Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

Previously, it was mentioned that Clark's sons even accomplished the feat of plundering Saxon and Frankish territories.

During this period, they were playing both sides, specializing in high-level games. They attacked whoever was the most aggressive! Later, they even killed a prince of England.

This period was very close to the time of King Arthur.

The prototype of that knight king, Riotams, would soon receive an invitation from the Roman Emperor Antimius, determined to consolidate his forces and take down his two biggest enemies in one fell swoop.

One was a land-based alliance of barbarian tribes, and the other was a maritime power (pirates) built around an old acquaintance—the remnants of the long-extinct Carthaginians.

Because they frequently attacked and cut off Rome's food supply, although the two forces were irreconcilable enemies, they were surprisingly united in their attitude towards Rome—to destroy this declining elder brother first!

It was in this environment that Antimies issued the signal to launch a war. At this time, although the prototype of King Arthur, Riotams, had defeated the Saxons several times, he was short of money and had no real money to appease his men. In addition, several wars had emptied the national treasury. In desperation, Riotams decided to take a gamble.

Following the older brother around—three days—yes, I went hungry for nine meals!

Originally thought to be coming to gain military merit and make money, he was ambushed when he arrived on the mainland with his main force and elite troops. Apart from his reinforcements, the rest of the allied forces did not come, and they all stood up the Roman emperor.

Although the honest Riotams led his remaining troops out of the encirclement (the prototype of the Battle of Gladiolus Hill) with his strong military strength and fled eastward to the Burkendi-controlled area, he eventually found himself in a small town with a very extraordinary name in the last moments of his life—Avalon.

Thus, after this battle, the Roman Empire was completely defeated. And among the English, who were caught up in the affair and whose king died, and who were powerless to resist the third wave of Saxon invasions, this story was gradually elevated and transformed into another version: the legendary tale of the great King Arthur of Britain who went to the continent to defeat the evil Roman emperor, and was later betrayed by a villain (Mordred) and died in resentment at Avalon.

The Roman Emperor Antimius, who was ambitious and called on his brothers to share the gold coins, but ended up losing them all, was probably the prototype for Lucius the Sword Emperor.

He was an ambitious man, but unfortunately, the mess was beyond saving, and the people were not united... He only managed to persuade one knight king to cross the sea, but the knight king was ambushed and killed by the enemy beforehand.

No wonder the Sword Emperor was portrayed as so powerful in the Arthurian legends, and the Western Roman Empire was even repackaged as incredibly strong, yet it ultimately lost to King Arthur.

The stronger, more evil, and more mad he is, the more it represents how powerful, glorious, righteous, and great the knight king who defeats him is, right?

Without a doubt—whether in various classic works or in actual history—the wars of decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, which occurred very close to this timeline, and the failure of this final expedition, were important turning points that could influence the course of European history.

If the Knight King and the Sword Emperor were to join hands and truly defeat the enemy, and even reunite the Eastern and Western Rome to become stronger, wow—that scenario is simply unimaginable.

Now, Ye is practically a Roman emperor, and if he wanted to—with his various trump cards, especially the power to directly deploy his military forces—he might even be able to single-handedly turn the tide of this final battle.

That way, the story of the Knight King might circulate in a much more interesting version. Like—Knight King, don't cry, if the Sword Emperor prototype doesn't work, then let's find an Emperor daddy to carry you!? (laughing emoji)

Chapter 147 Ward lamented: You know nothing of fate, Odin: ?

"Let's talk about this timeline..." Night was pointing to the historical turning point of the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The mighty Roman Empire thus embarked on the irreversible path of destruction and decline.

Although he initially wanted to steal Fei Ge's script, this grand finale clearly held even greater value.

Before the night, I didn't choose Celtic mythology because my combat power was too low, and I didn't want to encounter that pigeon god too early and miss my development time. But in a world based purely on the Norse universe, will I really encounter gods from other pantheons?

If it's just about exploring the future timeline, like a simulated universe within a simulated universe, the risks are minimized. And if history is successfully reversed, changing the course of history that has a significant impact on human history, it's almost certain that several extremely rare and high-level mysterious concepts will emerge.

however--

Faced with the choice of the night, the goddess representing the future among the three goddesses was just about to agree. Since it was a future timeline, she would naturally help the Sun King fix the world line.

But after just one glance at the timeline, the future goddess Skod suddenly revealed a look of horror and fear.

"No, this can't be—the timeline of that period is already..."

"The day of wrath, the day of Ragnarok!" the goddess of the past suddenly interjected.

Although her power is to control the fate of the past, it is precisely because it is the past that she can understand the terrible fate that has existed since the very beginning of the world's birth.

Seeing the terrible fate in her third sister and the immense toxicity emanating from peering through the river of time, the eldest sister, Ward, recognized that what she saw was probably the world after Ragnarok.

Ragnarok—the time when the gods and the world perish. In the world that follows, even if one or two familiar old friends survive to a new world and start a new era, they can be regarded as completely different gods.

What's with this distinction between the Old and New Testaments of the Norse...?

Since it's a timeline after the world has been destroyed, it's naturally no longer within the jurisdiction of their Norse pantheon.

Frankly speaking—it's simply unbelievable. In a time when the Norse world had perished and the gods no longer existed on earth, how could humanity possibly still exist and continue to maintain its incredibly fragile history and destiny?

Unbelievable! This is completely incomprehensible to the three goddesses who hold the reins of destiny and witness the world's destruction!

On the other hand, sure enough—there was a problem with this time period.

Or rather, it doesn't exist in the simple Nordic universe concept world.

When Ye chose this world line, she also considered the possibility that she could not choose it.

Compared to other pantheons, the Norse mythology, despite its remote location, enjoyed a longer period of glory. However, with the rise of monotheism and the increasing integration of the Norse with the European continent in terms of human history, the physical 'real' extinction of Norse mythology occurred around this time.

But Ye still had a guess in his heart.

What if you choose an earlier time slot and then just endure the wait until then?

Will the Norse world directly enter Ragnarok and perish, or will it resonate and connect with other conceptual universes, entering a new era?

Of course, if the time is not too long, Ye is willing to give it a try. What he lacks in the real universe is time, but in the simulated universe, it is the complete opposite. What he has the least to lack is time.

"So, what about this timeline?" Night, settling for second best, pointed to the Nibelungenlied, well... probably a timeline that goes a little further back in time from Siegfried's story.

That's right—since we can't choose a later timeline and can only choose an earlier one, let's just start from the best starting point of the timeline where we can earn achievements.

Siegfried's father—! The timeline of the king who pulled the sword from the tree—the hero Sigmund.

This time, the three goddesses were no longer as composed, calm, and arrogant as before... believing that no matter which possible parallel timeline the Sun King chose, they could perfectly send him there.

The three goddesses huddled together, carefully examining each other. The second sister, now the goddess Verdantine, breathed a sigh of relief, indicating that the timeline was still far from Ragnarok, so it seemed there were no problems.

The reactions of her eldest and third sisters just now made her feel uneasy...

Fortunately, the time chosen by the Night coincided with the era in which the hero Sigmund was active, precisely when Odin was extensively cultivating heroic spirits on Earth and bringing them into his Valhalla.

The most famous and beautiful Valkyries who guided the Norse heroes were also active during this period.

Odin would also manually train heroes from time to time. For example, he specially prepared the Sword in the Tree for Sigmund, who inherited his divine blood and was his descendant on earth. This was a weapon that only the destined hero could pull out.

This is similar to the Sword in the Stone next door, which has always been suspected of being tampered with by the wise Merlin, and which only King Arthur could pull out. The Sword in the Tree, which is the prototype of the Sword in the Stone, can only be used by Odin's descendants. No one would believe that something was not done.

Finally, after determining the world line chosen by Night and wishing him good fortune in battle, the three goddesses joined forces to send him to that seemingly distant timeline, as if it didn't exist at all.

Because it is a possibility, it is like a virtual world, existing between existence and non-existence.

Even in the real world at night, one can enter this world.

The chosen identity is human...

In the eyes of the three goddesses, the Sun King had sealed his own 'divine power'. Since the three goddesses could not sense any divine presence, they then sent him to that other world.

And then his figure disappeared into the Well of Urd.

The eldest sister, Ward, spoke up: "I will go and inform Lord Odin that the gamble has begun... You will continue to guard the Well of Urd here."

"clear."

"Understood..." The two looked at each other and nodded in unison.

This gamble, which involved the gods and humans, should have been something they hoped Odin and the other gods would win, given that they were on the side of the gods.

But at this moment, for some reason, they had absolutely no confidence, perhaps because of the fate of the enormous creature they had glimpsed?

At this point, the three goddesses seemed to be giving up, completely unwilling to deal with the matter and showing no enthusiasm whatsoever.

When Ward met Odin, she wasn't even too surprised that Odin didn't have the status of the King of the World. Perhaps it was because she had witnessed true greatness, and this 'small matter' was no longer enough to cause Ward any emotional change.

After informing Odin that he could enter that timeline with the avatars of the gods, Ward couldn't help but say to Odin as he left, "Poor God-King, you know nothing of fate—fate is absolute... and cannot be defied!"

Indeed—in Scandinavia, fate is a predetermined fact that cannot be changed, and the magnificence of the Sun King, who possesses a fate far greater than the world itself, so vast that this small Scandinavian universe cannot contain it, is beyond the comprehension of the gods.

Just as neither humans nor gods can defy fate, no one can defy the Sun King!

Chapter 148 Sigourney: Having grown accustomed to dignified and imposing figures, how could she tolerate her fiancé's lewdness?

Odin: ? ? ? ?

At this moment, Odin was already experiencing a tearing pain somewhere, causing his mood to fluctuate.

The strange behavior of the eldest sister in the Fates goddesses made him feel even worse.

What does that last sentence mean?

Are you mocking your mother? This is mockery, isn't it? Did Goddess Ward think she couldn't win the bet in the past? Or did she see something?

Thinking of this, Odin's expression also became serious, and he frowned slightly.

After his boastful outburst, Ward, feeling incredibly excited, slipped away faster than anyone else. With an expression of utter pity and a tone of utter sympathy, he mocked the King of Gods.

Such a stimulating thing could only happen in a moment of impulse, when I thought of the immense destiny that even the goddess of fate felt powerless against, and I was able to muster the courage to feel sorrow for the gods and sigh out loud.

This was a gamble whose outcome was predetermined from the start; how tragic it was for the gods, unaware of their own fate.

Of course—nowadays, the goddess wouldn't dare to be so bold in front of Odin.

Meanwhile, as time passed, Ye awoke from the endless darkness and found himself in a frozen world, inside an ancient castle.

At the same time, his identity in this time and space also came to mind.

Just as he was automatically introduced as an unnamed Trojan soldier when he entered Greece in the simulated universe, and as the concept of the first human was introduced in Norse mythology, now—in this possible world line that is somewhat similar to the simulated universe—he is not an outsider, but has once again acquired a new identity in this world.

If I had to describe it—from the gods in the heavens to the mortals on earth, every life in the world has its own place, its own destiny. When outsiders try to squeeze into a world that is already full, they will push out someone else's place. This is a gentle way of entering the world.

Of course, you can also choose the violent invasion mode! But as an outsider, you will often have to endure various forms of rejection from the world or from forces within the world. The advantage, however, is that you are quite free.

His current identity is that of a descendant of Sigir, the valiant god of the hunt. Sigir is one of Odin's many sons, who was demoted to mortal and suffer the torment of birth, old age, sickness, and death for making a mistake in the realm of the gods.

Although he lost his immortality, Odin still showed favoritism towards his descendants. Sigir was his grandfather in this world, and his adoptive father in this world, Volsung, was a lucky man who married a Valkyrie.

The Valkyrie bore him ten sons and one daughter, one of whom was the great hero Sigmund.

Ye, having only briefly explored his identity in this world like watching a movie, didn't become immersed in it. For him, it was merely a change of identity; his body and consciousness remained his own...

He has no real blood relation to the humans of this world, and he certainly didn't suddenly become Odin's great-great-grandson. The night now seems to have swallowed up the entire presence of one of the original ten princes, though he himself is still himself…

However, due to the influence of his presence, others will treat the prince from their past memories and impressions as the same person as Ye.

Or rather, apart from Night herself, for everyone else, this world has always existed and only has Night.

This is no longer a substitution; it's a complete replacement from the past and from the very source. Only Ye himself can maintain a clear mind, knowing that he is neither a mortal prince nor a soldier on the Trojan battlefield...

He is simply himself...!

And among the people closest to her in this world, who else could possibly notice something was wrong with the night? Probably only the Valkyrie.

But after giving birth to eleven children, the Valkyrie ascended back to the realm of the gods when her youngest sister, Siguni, was five years old, having completed her mission.

The main selling point is no overtime!

None of the remaining mortals realized that the night was now completely different.