Chapter 2035: The Plans of the Gods
He looks at the trees. Any common being that stumble into this garden and see this tree might not see anything other than a tree.
But Loki could see the Universe.
"I hope you all rest in peace. Your world is already unstable and the ripples only brought what you should face quicker"
He looks at the saw. The rust is still there. But he is quite sure after he is sawing a few tree, the rust would fall off
And so, he saw the tree and cut it off determinedly.
There are screams, there is cursing but he keeps sawing it
He made sure the saw cut straight. And the he took a pail of water, and he washes away the dust and with it the rifts of time and space.
"Hmm....the water from the River of time And Space is about to be exhausted. I need to go to the river to refill it later" he reminded himself.
However, he did not immediately go. He did the same process to all the trees that are affected.
"Wargod spoke some taboo things. If anyone else dares say such a thing, they would have been cursed by the cause and effect and would have been crushed by the Will of the Omniverse"
But then Loki chuckles
"But the laws and rules of everything, isn’t it on Wargod side? He mutters words that no other beings would understand.
Loki sighed as he cut the last tree that was affected.
There were many trees that was affected.
But some are in urgent need and some are not. Those with urgent needs had to be cut off. If it could be reattached, Loki would attack it. If it could not then that is just fate and destiny.
Wargod has many curses and many restriction.
But these restriction is also his talisman from death.
He is out of cause and effect.
Not because he is free of it but because he was exiled from it.
He chose this exile. Luck and fortune had nothing to do with him, fate and destiny would not move an inch because of it.
But he must have realized it the last time. When it involves the Child of the End, there is cause and effect that could be traced, when it is involves the Child of the End, fate and destiny...would move
Wargod realizes it at that time, but he realizes it too late and when he understood it, all the chess pieces are in place, and not one move could be given.
It was checkmate.
Wargod did not intend to meddle and just watch because he thought no matter what he does, it would not affect the cause and effect and all of his moves would be rendered useless.
But when he realizes it, all the move shad bene done, and there was only one move left.
Wargod must have seen that one last move.
But he probably also knows ....at that point of time, if he makes a move, even if he were the one that put a chess piece on that chessboard to make that one last move....he would not win.
Whether he put the pieces or not, the conclusion would be the same.
So, he did not put anything.
He accepted it.
He might have felt bitter, he might have felt unresigned, but he might have also felt relief. Maybe....his existence would also end.
Alone....truly alone in the Omniverse for eons. Who could understand his loneliness and who could understand his secret sorrows?
But....that last move, that last chess piece....was Jean. One move to rearrange back the chessboard.
Turning everything back to how it was.
With a new chess piece.
No....not a new chess piece.
An old chess piece from a deleted timeline. Flapping its wings on the chessboard, creating storms here and there until it turns into an unstoppable typhoons.
In this timeline, Wargod....he knows that his action has effects. He watches and he had hoped.
And his hope become brighter.
Because that old chess piece is making a storm everywhere in the chessboard and so he enters the game
Once he enters the game, a dead move that was constrained had open up a new path. Enter the game....change the ending.
However, this is not yet the end.
Until, the end, who knows who is really winning and who is losing. Until the last move is completed, all they could do is tip the scale towards them.
This time, Wargod is betting.
Odin is also betting.
And who knows how much more are betting. All watching from their divine seats, wanting to, fearing to, ....and Loki could only sigh and shakes his head.
"But Wargod actions creates a ripple and I am the one who had to clean the mess" he could not help but feel a little bit resentful.
The trees are cut off, the rifts have been cleaned. But the trees are not the only things that are affected
The ripple topples weak trees. But some tree trunks are stronger than others. It did not topple the trees, but it did affect the fruits, the leaves
"I was already planning to prune some of the fruits today. But Wargod, Odin and that monkey has added my work"
With one glance he could see there is more rotten fruit than yesterday. Or was it ten thousand years ago?
Hmm, there is too many trees after all. He cut one today and another one would grow tomorrow. Some produces irregular branches. Sometimes Loki would just let that branches to grow
Sometimes, even from such an irregular branch something beautiful might sprout. So, sometimes, he just lets fate and destiny take over in such cases.
Other time when he is not in a good mood or when he felt that certain branches is just weakening and harming the tree, he had to cut it off.
Those branches he cut off, he either burns in that hearth inside that white house or he throws it in the River.
Sometimes, he would let the birds in the garden to pick at it.
The branches of the trees sin this garden in not normal branches. It has the essence of a world inside it and the birds in the garden like to peck at it and suck up its juice
"Haish" he sighed.
He wipes the sweat on his forehead.
Loki is a deity.
A Jotun with a mix of Aesir divine essence.
He should not have sweated. But this place....this place that he is in, not any gods dare to step inside this garden
Loki of Asgard is about to prune some fruits. Bad fruits.
Rotten fruits. Fruits with holes.
Fruits that emanated foul odour.
Fruits that is full of holes.
Last time he had already pruned a lot. Some of it is empty fruit. Created because of that Multiversal Convergence.
And since that matter, he had to prune even a lot of these fruits.
And now there is this ripple
"It would take ten thousand years for me to sort out only this northern part of the garden" he mutters to himself before he sighed
"More work and more work. Even last time, there is not this much disturbance" yet even though he is sighing, there is a smile on his face
A sincere smile. Some people wanted it to End, but Loki did not want it to End. Certain things should End, and certain things should begin
Odin his sworn brother action to bet, isn’t that because he is tired of Ragnarök. Those Olympians, they also wanted to write a new fate.
They also wanted to make mistake. Even if it’s not the most optimal choice, at least it would be their choice.
So, Loki the Gardener smiles.
Then he walks around the garden while his eyes are looking at the trees and the fruits hanging from its branches
Sometimes, he would look at a fruit and ponder whether this fruit could still be saved or could not be saved.
If he believes it could be saved, he would delay cutting it, if he believes it could not be saved, he would cut the branch
Some he would put in his basket, trying to revive it when he goes back to the shed. Some he would just throw to the river in the distance, hoping that the river would wash away the stink.
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Pandemonium
The Omniverse is in chaos, time and space is being disturbed, the Untainted Land is full of intrigues and plots, the creatures of the world could not escape the Great Chaos that is coming
In Pandemonium, its own version of chaos is going
Above the caves where the was the souls of people that have died. Above the mines, where there is a plan
On the surface, there is a war going on.
Deaths are piling up; Wang Jian ordered a charge with him leading the formation. Sasha is leading her men to fight, wearing a silver nano armour.
Their armies and their troops are all ready to fight. In the skies, there is Battlestar brought from the region of their kings
The Southern, Northern and Western regimes all flows the three great generals of Pandemonium while the eastern regime is divided. Some give their support to the three uncrowned kings and some give their support to the central government
Beast and monster that could be used are all brought to the battlefield, warriors of Pandemonium are also brought up and they fight in the battlefield a hundred miles away from the capital city.
Encircling the capital, fighting the forces of the capital!
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