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Beyonders of the Wheel of Fortune pathway could always bring him some amusement. Their perspective was the most unusual, close to the symbolism of mysticism, and they had distinctive and unique impressions of the same events.
Edward had no authority over fate; at most, he could only observe it. From the very first time he met the True Creator, the Monarch of Decay had seen that he had one future and one alone-becoming God Almighty. That future resembled an enormous shadow, like a human standing behind an ant, swallowing every possibility that extended from the True Creator and making him seem like a marionette-but that did not prevent him from treating the True Creator as an independent individual. After all, their personalities were very different. Just as a caterpillar, without undergoing metamorphosis, would always be a different species from a butterfly.
Still, he was curious about what the Ancient Sun God had originally looked like in Ouroboros's eyes.
"He merely returned to how he was at the beginning?"
Edward asked as though he did not care at all.
"Can you really accept that? From the Ancient Sun God to the True Creator, and then to God Almighty, can you truly think they are all the same? Without the slightest thought or resentment, simply accepting that this is what they are?"
Several seconds passed before Ouroboros answered him again:
"Fate will have only one outcome."
"I, too, was once angry and lost over the future in which Medici died. But when I tried to change it, I realized that this was also what the Lord desired. The Lord desired that cruel future. The Lord wished to sacrifice his angel. There was nothing I could do."
The revival of the Ancient Sun God's divinity within Adam naturally meant that Adam had