The knowledge that this wasn’t the first universe was scary for most people, and yet understanding that Father was a being who lived the age of two universes was even scarier.
"I achieved godhood thanks to a human I will be forever grateful to, Kayden Heart. Wherever you are in the universe, you can look for me, my debt to you is eternal." Father regretted trying to kill the boy; the happiness of getting his wife back caused good feelings to well up in him in a strange way. "The shrinking of the universe is my work, I am consuming everything in search of mana and the moment has finally come. You will be able to see the timeline break."
Father smiled and opened his arms. A frightening amount of mana started to come out; There was so much mana that it began to break the space around it. The density was increasing more and more, and it slowly started to become a black hole where reality was bending over it.
Think of a huge table made of cloth and a stone is thrown into the center; this causes the cloth to curve towards the stone. It was very similar. Everyone was feeling a huge pull towards the Father.
Fortunately, there were thousands of gods holding back mortals and preventing one of the largest unintentional genocides in history. The mana continued to flow out of Pai for about a week; After this period, something started to change.
Anyone who was in a lower realm would start doing things extremely slowly, to the point where they were almost at a standstill. There was a baby in the middle who was at the apprentice level, and he simply froze in time.
There was so much mana that time began to be drastically affected. It was incredible considering that spacetime was completely separate from this universe. As the days passed, the effect of time spread throughout the kingdoms.
After about a month, only those who were at the fifth realm onwards were able to resist the effects of time; the rest simply did not have the strength or ability to resist and froze.
"Finally." In a moment, Father felt the river of time opening to his will. The enormous endless current, which only gods and those with rare talent were able to see, was wide open to Father.
"Who dares to peer into the secrets of time?" A voice that seemed older than anything in existence, that conveyed the wisdom of entire eons, was heard by all. She brought all the gods to their knees, including Father.
Slowly, Yan was supported by mana and began to stand up. He fought hard to be there and knew he would have to face the guardian of time for this to work. It was the hardest battle of his entire life.
"I am Yan, the man who seeks something beyond time. I ask that you open for me the line that does not exist, the time that was not, the time that did not happen." Father’s voice resounded with frightening strength, showing that he was not a lamb among the gods.
"You have the strength for it, but you must pay the necessary sacrifice." Father knew it would be like this; he had seen similar things at least once in his entire life. They were perhaps the scariest moments he had ever experienced.
"What is the price?"
"Your immortality."
"I’ll pay." Yan would spend his entire life in exchange for just one minute with his beloved. He was a crazy man who would do anything for his goal.
"Do whatever you want." The voice said this, and Yan felt a huge weight in his heart. It was simply painful and kept squeezing him without stopping for a second, but the pain was something that wouldn’t stop him at all.
Father began to peer into the river of time and use all the mana he had accumulated to travel through it. Reaching the end didn’t cost much of his mana; any god could do that. The issue was that the guardian of time did not allow this action.
Yan’s immortality was a ridiculously high price, as he was, at the moment, the strongest being in this universe. Not only that, but he also had the most threads of fate attached to him. Yan’s immortality was the most expensive price that could be paid in this lifetime.
When he reached the end of the river, he saw a source of the time stream. It was very small and had practically nothing, it was a huge void. At this moment, he could discover the entire truth of the universe.
Who created this existence? Who was able to do all of this to this degree of perfection? All these questions could be answered if he drank the spring water, but that was not even a temptation for him.
What’s the point of knowing the truth in exchange for your happiness? Ignorance was bliss, and Yan would not go against that principle. He pulled out all the mana he had consumed in the universe and began to pass through the spring.
The man was simply a very dense flood; it was such an absurd amount that there was probably never, at any time in history, anyone capable of handling a merely similar amount.
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A battle between the river of time and the mana of a god began. This placed Pai in the annals of hidden history, known only to those who lived longer than several universes. His achievement was incredible, but not unique.
Time was a very big thing; Things that hadn’t been done were still ridiculously rare, probably no more than 100 things at some point in history, whether in this universe or an even more distant one.
All the gods were seeing the open river of time facing Yan’s mana. Slowly, Father managed to overcome one of the most fundamental laws in the entire universe; a god who defeated time itself was born.
This was a milestone in everyone’s mind, because the impossible, at that moment, was just a matter of opinion. Anything could be done, it all depended on how much you were willing to sacrifice for it.
"Break my will!" Father was euphoric. His body began to explode from the inside out, and in just a few minutes, only his head was still left, but his eyes didn’t even blink.