Lord Shadow

Chapter 1684: Butterfly Wings ”How about Hades?” he thought to himself

He was always mysterious and unsatisfied with the current status quo.

He might like his domain of the dead but he does not like that every few ten thousand years, he had to play the same drama, play the same fate and destiny, and reincarnate anew.

He might be daring enough.

Or maybe because he is in control of the domain of death, he no longer fears it as much.

And then there is Hera. ”The Gardener and Hera has some kind of connection. And the Gardener disciple is the Trickster. Ther is always a possibility that Hera and Loki of Asgard would still be in contact with each other”

But then Yewa Hafar shakes his head.

Loki of Midgard might not know the content of the promise between The One and Only and the Destroyer, but Loki of Asgard as the Gardener of the Garden, how could he not know.

Even when Asgard falls and Ragnarök rears its ugly head, he plays his part.

He plays his role and is renewed again after the destruction.

He would not change what is decreed.

Even if he did, he would not be blatant about it.

Ares? ”Bumbling idiot, prone to madness” ”Athena? That scheming sly crone” but Yewa Hafar shakes his head. ”Athena does not remember” ”Zeus...No, he erased his own memories of the timeline. He probably wanted to avoid cause and effect” But he paused for a second ”Or maybe, Zeus wanted himself to find a new path that he did not find before?”

Yewa Hafar mind right now is active.

He is eliminating in his mind possible people and adding names and details in his mind about all kinds of variables that might pop up. ”And then there is the House of Gan” Yewa Hafar did notice it. The aura of an Etherna. The resonance of the Etherna thrummed in his soul

Yewa Hafar is not an Etherna. But he is reinforced by Etherna magic. The primordial magic.

The method that Azief uses to breakthrough, provoking the Will of the Universe, the Will of the Omniverse was shaken and the tribulation thunder that seems to exceed all expectation. All of it pointed toward the legacy of the Etherna. Particularly the House of Gan

And Wargod is also looking on Earth. Yewa Hafar could not see Wargod or sense his interference but His Lord inform him through Dreams ”The imprint of the Etherna is all over the Omniverse” ”Borgan power become the source of the ability to see through past, present and future” ”Asargan become the source of speed for the Saviʼkrian race and powers all of Speedster in the Omniverse.

All of these powerhouses began to look toward Earth.

What are they planning?

Whatever they are planning, it is unlikely to benefit His Lord.

After all, mortals seek a way to live, seek life.

And they revere life.

And fear death.

Hated death. It is understandable.

The idea that you would no longer exist is a terrifying thought to some

But there must be a balance.

Between creation and destruction.

Because that is how it is decreed.

A system of its own, of creation and destruction.

Since He decided it to be this duality of life and death, this contradictory yet complementary concepts that could be seen in every façade of life, so it will be ʼLife and death is the different faces on a coin”

He sighed, his sigh is long and he closes his eyes as he shake his head ”What should I do with you?” he thought to himself.

He look at the sky, dark and foreboding.

But even among the darkness, even though the clouds tries to shut out the moonlight, one sliver of moonlight still escapes ”It is the one that escape. That slim chance of life. That slim chance of survival. Mortals called it luck. I called it fate and destiny. But isnʼt it because That One is All merciful?” he sighed again ”You pity these mortals. You pity those beings. But what about My Lord? Did He not suffer? Did You not promise Him? Didnʼt He suffer enough?”

Yewa Hafar seems to be asking someone this question. But who did he ask? And what does he expect as an answer.

The world answers.

The wind blows, and it blows his hair.

To any other being, this is just a caress of the wind. But to Yewa Hafar this is a sign.

And this is His way of communicating. Look at the Sun, look at the Moon, look at the flowers, look at the grass.

Feel Him in the elements, sees Him in Creation and Destruction. He is present in Time,

Destiny, Fate in all of this and more

There is Him everywhere.

Most people could not see it.

Could not see Him amidst all of Him.

Because what is blind is not their eyes but their hearts.

Yewa Hafar could see it.

And he could feel it.

His presence.

He is always there.

He just doesnʼt make himself known.

Or maybe He did.

But no one could see it.

Because they are blind in their hearts.

He did not go up into your face and speak to you. When he speaks to you, He speaks in His own way.

In calamity and in good fortune, He speaks to you.

Yewa Hafar is not a mortal. But he is a living being. And because he is a living being,. He too could sense Him.

And Yewa Hafar sighed. ”Iʼm really tired. He is a part of You. He is someone You have promised. It is time.....to fulfil it.

You love them all? Donʼt you love me? What about my Lord? All of these years......it should be enough, shouldnʼt it?”

Yewa Hafar is not human. But he is still a living being with limits.

He could get tired.

He could get exhausted.

Things should have been smooth sailing.

After all, the last time, it was very easy.

If that one did not allow things to change, how could things have changed?

But more and more wrenches is thrown into his perfect plans. He had to adjust and calibrate all the fate and destiny at play.

He could not do it like Loki where he could flip the chessboard and still could play.

Because from the beginning Loki wanted the chessboard to be flipped.

Playing chess with someone like that is always unnerving.

Because he relies on the chess pieces on the right position at the right time so that when it is time for this chess game to reach its conclusion, it would get the same conclusion the last time

However, if Loki is not stratified on how the chess pieces is arranged, his last resort is simply to flip over the chessboard.

This is playing chess with a crazy person. And in any situation, fighting a crazy person is always undesirables.

But, more and more chess pieces began to move.

And they move erratically. Loki could change all of this just by flipping the board. if he thinks the moves is too disadvantageous for him, he could abandon all of his chess pieces, flip the board, laugh and start again

Because all he need to do is to mess it up and even though the subsequent path is cut off, Loki still would fulfill his objective which is to change the future.

To him, any new future is better than the future that he have experienced. As long as there is life, there is hope.

So, if push comes to shove Loki could easily flip the chessboard.

Right now, Loki is still playing by the rules.

He accumulate chess pieces, laying out the plans, putting chess pieces down, throwing a few of them away, storing some of them for later use.

But..... if he finds that the plan he made would jeopardize the big layout he had planned, then Yewa Hafar believe that Loki would just flip the chessboard and damn it all

That is the difference between him and Yewa Hafar. Yewa Hafar had to play ”ON” the chessboard

Loki doesnʼt have to.

Yewa Hafar could not flip the board when he is angry and feel things did not go his way. The only thing he could do is changing a few things like the lines on the chessboard.

On the chessboard of the Etherna, the lines on the chessboards is not borders of where chess pieces should be.

Those lines are times. Timelines.

The chess game of Etherna has always uses fate and destiny, uses the heaven and earth and all the living beings as chess pieces

But that is the only thing he could do right now.

Even as the variables are increasing and more and more event is going out from its projected path

So, he feel helpless.

He feels that more and more variables is popping off.

He could already feel that certain events that should happen in the future is morphing itself.

The future is in a state of flux.

But it is not always like this.

When Yewa Hafar first return back to this earth, when he realizes what Loki was doing, he was still calm.

Because he could feel that the future is still there. It is solid.

Like a sturdy wall that is impenetrable.

But a butterfly wing create a storm and that storm tore down this wall.

And now, more and more storms batters this wall and the future is no longer so solid. >>