Was the Lord of Change a form of changelessness?
When Duanmu Huai told Mary this joke, he was purely treating it as a joke, much like, "God is omnipotent, so can God create a stone that He Himself cannot lift?"
Or perhaps how the Emperor preached the Imperial Truth every day, only to one day cultivate a "god of Atheism" in Warp Space...
The joke Duanmu Huai made about the Lord of Change was also based on this kind of self-contradiction.
Because every player knew why the Deceitful Trickster's "plans" had become a meme. The reason was... it couldn't control itself.
That's right, let's review the nature of gods once again. Gods such as the Chaos Gods were beings formed from the condensation of extreme emotions among living creatures, so their actions would inevitably conform to their nature.
And the more extreme the emotion, the easier it was to produce an impact.
Why did the Deceitful Trickster's plans always fail?
The reason was simple: it didn't necessarily want to succeed.
The Deceitful Trickster yearned for change, anticipated change, and was change itself.
If you plotted a scheme, then completed it smoothly without a single mistake, that wouldn't please the Deceitful Trickster.
On the contrary, if you plotted a scheme, held every advantage, thought victory was assured, and then suffered a spectacular failure at the final moment...
The Deceitful Trickster would be overjoyed.
This wasn't because the Deceitful Trickster was a masochist who had to be abused to feel happy. It was because it was itself the god of change, the Lord of Change.
Therefore, only change could accord with the Deceitful Trickster's wishes. This was also why, despite the Deceitful Trickster ranking second among the four Evil Gods, nobody really took it seriously.
If the other three received sacrifices, they