13 First Conversation of the Week
After having a snack and having seen that I have no agenda for the rest of the day, to sate my boredom, I've decided to just surf the good ol' internet and binge-watch interesting random videos to see what's up with the world.
Lying comfortably on my throne in Elexium with my torso and legs upward in a wide v-like position, I held up a device that's somehow connected to the internet of a Verse without any connection to Elexium, showing an endless cycle of interesting short videos.
In this day and age, even if you're immortal, you can never be bored with all this entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Just these short videos for example, I think I've been scrolling for at least three hours now and I've yet to move from this position while I munch on some chips and fruits.
There seems to be an endless amount of them with people hunting all sorts of monsters, finding lost treasures, comedy skits, and of course cooking vids which some I found to be really good but most are bullshit as I directly manifested their food in front of me to judge it and they don't taste as good as their cooks say.
Anyway, it seems I've been caught in an endless cycle of scrolling through shorts. Each end of a video takes me to the next, and all of them have quite an interesting intro to hook in users like they were dopamine-craved fish. The psychological effect of it sure is something, each end of a video is a spike of dopamine. It's quite entrancing indeed…
For humans, that is.
Being the Elexys that I am, I have absolute control over my Mind and I don't even need a brain in the first to be affected by the simple complexity of their chemistry. But it sure is interesting how this concept works, like Space-time, the Body, and the Mind, are concepts that exist in a Continuum...
The Body as the vessel that interacts with the physical reality and the Mind is the force that wills it. Most beings can't have one without the other, like the fuck could they interact with reality if they have no physical Body and without Mind, how do they act on their Will through the body?
But believe it or not...
I don't need either to interact with reality.
Of course, other beings could do this as well, sort of.
Being like the Outer Gods for example who act their Will upon reality from Beyond. But well, they're basically Mindless and more or less a force of nature or a concept much like Fate, something supremely indifferent instead of something with an actual Consciousness with desires and preferences.
The difference between them and me though is...
I can interact with reality however I want.
Mindless, Bodiless, Soulless, Essenceless, and heck, even Identityless, it doesn't matter whether I have those or not it seems...
Gazing once again at myself in the third perspective which appears to be there, seemingly existing, I couldn't help but be extremely uncomfortable at the thought that it doesn't actually exist.
Like, goddamn, how do you even make sense of this?
It doesn't make any sense at all.
It's clearly there yet...
Mn, yup, let's not dwell on this any further before I go mad in equal paradox.
Oh yeah, speaking of those Outer Gods, there was also that oddball who claim to be a messenger of theirs, Nyarlathotep, who constantly goes seeking war with everybody and their mother, instigating Extra-Dimensional Overlords to invade New Earth. But according to the trends in these vids, it seems to have met its match with the Cultivators though, Cultivators who probably want to refine it into some treasure or something as they started chasing it around the Multiverse.
Mn, Cultivators sure are crazy.
Anyway, I think I've just watched enough shorts to get caught up with the current happenings around the world. So disappearing from the device, I got up from my throne and started stretching.
From the trends, it seems that today in that reality…
A group of ten Galaxy-Class threat Alien Overlords has tried taking over one of the Twelve Kingdoms, the Destiny Kingdom, but was quickly repelled by the King.
An Immortal Cultivator and a Great Sage had a fight and turned a few nearby galaxies to cosmic dust as the spectacle was watched by the countless people of New Earth.
The Crown Princess of the Genesis Kingdom, the kingdom on which Sumera Island is, had a grand birthday party with a bunch of important people and celebrities who attended.
The King of the Chaos Kingdom was suddenly executed by The Emperor for treason, which everyone suspected to be related to the recent attack on the Destiny Kingdom, those two never did get along after all and the Emperor has a strict no-infighting policy so the Destiny Kingdom probably snitched or something.
Lastly and most intriguing of all, a new Immeasurable-Rank Gate suddenly appeared at the very center of Genesis Kingdom's Ocean, which was just a couple million miles away from Sumera Island.
This all happened in the past twelve hours since the day started, it's only twelve at noon in that reality.
And that's just the tip of it.
Quite the lively world I live in, eh?
So yeah, you may have already guessed it but since I have nothing better to do for the rest of the day aside from maybe binge-watching anime, I decided I may as well check that so-called Immeasurable-Rank Gate.
Maybe I'll refine my moves there using the monsters or something. Although it's all basically just for aesthetics, who wouldn't want to look cool? I don't wanna look barbaric when I want to 'exercise' my Body at least.
Now that I mention it, with my Mind's 'newly updated' capacity, the ability to instantly have absolute mastery I have myself has become redundant since I could just do so as well without it with my Mind alone…
I was thinking of removing it before so I could enjoy the process of learning but oh well, I guess I'll just let be then. Besides, in reality, I remember it wasn't actually fun being an idiot and struggling to figure things out while scratching your head in cluelessness and incomprehension like a monkey. I'll just leave the struggling and suffering for the poor mortals I suppose.
Anyways, having decided as such, disappeared from Elexium and reappeared on one of the hat-like pointy roofs of my castle in what I shall henceforth call the FUU short for Fuck-Up Universe.
I could've just directly teleported there, but I figure I may as well enjoy the scenery and learn the geography around where I live.
Taking off from the roof, I used my body's pure raw strength to defy the massive gravitation of the New Earth and broke the sound barrier with a boom as I crossed a few thousand miles to the sky in the blink of an eye.
To efficiently refine my movements, I decided that I should avoid using my true ability when I could just use my more 'logical' abilities instead. Besides, although I have absolute control over it, I haven't gotten used to my new bodily strength yet. This would be a good chance to familiarize myself with it.
Floating above the Sumera Island which expanse and shape only now I could see clearly from this height. For a city island, it's about average in size I suppose, about twenty million kilometers squared in surface area. It has a perfect circle for a shape which tells me that it is most likely artificially made.
Looking around it, it's surrounded by a few hundred much smaller islands which must be the private properties of the rich and powerful. Sumera Island has a reputation throughout the Genesis Kingdom for being a nice vacation spot after all.
It was in the northern direction, which was behind my mountain, that caught my eye however. I could see a dozen towering azure pillars rising from there as they poked through the clouds and penetrated the sky reaching all the way to outer space, engulfing the whole region in bright blue lights.
Even though it was a few hundred million miles away, I could see it all the way from here like it was the sun. Those pillars must be quite a massive structure. Those seem to be some sort of energy leaking from the Gate deep below the ocean...
Interesting, so that's why it was labeled as an Immeasurable-Rank. The many far-away aligned stars that those pillars pierced and extinguished seem to agree with this assessment as well.
So I started heading for them at a relaxed pace as I watched the show of the dancing pillars and as the many people who were gathering like idiots got caught by surprise and disintegrated. I coolly flew while standing, unlike Superman who's in a vertical like someone's about to take him from behind. I munch on popcorn on the way.
A million miles and a dozen minutes of flying later, the pillars seem to be growing in number. Well then, are the creatures inside about to cause an outbreak? The Venturers sure have got their job cut for them, maybe the Kingdom's Royal Knights would be mobilized as well seeing how it is an Immeasurable-Rank.
I don't feel like being altruistic and saving their asses this time that's for sure. Well, not intentionally at least. Our interest may coincide though since I was here to test my moves on some monsters after all. We'll see, I guess.
Soon enough, I arrive just a thousand miles away from the closest pillars and a few miles behind the gathering of Venturers.
Marveling at the massive pillar as thick as even Yydrasil and brighter than a blue star and so hot that even my body feels uncomfortable. I feel like I would suffer some burns if I were to be directly hit by that, albeit minor ones. Surely, whatever was behind that massive gate below was no joke, even just the leaked weakened energy is destructive enough.
This might turn out to be quite the calamity after all...
"Oy brat, what are you doing here? Shit's about to go down, this place is extremely dangerous." A man suddenly invaded me from behind, my ears I mean.
Glancing at the source of the voice, oh would you look at that, it's a bald man in a yellow superhero costume with a white cape.
"Saitama?" I couldn't help but ask in faux confusion. Goddamn, who brought caped baldy in here?
"Fuckin' classic." The man seems annoyed at this as a deep frown suddenly marries his baldy face. "For the last time… I'M NO GODDAMN SAITAMA!"
Well, he seems to get that a lot.
"Then why do you dress like him?" I asked deadpan.
"It was a coincidence, goddammit!" He explained or more like excused.
"Right…" I muttered, unconvinced. Why the fuck do you keep wearing it then?
"Sigh... Just get out of here before you get hurt, you brat." Or so was the last thing he said as he zoomed past me and into the gathering of Venturers. At least he doesn't use his fart to fly.
Well, that was weird. It was my first conversation of the week and it was with a Saitama knock-off.
Anyways, maybe I should enter the Gate soon before an outbreak truly does happen and all the monsters rampage around to get killed by the egghead and his fellows instead.
So using only my body's raw power, I warped the fabric Space-Time to connect to points within its Continuum together, and then I used my pinky finger's long nails to swipe down and cause a vertical tear as the opening for the tunnel I've created. And voila, there goes a gateway to the Gate's entrance a few million miles deep below the blue sea that has formed one giant water vortex below cause I don't feel like swimming today.
Widening the tear, I was about to enter when…
"Where are you going?"
