Surviving The Fourth Calamity-Chapter 1613 - 191: Aesces with No Other Choice
’Snow Cloud Peak’ felt pain for the first time.
Isn’t something wrong with the deities of this world?
Aesces is just a blockhead, no, it must be the highest-grade granite!
Fortunately, there’s Hill.
After ’Snow Cloud Peak’ repeatedly communicated with Aesces and still couldn’t get through, William gave him a hint... to ask Hill.
Although he didn’t quite understand why a mortal like Hill could influence the will of a World Master, but... Little Bear always had a high-status social circle.
Moreover, although he is a descendant of the World Tree Pantheon, since Hill’s direct ancestor is named after the Earth Bear, there should be somewhat of a connection with the Earth Deity System.
With Aesces’ rigid behavior, he opened the door to welcome Hill, even admitting his mistake and accepting the Undead Tribe... It’s not surprising that Hill had a bit of rapport with him.
Hill was quite happy to receive a plea for help from a faction like the Undead Tribe.
After all, when Aesces shifted ’Snow Cloud Peak’s target to Great Sage Ismael, he played dead and didn’t even pass a note to Hill.
Leaving Hill with pent-up enthusiasm and no chance to release it.
It’s rare to have serious business to discuss... although Aesces feigned death with purity, when faced with important matters, he could bravely forge ahead with a bit of bravado.
And ’Snow Cloud Peak’ hinted between words, and Hill quickly understood.
He also understood why there was a communication barrier between the Undead Tribe and Aesces.
After all, although ’Snow Cloud Peak’ speaks directly, he couldn’t directly tell a World Master: How can you be so stupid, seeing Triton watching the show, and not pulling him into the water?
You’ve already planned to acknowledge Triton’s existence with Aesces if needed, so when things happen, you have to use him!
Facing attacks from multiple sides, with so many hidden threats, why insist on holding on alone?
’Snow Cloud Peak’ expressed all these complaints in a more tactful manner... however, Aesces didn’t understand.
Yes, he didn’t grasp at all that the main meaning of ’Snow Cloud Peak’s words was not to find a way to bring in another Moon Clan but to pull Triton into this battle.
And as long as Triton joined, he would inevitably intensify the call for the Moon Clan to deal with the endless sea monsters... and this was almost an overt strategy by ’Snow Cloud Peak’.
Aesces’ main task was not to bring forward the third batch of Moon Clan that was initially scheduled to come in a month, but to maximize Triton’s involvement.
The Undead Tribe didn’t want the agreed tens of thousands of the third batch of the Moon Clan.
What they wanted was hundreds of thousands to make a difference for the Proud Sky Alliance struggling to catch up with mainstream military exploits and most of the Undead Tribe spanning the inland.
Of course, if Aesces could bring forth the arrival of the Moon Clan a bit earlier, that would be ideal.
After all, the Silk Spider disaster had been temporarily contained by the Undead Tribe... or rather, after Rose noticed the Undead Tribe entering this world and Coron focusing his gaze, she clearly became more secretive in her actions.
After all, the elves she really wanted to trap were long gone, and probing the humans was just a side experiment.
In the face of greater interests, these trivial tricks can be abandoned.
In this matter, Hill was actually quite shaken.
How to put it... Hill’s dislike and contempt for Rose when dealing with related people were genuine.
But if the conflict was between Rose and Gaia, Hill just felt... what does it have to do with me?
Moreover, Coron showed no response, even after the Undead Tribe entered, besides the task to eliminate the Mutated Silk Spiders, there was nothing targeting Rose directly... just a quest to uncover Rose’s ultimate scheme.
It was to uncover, not to shatter.
This Coron guy, obviously, after his anger subsided, started going soft on Rose again.
Hill felt that other gods of the Elf Deity System rarely intervened in the war between Zholar and the elves... unless Rose provoked them... which wasn’t without reason.
After all, if they really strangled Rose to death, maybe her eldest daughter wouldn’t even say much before Coron would rush out to say, should we give her another chance?
Even though he acted like he was more concerned with the Lady of Pain and kept casting spells at Mark City, the words of the quest exposed his heart.
When Hill discovered this, he felt fortunate that he only inherited a small fraction of this Father of Elves’ divinity.
Truly inexplicable.
No wonder those three Elf Goddess preferred to create a triune goddess who doesn’t show up unless something major happens as the God Queen of Elves.
If someone were truly married to Coron, it would really be... suffocating oneself, why bother?
Anyway, the current situation is that after removing all the obvious Mutated Silk Spiders, apart from those in Basia and the Desert, other Undead Tribe members started getting bored.
However, ’Snow Cloud Peak’ missed the point.
Hill, on the other hand, clearly knew where lies Aesces’ worries about the Undead Tribe... though ultimately a cheerful, carefree Goddess of Magic walked the Path of Destiny of Toril, AO had countless headaches along the way.
Moreover, this Goddess was overly cheerful.
When AO gathered the Toril Gods to discuss the rules of the new Weave, she really held her ground eloquently.
Ultimately, as she wished, the Weave covered every corner of Toril.
The cost was her relinquishing a lot of the primary control, turning the Weave semi-automated.
This meant even the Goddess of Magic herself could not listen or see certain places... William created a Pseudo Magic Net, and Edna even replicated that Temporal Artifact controlling the Pseudo Magic Net.
For this artifact, she chose to use fragments of the Tablets of Fate.
To collect these fragments, under her firm demand, AO had to make the God of Destiny a permanent history, never to appear again.
Otherwise, Edna would retaliate against the Path of Destiny manipulating her by smashing the tablet again.
She shouted loudly, with tears streaming as she spoke... if not for the two White Dragons backing her up, her acting would’ve seemed genuine.
Though the Tablets of Fate often took some knocks from the greatest victims along the Path of Destiny, now that it had a slight self-awareness, it hoped its master would protect it.
Repeatedly breaking apart, it feared the next epic of destiny it created would turn into a complete melodrama... Can an incomplete logic and chaotic thinking Weaver produce a serious destiny?
For AO, even when Edna threatened, she didn’t behave like the original Midnight, talking about the Weave... like cutting off the Magic Net usage for the Evil Mage, which barely satisfied him.
But what AO didn’t expect was that after associating this Magic Net artifact with some underlying authority of the Weave, the slightly liberated Edna immediately filled her divine subordinate position.
By not tightly binding herself to the Weave, she could quickly offer Divinities to her White Dragon and Midnight kept at the Grim Reaper.
The White Dragon was fine, as many powers had the position of Magic Messenger.
But Midnight held the Lich Lord’s Divine Position... even from the Stellar Realm, AO must’ve heard Jacob’s wild laughter.
Although Jacob couldn’t control Midnight, and this Netherworld Magic Lesser God even took a part of the Law.
But he never lost his authority so jovially.
Truth be told, real World Masters like Aesces, who for long watched AO wreak havoc, trapping countless foes... despite Toril’s few collapses, the benefits were mainly AO’s... witnessed for the first time his exasperated helplessness.
The key is AO couldn’t deal with a Goddess of Magic who sacrifices her divine power and authority over such trivia, right?
The next one, regardless of their nature, could never be as candid and generous as Edna.
For the first time, AO thought that lack of selfishness is not entirely good.
No selfishness isn’t just like Tyr holding onto his beliefs, there’s also Edna who’s overly carefree, lying flat.
So he even showed leniency to Tyr.
As long as Tyr can cultivate a subordinate deity capable of managing during the Lord of Justice’s absence in Toril, he would no longer interfere with the always adventurous Tyr.
This position can’t be replaced.
It’s fine if the Goddess of Magic is absent, but if the Lord of Justice follows suit, AO felt it better to start anew.
Even AO, whom he greatly admired, was in dire straits, so naturally, a fledgling like Aesces would be more wary of the Undead Tribe.
His greatest fear was not the world turning chaotic with the Undead Tribe and Moon Clan at war but the Undead Tribe affecting the future he had planned for the world.
So, when Hill confronted him reluctantly, he asked directly: "Do you want the Undead Tribe to get so bored they directly involve themselves in the noble and Royal Family infighting of various countries?
Or let them, as they wish, engage with the Moon Clan in a war game?"
Aesces, no choice.
