Chapter 1870 - A Necromancer Who Just Wants to Plant Trees

Chapter 1870: Fate’s Hysterical Laughter Technique_3 Chapter 1870: Fate’s Hysterical Laughter Technique_3 He looked for a long time before he found the speaker— It was a frog perched atop a clump of mud on the shore. Because it was so small, Matthew had almost missed it. “Who are you?” Matthew asked, curious. The frog said calmly, “I am the guardian of the Lake of Destiny, responsible for explaining the lake’s purpose to visitors.” “Unfortunately, you haven’t come at the best time.” Matthew looked at the nearly dried-up lake water and didn’t know what to say. But he wasn’t interested in the flow of destiny in the first place. Compared to that, getting his hands on high-dimensional material seemed much more tangible. “Who has visited this Lake of Destiny?” Matthew inquired of the frog. The frog said with an air of worldly wisdom, “Oh, quite a few.” “You must have seen the projections of many powerful beings on your way here, right?” “Most of those who left projections on the Rootless River have seen their future in the Lake of Destiny.” Matthew pondered, “Are you talking about Death God Yeager, Holy Mage Link?” The frog added, “And Sun God Gerrard.” “Of course, the earliest of them was the Ancient Darkness God Orcsin.” The Ancient Darkness God Orcsin? Matthew’s mind couldn’t help but conjure the image of that mysterious creature resembling a mix of a Mudmonger and a tentacled beast. “Actually, not seeing the Lake of Destiny might not be such a bad thing.” The frog continued leisurely, “As far as I know, aside from Link, the other three who saw their fates in the lake went mad not long after leaving this place.” Matthew asked, “Mad?” “What exactly do you mean?” The frog explained, “The Ancient Darkness God Orcsin dismantled himself and sealed his parts beneath the ground of Aindor.” “The Sun God inflated the ambitions of the second-generation War God, resulting in his fall at the Sun God Palace, afterwards hiding in the Ruins on the Clouds.” “Yeager was similar; he crafted a unique rift in space for himself and naturally ended up in hiding after being blown up by a Calamity Mage.” “If you ask me, they must have seen some terrifying scenes in the Lake of Destiny.” “To avoid those scenes, they wracked their brains to the point of madness, hence the chain of strange incidents…” The Ancient Darkness God sealed himself? The Sun God also fled into the Ruins on the Clouds through the hands of Vasnov? And Death God Yeager did something quite similar? Matthew was astounded. The information implied in the frog’s words was nothing short of astonishing! His curiosity about the frog’s identity grew even stronger, “How do you know all this?” The frog stated plainly, “As the guardian of the Lake of Destiny, I have some special abilities to observe the world, isn’t that quite normal?” Matthew nodded slightly, “So why was Link an exception?” The frog thought for a moment, “Maybe he was already mad before he got here?” “I’m not too sure, the mental states of those spellcasters are always worrying.” “Besides, Link came much later than the others; perhaps he had already received related information and was psychologically prepared, so nothing particularly outrageous happened after he left.” Matthew nodded thoughtfully, “So does that mean the future each powerful being sees in the Lake of Destiny is almost always a disaster?” The frog’s voice carried a hint of laughter, “It’s quite obvious.” “The Lake of Destiny only hints at the calamities you will encounter in the future.” “But it can’t precisely tell you when these calamities will happen— it might be a hundred years later, or ten million years later. Neither life nor the Universe can be without trouble forever. So, you will certainly see yourself torn to pieces in the Lake— or perhaps meet some other kind of death. After all, in the long river of time, the so-called supernatural powers of an individual are far too insignificant. But for those who are used to controlling everything within their own dimension and timeline, seeing themselves die to various disasters is simply unbearable. And to avoid these future tragedies, they often do things that are laughable in retrospect. Take the Sun God and Death God, for example. To prevent their later demise, they chose to advance the scenario to their present, under their control— Isn’t that a funny thing? Using death to avoid death. Ha, ha. Of course, I know they haven’t truly died. I know they’re hiding, barely clinging to existence in a special form. They’re constantly peering into the world’s transformations, vainly attempting to return to Earth at some moment. But I truly find this behavior utterly ridiculous and laughable. Beings of Transcendence that stand at the top of the Multiverse’s food chain, choosing to die in the present to avoid death in the future. It really does sound quite foolish! Ha ha ha ha…” The frog couldn’t help but burst into guffaws. Although Matthew felt that not all of the frog’s logic was correct, he was infected by the laughter, finding the actions of Sun God Gerrard and Death God Yeager somewhat comical. So he chuckled along. But the frog quickly glanced at him with a grave look, “What are you laughing at?” Matthew went silent for a while, “The moment seemed right, so I went along with it.” The frog said sternly, “I laugh because I am on the outside and can enjoy the spectacle freely.” “But you are still in the game.” “I may not see your fate clearly, but isn’t the burden you carry also too much?” “If my Insight is not mistaken, you bear the essence of the Sun God, Death God, Twin Ancient Gods, as well as fragments of information left over from the era of both the Antu Empire and the Ether Star Kingdom.”