The warden who guards the witches

"The most scarce things are the most precious." Melifilia replied with an incredible sentence.

"What do you mean?" Aiden didn't understand for a moment.

"Calculating the future means that most of the time you won't make mistakes." Melifilia narrated faintly, "After I gradually gained the power of 'omniscience', I began to be able to foresee the direction of my future, and then make the best choice at the moment."

"Isn't this great?" Aiden said.

"Then imagine that one day you find that you can see two lines appearing in front of you, one of which points to the most perfect future, and the other line points to the unknown chaos. Which one would you choose?"

"I am a layman, of course I will choose the former." Aiden replied.

If you can know the winning number in advance when buying a lottery ticket, a normal person will of course choose to know it before buying it, rather than investing money in a gamble with a small chance of winning that is almost a waste of money.

"Then you follow the line pointing to perfection, and get everything you want in the shortest way, and reach the peak you expect. After reaching the peak, you find that you can see farther into the future, and the line becomes clearer. As long as you understand the necessary conditions, you can calculate everything you want to know. You almost reach the next peak easily..." Melifilia said while moving the chess pieces, her tone was so flat that it seemed like she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her.

Aiden listened carefully. Melifilia was obviously talking about her own affairs. The so-called second peak probably refers to her obtaining the authority of "desire".

"But this time you don't feel any sense of accomplishment, because everything is just as you expected. Then this feeling will be repeated countless times, and it will last for hundreds of years, and your heart will no longer be disturbed. Until one day, you find that something is beyond your control because of an accident, but you feel an indescribable pleasure. Then you realize that the line pointing to the perfect future can no longer satisfy you. At this time, don't you want to try to follow the guidance of another line?"

"What a luxurious pursuit." Aiden commented.

Tired of the days when everything is under control, so I started to pursue an uncontrollable future, thinking that this is the real fun. This feeling is like a rich man who is used to eating delicacies from mountains and seas suddenly feels tired of oil and water and starts to pursue simple meals.

For ordinary mortals, being able to control everything they want is undoubtedly a dream.

But at least this reason makes sense, that is, Melifilia's game can be "real".

"By the way, what are things that are out of control? Will you also encounter such things?" Aiden was a little concerned about this topic that was passed over by the other party.

"Even I have embarrassing pasts that I don't want others to know about." Melifilia calmly refused, "Please don't ask me too much, change the subject."

"Okay, the fortune teller seems to have prepared the last piece of the puzzle for me." Aiden stared at the chessboard and thought, thinking about two things at the same time, making it a little difficult for him to concentrate on the chess game.

He hasn't played a game with Melifilia that relies on brainpower for a long time. He is almost certain to lose this game, but Aiden still goes all out. This is not because of self-esteem, but simply out of his own principles. In addition, he also wants to test how far he can hold on in the game with the goddess of conspiracy.

"Hold it well. Since you have fought with that man once, he should have known that you have touched the power. The condition I set for him is to completely eliminate you to pass the test. Every time I kill you but fail to meet the condition, I will increase the difficulty of the test, but you can't take it lightly." Melifilia said.

"I will move what he wants to a place where it is difficult for him to get it." Aiden replied.

"Oh? You actually got the Hand of Annihilation?" Melifilia laughed.

"No, I just prevented him from getting it. This is the limit of what I can do now." Aiden thought carefully and moved another chess piece. "I will find a way to get close to the authority, because I really have no choice."

Without solving Mr. Bloody Clothes, talking about getting rid of the control of the Goddess of Conspiracy is nothing but a fool's dream.

"Here, you neglected it." Melifilia suddenly smiled and took a key step.

"Ah!" Aiden realized that he was trapped.

The chessboard has not reached the last step, but he has foreseen that within the next few steps, he will inevitably be forced to the death by Melifilia.

"I can lose even in the game of fighting beasts?" Aiden sighed.

"I can definitely exhaustively play this simple chess game. You must do the same thing to have a chance to beat me, and you have to move first." Melifilia said, "But when two absolutely correct chess players play chess together, it will become boring, and everything will become a fixed number."

"It is also a fixed number that I will be slaughtered by you, okay?" Aiden frowned, "Why do you suddenly want to play this game with me today? Don't you like to pursue the unknown?"

Although he had guessed the result long ago, he was quite unwilling to lose this time.

Because he vaguely felt that if he made a few more correct moves, he would probably have a chance to change the result.

"The unknown of our chess game lies in the process of my killing you. When I crush you in various ways, it is unknown how far you can struggle, isn't it?" Melifilia said with a smile, "To be honest, I am quite surprised. This is the first time you are so close to a draw. You should have felt it."

"I have been killed by you so many times in the past, so your chess skills have improved." Aiden said.

"You are becoming more and more like me." Melifilia said and put away the chessboard, "It's so gratifying, another game?"

"No, let's stop here, I still have a lot of work to do." Aiden said and stood up.

There are still things waiting for him to deal with, but he doesn't have so much time to play chess leisurely.

"Then I look forward to your return with a great victory." Melifilia had no intention of keeping him, and smiled and watched Aiden leave.

…

After returning to the ground, Aiden took care of some official business. Just as he left the office to go on a patrol, he saw prison guard Isabella rushing over in a panic: "Warden!"

"What's wrong?" Aiden sensed the other party's urgency.

"She's here!" Isabella said without thinking.

"Who?"

"Ms. Flowers! She ran to the reception desk at noon this time and asked for you by name!"