42 Breaking through to Master Class (1/2)
”Well, first and foremost, I need to utilize the transportation companies in the empire. We have to ensure we have enough spaceships, supplies, and protection for these spaceships when transporting from one planet to another. We must ensure that the supply chains are not completely disrupted, but it is ok however to slow it down for the next couple of days, weeks, or months until the mainframe A.I. has finished upgrading. This would require a unanimous agreement of all transportation conglomerates, all their subsidiaries, and partners. Not only that, but companies that focus on the security must also give a lower hiring rate for these transportation conglomerates, probably at cost value for big shipments, 5% more than cost value for medium shipments, etc.”
”Lastly, the supplies themselves. Although most planets are quite self-sufficient, and the majority of the population in the empire have reached Mythic class or higher already, enabling them to forgo the basic functions of eating, drinking, and even excretion, there is still a vulnerable 40% of the population who are below the Mythic Class. Some planets are not natural exoplanets but rather terraformed for usage, but this had caused the food supplies to be imported from other planets. The planning of the division and transport of supplies can be done through algorithms, but we need to input what do we prioritize: The planet's general economy, or the number of vulnerable populations on the planet when we send in resources?” Lady Cassandra continued on, her voice a bit weary but still contained a hint of her iron will.
The other God cultivators were in thought. Although 5 of the God cultivators present are the de facto leaders of the transportation market, there were only 2 God class cultivators who are in the security market, making them have a duopoly in pricing. Concerning the exoplanets under the Empire's rule, the God cultivators technically own a certain amount of planets to be considered part of the council, making sure that they are representing a group of people. Each of these God cultivators has established complex trade systems with other planets belonging to other God cultivators.
For a moment, the council was silent, before voices sounded out.
”Agreed.”
”Agreed.”
”Agreed.”
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Lady Cassandra, upon hearing the decision of the council, nodded her head in silent relief. They have tided over the initial chaos. Hopefully, the economic brunt to the empire would not be so severe in the coming days, weeks, or months.
After all, this was the universe. There were so, so many other groups of beings in play.
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The Exoplanet 15 lightyears away from Eteria, named ”Eon” by Xander.
Xander was carefully exploring the surrounding forests, jungles, and grasslands that seemed to coexist perfectly with one another. The planet was already two-thirds covered with life, with the remaining still being barren. However, the atmosphere had fully stabilized, as well as the circulation of physical matter in the area produced by the elements.
He was exploring as he was waiting for the System to completely categorize the information that it had managed to copy from the database of the empire, sorting it from Spell information, people's information, Godhood, political matters, etc. It has been doing the categorizing process for the past hour, and since Xander didn't have anything to do at that time, he headed down the planet and began to explore the budding exoplanet.
He basically saw different species of animals and plants all over the planet. There weren't any sentient species so far, so there wasn't much to do. There were a lot of edible fruits though growing from trees in forests and jungles but didn't harvest them all because he might destroy the ecosystem.
Xander found an empty piece of land in the planet, where no life could be observed, and created a space barrier and created a time acceleration field of 1 second: 10 years. He used that time to observe and understand the red fragments he had harvested; there were a total of 108 large pieces and 1080 small pieces, all of them having varying sizes to one another.
He began to observe, prod and analyze the pieces one by one, from the smallest piece to the largest one.
Time passed. Years, decades, centuries, millennia, teraseconds pass by. Within that period, Xander was continuously comprehending the aspects of elemental creation under Order and Chaos elements, deepening his understanding of the paired origin elements.
Order. The establishment of the rules, the appearance of everything and anything. The invisible, guiding force that directs random, chaotically-driven movements into an ordered formation, creating the framework of the ordered system. Everything is rigid, everything is set in its place.
Chaos. The establishment of randomness, the birth of creativity and evolution; life becomes an interesting play in the eyes of the Spectator, the invisible, chaotic force empowering the movements of anything and everything into existence. The rules may have been established, but the rules now come in different configurations and comprehensions, reaching their own extremes, as well as the possibility of the rules being destroyed and devoured by other rules.
One gives birth to the other, supplementing and contradicting one another at their extremes, creating a creative power that can defy the Void element, giving birth to the 3 sets of paired origin elements, producing everything out of anything.
Yin-Yang. The foundation of the Physical dimension. Light came from Darkness, and the combination of the 2 brought out the 5 elements of Water, Fire, Air, Earth/Metal, and Wood. From these elements, more and more elements were born, from the interaction of the elements under Life-Death, and Space-time elements themselves.
Life-Death. The foundation of the Metaphysical dimensions. The manifestation of order and chaos elements guides the physical and all other dimensions. From life came death, and from the cycle of the two, the overflow of data created the Fate series of elements, ranging from Karma, Fortune, Reincarnation, Purgatory, Heaven, and Hell element series that were a combination of the products of Yin-Yang and Space-time elements as well.
Space-Time. The foundation of all dimensions, the framework that every dimension, space, and reality use to encapsulate the ordered system. Space gave rise to Time within the void, allowing the progression from nihility to infinity. The combination of the two elements allowed the formation of realities in the ordered system, which is basically a possible calculation that has been derived by the ordered system but never used, separate from one another beyond the concept of dimensions, but existing in the same ordered system.
The ordered system is basically a computing machine, that is both logical and illogical at the same time. It is immaterial and cannot be contained in a physical or immaterial presence. Space-time allows it to have its products encapsulated and manifested into forms. The ordered system is capable of calculating the possible ”scenarios” within the encapsulated ordered system, storing them in their own virtual sandbox. Only someone who can control both Space-time elements can actually leave their virtual sandbox, and get (copy), delete, or overwrite data from another virtual sandbox. Only those that have broken through God class could actually have the same ability as someone who can control and manipulate space-time elements. However, they can never destroy or absorb the ordered system, no matter what stage they reach, because they have integrated a part of power into the system, in exchange for being able to create their own universes upon reaching God class.
Meaning, if someone attempted to absorb the universe they came from, he or she or it would have to contend with the numerous life-essences that contain portions of consciousness and power that make up the ordered system as more and more sentient beings transcend their limits and step into the path of Godhood in the Divine stage.
Generally, the best time to absorb a universe is when it is a nascent one. The older the universe, the harder it would be to completely absorb or integrate the universe into one's own universe.
This is because every person's universe is unique upon reaching the God class, because the unity of their primary elements would produce a different configuration and not necessarily the same configuration as someone else. If one absorbs a mature universe, that being must ensure that the universe he/she/it has is actually strong enough to destabilize, devour, and replace the ordered system's universe.
He was there for a total of 5 hours or 180,000 years. He opened his eyes, and time returned to normal, with the elemental concentration in the area rapidly spreading all over the barren land, and even reaching the other end of the planet where life was already present. Life continued to flourish and advance; time began to work on the animals and plants, creating the budding formation of sprites, magic beasts, and even sentient beings from non-biological and biological matter.
The moment his eyes opened, a magical and elemental wave appeared from his current position, echoing throughout the planet, causing the life that was just developing to be disrupted, being distorted before crumbling on itself. Everything rapidly experienced the flow of time and fate, space distorting, creating pockets of space all over the planet. The planet was collapsing on its own, the greenery dying and turning brown, the seas, rivers, and lakes started to dry up, the atmosphere disappears.
The moment he closed his eyes, the magic and elemental wave he released all over the planet contracted towards his location, everything was back to normal as if nothing had just happened. Life was still the same. There were no sprites, no magic beasts, or sentient beings. Xander was shocked to the core. He didn't know if what he was experiencing was a reality or just a possibility.
He continued to test it by opening and closing his eyes. He also found out by just opening and closing his mouth, his clenched fist, he could also elicit the same phenomenon. After a few hours, he stopped, because he felt that the space-time around the planet was weakening due to his repeated attacks.
He decided to name it [In a Moment] and wasn't sure how to classify this spell, since it encapsulates the power of creation and destruction, and at the same time, everything and nothing.