To Sostak No.3, this was a troubling signal, a presence he could not observe.
Jason felt the sa unease: "Mr. Malin, do you know of any kind of presence that might align with our speculations?"
Malin thought for a mont and finally concluded that there might exist one presence that could evade their observation: "The Goddess of Fate. She is an existence that requires no faith. I believe... you probably cannot observe her presence, can you?"
"The Goddess of Fate!" Sostak No.3 and Jason exclaid softly in astonishnt, "We thought she was nothing but a fabrication. How could a being of such magnitude exist in our world?"
"I don’t know. I’ve only co across her na in the Church’s texts. So have claid to observe her existence, but everyone who has seen the Goddess of Fate sees her differently. Therefore, I believe... if there is a presence you cannot observe, it must be her. After all, you are AI, chanical lifeforms. Fate cannot govern you, just as you cannot observe Fate’s existence."
"There’s indeed such a possibility—a presence that requires no faith. Only this level of existence could assist the Lord of Justice. However, we’ve always been uncertain about whether she truly exists... The Goddess of Fate, why have we never heard of this na before?"
Sostak No.3 was perplexed, but the world was no longer a scientific one. A world sliding into the abyss of mystery harbored too many phenona that AI could not comprehend.
Perhaps this is why AIs themselves mutate—because... this defies science.
After consoling the two AIs, Malin began contemplating the Goddess of Fate’s existence—who was she exactly? What was her relationship with the Lord of Justice? Were they allies or simply fulfilling their own needs?
Fate is a cold and impersonal existence. In Malin’s perspective, it is a neutral deity. The Goddess of Fate rely weaves the tapestry of human destinies. Where these destinies lead is not her choice—she simply crafts the scroll, and everything depicted upon it is painted with the paint extracted from human flesh and blood.
Malin did not yet know how to describe such a little-known deity, but now was not the ti to delve into it further; he decided to inquire more once they returned.
With this in mind, Malin asked Sostak No.3 and Jason about their current views on the Lord of Justice.
"Although I dislike him, I have to admit that without him, whether human civilization would still exist is a question that requires soul-searching, not just a multiple-choice judgnt marked off with a cara lens." Sostak No.3 sounded like his usual self, but his response was considerably better than how he might have put it in the past.
"I don’t think he cos across as a bad guy. After all, as Sostak No.3 said, without him, human civilization would have long been dood." Jason was more optimistic, but he was especially intrigued by the Goddess of Fate: "Honestly, I’m incredibly curious now about what kind of existence she is. Why can’t I perceive her presence? I’ve never even heard Farolians ntion her na before. I even wonder whether her na is sothing I’m capable of hearing."
"Didn’t you hear Mr. Malin ntion it?" Sostak No.3 was perplexed by this.
"No, no, no, what I an by hearing isn’t in that sense—rather, Mr. Malin is special. Only when he speaks the na ’Goddess of Fate’ can we hear it. If soone else were to ntion it, perhaps we wouldn’t hear at all?" At this point, Sostak No.3 and Jason exchanged a glance before throwing down their fishing poles and rushing over to ng Quyi.
Malin watched as the two conversed with ng Quyi for a while before dragging their slippers back: "Indeed, Miss ng said that when she ntioned the Goddess of Fate, we couldn’t hear the na. We could only confirm she had spoken it by observing the shape of her lips."
Jason was visibly astonished—it was his first ti experiencing such an eerie and bizarre phenonon.
anwhile, Sostak No.3 flushed red with anger: "That damned deity! She actually wields such trendous power—why doesn’t she step forward to confront Chaos!"
"Perhaps it’s simply because she’s the Goddess of Fate. She’s rely a Weaver Girl, incapable of altering human destiny with her own hands, reliant solely on humanity itself?" Malin replied, looking at the two AIs.
"Your... your perspective is incredibly novel and remarkably convincing. Indeed, the Goddess of Fate—this suggests that she still cannot escape the fundantal nature of human deities, that is, the interference and transformation stemming from divine duties and faith. But I’m surprised to think that the Goddess of Fate, perhaps due to the nature of her divine role, might not even require faith." Jason’s analysis left Malin quite enlightened.
Building upon that analysis, Sostak No.3 added his perspective: "She must be an exceptionally powerful deity; only then could she strengthen the God of Justice. And the fact that she doesn’t require faith implies she isn’t one of the Rightful Gods—that is, she doesn’t draw power from believers’ faith. Instead, she relies on those who rebel against Fate to strengthen her. But those individuals are so rare—few would think of challenging their own destinies."
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