Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 632: Lord of Light and Order

"You are influenced by the Mother Goddess." The voice calling Rorschach sounded again. It was Dryatz: "What did you see?"

“See the game is over.”

"what?"

In a trance, Rorschach suddenly found it a little funny. He didn't know how to blurt out the word "game". Dryats's question, which was full of confusion, surprise and a little annoyance, reminded Rorschach of his mother.

"Gaia is corrupting you, Rorschach. Fortunately, because you are special, She cannot digest you. So the Mother Goddess chose another method to influence your mind, hoping that you can take the initiative to leave this world. If there is no Heart of Thoth and no backup for me, you will be exiled by Her." The extremely old words, as if they came from ancient times, echoed in my mind:
"As for you, Dryads, because you have devoted yourself to Rorschach, you will be exiled together with Him, but you will escape from this world that is about to be destroyed and gain freedom in the new universe, just as the mythological epic predicted."

"Watch your words," the goddess responded to the old man's voice.

The golden light in Rorschach's eyes faded away, and he regained his vision. He was now on the treetops, not the Tree of Law that belonged to him, but the High Heaven. Then it was clear who the god who was talking to him and Dryats was.

"It's you." Rorschach's short two syllables contained mixed feelings.

"It was me." The old man understood what Rorschach meant. "It was me who asked you to come to Istani. It was me in the past, the me who had died as a mortal, who destroyed the Shadow Land with you. It was me who brought you to this world.

"Even though my time is running out, it is enough to explain the past and give you the truth."

Rorschach saw the image of the "ancient sage" again, but this time He was extremely majestic and transcendent, without the humor of a crazy old man, only a sacred and unapproachable aura.

His voice was like a mighty bell. Although it was written in modern language and wording, it was still mixed with ancient Yablon from time to time. Fortunately, it was no obstacle for Rorschach: "Many believers thought that I was a masculine supreme being who had existed after the Creator, just like the Mother Goddess. But I was originally a wizard who despised the gods. Because of this, I accomplished a feat that the devout could never achieve. For them, just having this idea was the most serious blasphemy - ascending to the gods."

Rorschach had long known about the ancient wizard's past and his many histories, but there were only blanks since the eve of the founding of the empire, until he appeared in the deepest part of the Shadow Land, the ruins of the holy land of the elves.

Now the blank was filled, and the answer was right in front of him. Rorschach suddenly realized that if he had agreed to the deal with the "doppelganger", would he have become a "human body" like the ancient sage?
"When I exhausted all magical knowledge and spells, becoming a god was just like studying new tricks for me, but I don't need to go into details." Although He spoke calmly, Rorschach seemed to sense a hint of pride: "But after I stood at a new perspective, I finally saw the truth of the world and realized that all myths and the most ancient epics were not the pathetic ravings of priests and poets."

As He spoke, He guided Rorschach and Dryats's gazes to move - at the end of the roots of the Tree of Truth, the black tide was surging, and only an isolated island remained in their world, and beyond the black tide was nothingness. Above their heads, the two black and white celestial bodies were violently rotating relative to each other, burning the last life of this universe.

One of them represents the Mother Goddess, and the other one transformed into the old man in front of him and told his past: "In order to deal with the approaching doomsday, I quickly launched the second war of gods after the first one.

"When I was still a wizard, I witnessed the punishment of the gods and how they regarded the lives of the living beings as insignificant costs. After I ascended to the throne, I realized that these gods knew about Gaia's revival very well, so they killed her one by one with anger. "In the material world, I mobilized my believers to form the Empire, the Church of Order and the desert people to eliminate other beliefs. I unified the intelligent creatures, especially my former compatriots - humans, hoping that they would no longer consume each other. I also did not forget my identity as a spellcaster. In order to unite the loose and hostile wizards, I founded the Arcane Hermitage and found a common enemy for all wizards - the Church of Order.

"In the symbolic world, I will fight against other gods one by one. Those who submit to me will become angels under my throne; those who do not submit will have their kingdoms destroyed and their powers seized. Everything I can control is in my hands. Before I ascended to godhood, I was already the master of all laws. Now, I have countless incarnations and countless powers. I am an invisible god.

“I have taken back the power of the gods, recast the order, and gained the status of the masculine of the world under the Creator. I will use light to resist the erosion of the Mother Goddess, and I will become the Lord of Order and Light.”

As he thought of this, His figure began to blur. Not only the old face of the ancient sage, but also the incomparably handsome young man, the warrior as furious as thunder, the profound and unknowable alien, and even the bird head of Thoth emerged, and finally merged into one.

In the black and white celestial bodies, the momentum of the white light ball surged, illuminating the light of salvation. Shining on the Tree of Truth, the tumorous nodes immediately recovered, the black pollution faded away, and the black sun hanging high above the earth began to crack, emitting a dazzling golden edge from the inside out.

The church bells tolled by themselves and the magic guild's protective barrier grew stronger, as if the destruction was about to be reversed.

However, the words that the Lord of Order said to Rorschach began to be urgent: "The awakening of the Mother Goddess is irreversible. The stars in the outer astral world have been extinguished one after another. What we see is just the light and shadow that arrived billions of years ago. The main plane and the elemental plane and secondary plane of the half-life constitute the last isolated island.

“Fortunately, the main plane is the starting point of the creation of all things and the location of the singularity. As long as it is protected by me, the Mother Goddess cannot fully awaken.

"As the world gradually fell into nothingness and extinction, it also had a boundary, and I also had the opportunity to discover that there was a world outside of this world. I tried to break through to the outer realm of the universe. During the first experiment, an outer god named Yis came in from the crack.

“His intrusion means my success. He brings an order that is different from this world. He is evil and holds the power of shadows, but his power does not belong to the Mother Goddess and is not affected by the feminine origin of this world.

"I was very excited. After driving away the evil dog, I started the second experiment. This time, I had confidence and a new direction. I tried to introduce order to the land without magic. The result is you, Rorschach. I want you to grow up as quickly as possible, to gradually gain strength, to obtain the power to balance the Mother Goddess and transform the whole world, and then use the order of the world without magic that your soul carries."

At this point, the Lord of Order suddenly stopped explaining how to use it, and instead mentioned another god: "Dryats is also an experiment I conducted to deal with Gaia - you were originally one of her incarnations and vessels. After I kill you, I will strip away the authority, reproduction, and life that belong to the Mother Goddess, and then give you the hope of resurrection.

"Now, the container is filled with new force and matter, and you will be independent of the Mother Goddess. It was a successful attempt." Now the source of Dryaz's power is the magic power and power of faith distributed to him by countless collectors through the blue light barrier. Although there are no prayers from believers, these machines continuously supply pure power, allowing the girl in the forest to have what she has today.

"Baran has another plan." The old man returned to Rorschach: "In short, everything went smoothly, which was beyond my expectations. This is all because of your existence."

"So, I am your pawn?"

(End of this chapter)