Will of chaos-Chapter 1765: Cap 1763: Control obsession
I was flying above the clouds, looking down at Eclipse City. The city was bustling with activity, people were walking, talking, or continuing their tradition of digging for partners. It was as if all the battles I had been through, as well as all the death I had witnessed, had never happened.
"Master, you are an idiot, a big idiot, a big, massive idiot... how could you leave me behind for months!?" (Layla)
"I am a busy God, how could I take you if the idea was to only take Dragons?" (me)
"Then why did you take Samara and Niryna, stupid master!?" (Layla)
"Here we go again..." (me)
For the next hour I listened to Layla's complaints, and then she started telling me all the good things she had done while I was gone. She loves to brag. This Demonic Fairy hadn't changed at all. After talking so much, she got hungry and disappeared into the city looking for sweets.
"She's already gone, you can show up now." (me)
"You noticed me, it seems your senses have also become stronger." (Mother)
Right after Layla left, I turned my eyes to a cloud near where my mother appears, I had felt someone's eyes on me, I just didn't imagine it was hers.
"Is it because of Davoth?" (me)
"Yes, today's argument was useless, you two kept attacking and defending with your words alone, Davoth seemed to understand that this would happen since his expression was a mask that barely showed any emotions." (Mother)
"I can rationally understand his thought process, he put the weight of billions of lives in one hand and more than 100 times the number of lives in the other hand, the answer for him is that simple." (me)
Sigh
"But for me it's not, a massacre will always be a massacre, regardless of the number, if he did this macabre calculation now, he must have done the same thing on other occasions, other people's lives must be nothing more than numbers to him at this moment." (me)
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Davoth's way of thinking was simple in its essence, but the repercussions of such thinking were not, he must have done it more than once and I'm sure of that, it also means that he can do the same thing again.
"Talking about the 'greater good' or about 'today's sacrifices prevented tomorrow's suffering', these ridiculous and weak phrases are just excuses to sit around watching senseless death!" (me)
"The more I listened to him trying to explain himself, trying to make excuses or anything like that, I couldn't help but feel the anger that I had been holding in for days bursting out!" (me)
"Your naivety is beautiful, but don't let your emotions go the wrong way." (Mother)
"We are Gods, but we are not tyrants, how many empires do you think are at war right now?" (Mother)
"See with your own eyes..." (Mother)
Selene puts her hand on my head and her Divinity only touches my mind superficially, she transmits images of a place, a fortress city with an army of a few tens of thousands behind the walls while an army that easily has more than double the numbers marched in an attack, I was seeing this from above possessing a translucent form with her by my side.
"(This war is just another one between the same two nations that have been fighting for over 800 years. The two nations do not lack resources, their populations do not lack jobs or feel hungry. Neither of them will gain anything they need from this war. In fact, neither of the two nations even remember how this dispute began, since the history of that time has also been lost due to constant wars.)" (Mother)
"(Over 800 years, soldiers fought and on several occasions cities were invaded, many innocent people died on both sides. Now the question arises, is there any point in these endless wars?)" (Mother)
"(No, this is insanity, clearly if these two nations united they would be stronger, they don't even remember why they are fighting, so why keep all this going?)" (me)
"(The answer is simple, hatred.)" (Mother)
"(It doesn't matter how the enmity began, many lives were lost, mothers cried over the graves of their children, children were filled with sadness over the disappearance of their parents and friends were filled with indignation when remembering friends they will never see again.)" (Mother)
"(The current of hatred keeps this war going, this dispute that will one day destroy one of the nations or destroy both, a simple emotion that causes thousands of deaths per year in senseless wars.)" (Mother)
Suddenly the vision changed, now I was seeing a luxurious room where a king was crying, emitting murderous intent while planning a war against another nation with his Generals.
"(This man just buried his daughter, she was sick and no one knew, but since she died while visiting another country, it was taken as if she had been murdered, which will now lead to a senseless war, a single life lost will cause tens of thousands of deaths.)" (Mother)
The vision changes once more, this time we are back to normal and she takes her hand off my head, her gaze solemn as she speaks.
"We are Gods my child, but we do not control people, they must make their own decisions while we only extend our hand to guide them." (Mother)
"There are many more cases like this throughout the universe, families falling apart, friends killing each other, epidemics appearing out of nowhere, yet we cannot interfere in everything or we take away the freedom of those around us." (Mother)
"What does all this have to do with Davoth?" (me)
"The lives he wants to save are not only those being controlled by the Ascendants, but also those that will be generated for all the millennia to come. He doesn't want the deaths that have happened so far to be an incentive for more deaths." (Mother)
"Even if he hates the Ascendants, he wants to break the cycle of hatred. The guilt of his choices weighs more heavily on him than he lets on. Were the words of apology and repeated explanations really spoken to you?" (Mother)
"Didn't they seem very convincing and practiced? How many times did he repeat them to himself? How many times did he have to convince himself that he was doing the right thing?" (Mother)
"..." (me)
Sigh
I didn't know what to think anymore, I didn't know who to blame anymore. Every damn thing seemed more complicated than I had initially thought.
I hate the Ascendants, but Orion told me about the Ascendants he was watching, Freya told me about the Ancient Elf Ascendant who never attacked her while receiving her attacks, there was also that shiny thing that looked like an Ascendant that came to find me, I still don't know what it was.
"Okay... I'll try to listen to it tomorrow." (me)
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Pov Elizabeth:
I walked up to him who was standing at the edge of a waterfall where the Spirits were playing.
"How's your face?" (me)
"I'm fine, for someone so angry, your brother's punch was pretty soft." (Davoth)
"He must have been afraid of destroying the Communal Temple or part of the city, which was very possible considering the strength of the two of you." (me)
"To be honest, I expected him to be more patient, even after hours of talking we couldn't even move half a step towards the real subject." (Davoth)
"His anger wasn't entirely directed at you, don't take it personally." (me)
I snap my fingers and blood rises from the ground forming two crystal armchairs where we sit.
"You see, the Ascendants started with only one thing, obsession... they were watching their universe degrade, they didn't have the power to stop it and their Gods were no different, they were too weak and few in number." (Davoth)
"Their obsession led to what they became, they don't just want to be in control of everything, but they also want to thrive, they are scholars who can't accept stagnation, what they want and what they do are contradictory to the point of leading them into a nightmare cycle." (Davoth)
"That doesn't make up for or excuse what they did and still do." (me)
"No, it never will..." (Davoth)
Davoth looks up, the sadness in his voice being the first sincere display of emotion I've seen from him today.
"Am I wrong to keep this plan?" (Davoth)
"Eradicating the Ascendants is surprisingly simple, I've thought about it before, I know two ways to do it, but the end result is only death, there will be nothing after that." (Davoth)
Sigh
"I'm tired Elizabeth..." (Davoth)
"I know..." (me)
The weight of his words carried so much history that he didn't know how to comfort him, nor did he know if what he was doing was right or not, the scale was too big even for him to understand it all.
"How much time do you have to convince him? When will you leave?" (me)
"The plan has already been put into action, we have 2 days, then someone will come to take us there." (Davoth)
"Then let's end this quickly, tomorrow I will try to help you convince Zenos." (me)
The sooner this is all over the better for all of us, but I don't think it will be that simple, I also feel that there is something that Davoth is not telling, we will see how all this will end.
