Myths Reawakened

Life!

More than ten days had passed since Wayne united the power of the five chosen knights. During that time, he had been contemplating one question: life.

The meaning of life was manifold, often intersecting with concepts of religious philosophy, consciousness and soul, and the morality of good and evil. When the concepts collided, the answers were naturally varied.

Wayne was no philosopher. As a mage, he contemplated life through the insights and magical theories he had learned. Magic was about balance and evolution. The human body was the universe, and a mage’s evolution was the universe’s development and transformation.

Self-growth, reproduction, will, evolution... These aligned with the essence of life and the scope of the universe. Life, as they knew it, was the universe.

However, while life could be the universe, the universe didn’t solely refer to life. Wayne knew that very well. What he considered life fell far short of what made a universe. At most, it could be viewed as an abridged version—it would be nature.

Wayne hadn’t even come into contact with all that constituted the concept of nature. It involved not only the basic four elements—earth, fire, water, and wind—but also nature in the narrower sense, Sun, Darkness, Death, as well as Storm and Lightning. Considering the macroscopic view of nature, the faiths of the Life Alliance warranted deeper thought.

The Life Alliance had consisted of more than the five goddesses. All deities had to come together to constitute a complete life, a complete nature.

Due to the outbreak of the war of faiths, the Life Alliance declined, leaving only the five goddesses. Then, for unknown reasons, Darkness and Death withdrew from the alliance, leaving only Nature, Sun, and Moonlight.

The three could still constitute nature and life, but it was far from the glory and might of what the alliance had been in the past.

“Based on the deities’ choices, this path isn’t wrong. Such is life...”

“But it feels like something is missing.”