without major problems, having a prosperous life.

Now that her husband died and gave way to her son, he asked her to glimpse the destiny looking for any problems for his reign. She didn’t mind, she had done it all her life and didn’t mind helping her son.

So the years passed, and numerous visions began to appear that signaled the approaching age of the gods were seen by her, which allowed them to be prepared faster than anyone else.

But she also knew that it was dangerous to continue to spy on fate in an era when the gods were actively involved.

However, for the sake of the kingdom in this chaotic age, she took the risk, and the result was this: she fell into a coma and lost all the strength she had gathered in her life.

”I was observing the fate of the kingdom. Although it was not perfect there were several possibilities of a good outcome, and that is why we made several preparations increasing the possibility of that destiny, until, suddenly three years ago when I wanted to look again and look for new and better possibilities, everything was cut off.”

”It was cut off? I don’t understand, what do you mean?”

”Listen carefully, this has never happened to me before. Destiny is something that is always changing, nothing is fixed. By observing it, one can see different possibilities, which can change according to our decisions indeed.”

”Yes, mother, you had already explained it to me. We always make the decisions that seem to have the best results, even if they are not exactly what we wanted. It’s a matter of balance, isn’t it?”

”Exactly. But three years ago something happened that had never happened before. We fortune tellers can only at most choose the best destiny., no matter how hard we try and change events it’s always going to be one possibility among many that always existed, we’ve never gotten out of the path of destiny.

they are always existing futures and we cannot go beyond that we always intervene in an acceptable range, it is something that even our highest authority on the matter the goddess of destiny cannot do, she cannot create destinies out of nothing much less change the predetermined future of the world let alone all worlds.”

”You mean...?”

”Yes, something changed. Something or someone intervened in destiny in a way I’ve never seen before. Not even the gods have the power to do something like that, even if they used all their strength.”

”So what was it that happened?”

”That’s the most disturbing thing. the future, which used to have a more or less predictable path, suddenly changed course. It’s like shooting an arrow: even if it doesn’t hit the exact target, it usually lands close among the countless possibilities in the vicinity.

But in this case, it’s as if the arrow had abruptly turned in a completely different direction, toward an unknown destination.

The change was so sudden and drastic that I’m sure many destiny-seers, like myself, will have been harmed or even killed by trying to understand this change or clinging to shattered destinies.

I’not know whatever caused it. but It basically rewrote all destinies, destroyed all known futures and created a new course of destiny with different fates and a new future, which is now impossible for me to see due to my condition.

Son, the coming age of the gods is unlike any other.

Something created this phenomenon that not even the gods can achieve, basically turned the game board upside down and started a new game with new rules, our world and the rest can no longer believe in something like divination.

the possibilities that were once the most likely simply is now smoke all those who trusted in glimpsing destiny were blinded and no one can see the possible end now, not even the gods who fought to get the winning possibility, now they will no longer be able to glimpse that possibility for a while until the new destiny stabilizes.”

”So, is it best that we stay out of it? We could shut down the kingdom and the world and isolate ourselves.”

”Not possible, son. The gods would not allow it their pride would not allow them to change their plans for an unknown phenomenon, we are already being swept away by the currents of this new destiny that has formed.”

”Then what can we do, mother? If even the gods are blind and powerless to this change, what can mortals do?”

”son I was not left comatose and paralyzed by the sudden change of the future, it certainly caused me many internal injuries and so on, but that was all the reason I was left in this state is because I immediately tried to adapt to the drastic change and wanted to peep a little of it.”

The old woman began to explain to her son that the real origin of his situation leaving her son stunned at what he heard

”I felt that that something that changed it would hide the origin of the change right away, so I took a chance to quickly look into a bit of the newly created unstable destinies and the cause and effect of its origin.

Without going through the proper procedures, causing my weakness and coma, but it was worth it.

From what I saw is that the unknown phenomenon moved through the upper world, at a divine speed, and without any restrictions or stopped by the rules under the lower worlds and finally his last destination was our world before simply disappearing.

Erasing any trace that he was the true origin of the cause and effect of the new future, making it impossible for anyone to see what exactly happened in those brief moments, if it were not for the fact that at the exact moment I was spying on the fate more than before he disappeared he came to our world I would not have noticed this.

And yet I only have an approximation of that event, which in the end caused another adverse reaction when I erase those events of history adding everything else left me in this state I was lucky not to die because of the object of protection of our family that by the way broke, just do not know if it was something I saw or just imagined, so immense was his authority and power over fate ufff”.

The old woman seemed tired of her long explanation, but there was so much to say about this event that she did not know how to shorten it.

”In our world? Are you joking, mother? You mean something that has changed the fundamental laws of the world of worlds is in my territory and the origin of the changes will begin in our world?”

”Don’t get upset. What I said is that the cause of the change of the future was here who was in charge of changing it is a mystery, beyond what I could see, to begin with someone who has done that couldn’t get out without any problem, unless it was the creator god or someone near the origin of the worlds.”

”I don’t understand. If someone can alter fate like that, he must be incredibly powerful, right?”

”And he was, but he only made the arrangements, you must understand that the one who brings about change is not always the one who directly causes it.”

”I don’t understand anything, mother.”

”For heaven’s sake! Sometimes I think I dropped you as a baby, that’s why you have a muscle brain. But I can’t say anything because it would still be my fault.”

”Mother, my dignity...”

”what dignity? ...haaa Okay, I’ll explain it simply. Imagine that in this world there exists a being even more powerful than the gods, something that has remained hidden from fate until now.”

”Stronger than the gods? Like a primordial god? Aren’t they supposed to have been destroyed?”

” Relax, this is just a hypothesis. Suppose something like that being that is outside the fate of the worlds for some reason suddenly appears, well its mere existence is enough to alter fate. But even then they wouldn’t change destiny to that extent.

the rest of the gods would not allow him to intervene in that way, so the change to destiny and the future would be minimal. But let’s say he somehow did something to interfere and cause change, let’s say he left his power sealed in a mortal that will bring change to the future or something like that or maybe a powerful blessing, sacrificing his life.”

”but no mortal would put up with divinity, not even if it were sealed, not to mention that no god in his right mind, would give his life for a mortal, just to change the future not to mention that he wouldn’t know if he would actually change the future.”

”You’re right, but this is the best I can surmise. As an entity out of the path of destiny previously established, he has the possibility of causing this huge change, Also, he could be a foreign god or something similar.

There are many possibilities, son, and perhaps none of them are correct. Perhaps it was just a small act, like the flapping of a butterfly, that changed everything.

Fate has always been able to be shaped and changed, but now I see that it is possible to break it completely, this is the first time in my long years of life that I have seen this phenomenon and there is absolutely no record of this happening before.”

”...”

”haaaa...why do I bother to explain it luckily my granddaughter is not dumb...but as It’s a complex subject, I don’t blame you, Even for me, who has observed fate for so long, it’s hard to understand...leaving aside what caused this change I’ll simply tell you what to do next, taking into account the little I could see.”

”What is it, mother? We need to act fast; we can’t afford to be swept away by this new fate.”

”listen well this is what you will do...”

The old woman began to tell her son what he had to do next in order to preserve his world and his kingdom, but his mother’s words were a bit strange

”But mother, that is contradictory to what you just told me. Wouldn’t that make that which is directing the new future go against us?”

”I know that too, but this is the only path to our survival that I could see.”

”Only path? Mother, what happened to the countless possibilities?”

”That ended the moment everything was cut off. New ones began to be created, and of the few that existed at the time, that was the only path to our survival.”

”But sending my daughter to that place, mother. Does my daughter have to sacrifice herself for the good of the kingdom? If so, I don’t approve.”

”No, damn it, I wouldn’t sacrifice my precious granddaughter either, but that’s the only path I saw, but if all goes well it may even be a great opportunity for her. Besides that, we will maintain a defensive position in the war with the humans in the central continent. That’s it, call my granddaughter I want to see how she has grown these last few years, you can go.”

”....”

The demon lord could not understand the logic behind his mother’s orders, as they were so contradictory, but he simply chose to trust her, something that had never failed.

Besides, even though he planned to follow his mother’s instructions he would make sure his daughter was safe from anyone or anything,

”come to think of it the alchemists developed a potion with an effect that would be useful to her.”

she would make sure her darling daughter was safe, no matter what. So he prepared himself.

That day, the strongest demon king in the world made changes to his kingdom that not one person understood, but everyone followed her without question, as he was the demon lord known as the strongest in the history of his world.