The examples Fate offered were indeed appealing, and they themselves thought having such a choice was a good thing.
But that kind of fixed future was visibly hollow.
There would always be people who questioned Fate, people who raised questions, and people who refused to believe in fate.
They did not believe Fate's vision could become reality, but even if it truly succeeded, it would only produce a crowd of walking corpses.
When suffering was not faced, happiness lost its contours.
Besides... intelligent beings really were sick. Sometimes they would seek out suffering when there was none, just to stir things up, stubbornly refusing to accept the way things were.
[Fate] spoke. "But they seek peaceful, stable lives."
"They crave stability so they can have time to do what they want to do more. It's just that peace and stability are so hard to obtain that this becomes the first great mountain blocking their path.
They can't ignore the sky they seek just because there's a mountain in front of them."
Ye Buyu paused, feeling that the other party might not understand at all.
"What you consider the endpoint of happiness may only be the starting point they long for."
Mu Bingge wholeheartedly agreed. "We only want a peaceful, stable environment that supports us in trying and failing, in finding the things we truly like and love.
Your so-called peace and stability aren't the endpoint we seek. They're only a starting point, a good environment that everyone needs to work together to create."
The eyes on the stone statue gazed into the void, looking out over the world under its rule.
"But they have no need for that. They have no need to be as clearheaded as you. To pass peacefully through life and enter their predetermined ending is their