14 Everyone has their own problems (2/2)

It was somewhat ironic since the greed of an immortal led him to this junction.

As he browsed Harrison's medical files he noticed the lack of optimism of his attending physicians and he concluded his first guinea pig was useless to him and after he retrieved the headset he would idstance himself from him completely.

What he and the physicans failed to understand was that the energy array he used has implanted itself directly onto Harrison's soul as the side effect of not having to feed the controlling array.

What he also did not know was it was an array made by a void deity used to fuel his clones over different planes as a means to enjoy his harem and would automatically modify the temporal laws of that plane once it left it and put them on pause.

The physicians were not to blame since it was something incomprehensible by Earth's standards and Ambroise was also not to blame since any information about void deities was above his pay grade. It was strictly guarded by the leaders of alliance as they liked to represent themselves as the highest authorities.

That was the result of them being used to being on top of the food chain and once they found out there was a mountain looming in front they were reluctant to admit they were the proverbial frogs in a well. Although such knowledge spurred on further cultivation it was mainly kept by the highest levels as top secret to make themselves seem untouchable.

The main reason they could succeed doing so was also that the beings who could reach and live in the void usually did not concern themselves with the lower plains since the lower planes had nothing much besides maybe some entertainment or sentimental value for them.

They found a new battleground when breaking through the void of the higher planes. A battleground that was infinitely bigger than the higher planes that were just stable offshoots of the void and the lower planes were just stable offshoots ot the higher ones. It called the void for a reason it was mostly empty. You could travel for a billion years with the speed of light and not meet any other living thing in it.

Luckily for the bengs occupying the void they have found a way around it. The main thing that differentiated them from the lower and upper planes was that they no longer needed a phsyical body for their souls to survive. At the lower level of existance the souls would start to dissipate as soon as the container was lost but they could make a new container with a thought as long as the materials were or even just energy was available.

All that they need was their soul and energy so they were no longer constrained with things like distance and time in the void. As long as they had a clear idea of where they wanted to go they could just teleport there directly.

It was a dream and also their greatest fear for all the apex beings in the lower realms of the void to get there. The dream was to reach a higher place and the apex of power and the fear was to start once again from the bottom. Any random existance from the void could destroy an apex existance from the higher planes with but a thought and they were aware of that threat since it would not be the first time it happened. They were at their mercy and at the same time they also wanted to join them and any idea of provoking them was ludicrous.

For Harrison the void was of no concern as he was trying to multiply a long string of numbers with fervour and since he found he had nothing else to do. After reaching level 11 in mathematics he tried longer digits but hit a bottleneck as the difficulty was raised more than his intelligence that would alove him to calculate effectively. All he got from trying is a headache but if he tried calculating at a lower difficulty he got nowhere in terms of leveling mathematics.

He was starring into the void but he had no wish to go there. Harrison just wantd to fall asleep and restart his day on Atreus where he at least had some semblance of life. Being stuck in a hospital room with no ability to do anything was psychological torture for him.

Humming the first few line lyrics from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody he finally got his wish and woke up on the other side. He stood up and looked out the cave. The sun was slowly setting and the shadows were filling the forest. He did not want to waste anymore time so he went down the cave wall anyway and collected some firewood for later and filled the waterskins from the spring. As he stood there in the twilligt of the evening he thought what to do going ahead.

The obvious thing was to get stronger in this world and find a way to get out a hospital on that one. He took out a onehanded sword and start practicing every move he learned from the book and repeating it over and over again.

After two hours he wiped himself off and recycled the clothes in the inventory. He was not going to go swim in the pond in the darkness. He quickly built a fire sat down and ate the rest of his roasted ratbit as he contemplated on how he could faster switch to this world since the other one was now completely useless to him.

'I need to find a way to fall asleep faster!!!', he thought as he lied down next to the cozy fire which colored the cave in orange hue.