The world-devouring dragon

In the Crystal Palace, the ancient chessboard that has been in existence since the beginning of the world is still there, with countless chess pieces scattered all over it. Or a king in the world, or a praised hero, or even a weak woman, a loving mother, a strong warrior... Regardless of status, high or low, good or evil, all living beings are chess pieces on this chessboard, and On both sides of the chessboard, the gods and demons who control the fate of countless people are making their moves silently.

How many lives were involved in this chess game that lasted for tens of thousands of years? How many lives have you unknowingly changed? I am afraid that except for the gods and demons on both sides of the chessboard, no one else can know.

The dark thing was playing with a chess piece casually in its hand. It was watching the chess game in front of it, thinking deeply, and suddenly spoke.

"God, besides this chessboard, are you willing to play a little bet with me?"

On the opposite side of the dark thing, the god shrouded in light heard the voice and said calmly without comment.

"What bet?"

The dark object whose face could not be seen clearly, the black chess piece symbolizing the fate of a certain human king in the hand was flying carelessly in the palm, and the power inadvertently emanating from the dark object was slowly passing through it. A chess piece, gradually affecting the fate of this unaware human king.

It doesn’t require any actions, or even any thoughts. Just simple contact, contamination, sight, or even anything related to the dark thing known as the “enemy of God, Satan” will gradually Being affected, it is like matter captured by the huge gravity of a black hole, slowly but surely, falling bit by bit... bit by bit... bit by bit, in the direction of the deep black hole...

The mad fate of this human king was thus sealed.

"Boom!"

Casually placing the newly added chess piece on the complex and chaotic chess game, the dark thing then put its hand on its head, then spread out a hand towards the god and said.

"How about gambling on the loyalty of Metatron, the King of Angels, to you?"

The tyrannical inhuman pupils dilated slightly, with a hint of interest in them.

It seems to be planning something.

"Why? I don't think there's anything worth betting on."

But in front of the dark thing, God just said quietly.

"Metatron's loyalty to me is unquestionable. It is a derivative of my will, just like human hands and feet. Angel Rachel, can hands and feet resist human will? Can it go against human will? No, angel's thoughts It comes from me. The rationality of angels comes from me. Everything about angels comes from me. Angels are my messengers and cannot rebel against me."

God's tone was calm, without any ups and downs, but with some unquestionable divine authority.

As God said, angels, messengers of heaven, are the incarnation of God’s will, beings who deliver and carry out missions for God. Even those guardian angels who are contaminated with desire and mate with human women and give birth to irrational giants have always been They all believe in the God who created the universe and will never violate His will.

However, the dark thing shook his finger in the negative, and then said word by word.

"But what if you want the angel to fall?"

There was silence in the palace, and God did not immediately answer the dark thing's words.

Then, the dark thing stroked his forehead and looked at the god shrouded in endless light in front of him.

"Ten thousand years of chess game, I have discovered it long ago anyway... God, you actually don't care at all whether the world evolves according to the legends I have heard, or in other words, you are even very interested. Help those legends happen.”

"The Garden of Eden, Adam, Eve, Cain, Noah...or perhaps the Son of God, Jesus, who has not yet appeared, all the legends were born one by one. You saw it all but did not stop it, In other words, I actually enjoyed it.”

"It's like a director who has read the script and directed the actors to perform the plot in the script with great interest, and then casually modified some of the parts. God, you actually don't care about the depravity of mankind at all, nor do you care Fall of angels or not, as long as the drama on the stage is interesting to you."

As he said that, the dark thing couldn't help laughing, and then it picked up a chess piece from the chessboard and continued to talk while observing the situation on the chessboard.

"I once heard a legend, a legend about the fallen angel Lucifer, an angel who was once favored by God, but eventually rebelled against God."

"Of course, that was actually just a copying error. The original meaning was just 'Why did the morning star fall from the sky?' It was originally used to ridicule the fallen King of Babylon, but it was translated and copied in multiple languages. , mistakenly translated 'Morning Star' as 'Lucifer', and later gradually personified the word 'Morning Star' that was originally used only as a metaphor, eventually deriving a legend about the fallen angel Lucifer..."

The black chess piece in his hand, which represented an unknown assassin, casually knocked over a white chess piece. The chess piece, which represented the fate of a highly praised hero, was immediately stabbed by the assassin's dagger and fell unwillingly.

Black's piece falls.

In an understatement, a fate that will happen decades later has been determined.

"However... God, I can keenly notice that you are quite interested in this legend."

A glance into the eyes of the dark thing.

"As you said, angels are the derivative of your will and your hands and feet, but if you have the idea of ​​​​making the angels rebel, then...as the king of angels, how will Metatron choose? "

“God loves the world, but does God love angels?”

"In my temple, I once asked Metatron this way, but it naturally did not answer my words. Instead, after time resumed flowing, it tried to fight me in my temple and soon... They made a big fuss and destroyed dozens of my underwater temples, but it is precisely because of this that I find it so interesting..."

The dark thing whose face couldn't be seen chuckled.

"In your opinion, what is the result?"

In front of the dark thing, the god shrouded in endless light calmly said.

The dark thing clapped its head and held a black chess piece in its other hand, looking at it carefully while answering casually.

"Of course I don't know what the outcome will be."

Its tone is calm and unpredictable.

"I can completely control the material world, but I cannot completely control the spiritual world because I cannot fully understand the spiritual world."

"I can understand what loyalty is and understand the Snake Girl's loyalty to me. It is a complex emotion that mixes fear, awe, dependence, worship and other emotions. She is in awe of me, so she is loyal to me."

Looking at the black chess piece in front of him, even when he talks about the subordinate who has been loyal to him for the longest time, there is no fluctuation in the cold pupils, as if he is talking about an insignificant ant, only indifference.

"There is no doubt that Snake Girl is loyal to me, but that loyalty is not absolute. If one day I order her not to be loyal to me anymore, she will resist my order, because even if she fears me, she will eventually She has her own will, and as long as the situation permits, she will still disobey my orders for some reasons. In other words, if one day the snake girl suddenly rebels against me, I will not be surprised at all. "

"However, Metatron's situation is different from that of Snake Girl. Metatron was born completely in compliance with your will. It can be said that it is a part of you. I can understand Snake Girl's loyalty, but I still cannot understand Metatron. What is Tron's loyalty to you? Naturally, there is no way to know how it will decide in the end, but that's why it's interesting... isn't it."

He glanced at him with his icy cold snake eyes.

The God in front of him was shrouded in endless radiance, and it was as if he could see the entire universe from the endless radiance beside Him...

Cold, dead, deep, empty...

Light does not mean warmth.

God did not directly answer the dark thing's words. He just glanced at the dark thing in front of him and then said.

"Rachel, I give you the responsibility of supervising good deeds and testing the faith of all creatures in the world. Then everything in heaven and on earth will be monitored by you. Those who should fall will eventually fall. Those who are loyal should also stick to the right path. Angels , human beings, without exception.”

God did not answer directly, but his meaning was already very clear, and the dark thing sneered and stopped talking about it.

Neither gods nor demons talked about any specific details of the gambling game, such as the gambling options that should have been available, or the bets, because it was not necessary, it was just a gambling game in leisure time, and compared to this, it was even more What attracted the attention of the gods and demons was the ignorant child named Noah on the ground...

“God loves the world, but does God love angels?”