Chapter 349: Philosophical Truths (2/2)

The Opposer finished his cup and refilled it. ”Our world was the first world. Back then, meaning before I became this powerful, there were no other worlds.”

Gravis' eyes widened. ”No other worlds?” he asked. He had assumed that all the worlds had been created at the same time.

His father nodded. ”Yes. There was only this world. The old bastard only decided to create the other worlds to expedite the gathering of Cosmic Energy after he saw that I became a threat. After all, he and I still become stronger, and he needed an edge over me,” the Opposer explained.

Gravis' felt his horizons widen. Cosmic Energy? The Opposer and Heaven were still becoming more powerful? He had expected that both of them had already reached the peak. ”What's this Cosmic Energy?” Gravis asked.

The Opposer stayed silent for a couple of seconds. ”I can't tell you all the details since that would maybe motivate the old bastard to move against you, but I can tell it to you in more general terms.”

”Every world is created inside something that I call the Chaos Void. There is no official word for it since I'm the only being that had ever been there,” he explained.

Gravis' felt his heart race. His father was about to tell him something that only he knew. Probably no one else, except for maybe some members of his family, knew this.

”It's basically an endless conglomerate of chaotic forces with no pattern. To put the forces at play into perspective: Every other being that would go there would die immediately. Only the old bastard and I can survive out there.”

Gravis couldn't imagine the power of the forces at play.

”Energy is part of the Chaos Void, and that's where the Energy in the world comes from. The world is able to filter the Energy out of the forces, but it doesn't have enough attraction to pull in more than just a little bit,” he explained.

”That's where the cultivators come into play. Try to imagine the world as a spherical filter inside an ocean. The filter only allows water to enter the sphere but not exit it. Obviously, the sphere has the same density and pressure inside as outside, right?” the Opposer asked as he drank more coffee.

Gravis nodded. ”Right, and in order to get more water into it, the water inside the sphere needs to be compressed to make room for more. After all, you said that no water could exit it,” Gravis said.

The Opposer nodded. ”Exactly. The water is obviously Energy in this analogy. In order to compress the Energy, you would need to use more Energy. Like this, you only have a small gain of Energy since you already used a lot of it to compress it. On top of that, it requires more Energy the further you compress it.”

The Opposer finished his cup. ”That's where cultivators come into play,” the Opposer said. ”By becoming stronger, they automatically compress more and more Energy into themselves and pull in more from the surroundings. This creates empty spots of Energy in the world, which we call an Energy Vacuum. Due to the lower pressure, more of the chaotic forces get pulled into the world to fill the vacuum. Thus, more Energy enters the worlds.”

”That's the reason why there are cultivators,” he repeated.

Gravis looked out of one of the windows in thought. The reason why there was cultivation was one of the central philosophical questions that every human had. This question was on the same level as to why there were life and death and why the world even existed in the first place.

Yet, such a philosophical question had such a logical and straightforward answer. ”So, cultivators only exist to make the worlds, and probably also Heaven, more powerful?” he asked.

The Opposer nodded. ”Exactly,” he said. ”For your info, the reason why death exists also has something to do with it. By knowing why there's cultivation, you should be able to infer why death also exists,” the Opposer said.

Gravis sighed. Even the mysterious reason for death was this logical. He already had a pretty good guess. ”The possibility of forever losing our loved ones is terrifying and a motivator to become more powerful. After all, with more power, we have a better chance of protecting ourselves and our close ones.”

The Opposer nodded. ”Yes. Same reason why we have love and friendship. If we didn't care for our close ones, death wouldn't have such a powerful effect. Everything has been perfectly designed to motivate us to become stronger, and therefore, increasing the power of the old bastard.”

Gravis sighed again. It felt like the world's philosophical truths had been answered, but the answer was only cold, selfish, and logical. Everything only existed to make Heaven more powerful.

Gravis sighed another time as he finished his cup.

He felt like some of the wonder and magic of the world had left, only to leave a grey and calculating machine.