Suppressing my anxiety, I parted my lips.
"How am I connected with the Human God?"
"How, you ask?"
She replied, her voice filled with amusement.
"I am not an idiot. Even when I tried to deny it, all the clues and evidence that are thrown in my face are forcing me to accept reality," I replied, looking down with a tired sigh.
Since the time I arrived in this world, this is the first time I've felt this exhausted.
Tired of how I will be in the future.
Or past...
Or is it future?
Fuck, this is a lot more confusing than I thought.
"Let me tell you how he was known in our time,"
she said, and I slightly lifted my head.
"The Human God was a ruthless person. He killed gods and dragons alike without any mercy,"
she continued, her gaze intensifying as it landed on me.
"When we asked why he was doing this, he would laugh like a maniac, saying he was just returning the favor."
"What do you mean, maniac?" I asked, frowning. "Was he a madman or something?"
"Madman, yes, but more than a madman, he was a broken person," she replied.
I immediately sharpened my senses as I heard her words.
"How was he broken?" I asked, tilting my head in confusion.
"When you see a broken person, you instinctively know that he is broken. The way he talked, the way he tried to hide his face behind a mask just to hide his emotions told a lot about how broken he was."
After she finished her words, she gave me some time to soak in the information, which I desperately needed.
"So you are saying he was broken, and the only thing he did was to kill gods and dragons," I asked after some time of silence.
"I never said that," she replied, shaking her giant head. "Even that madman had someone that he loved dearly. The two lovers of his should be great figures as of now."
"Lovers?" I asked, curious about something unexpected around a madman.
"Yes, the reason for the starting of the war between the Human God and the rest of the gods," she replied, her voice trembling a little as she remembered the past.
"Now you're making me curious. What happened then?" I asked again, sensing she was keeping the main points hidden from me.
Though it wasn't surprising that the reason for war was because of a... woman.
"Mortals shouldn't know the secrets of the gods, child," she replied, shaking her giant head again.
"But aren't you telling me about the Human God for a while now?" I asked, frowning.
"The Human God never had any divinity that made him a true god. But unlike him, I don't know about those two. Talking about them can't be taken lightly."
She replied before she rest her head back on the ground.
"But what about the dragons? How did they become his enemy?" I asked as I looked at her.
*Back then dragons were second most arrogant creatures after the gods and when the Human God refused there request of sacrificing humans in their name, they joint the gods who were against him."
"That's it?" I asked feeling something was amiss, "as far as I remembered he killed so many dragons that they had to hide in an island just to preserve there race."
"Well, there is an absurdity that he used to say that he didn't like reptiles, so he just killed them on sight."
"..."
Aghh, Fuck....That's something I would do...
Another sigh escaped my lips as I looked down again, closing my eyes.
"Still, you never answered my question," I said, not getting the reply I was looking for. "How am I connected to him?"
"That unique energy of yours, that's the thing that connects the both of you," she replied after being silent for a while.
"That's not what I was asking," I felt a bitter taste in my mouth as I couldn't directly ask the question I wanted to ask.
'Am I the Human God?'
"No one can answer that question, my child."
As if she knew what I was thinking, she replied .
"Why?"
"It's inevitable, child. Those who know the Human God's real identity can never reveal it to others. No one can or will tell you who the Human God is, and no one will tell you who you really are."
"..."
I remained silent after hearing her words, still trying to wrap my mind around the meaning of her words.
"Why can't you just tell me honestly?" I grumbled, even though I understood it's not her fault.
"Child," she called me in a tender voice unlike the calm voice that she used before.
"The one you are now is like a person in a dense fog, and the moment the fog clears up, you will start to walk on the path in front of you, the inevitable path."
"The path destiny wants me to walk on," I mumbled as I understood her words.
"The path that leads you towards your fate," she replied, closing her eyes.
And the fate of Eden was to die while protecting Angelina.
So, if I become certain of things or if I become aware of a certain future that I will try to attain with certainty, will it lead me to my death?
Or is there something else that I still don't know?
Still, one thing that I can never be certain of is whether I am the Human God or if the Human God is me.
"So, I can't be certain of anything now, huh?" A light chuckle escaped my lips.
"When you are strong enough, go towards the Katarwos Continent. You will get a lot of your answers there," she said, opening her eyes again.
"Katarwos?" I asked in confusion.
"The sealed continent," she replied, and I nodded my head.
"Something else you want to tell me?" I asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Find my other sisters if you want to know more about yourself."
"And where can I find them?" I asked, frowning.
"At least one of them is sealed in the Eldoria continent, that's all I know of," she replied, not providing much detail.
I nodded, planning to visit the continent of the beast men as well, as it was the place where Nadya and Elysia's mother was sealed.
"Now, it's time to end this," she said again, looking at me. "Child, grant me the death that I long for."
"What?" I asked in surprise as I looked at her.
"Unbind the chain that binds my soul with my body, child. That's all I want from you," she replied.
"That chain binds only your soul?" I asked suspiciously, looking at her.
"The Human God was not a merciful person, child. The only reason he kept me alive was so that I can deliver his last message to you," she replied, lifting her head.
"And you told me his last words?" I asked.
"No," she replied, shaking her head, "And I take an oath on the name of my ancestor Ymir that I shall leave my body and move towards the Niflheim."
After being reassured by her words, I waited for the Human God's last message.
"Paradoxes are inevitable."
"..."
I waited for her to continue, but she didn't.
"That's it?" I asked, anticipating more words.
"That's it."
But to my dismay, she didn't say more.
'paradoxes are inevitable.'
I repeated those words in my mind, trying to make heads or tails of the sentence.
But no matter how much I tried to understand, I couldn't think of anything in my current situation to which these words could apply.
What should I do about it?
Should I be wary of paradoxes, or should I be ready for them to occur in the future or past?
But then again, can I believe that paradoxes are inevitable with certainty?
What if it means that I shouldn't have certainty about it?
"Haah... Fine, what do you want me to do?" I asked as I stood up not making the mess of my mind by thinking too much.
"Touch the chain that binds me and you will understand the rest," she replied. I nodded at her words as I moved towards her.
"With my death, the cycle will start again."
As I approached her, a faint whisper echoed in my head.
"The Gods will rise again and chaos will spread around the world once again."
*Argh..*
As soon as I placed my hand on the chain, almost instantly the Star Energy within me started to resonate with the chains getting sucked by it.
"'They' will soon arrive in this world as well."
The thousands of meters-long chain started to shrink in front of my eyes with an unimaginable speed.
"I wish you luck, The God Who Denied Reality."
*Boom.*
That's the last words I heard before the huge head of the serpent fell down and I lost my conscious.