There is silence in the Dark Room. The silence seems to linger. But even in this silence, there is an aura that is rising A psionic force that is intense enveloping the entire room. All five of them is thinking of the same thing right now The risk tolerance. How much could they risk for hope? The most illusory thing of them all.....hope. Like a light at the end of the tunnel. Seems so close but it is there? Or is it just the hallucination of a dying man stuck in darkness? Is it worth it to risk it all for this small hope? Risk is not something foreign to them But the Orvan is not a risk-taking creature. It is because they failed before. And the price of that failure is very steep. Since that moment, the Five Seats of Orvan has always been cautious. Always thought of a backup plan. Calculations after calculation, schemes and plots in layers. All to minimize risk of failure. And this kind of method serves them well all of this time. Risk is not foreign to them but it is also not a familiar thing to them. And any risk they take rarely ever would affect Orvan civilization and continued existence. At most, they are some things they could cut to minimize loss. This game...that they are about to enter.....this is no normal game. If they lose, there is no comeback. They do not yet enter with all-in attitude but even if they only bet a little, once they failed, the loss would be almost unbearable. So, there is silence. So, there is contemplation. Thinking, deliberating, hesitating and thinking again. And once they fall into this rut, it is hard to come out of it. An hour of silence and the silence did not seem that it would end. Someone had to take control. "Risk...this time it is worth it" The one from the House of Klargen mutters. He paused for a moment and nodded to himself "It is worth it!" this time, his tone is more confident. He wanted to believe in it. And he would make his belief the reality And that is what it took. All of them knows that there is always a great chance this could blow up on their face. But they already know about this since the moment they decided to enter All it took is one person to show his stance. And once his stance is shown, the other four would support it. They wanted this kind of bravery. The kind of bravery that they forgotten a long time ago. Because they are too smart. Sometimes bravery requires blind hope. The desire to see beyond the odds and fought for that one glimmer of hope And that is what they forgotten And once they are reminded, they thought of the glory days of the Orvan. The young generation did not see them They are born cautious. They are born to be soldiers. Obeyers. Rule abiding. But the Old Ones, the Five Seats knows of the past. Adventurous, leaders, rule breaking...free! It is a pity that they had to birth generations after generations of only obeyers and soldiers. It is a product of their failures. They had to be cautious, they had to be timid. That is how to survive. And they bet now, because this is their only chance. The one and last chance. There would never be another one. The Supreme One would not allow it for the second time. The Old Ones does not presume to know the thinking of the Supreme One but they deduce that the Supreme One would not give another chance. This would be the last one. One of them just goes silent. Then one of them give a suggestion "How about we send some time temporal drones? If not that some of the Invisible Squad?" "No, Wargod would realize it. Just let it be. Wait, be patient. We have been patient for a long time. What is a few more time?" The one from the House of Yara spoke They all finally nodded. Most of the time, they would return to their slumber. But this time, this time, they eyes are wide open And outside of this Dark Room, the ripples of destiny and fate continues to ripple. Bringing waves and storms to those who could see the Sign, sense the wave and hear the Sometimes, to be the player on the chess game, you have to be the chess piece first! In an empty Universe, there is a being sitting cross legged on an accretion disk that turns Time and Space here seems to have been freeze by some kind of force. His body is shining golden and illuminated this empty galaxy. His eyes shining bright, revealing all Truths and dispelling all Illusions. Around him, hymns of Songs relieved all beings of their sufferings. All resentment would be forgotten and all evil would be eradicated. Pure Beings that transcended Desires This is the Awakened One that Attains Oneness With All His eyes see through all the barriers of the world. He sees the Orvan even in their Dark Rooms and he sees the gathering of powerful beings in Interium. But as powerful as his Vision was, his eyes could not see through the barriers in He could not see the temples and he sighed. "A Great Undertaking" he mutters and then he said nothing more. For original chapters go to novèlfire.net Who knows what this being who seems to have no desire wanted to do? But the fact he speaks and the fact he bothers to look...mean he wants to do something His light shines brightly and the empty universe he is in begins to germinate life And all of these powerful beings that could feel it made their choices. Some chooses to bet Some chooses to sit on the side-lines. Some waited for their chance. Some ignore it and try to pretend that things will not changes Some made drastic decisions. Some try to deceive. Those who knows the story, and those who don't make different choices. Those who hears the Song and those who didn't walk different paths. And in a different dimension, there is the Creator looking at all of this with amusement. He saw the changes in Olympus, see the Qarthan attack, and deduce the cause and effect long before the Orvan even notices it He saw when Wargod give his advice to the Qarthan king that the decision that day to impart that knowledge would lead to today. He did not stop Wargod. He saw what the Qarthan king would do. He saw the attack on Olympus before it happens He saw what Ra would do after knowing what the Qarthan king would do. He still did not stop it He even saw what Hades and Poseidon is doing. Saw what they are planning. Saw they open Saw how Hades unshackle the chains on Chronos. He saw all of that and he still did not do anything. He saw Odin and see his plots and schemes. He saw that monkey....coming there to resolve some Karma. He saw that page boy, ready to pay for the debt of those years. All gathering above Interium. Even then he did not make any moves. He did not encourage them nor discourage them He look at all of them and see the choices and decision that they would make. Because that is the free will he gave them Be it the right decision, or the wrong one, one make their decision based on their hearts and their minds, based on their life, their desires and their hatred, their circumstances and the available information they have One who sees the entire story would make different decisions than the one who only see He did not stop all of them from making mistake or making profit. Making bets or not making But once he senses that the Orvanian was about to do something, his eyes turns sharp. The blue aura in his eyes turn deep blue that seem menacing. If the Orvanians dares to come out of Orvan and participated in the matter of Wargod and that Child, The Creator would slap them to death The fact that the Orvanians did not do anything shows that they know the red line that they In the Omniverse right now, entropy began to corrode galaxies. Destruction is about to reign And the Creator restriction is also being loosened right now Just like at the beginning. The One Above All gives him permission to Destroy. Now, time is Hence, the restriction of Destruction is also loosened. Now.....right now, he could use the Destruction power. He and the Destroyer are the same coin with different faces. "All of these beings......all of them are my children's" he mutters with a sigh in his heart "And now, they are all about to enter into a Great Game. If they won, then there is a chance. If they lose...." The Creator did not finish his word. But it is enough to speculate from the way he It would not be something good at all.