"Of course I'm not going to endanger anyone else," he scoffs. Honestly, he was expecting worse so it's a bit easy to brush off the Protector's words. Terrence certainly isn't going to lie and pretend he wants to risk anyone else's life, but the temptation is certainly there just to try and get a more dramatic reaction from their stoic ally.
Ah, but he's probably had multiple years of other knights trying to push his buttons, hasn't he..? The realization both annoys the rabbit knight and reaffirms his thoughts, which he elaborates on, "Granted I'm one of the less predictable knights in general this year, but I'm certainly no fighter. On top of that I practically owe my entire fortune and fame to the Wizard, so I'm one of the last anyone would suspect of holding a personal vendetta against her or trying to assault our foe alone."
Terrence pauses for a sip before continuing, "As far as we're concerned, she's omnipotent, or nearly. But is she omnipresent..? If so, then it doesn't really matter what we do because the game was rigged from the start, so the only other option that makes sense is to work off of the assumption that she isn't. On top of that, our world functioned just fine for millions of years before her arrival only forty ago, meaning she is not fundamental in some way to our reality as a whole."
"Something changed forty years ago, and she has an objective. We've avoided being destroyed this entire time, but considering how fundamentally binary the failstate is, it's entirely possible that she's never wanted us to fail at all, and in fact, will not allow us to fail. There's something we - not she - are supposed to do, and in 40 years we haven't done it yet. It's not enough to just survive and win, we have to try things no one ever has before, push boundaries until we can understand..."
"That's science. Just, y'know... With a lot of bullshit magic no one can understand or predict getting in the way, but still. Magiscience."
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Ah, but he's probably had multiple years of other knights trying to push his buttons, hasn't he..? The realization both annoys the rabbit knight and reaffirms his thoughts, which he elaborates on, "Granted I'm one of the less predictable knights in general this year, but I'm certainly no fighter. On top of that I practically owe my entire fortune and fame to the Wizard, so I'm one of the last anyone would suspect of holding a personal vendetta against her or trying to assault our foe alone."
Terrence pauses for a sip before continuing, "As far as we're concerned, she's omnipotent, or nearly. But is she omnipresent..? If so, then it doesn't really matter what we do because the game was rigged from the start, so the only other option that makes sense is to work off of the assumption that she isn't. On top of that, our world functioned just fine for millions of years before her arrival only forty ago, meaning she is not fundamental in some way to our reality as a whole."
"Something changed forty years ago, and she has an objective. We've avoided being destroyed this entire time, but considering how fundamentally binary the failstate is, it's entirely possible that she's never wanted us to fail at all, and in fact, will not allow us to fail. There's something we - not she - are supposed to do, and in 40 years we haven't done it yet. It's not enough to just survive and win, we have to try things no one ever has before, push boundaries until we can understand..."
"That's science. Just, y'know... With a lot of bullshit magic no one can understand or predict getting in the way, but still. Magiscience."