The Reincarnation of the Kingmaker

Chapter 5: The only flaw of the 'Tower'

"If you put it way, then I guess it's understandable why you wanted to end everything in the same way. But how did you fool the 'Tower' though? Didn't you just mentioned that even now no one could successfully mislead the 'Tower'? In that case, even if you succeeded in changing the fate within my family, it should still not be possible for you to keep it hidden from the 'Tower', right?" Kayn doubted Natas' words.

"Yes, it wasn't possible for us to hide your existence from the 'Tower'," Natas nodded. "Though, from the start, there was no need for us to hide that you lived in placed of your father since he had made that wish unto us inside the 'Tower' after he had found out that the 'Tower' plans on secretly sending Nicholas into reincarnation. Knowing that, he thought of using the opportunity of Nicholas returning back to the past to give his child a chance to experience life as he and his wife already had fair enough of it,"

"Let's ignore my father's matter for the meantime," Regardless of how tempting the other side of the story was, Kayn decided to put a hold of it for now and focus on the main topic, "So, what you are trying to say to me is that the 'Tower' was aware of my existence but it simply chooses to not be bothered by it?"

Natas shook his head. "Not exactly. The 'Tower' was very cautious of your existence from the moment it agreed on us granting your father's wish, that's why it ordered its incarnation to assign someone he could trust by your side so that if ever you started becoming a threat against it, they will be able to easily eliminate you,"

"So that's the exact reason why the President of the World Leader Alliance and my wife plotted to kill me," Kayn finally understood why his wife and her father chose to approach the Gods first and proposed an alliance to eliminate him. It wasn't solely because of any profits or benefits they could get by doing so, that was simply a bonus they will receive once he is gone. Rather, it was mainly their responsibility to eliminate him.

"To be more precise, the 'Tower' decided that it might as well help us in eliminating the unknown variable. By doing so, it would no longer worry about the possible trouble that you might bring to it in the still unknown future," Natas explained further.

"So regardless of me doing anything that could pose a threat to the 'Tower' or not, it still wanted me to be gone, is that what you are trying to say?" Kayn was in disbelief.

"I am afraid so, but yes! That's exactly what the 'Tower' was thinking at that time,"

Hearing Natas' explanation, Kayn could only heave a long sigh at how unfair the 'Tower' was to him and his family. It granted the wish of other people for another chance to start all over again, but it decided to ignore his father's wish despite the fact that the latter is exchanging his life for another life. Not to mention, it was only a single life, too.

"How ironic," Kayn muttered silently. In a sense, this is actually within expectations since this was exactly the same as what the 'Tower' had done in order to select people who deserve to get another chance. Therefore, he can't help but assume that maybe the real reason for the 'Tower' to try and kill him was because it wanted to see whether he had the rights to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or not, as well. If that's indeed the case, then why did it let him live for so many years? The 'Tower' could have just made him go through a challenge anytime in-between the time before he entered the 'Tower' for the last time and when he was given the chance to live in placed of his father by the Gods.

There were just so many moments where the 'Tower' could have chosen to make him go through a challenge, but it still chooses that time when the Gods plotted to kill him. This is so suspicious… There must have been another reason for the 'Tower' to do that.

"However, that wasn't the only case" Natas abruptly interrupted Kayn from his thoughts. "The real reason why the 'Tower' decided to help us wasn't only because it wanted to use us in eliminating an unknown variable,"

"What other reason did you find?" Just like what Kayn had expected, things indeed weren't as simple as him being an unknown variable. If it was only because of that reason alone, then the preparation the 'Tower' had prepared against him should have been more than enough already to deal with him. After all, the 'Tower' could easily kill him anytime it wanted to by simply using his wife whom he still didn't know at that time was thinking maliciously against him. An assassination attack from her would no doubt serve a significant amount of danger to his life considering that he would never expect the woman he loved and cherish more than his life would all of a sudden try to kill him. Even if the assassination attack fails due to some unforeseen events, he should still be more or less injured, which the President of the World Leader Alliance, Nicholas, could easily use as an opportunity to kill him for good.

However, despite having that plethora of opportunities, the 'Tower' still decided to go as far as proposing cooperation with the Gods to eliminate him.

"For the first time ever, we witnessed the 'Tower' expressing a lack of confidence and fear. A flaw, you could say,"

"Fear…" Kayn fell into thought. There was a saying that he once heard that states, "Only the weaker side would use tricks and schemes to defeat their opponents. The true strong ones would rely solely on their own strength and power alone to defeat whoever and whatever comes in their way,"

That's right! The only reason why an Entity as powerful as the 'Tower' would choose to not trust its own incarnation and the preparation it prepared itself beforehand, and would even go as far as to propose cooperation with other people, was because it didn't believe that it could defeat him. And in most cases, the reason why someone is not confident is that they are afraid that their own abilities alone won't be enough to deal against someone.

"Why was it afraid of me?" Kayn can't help but ask Natas.

"Because you became an existence that it had never ever once encountered throughout the many millennia of its existence. In the millions of planets that it had visited and destroyed in the past, only you reached the point where you have the potential to kill everything inside the 'Tower', including all the Gods who were once the strongest of their respective planets, and even the Gods that existed at the same time as its creation, which obviously includes me. To make matters even more dangerous for it, you also have the capability to kill everyone on your planet, and could even go as far as destroying Earth,"

"Impossible! I was clearly unable to defeat you. If it wasn't because of you suddenly teleporting in front of me and stabbing yourself with the sword I had already let go, then I would have never won that fight," Kayn was having a hard time believing Natas' claim.

"I know," Natas agreed. "But just like what I told you back then, things would have played entirely different if you weren't affected by a lot of things, take for instance, the negativity affecting your mental fortitude at that time. One of the reasons that I also believed has affected you greatly was that you weren't given an ample rest on every floor you have cleared, as you have been continuously charging from the start of the 971st floor to the 1,000th floor,"

Kayn became silent once more. Now that he's seriously thinking about this matter, he indeed forgot to take enough rest after all of the people who came along with him had died. Just like what he had mentioned previously, he was blinded by hatred and was thinking of nothing else but to kill all the Gods.

"Anyways, that's all in the past, let's not dwell any deeper. There's no need to consider anymore what's the best option you could have taken during that point in time for you to achieve a better outcome,"

"You're right," Kayn immediately stopped reminiscing about the past. But quickly, another thought came into his mind, "Last question,"

"As if," Natas chuckled. He had watched what happened to Nicholas after he reincarnated into the past. That man asked the 'Tower' and even all the Gods who were also present during that time so many questions that their question and answer portion lasted more than a week. And even after that time had passed, Nicholas still occasionally asked questions to the 'Tower'. If only the 'Tower' didn't mention that he will eventually come to know the answers to all of his questions, then there's no doubt that Nicholas wouldn't mind asking questions for more than a month, or worst, even a year. After all, anyone who is reincarnated in the past would have numerous, or even infinite, amount of questions that they wanted to be answered.

"Hehehe," Kayn could only scratch the back of his neck awkwardly. It's seriously difficult for him to hide things from Natas since the latter has extremely sharp senses that could detect even the tiniest of details from him.

"Ask away. I'm willing to answer all of your questions until you are satisfied…" Natas replied before quickly adding an extra precaution to avoid the worst situation, "…or until when I am tired,"

Kayn breathed in relief knowing that he was given consent, "How exactly did you trick the 'Tower'? I asked you about this just a moment ago, and you still didn't give me any answer,"

"Oh, that's quite simple," Natas didn't have to think long for him to respond to Kayn. "If there's no one else that exists who can outmatch and successfully trick the 'Tower', then let the 'Tower' trick itself,"

"Oh…Eh… Wait! Why didn't I think of that…?" Kayn started pondering inside his mind. Indeed, if no one can defeat an undefeatable Entity, then simply let that Entity defeat itself. But, just like what Natas had told him, achieving such an impressive feat wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for him. After all, the only reason why the 'Tower' showed its flaw was due to the threat he brought to it. Though he doesn't know yet whether this was really the truth or not based on the information he had heard so far, especially considering the fact that he hasn't fully trusted Natas yet as of this moment

"Because of you being blinded by your own hatred to all of us Gods, it gave us a perfect excuse and opportunity that prevented the 'Tower' from finding out that we were secretly planning on sending you into reincarnation by sacrificing ourselves. Of course, this wouldn't have been made completely possible if it wasn't because the 'Tower' itself was intending to use everything in order to eliminate you, thus it didn't mind all the sacrifices made in the process. That was the exact moment when the 'Tower' didn't realize that it actually tricked itself," Natas explained with a smile of triumph.