This Lich Requests More Remuneration
Chapter 767 - 625: This is a Game of Strategy

Chapter 767: Chapter 625: This is a Game of Strategy

Goddess Tiamat did not expect Amberser to ask about the Goddess of Fate. She pondered for a moment and then replied, "I think the question you are asking is not about the Luck Goddess and Doomed Girl, the Twin Goddesses. You want to know about Their predecessor, the story of the Opportunity Goddess Tika?"

Amberser shook his head and said, "I have heard the story of Her many times. Scholars among mortals say that the Tika Goddess was corroded by the god of corruption and turned into a monster, and was later killed by Serene, splitting into the Luck Goddess and the Doomed Girl, a pair of twin offspring."

"But if the Goddess who controls destiny can be hurt by a thorny rose, then was Tika really destiny itself?"

Diviner Mages are rare, but not one of them has ever given up their quest for the true essence of destiny.

Amberser naturally had heard of the two goddesses, Luck and Misfortune, including their origins and stories.

Legend has it that every influential figure encounters the two goddesses, Luck and Misfortune, at the time of their birth.

The Luck Goddess Temora would take out a Gold Coin bearing her own likeness and play the coin toss game with the Doomed Girl Ben Basa.

If the Doomed Girl could guess the coin’s face correctly, then the newborn would be cursed by her, and if not, would be blessed by the Luck Goddess.

Only a few true Legendary heroes would have the coin stand on its edge during the toss, indicating that neither goddess could intervene in their life, and they could control their own fate.

This story sounds fantastical, but it is precisely because of this widespread tale that all Diviner Mages understand that these two goddesses do not represent true destiny.

Perhaps, they are just a higher level of the Diviner Mage profession.

Beyond Legendary figures come the two goddesses.

But they are definitely not destiny itself.

The way all things in the world operate and the integration of all past and future cannot be simply expressed as luck or misfortune.

For a hard stone, there is no luck or misfortune, but it does not mean that the stone has no destiny of its own.

Heroes are the same, if it were so easy to jump out of the control of destiny, then the concept should not exist in this world, everything should be unclear chaos, and predicting the future should be impossible.

Therefore, the inverse can be deduced.

As long as the accuracy of future predictions has never been broken, it means that incomprehensible destiny must exist, everything that has been written cannot be changed, and there must be boundless power maintaining this rule.

If the Luck Goddess and the Doomed Girl are not destiny itself, then what about Their predecessor?

That Tika Goddess who died eroded by a cursed rose?

This is just too ridiculous, a pitfall that not even a Diviner Mage would fall into. How could the Goddess of Fate possibly wear the embodiment of corruption on her head, and not realize it until purified by Serene?

This story is too silly, more like a little tale concocted by mortals.

For this reason, Amberser specifically consulted with the deities he knew.

The God of Alchemy was too young to know the truth; the Lord of the Dawn was embarrassingly silent, rumored to have been Tika’s lover; Ogma expressed a desire not to answer the question; Yeg stated that He never cared about destiny; the Lord of the Storm seemed to have heard something, but wasn’t familiar... Amberser thought he had a wide network within the circle of deities, yet he found no answer of his own after asking around.

How fitting, how in keeping with the mystique of destiny.

This deepened Amberser’s belief that Tika Goddess was not destiny itself.

Could it be inferred from this that the God of Destiny itself does not exist and is merely an outlet invented by Diviner Mages in their misfortune?

Amberser seriously pondered this question and ultimately dismissed the negative speculation.

The reason was simple: he himself was special.

If every Diviner Mage had a coin tossed at birth, then for old geezers like Mr. Misfortune and Selwyn, it must have been the Doomed Girl who won. After Harvey’s birth, it would have been the Luck Goddess who won.

But what about Amberser?

The answer is, at his birth, the two goddesses did not play the coin-toss game.

Amberser had transmigrated, and he did so bodily.

Initially, Amberser even fantasized that he had been summoned by Aeo himself, that he was a follower of the God above Gods, a true child of fortune.

After a century of transmigration, he had given up on this boring fantasy.

So, apart from Aeo, were there any deities capable of taking someone from another world?

The answer was yes, and many.

With the boundless multitude of planes, even Ogma could not fully comprehend them, so Amberser’s case as a transmigrator was not particularly special until he encountered destiny.

Now, all the Gods had heard of his name.

And yet, to this day, Amberser was still unable to glimpse the true face of destiny.

It was impossible that all of the deities were ignorant of the existence of destiny, even Yeg seemed reluctant to discuss the topic, which made Amberser increasingly feel that something was wrong.

Previously teased by Parurier, Amberser had an inkling that something was amiss. There must be a key to explain all he had been through and to reveal where the Goddess of Fate truly was.

However, not even Tiamat, the Dragon Mother, could provide any substantive information. Was it truly time to have a chat with the Luck and Misfortune goddesses?

As the Archduke of the Devils, Amberser certainly had the privilege to extend an invitation to the two goddesses, but he always felt this was not the correct direction.