Lord Shadow

Chapter 1178: Ripple of fate and destiny

right now, at that very moment as he was looking and memorizing, destiny and fate is changing.

A reverberation of such an aberrant and divergent fate and destiny creates a trace.

Destiny, Fate…these two concepts are intangible things. One spoke of it to explain the inevitability of Something. 

But it is there. A particle moves and it did not move or act unless it has already been calculated under the calculation of Fate and Destiny

A cosmic ray from a million of light years away could change the result of an election, cause a plane to plummet from the sky and all of it was calculated and predicted. 

Everything affects everything and Nothing affects Nothing.

Life is chaos and Death is order. 

The moment particles are created, intelligent living beings was created, Fate and Destiny was there

But unlike its other colleague like Creation and Destruction, they have no physical personification. 

They are as invisible, intangible, untouchable and unseen as they were since they were first created. 

But while they could not be seen, intangible, untouchable, unseen, they could be sensed.

Azief fate is a fate of an epic proportion. 

Everything in this wide Omniverse was calculated since the first time it was created. 

And as such, even his fate was calculated. 

And his fate was to end in an event that would wipe out almost all of the Universes except that are those Beyond the Source Wall.

From the moment the Time God reverses Time, Space, Reality and all of the particles in all of the Omniverse to achieve a perfect and total reversal of Time, akin of a True God of Time, the fate and destiny that surrounded Azief become even stronger. 

He is but one of the candidate of the Bringer of Destruction tool. 

But when Jean did what he did, he knowingly strengthens the fate and destiny between Azief and the Destroyer.

He knew it and he did it anyway

The destiny and Fate of what happens in the end is tightly tied to him and to this powerful Supreme Being that have awoken, that does not forget, that preserve their memories of what had happened in the other timeline, they know how the story end. 

To them, all of this has happened before. 

And all of this will happen again

On and on it goes. 

The track of Destiny and Fate keep moving. They held no hope that this time would be different. And unlike the last time they know that the Destroyer would never let such thing happens again.

That loophole is closed. The Destroyer is not some normal Supreme being who could be trapped inside a time loop.

He is the personification of all destruction, tangible or intangible. Time is a concept. But even then it could be destroyed.

Time Loops are ineffective against the Destroyer and the Creator. 

Using it against the Destroyer, would only disintegrate the time loop. Using it against the Creator, he would create a new timeline that would birth an entire new Multiverse. 

So, in the beginning, those who knows how the story end did not fight against it and work with the flow. Odin suggested using the All Source and send it to Earth just like it happens the last time. The other watched and waited, not many of them dares to enter the muddy water.

Because they know how it will go and how it will end.

They have no hope with the gamble that the Time God Jean did no matter how remarkable what he did in the end. 

But the gamble of the Time God Jean, the effort of Loki of Midgard, slowly like the same particles that come from millions of light years away to affect and election and causing a plane to almost crash, it affects destiny and fate.

The reverberation is light at first, a few changes here and there, changes that is easy to rectify, easy to change

It is so light and subtle that everyone would be forgiven to think that it is destiny and fate that is having the upper hand

But this changes stacked. 

One different decision might not matter much in the long way ahead but as one different decision become two different decisions, two different decision become three different decisions, three become four and so on and so forth, the stacked different decision produces different result

And these different choices interact and affect different things than it supposed to and destiny of people changes because of that

This creates more changes and not before long, slowly chaos emerges from the orderly engineering of fate and destiny.

Some people began seeing it. Jade Empire act of sealing the Fire. The Six trials of the Sabers, Odin awakened from his slumber.

Slowly, there are beings up there, in the vast starry skies that began to believe. They believe that the Time God Jean, in that last moment gambled with the fate of the entire existence of everything and that gamble is now slowly paying off 

Things change. It is the eternal truth of the Universe. 

But it is not for destiny and fate. Every change is already predicted so there is no change in the storyline of destiny.

But that unchanged destiny, that immovable fate…change and move. 

All of this come to a head in the Multiversal Convergence or the Time Crisis

When fate and destiny is subverted, when time and space become meaningless, in that moment of Nothingness, of Timelessness, everything is and was possible.

It was like in that in moment everything was in error even existence itself becomes and error. Yewa Hafar and Loki at that time both sense that things had changed

What they failed to notice is how much the ripples of that stirs the waves. To the eyes of Loki, what he did is simply throwing a large stone into a lake creating a large splash.

To the eyes of Yewa Hafar, it is just something that he needed to fix

Both of them did not see he seriousness or the true impact of what happen that day. On a certain degree of change, it is always permissible in the long game of destiny and fate

But what happen in and during and after the Time Crisis is something that had changed the entire storyline

It is not a simple matter of rectifying some details. It not something that could be changed by simply changing course.

It an absolute overhaul of the story. What Loki had managed to do, was to make Destiny change and Fate moves. 

What is thought to be a ripple and a splash in a lake, is actually a ripple that send shockwaves over the sea.

That ripples of fate and destiny echoes and vibrates through the strings that connected everything in this Universe, an Omniversal vibration that could be felt by those who sat at the top of existence. 

Change is and was imminent the moment that Azief made a different choice. 

He chooses to be with Sofia something that he did not before.

In the other timeline all he saw was how he was betrayed. He did not know why she betrayed him

That misunderstanding push him away from her. Because as much as he loves her, there is this distance that they could not bridge because of this misunderstanding.

Azief in that other timeline fears the future because he fears of his own darkness.

What would cause someone who loves him betray him? 

In that timeline, even after seeing how he was betrayed by Sofia, he still loves her but it is because he loves her that he broke up with her and distance himself from her, fearing that such future would come to pass.

It is because of this one simple decision that brought about the other conflict, the other choices that ultimately lead to what happen in the End.

But……this time it did not happen like that. Azief went to the future and just like in the other timeline he saw himself betrayed by Sofia

But Sofia was not the only one. He is stronger in this current timeline than the other deleted timeline.

And because he is stronger, he could see more things and experience more things he could not see before. 

The secrets of the future revealed more to him this time than the last time. 

He saw the whole world fighting him, he saw himself of the future more clearly, saw how cold and heartless he was in the future

And because of that he could understand. He could understand why Sofia betrayed him. There was no fear, but instead he felt relieved.

Relieved because if he were ever to go to such depth of darkness, that the one pulling the trigger to end him, is the one he loves.

And because the feeling is different, then the choices would also be different. When he got back to the present, he made a different choice. A different choice that send ripples through fate and destiny.

Instead of trying to distance himself, trying to break up with Sofia, Azief did the unthinkable. The wrong choice dictated by fate and destiny. 

He proposed to her. 

And chaos began to multiplied from that moment on. 

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A Bit of Info from the Author

The story about the election and the plane crashing is actually from a real story. 

On May 18th, 2003, voters in Belgium went to the polls. In many regions, voting was done on a computer. 

Each voter would insert a magnetic card into the machine and make their selection on screen. Their vote was saved both to the computer and the magnetic card, which they dropped into a box for redundancy.

Late that night, as the votes were being tabulated, one of the election officials detected a problem with the results from Schaerbeek, a municipality in central Brussels.

Maria Vindevogel, a little known candidate with her own party received more votes than was mathematically possible. 

So they took out the magnetic cards and started a recount. 

One by one, they fed each of them through the machines again, and after several hours, the recount was complete. The vote totals for every candidate were exactly the same as before, except for Maria Vindevogel.

In her case, the recounted number of votes was less than the original by 4,096. How had her original tally been inflated by over 4,000 votes?

Computer experts were brought in to run extensive tests on the software. They combed through the code, but could find no bugs. They brought the computer and try to replicate the error but they were not able to replicate it

Everything about the hardware seemed to be in perfect working order. And this left only one possible explanation and it is seriously weird. The clue comes from the excess number of votes Vindevogel received.

4,096.

Computers work using binary, strings of zeros and ones, each corresponding to a power of two.

So somewhere inside the computer tabulating all the votes was a string of bits representing the number of votes Maria received.

It started the day all zeros, and then as each vote for her came in, it would increment by one. Physically, this is done by turning on a transistor for one and turning it off for zero. What’s remarkable about the number 4,096 is that it is exactly a power of two. Two to the power of 12.

That is the 13th bit. So for Maria Vindevogel to receive an extra 4,096 votes, only one thing needed to happen.

The 13th bit had to flip from a zero to a one. But why would that happen? Computers work precisely because bits don’t flip unless we want them to. 

The answer was cosmic rays. The Universe is very hostile to computers, but bits might not be the only thing that cosmic rays from billions of light years away could change of influence. 

In the history of our planet, cosmic rays may have played an even larger role flipping bits, not in electronics, but in the genetic codes of living organisms, providing some of the variation on which natural selection acts.

And that’s it for a bit of info. Check it out. It is very interesting

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