The dove spoke again: "I should be all-knowing, yet forget for love."
"Only through forgetting can the Son of Man have possibilities."
An all-knowing being had chosen to forget because of love.
Only through forgetting could there be the unknown. Only through the unknown could there be possibilities.
And if his "Restraint," his "Order," were fully completed, would they also kill every possibility?
Hermes spoke again: "As above, so below. Through this, glimpse the truths of the world. The pinnacle of Order is destined to anchor everything, yet it must not be abandoned for that reason."
He extended a hand. "Have you found your beast? Beast... it is your foundation, ever at your side."
The dove said, "Love your enemy. The enemy of God, the love of man."
Nyarlathotep clubbed Hermes from behind, then hid behind the dove and "whispered," "Your final trial has been in your hands from the very beginning."
Horace lowered his head.
Their hints were already very clear.
He looked at his hands.
Those hands had once held Chains called Great Runes, binding others as well as himself.
The power called Great Runes had been his beast from the very beginning.
He used it to restrain others, and it restrained him.
The Gate's host naturally understood all things...
As that thought flashed through his mind, Horace suddenly understood.
His beast-the enemy of God-was using Great Runes to prevent him from attaining omniscience.
It was not that Great Runes needed him, but that he needed Great Runes to suppress that "omniscience."
From the very beginning, the power of Great Runes had been a power that sought inward.
It existed, was powerful, and could restrain others because he already possessed that power.
He was merely using Great Runes to restrain himself.
In that case, the energy he had