"I will give you one chance to surrender," Adam said, holding the black plasma sword in his hand.
But why a plasma sword? What happened?
The fragments of the Tree of Lofe were nothing more than containers of a vast amount of energy. Inside of each fragment, there was a whole dimension where all of that energy was sealed and a host was needed, one that could use this power.
After the fragments fused with the soul of a person, this person could release this power through their body, giving them an ability related to one of the primordial authorities. Of course, the person must have a strong body and enough power if they wanted to activate the fragments.
In other words, a person should be able to manipulate primordial particles, and they need to be mentally strong to a certain degree so that they would be able to keep their sanity and become another existence altogether without losing their identity.
Adam's case was extremely special, and it would have never happened if it wasn't for the result of various circumstances that were carefully planned by a certain existence.
Not only was he reincarnated, but he even had fractions of the original primordial authorities.
The only reason why Adam didn't die when he was on Earth was that he didn't come in contact with primordial particles yet, but it didn't mean that they were completely nonexistent, after all when he turned thirty, his body exploded.
That was because the Fruit of life that he ate finally started to show its power when he came into contact with primordial particles that accidentally made their way to Earth through a gate, and he couldn't withstand the sudden surge of energy that literally sucked his body from within. Fortunately for him, he was asleep when it happened.
However, before Adam's soul completely vanished, a certain Being copied his memories and transferred his soul to a world where the process of fusion could be halted, in other words, in a world where primordial particles were abundant, then used Marie as a receptacle for his body.
It should be impossible to have two of the primordial authorities even for the supreme beings, but Marie was special, and the Existence had also added another piece to the puzzle, making Adam his masterpiece.
All of that was carefully planned and nothing could be left to luck, but the work was done in a split second.
"…" Rudeus just looked at Adam and wondered about what happened. "Are you that confident in winning?" He asked.
After all, nothing seemed different apart from the fact that Adam was now holding a weird-looking word.
Rudeus made up his mind and decided to finish Adam off and then think about what was happening after. He didn't know that it was Adam's power that kept his mind clear enough to think rationally about such a thing, but still, he couldn't let go of two fragments just because he was being sentimental.
Moreover, it was not that time slowed, making it seems like their fight was going on for a long time, but it was just because their thinking process was hundreds of time faster than normal people without them being aware of it, and only ten minutes or so had passed since they began fighting.
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:::[Adam's POV]:::
'What was that?'
I didn't know how to explain it nor how exactly it happened, but I just traveled somewhere. 'Or should I say, my consciousness traveled somewhere?'
The guy in from of me didn't even notice something, even though it felt like I was gone for almost a few years.
'That was close call, I don't know what that was, but I should be extremely careful in the future.'
I didn't even know how to describe the events that I had just experienced after I tried to open the gate of my soul. Yes, I called it that.
The first thing I did was to try to feel the source of my nullification power inside of my body but that was when things got weird.
I put everything into searching deep inside me as if I projected my consciousness inside my own body. It sounded weird, but if done the correct way, there should be something happening, or so I thought.
Well, it was just an attempt, and I didn't know if it was because of my abnormal mental or emotional state, but something happened.
Everything got suddenly quiet, and when I opened my eyes, I was standing in a vast space where everything was silver. The glittering silver sky, the desert of silver sand, and most of all, a silver sun.
I didn't know what exactly was happening, but I guessed that it was as if I was my consciousness was inside of a world that existed inside of me. 'It's extremely weird, I can't help but feel like I am beyond the term extraordinary. What the hell is this body?'
'If I said to someone that there was a world inside my body, and only spiritual form could access it, what look would they have on their face?'
I began to come up with some theories based on what Cristal told me and also from that person's words.
From what I concluded, It seemed like my soul was compressed like a zip file, but inside this compressed file, there was another compressed file that was protected by a password, in other words, my power of nullification.
It was just insane.
'Who can create an infinite space inside someone's soul and then seal it with yet another space inside someone's body?' I thought to myself.
'Really, this is insane… Who would think of such a thing? And why would they do that in the first place? What is a soul anyway? It's so complicated.'
Moreover, it didn't even stop at that, and when I walked around the silver space, I finally managed to reach a wall made of silver matter that looked just the power that I used to defeat the guy who manipulated gravity.
It extended towards the sky and I couldn't see the top, but I could tell that this was the gate of my soul.
If I could manage to open it, at least for a few seconds, I thought, I would be able to become more powerful than I already was.
However, I didn't know how to do it, and I had no clue of what would happen if I managed to do it. It was nothing but a gamble, but without taking any risk, I would never be able to become the person I wanted to be, or so I told myself.
I touched the silver wall and tried to order it to vanish by using my thoughts. Of course, that didn't work, so I tried to force my way through it, but when I did, the part of my spiritual body that passed through dissolved so I quickly discarded the thought. After all, I didn't know what would happen if my spiritual body disappeared.
'What should I do?' I thought.
Then I began to think again, trying to come up with various hypotheses that could help me understand what was happening to me.
Since this wall let Verte in, it meant that it reacted to my instinctual reaction, but I didn't know what kind of reaction they were.
The most probable explanation was that my subconscious could determine if something was needed for my survival, and now what I needed to do was to convince myself that the action that I was about to undertake was needed even if it was risky.
In other words, I needed to convince a part of me that acted naturally as a defense system that it should stop doing its job just for a few seconds. 'How weird is that?'
During all of that, I kept telling myself that all of it was real and I was sane. Otherwise, who would think about such a thing under normal circumstances?
I was wondering why my body, or should I say my whole existence, was so complicated to the point that I was not even sure about my nature.
' Am I a human, a God, a monster?
That person said that it was a little bit complicated…. A little bit complicated my as*. I could as well live my life without ever finding out about this. The circumstances that lead me to find out about this were extremely weird in the first place…' I cursed.
After that, I tried to control the silver world with my thoughts again, but this time, with a strong intent to protect myself. In other words, I focused only on myself, forgetting about everything, and tried to visualize myself dying.
Then, my subconsciousness reacted and I reached my hand toward the silver wall.
And for a split of milliseconds, I could manage to open the gate of my soul before being overwhelmed by so much power that my body reacted instinctively again.
When I came to sense, I was already holding the sword in my hand, something that I created with my power. Yes, I needed to do all of that just to create a plasma sword. However, even though it was an insignificant part of my power, this sword was made of the matter that I ended up calling antimatter.
I didn't have much time to think about something extremely complicated, and my body could only handle a milliseconds worth of my full power, in other words, enough to create this plasma sword.
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