"Then... shall we gamble or not?"
Despite the Sage of Six Paths' laughter, Chiba showed no smile. He merely looked quietly at the Sage of Six Paths before him and spoke.
The Sage of Six Paths had stopped laughing. What came next was the true gamble between the World Will and the Sage of Six Paths.
They were gambling that he would not do anything to destroy the world at that endpoint.
After all, that endpoint's full name should have been the End of All Things. At this point in time, when this line of fate had yet to fully unfold, it could not yet be called the End of All Things. At this moment, it should have been called the Beginning of All Things.
Yes, the place he was going to was the beginning of this world, and that beginning was where the world had been born—the world's core.
That was right. The person Chiba wanted to meet was at the world's core.
It was also the strongest and most vulnerable place in the entire world.
Its strength lay in the fact that if the world itself did not wish to expose the core's location or allow anyone near it, then no one could find it. Its weakness, however, was that once someone reached that place, they could directly intersect with the world itself. The world itself could not think complex thoughts, and if it directly intersected with a person, many serious problems could arise.
It might even be possible for a person who directly intersected with the world, or another creature capable of complex thought, to exploit the world's inability to think complexly and manipulate the world's rules.
Yes, directly intersecting with the world itself meant, to a certain extent, directly touching the rules—the rules that made up