'It looks like I keep being underestimated,' Adam thought, 'but I know that the enemy wants me to think that way in order to appear superior. One of the things that those who stand at the top fear the most is the rise of a stronger opponent that could strip them of everything they have. If I want to reach my goal, I need first to change my way of thinking and not think like a weak person and act like someone who possesses the Authority of Creation & Destruction.'
These were Adam's thoughts as he was being barraged with a powerful burst of destructive power from all directions.
Boom! Some of the floating islands which were part of the Fenrirus territory were caught in the outbursts, which almost annihilated the whole thing. The four puppets controlled by the Emperor didn't leave Adam any time to breathe.
Adam, however, didn't appear to be panicking in the least, knowing that this was something that he must overcome. He didn't give any room to doubt despite what the Emperor said. He trained his mind for fifteen years, agonizing, thinking, agonizing, and back to thinking again—Considering all of the possibilities, facing his biggest weaknesses, and understanding his limits.
'I will not let human morals or ideology restrain me,' Adam continued his inner monologue. 'Humans couldn't reach the perfect answer because they were doomed to fail since the beginning. There were those who tried to escape their fate, but there is a reason why no one heard about their success. It's typical for a human to discard their humanity to obtain greater power. But I will impose my selfish desires on the world until it bends down to my knees.'
'It's impossible because you are just a human. Aren't you being ridiculous? The universe can't be understood by a simple human. A human can't do anything about their fate. A human can only be happy with what was given to them. Just because you are a little bit powerful, it doesn't mean that you are free to do anything you want. A human needs to accept and learn to adapt, then they would find happiness—Don't joke with me!'
The Emperor didn't seem to have tried to interfere with Adam's monologue. However, he had also begun to reconsider his opinion of this man called Adam.
"Why are you trying so hard to convince yourself that what you are doing is the right thing?" The Emperor used Liu to transmit these words, sounding like he pitied Adam.
"Because that's what humans do. I intend to keep this part of me, the aspect that made me agonize in my previous life. Even if it's a perfect answer, there's no reason to not doubt it. I will continue to think about this answer again and again as I take new elements into consideration, to see if it's still the perfect answer. I will do that to see if it still leads me straight to my ultimate goal," Adam said with a determined voice.
"Hahaha! This is interesting! I didn't expect to find someone as wicked as you in this world! I can't even say what kind of delusional thought is—"
"As I expected," Adam interrupted the Emperor, "your ability is not that all-powerful." He had finished analyzing his enemy's weakness, as well as their intention.
"Tell me, why didn't you use everything you had to kill me when you had the chance? It's not because you couldn't but because you were forced to discard the idea. Meaning that there is still a being that is capable of making you bow down. The question is, can you read the thoughts of this being?"
"You say something interesting, I must say. That won't change the fact that you can't still beat me. Can you even beat my puppets?" The Emperor emphasized the word 'puppet' to provoke Adam.
After that, the four puppets released their full power, in other words, they ascended to the next level and turned into their astral forms. It was an impressive spectacle, something that Adam had never witnessed before. He was used to seeing his astral body, but he had never seen someone else in this form.
Once in astral form, the flesh disappeared and the body became almost translucent, emanating a bright gleam, showing that it was made of particles and condescended energy. In this form, they could manipulate every particle in their surrounding, bypassing the law of space and time—as particles existed and continue to exist even within every dimension, in every timeline.
However, a normal human would never be able to process all of that information even if they were to achieve the astral form. At best, what they could do was use their astral body to converge all of the particles in their surroundings and increase their power significantly. Still, if they made a mistake, then they would be absorbed by 'the natural order of things and would die.
Adam understood everything just by looking at the astral bodies. He realized that the ability to summon his astral body without his physical body disappearing was a miracle in itself. And this was all because of his authority.
Then, he thought about the hint. Why did his abilities activate when he wanted them to activate? Why he nothing happened when he wished for something that was beyond his capabilities?
These questions seemed obvious but the answer was there. One just needed to think, not as a human who had accepted things as the way they were, but as a human who wanted to become a God.
"…" Even the Emperor was taken aback by Adam's thinking process. It looked like he was solving riddles one by one, figuring out the answer behind all of the mysteries. It was indeed the best way to avoid the exposition of his plan. 'Is this why he was sparred?'
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The answer to Adam's question was, of course, the Natural Order of Things, or The Autonomousity. Creation manipulated Nothingness to make existences, and Destruction render all existences into Nothingness. This was simple. However, to make all of that possible, another thing was needed, the third Primordial authority 'Autonomousity'—For the two other authorities to activate, this another element was needed.
By themselves, the two authorities were just tools in form of a mass of energy. In order to keep these tools from going out of control, and make sure that do what they were supposed to do, the third authority was vital—It was the most important of all authority or any form of power, and the most powerful force in all of the ensemble of what exists. In other terms, it was the will and the God of Creation himself.
The power of the Autonomousity authority was to make something happen and to control the order of things. This authority determined what could become a reality and what couldn't depending on the circumstances and the order of things pre-established. For instance, if the God of creation wanted to create a universe, this authority would make that happen by activating the Creation ability and following the order of things, from the creation of atoms to the birth of planets and galaxies, preventing anything that shouldn't be part of reality from occurring.
Without this authority, the universe would cease to exist. This was the reason why the dimensions and the realities separated stayed separated and didn't collapse on themselves, even if all of the infinite possibilities exist at the same time.
This was also why it was impossible for a rock to turn into a human no matter how much time passed, for a human to birth a higher dimensional being even by coincidence, and for the flow of time to progress backward—Everything followed a Natural order, and everything will always follow the natural order set by the God of Creation I'm the universe that he had created.
Sooner or later, this authority would put everything back to how it should be. Things that happened and would happen would be always within the pre-determined calculation. Otherwise, they wouldn't happen.
As such, even three supreme beings were within this calculation, and their existence was nothing unnatural. They existed because their existence was somehow beneficial for the whole existence.
As such, one they, the supreme being of Omniscience wanted to create a future in which the Authority of Autonomousity would be forced to let someone ignore the rule imposed for the sake of the universe. The only way to do that was…
[You have this tendency of talking too much. That should be enough for now. You are an observer, not an educator.]
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Adam had finally figured out the existence of Autonomousity, or at least he knew that something like that existed. He has also figured out how to deal with the situation, and what he needed to do next.
"I need to find a way to manipulate this mysterious force… In order to do that, I need first to understand how it works," Adam said, sounding like he was finally ready for the next step.
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