N/A - N/A : Within the Void
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My eyes widened as theories flooded my mind. In an instant, my mind had accelerated to its limit and burned through the ideas and theories that had lood in the back of my mind for decades, like the riddles of ancient mythology.
But while my understanding and theories advanced with haste, I eventually hit a wall.
Divinity was my first peek into a realm completely different from anything I had ever been able to fathom, the realm of ti and the realm of the gods, but understanding divinity was simply the first step.
The first step of a very.. very long journey...
But that was sothing that would take ti, sothing that was still a precious resource, no matter how much my understanding of it deepened. -Shit, I got sidetracked...-
Quickly shifting my attention back to Father's situation, I slowly got my derailed mind back on track and eventually was t with the sa roadblock. -I need to speed up ti, not for , but for the flower...- But now I had more than a few ideas.
-Divinity's aura of influence is pretty small, but as it progresses through energy states, it seems to grow or shrink.- To put it simply, the more crystalline it was, the smaller the aura, and the more energetic, liquidy, or gaseous it was, the larger the aura. Of course, the amount of divinity also affected it, -but if I can make its aura big enough, I could engulf the flower with it. In theory, that would make it flow at a pace that would seem close to normal to .-
However, no matter how much I slowed my divinity beyond that, the flower would never flow through ti faster than . -If I did the opposite and actually slowed down my divinity, ti would pass for everyone, and not just the flower...-
One other option I had thought of was if I could control the divinity in the sleep lily and speed it up from the outside, but in practice, that wasn't possible. -And if I try to move the divinity out of my reserve, it will just crystalize, so I can't just move my divinity out of my body.-
It was an annoying predicant. Every direction I turned, I was t with a different roadblock.
But there was one theory that remained to be tested. -Divinity seems to have no effect in a gate and doesn't do anything in the void either.. so that begs the question of what is required for it to work...- My draconic pupils thinned as I quickly created a dozen small cubes of uranium and, from them, recreated a small piece of the fabric of space using my own space mana. -Is it ti that dictates divinity, or is it divinity that dictates ti?-
*crackle* Stopping the fabric just before it reached my body, I spread it through about half the gate and placed the cubes in random locations throughout it. When isolated from my aura, the cubes of uranium remained still and unmoving even at the atomic level, keeping them from decaying. -But if ti even just slightly starts moving, they'll pop...-
"Hooh..." It was the perfect environnt to burn through experints, but for once, I didn't have many to burn through. -If I, myself, am in the fabric, when I adjust my divinity, ti will be dilated for as well.. but what if I'm not in the fabric, yet my divinity's aura of influence encompasses it?-
Thanks to the web of crystallized space mana that had spread throughout my body ever since I first awakened my attribute nodes, my body had its own laws with regard to ti and constants I had co to know in physics when isolated from the fabric of space, in a gate or in the void. In a way, it was a very sloppy fabric of space that gave the privilege of moving freely within the void regardless of the absence of ti even before I had divinity.
-However, now isn't the ti for to figure out why that is...- Letting out another heavy breath, I quickly ford and used a burst of space mana to create a surge of divinity on par with what I used against Freya. *vwoop-CRACKLE* Instantly grabbing the divinity, I kept it from flowing outward and crystalizing before speeding it up in order to slow ti around .
However, because I wasn't inside the fabric, it sped up ti a thousand-fold. *P-Pop* As my aura of influence expanded beyond the reach of my body by about half a ter, it engulfed two of the dozen cubes and instantly caused them to decay with a pop.
But while it was good that it worked, it made my eyes go wide. -Wait it actually.. worked?- I honestly expected the experint to fail, as I believed ti was what dictated the flow of divinity. -But if that's not the case.. then what causes ti to flow in reality?-
A chill instantly passed down my spine with a shiver. -Just how much divinity would sothing need to dictate the ti of sothing on the scale of a solar system...-
It was a genuinely horrifying train of thought, but was also one I had no reason to dwell on. -If a creature like that really exists.. I'd be as insignificant as a mosquito larva.. so, maybe it's best to just not think about it...-
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Trying my best to look past it, I did a couple other quick experints to try and figure out the ti dilation in relation to my divinity before finally floating over toward a marker I left in the void and reappearing over Atlas. *vwoop-vwoom*
In an instant the dark yet colorful view of the void was replaced by a dark blue sky, lit by the sun, which had yet to crest over the horizon, and filled with dragons already beginning their day.
-Alright... Now, how am I going to find this thing...- Exiting the void over the estate, it was the first thing I checked, but it was nowhere to be seen inside, leaving the entire city for to search.
But as I started questioning where it could be and questioning where our family vaults were, I faintly sensed sothing about eighty kiloters north of . -Huh?-
I sensed it not with my aura but with my divinity. Feeling a sensation reminiscent of a god's presence but on a completely different scale. -It's so faint...-
Quickly flying toward it, the presence I felt slowly split into multiple before I finally arrived at a very large estate with several buildings, so greenhouses, and so proper living quarters, but at its center, there was the largest building spanning about a kiloter across with six huge glass dos composing its roof.
It was the building I felt the auras coming from, with extravagantly carved and decorated walls of white stones and colorful tals built around what looked like a section of forest layered with grass, flowers, and ponds with a small ecosystem of wildlife like a huge terrarium.
But rather than a terrarium, it was a garden.
Beneath the canopy of the towering trees that filled the glass dos, there were countless herbs and flowers I failed to recognize alongside many others I knew were precious. The most precious of which being in the areas I felt the presences coming from, where I found tiny, so yet to sprout, saplings of sleep lilies lying about.
-Woah... There are so many...- They were almost all saplings, even younger than the sleep lily I bought from the auction, with so that couldn't even be called seedlings. -But is mine here?-
Continuing to look around through the dozens and dozens of tiny plants, I looked for my own, but to no avail, forcing to try and find the presences of other sleep lilies in the city.
But as I expanded the area I was looking for presences in, I found a stronger presence in a large room off to the side lined with mana accumulation runes containing an area of soil that was essentially an oversized flower pot.
And in that oversized flower pot, I found my lily, bathing in a sea of mana. -There it is...-
Quickly descending next to the wall, I used the space mana in my aura to engulf it in a gate before shrinking it down to be smaller than the nucleus of an atom and pulling it out through the wall, weaving it between the atoms in the wall before finally releasing it in front of and imdiately jumping into a gate with it. *vwoop-vwoop*
From the way it was situated in the room, the lily seed to be living purely off mana, similar to other ascended creatures, but as I floated back to Siratha to grab so liquid mana from the pool I created, I noticed the flower's head had a very dense white soul in it, with a small core of liquid divinity at its center. -Ah, so that is how it works...-
Essentially, the flower's head contained what looked like an accumulation of soul fragnts, sohow gathered to be denser than a normal soul would allow. -I wonder if that's because of the divinity, or if the divinity can only be there because of the soul...-
But the free ti for such thoughts quickly ca to an end as I returned to Father, speaking about it with Grace for a mont before gathering so liquid mana and jumping into a gate to start maturing the lily.
But it was far from an easy process.
Over the span of about two weeks from my perception of ti, I had to doctor the flower to an unbelievable extent. It drank mana like an elephant drinks water, and while I quickly found out that constantly going in and out of the gate to grab so liquid mana wasn't going to work, it wasn't much less tedious to create a container in the void that I could use to monitor the flower while also creating ambient mana with the space mana around us by feeding it chunks of the heavy tals and rock from reality.
While I did originally try simply making the elents with my mana, I quickly found out that I alone could not simply feed the void such a volu of energy, as a gram of exploding antimatter had a only slightly larger reaction than two grams of normal hydrogen had. -But damn, that chunk of rock gave a lot...-
*hummm* The lake of liquid mana I sat in humd as the lily freely absorbed it all. It was so much mana that even I felt a bit suffocated, but it was beneficial for as well.
Over the span of the two weeks, I had progressed my understanding of mana, space mana, the void, and ti imnsely.
It had gotten to the point that when in the void, I had the freedom to do essentially anything I wanted. -If I had enough mana and ti, I could even create a small planet with an ecosystem and everything...-
But that eventually brought up a question I had to really think about.
What was the difference between and a true god... Was I already one? Or was the bar of what constitutes a god just much.. much higher than I could imagine...
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