Jiang Xiang frowned. "Wasn't Ragnarok brought about by those goddesses of fate to prolong their own lives?"
"No." Jiang Xiang instinctively rejected his own answer. "If a handful of gods of fate could manipulate fate, then it would no longer be fate."
Odin had not expected Jiang Xiang's understanding of fate to reach such a level after a single visit to the World Tree.
"Exactly. Whatever the reason, fate is not something any individual can change at will. Take Ragnarok, for instance. The destruction of Asgard must accompany its arrival. It cannot be manipulated by a few people; it can only be influenced from outside, through external forces."
Odin sighed deeply. "Even with your help, I never expected Asgard to survive Ragnarok. Throughout the universe, once Ragnarok is prophesied for one of the many divine civilizations, it will inevitably come. Some pantheons merely manage to circumvent or delay it through various schemes."
Jiang Xiang froze. Did nearly every divine civilization eventually face Ragnarok?
Thinking of the Titan Pantheon where Thanos had grown up, it had indeed met its Ragnarok. In the end, Thanos alone had wiped out the entire pantheon.
Then would the pantheons Jiang Xiang had branched off face Ragnarok too?
Or could the disasters on the Prophecy Paper have been indirectly caused by Jiang Xiang creating too many pantheons?
Odin paid no attention to Jiang Xiang's distraction and continued, "As far as I know, the only pantheon to have circumvented Ragnarok is the Olympus pantheon. But even though they avoided it, their gods still suffered devastating casualties.
"I drew on their experience and refrained from distributing too many godheads. At present, only a dozen or so gods in all of Asgard possess one."
"So the prophecies on the Prophecy Paper are almost certain to come true?" Jiang Xiang