Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 352 - 272: Truth and the Choice of Fate

Fortuna looked at Ananke being pulled out from within her, completely losing her mind, and hysterically shouted, "It’s you! As expected, from the very beginning..."

When she confirmed the other was truly alive, Fortuna completely understood that this was a conspiracy.

What alley?

The other was distorting her memory and personality while setting up the plan.

Constantly hinting and linking the psychological shadow of God and herself in her memory with that bandit in the alley.

Making her resent God and fight against Him in a life-and-death struggle, so she could benefit as a bystander.

What destined enemy?

It’s all the arrangement by this Goddess of Destiny.

Fortuna couldn’t help but say, "Oh God, why didn’t You tell me, then we wouldn’t have to clash our blades, we could join forces to fight against her..."

God chuckled lightly, not answering.

The teased-out Goddess of Destiny, Ananke, spoke in a captivating, sultry voice filled with flattery.

"He is a proud God, too proud to explain or clarify Himself... in the face of your hatred and madness, why bother to explain? Beating you is enough!"

"He only gathers all the Goddesses of Destiny together, just to beat us all!"

She had just finished speaking when her lips curved slightly, looking provocatively at Fortuna:

"Oh Fortuna, I am the Host of [Change] in destiny. When did you get the idea that you had already killed me and obtained my Divine Object?"

"The moment you saw me, you became nothing more than a slave to my fate in the end."

Before this vile and cunning woman could finish boasting, God, holding Fortuna who was dying, reached out His hand.

God ruthlessly grabbed Ananke’s neck,

Both of God’s hands clutched the Goddess of Destiny’s throat, "Had enough of your antics?"

The hands clasped tightly around destiny’s throat.

This woman named Ananke began to fear, a slight cold sweat broke out on her forehead as she thought of how to explain and escape, "God, I... I..."

God’s expression turned cold,

"What a vile nature you have, Goddess of Destiny, Ananke."

"What have you taken the dreams of others and this sisterhood for?"

"I might have ignored this, but you actually plotted against me."

"Finally found you, little thing playing with the fate of mortals in the dark!"

...

...

"What, Fortuna also has a distorted personality?"

Cain, long being distorted by Fortuna, now having multiple names, Abel, or Jesus.

At this moment he couldn’t help showing an incredulous expression.

Cain was completely shocked.

Fortuna, from the very beginning, had unknowingly been plotted against by fate?

So everyone was just a puppet of fate?

You’re all just nesting dolls?

Humanity being controlled by destiny.

Even the Goddess of Destiny being controlled by destiny.

You, Fortuna, have failed this role too much, haven’t you?

The Demon King’s forehead was sweating, his brain racing, "Indeed, indeed, how could Ananke at that time have lost so easily?"

"The other side, after all, possesses the most bizarre power of altering memories."

Even God was killed at first sight, how could Fortuna at the time not have fallen victim?

Now upon careful thought, it was too unreasonable.

Back then, Ananke lost too simply, and having lost her Divine Object, her dying as an ordinary woman was somewhat strange to begin with.

Changed destiny!

Falling victim from the start was the most reasonable explanation.

Cain said, "I roughly guessed, just like Fortuna distorting Sarin, Ananke didn’t dare to overly distort Fortuna’s personality either, for fear the other would discover the plot against her."

"Therefore, she could only gradually imperceptibly influence Fortuna, inhabiting Fortuna secretly without changing her personality!"

The Demon King said, "Then, what was her objective?"

"Isn’t it quite simple?" Cain revealed a meaningful smile, "If you were Ananke, what would you do?"

"As the Goddess of Destiny, you would of course collect all the Destiny Divine Objects."

"But your intermediate Destiny Divine Object was already terrifying, what about the next advanced Destiny Divine Object? It might also kill you at first sight... so she was afraid."

"She chose to hide, to secretly plot against the next Goddess of Destiny."

"Later she waited for the new Goddess of Destiny, and at that time she secretly controlled Fortuna, having the power of [Future] and [Change]. She saw Moira’s true identity through the future."

"Then she altered Fortuna’s memory, making Fortuna unable to see Moira’s true identity from the [Future], creating a misunderstanding where they would kill each other."

As the words fell, the gods nearby suddenly understood.

Indeed.

What destiny’s coincidence is there?

They themselves are destiny!

Such a strange destiny, thinking about it now, it’s naturally the other Goddess of Destiny scheming in secret.

Fortunately, God, in his immense pride, disrupted Ananke’s plan, directly puncturing the misunderstanding, allowing Moira and Fortuna to recognize each other.

This prevented the two from killing each other.

However.

After seeing the plan fail, this Goddess of Destiny started stirring up trouble again.

God’s previous attack was not meant to kill Fortuna, but at the last moment Fortuna was utterly immobilized.

As if by destiny’s arrangement, she was hit at a critical moment and was killed instantly.

"You can tell at a glance, it’s this Goddess of Destiny Ananke causing trouble again, instantly controlling Fortuna."

She wanted to kill Fortuna, forcing Moira to commit suicide to save Fortuna, making her an unthreatening Goddess of Destiny.

She then consecutively eliminated two Goddess of Destiny, collecting the three great Destiny Divine Objects...

"Yes, it’s killing two birds with one stone, using various destiny hints, making God and the alley robbers overlap, allowing Fortuna to collect three destinies, to kill God!"

"Quite the win-win, collecting the three Destiny Divine Objects and the possibility of the explosive Fortuna killing God, even if God isn’t killed, the one dead would be the puppet Fortuna..."

"Damn destiny witch, she sabotaged everyone and even attempted to assassinate God, even if she didn’t succeed, she retreated unscathed."

Cain revealed a slight smile: "Yes, if God hadn’t discovered her, she would have succeeded."

Everyone was extremely apprehensive.

Yes, if God hadn’t discovered this vile and terrifying woman...

What would the world have become?

Even Cain, who hated Fortuna to death, somewhat admired Fortuna as a person.

But the Goddess of Destiny Ananke in front of us is too wicked, unlike Fortuna who worked hard toward destiny, trying to build a perfect textbook utopian world!

The other party is obviously cunning, insidious, malicious, treating everyone as puppets of destiny!

If such a person replaced Fortuna, ruling the entire world...

I’m afraid we all would become slaves of destiny!

The Demon King couldn’t help but say: "Now that Ananke has been captured, why doesn’t she resist? She also possesses three kinds of Destiny Divine Power and is very strong!"

"Hmph!" Cain showed a hint of disdain:

"All destiny witches are bad at fighting, only good at scheming from behind the scenes, playing tricks, I’m afraid her combat strength is not as good as the explosive Fortuna!"

"If she were good at fighting, the moment she was caught, she, mastering the various Divine Powers, would have started fighting already."

...

At this time.

God held Ananke by the neck with one hand, making her face flush red, her breathing rapid, almost unable to speak:

"Heh, you behind-the-scenes manipulative Goddess of Destiny, you break as easily as the other Goddesses of Destiny."

Indeed, even this mastermind cannot escape the iron rules of destiny.

The side effects of the destiny series are very obvious.

Ananke struggled desperately, "Spare... spare me, I am destiny, more suited than Fortuna as the Goddess of three kinds of destiny, I am willing to submit... to God!"

She never expected her true identity would be exposed.

How did God find me?

She considered herself hidden flawlessly!

She had no combat ability, but as a Goddess of Destiny, does she need combat ability?

She toyed with everyone’s destiny, the two sister Goddesses of Destiny, also gradually walking toward tragic destinies under her arrangement.

She even nearly attacked God, leaving him injured now, almost knocking him off the throne.

If it weren’t for God discovering her now...

After God killed Fortuna, she could have reaped immense rewards, seizing the three kinds of destiny, retreat unscathed, and silently schemed again, waiting for the final destiny to come, ready to intercept it....

But now.

Just in time, her hidden true form was caught!

One must know, as the Goddess changing destiny, she resembles the ever-changing Thousand-Change Witch.

She has thousands of identities, making it very hard to capture her if she intends to escape.

Yet, it happened to be the only moment she could be caught:

Fortuna was defeated, powerless before God, while she was hidden on Fortuna’s body now.

God’s expression was like an eternally ancient Divine Spirit, suspended with no joy nor sorrow, and said calmly:

"The internal conflict of the Goddesses of Destiny is something I shouldn’t interfere with, but you shouldn’t have ever provoked me, speak."

"How do you wish to die?"

Ananke shamelessly begged for mercy in an instant, looking at God with pitiful and captivating teary eyes, "I am willing to submit, to be your destiny’s little dog."

Beside her, Fortuna, angered by such a witch, squirmed a bit, but with immense hatred, not willingly, said: "If you kill her, I won’t be your dog, but... I will be your Subordinate God."

The two Goddesses of Destiny held by God’s throat, both awaited God’s final choice.