Novel Full Chapter 1931: Right and Wrong
Chapter 1931: Right and Wrong
“Can you practice in these fragment of time?”
Odin look at Azief and he laughed. He could guess what Azief wanted to do. But he shook his head
“Sometimes, enlightenment is more important than time you used to practice. Some level can be beaten down with time. But some are more complicated. It requires understanding. Of the world around you, and of yourself. And sometimes, only when you understand yourself, you would understand the world. And it is because of this, those who understand themselves…and the world…is always benevolent and good”
Azief hearing this snickered
“There is so many people who think they understand themselves and the world, but treated the world and the people with evil”
“hence, mortal” Odin answered
“But you are not really mortal anymore”
Azief look at Odin and look at him weirdly
“But in your eyes I am still mortal” Odin nodded
“One more step. One…last step. And you would shed your mortal body and soul. At that time….you would understand certain things”
Azief thought for a moment and then ask
“Then I became benevolent and good?” there is a bit of sarcasm in that question of his. Odin understood it
“Sometimes, even beings that is above mortals is forced by the circumstances. At that time, they might choose to do things…..that are not so benevolent and good”
“If the greed is there, that greed would just be magnified more. If there is good, then that good would also be magnified. Either you control your desire or your desire controls you. And when you holds power that is divorced from mortal restriction, the only guard for your desire…is yourself.”
There is a silence between them for a few second and Azief could guess even more why Odin did all of this
“You want me…..to understand. Understand myself. My heart. My flaws. My virtues. My good….and my evil”
Odin smiles and nodded
“How was it then?” he ask again
And Azief laughed
“It is not that good”
“Too much evil?”
Azief thought for a moment and he thought of all the killings he had done.
“too much blood”
Odin knew what Azief was thinking. He was narrating the stories. Even the one with no narration has him looking over Azief. After all, without him, the stories would break down
“The killing in that parallel Earth?”
Azief nodded.
That was the place where his killing intent condensed and he was so powerful and so unrestrained that nothing could stop him
Of course, he did not kill all of human race. He exaggerated his kills so that humanity itself would fear him
But he did kill a lot. And when he look at that event once again, he wonders, whether there is a better way for him to do that
“You feel guilty”
Azief nodded
There is no reason to hide it
“Did you not forget how many people you save?”
“Merit did not erase demerit”
Odin shakes his head
“In a world full of evil, tolerance is the most evil of them all. When they are forced to make the tough choices, it is those who held back and did not protect the light that should be vilified”
“You think what I did was right?”
“That world was heading to its own destruction. You came like the Great Flood and changes the future of that world”
Odin could see that this is a demon in the heart of this child and he smiles and then he continue saying
“There is many common sense. And in different world, different common sense would develop. But there is one theme that is common in all of the Omniverse. When life exist, to take it away and to humiliate it…that is never a good deed”
Odin understand why life is sacred and why killing is considered an evil
But Azief did not. Not in his level.
Earth beings knows killing is wrong. And this has been said thousands of times by sages and prophets.
By intellectuals and wise man
They have different reason for saying why killing is bad and why life is sacred
But those who reach that conclusion, knows it in their heart that killing people is evil and nurturing life is a virtue.
Like it is hardcoded in their beings.
The One And Only love things that are good. Every living beings in the Omniverse make their own choices and those who do good would be loved.
Odin did not want to tell Azief why. Because the answer to this question should be found by oneself.
Certain answer would lose its power to one won understanding if it’s not discovered by oneself
But Odin could help him a bit and persuade him a little
“The slavery of the Evolver people in that world has reached to a point where the other side had already wanted to genocide the entire race. Any race that wanted to wipe another one and uses such perverted reason, has lost all of its humanity”
“Then it becomes a fight for survival. You chose your side. You choose the side of life”
“But I also condemn the good among the evil side”
“Did you?”
Odin ask with a smile and Azief frowned
“What do you mean?”
“In that world, how many of them would hold the banner of mercy, of reason, of compassion, of love”
“Do you see their race protesting against the evil of their own kind?” Odin paused for a second
“A person could not change the world. The world does not refer to the world itself but the people living in that world. The psyche, the soul. Corrupted people would corrupt the world. And if good men doesn’t stand up, then good is defeated. When it reached a point where corruption filled the world, the only way to rid out of this corruption is to cleanse it”
“Even a farmer understood this logic. When there is a pest that corrupt and destroy the farm, you cleanse it. To save the farm, sometimes, you have to rid out the plants in the farm”
For a moment there is silence between them
“I know that world you are in. Not because I’ve been there long. Not because I’ve observed them for long. But because this kind of story played out on many worlds, in many planets, in many star systems. And each time, it is wrong”
“In that world you have been to was there good people among the bad? There is. But the general trend is hard to defeat. Killing an entire race between idiot beings are common. But a thinking being that have reached the point of such modernity, that have been enlightened, that have been given wisdom, warning, reminder should not choose to do such a thing. It is about right and wrong. It is about one own soul. The righteous soul all howls in anger, wishing the world would be corrected”
Odin continue
“And then you gave them a choice. They squandered that choice. Time and time again, they show their desire to never back down from their wrong decision. So, you wipe all of their backbones, intimidated the world and bring a new world order in just a short manner. You kill all around the world so that the whole world was subdued by your force”
“That was the most efficient choice. You know you should not be there for long but since you decided to help and since you could not stand the other side, you know you have to shock them with your power”
“Because the only thing that the other side understand is force. Because that is how they killed children, women, old people and innocent people. With force. And you act as divine retribution for their tens of thousands of years of slavery.”
“tell me, if you did not did what you did, show the humans there that the Evolver could fight back and force them into submission with your force, could they accept to be equal with a race that has been their slave for tens of thousands of years?
“They are all born in sins and admonition, warning, reminder from the past, from wise sages, educated men and women all fall into deaf ears. The order of that world was always cruel and evil. And you break that world rule and order. It’s only with destruction could there be a new construction”
“And then, it was the Evolver that have the upper hands. And you also gave them a choice” Odin smiles
Because he knows what happens after that. But Azief did not
And he did not need to spoil it to Azief
Azief right now is also thinking about what happens in the past.
The journey he had inside the time fragments that Odin had showed him made him think a lot. Some of the memories of those past is now sealed inside Azief mind
Because a trillion years of journey of humans is not the kind of memory that is easy to remember.
There is the human element of it all, the feeling of being divine, seeing them from a top-down view, but there were also times when he walks among these people of the ancient past, watching them closely, watching their stories and feel for them
Their sorrows, happiness, their stories all touched him.
There are difference when he looked at them from above and when he looked them while walking and standing beside them
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