"I will reach the cosmic order!"

So what formation was he designing? A bomb!

He planned to blow up the abyss of his multiverse.

Whether or not he would be able to survive and see what was beyond? He had no idea.

But just like how he was willing to risk this body in the dream realm. He was also willing to risk it for a chance to go beyond.

"Hopefully this works!"

Nonexistence then collap-

John was in a daze.

He couldn't remember what he was doing?

"What happened to my true immortal body?"

John remembered he was doing something. He just couldn't remember what. He checked the infinite maze.

He saw the Deathless network. Everything seemed to be working fine.

He felt an odd sensation. Something was trying to connect to him from somewhere.

"I won't be manipulated!"

He ignored the sensation and it soon disappeared.

John sat in his realm as his skeletal body. He still had an upgraded source in his private consciousness.

John then noticed something a little scary.

"A parasite?"

John had the ability to observe soul. The natives of the wizard world. Something hard to detect had happened to their soul. The otz room seemed to have been contaminated.

Luckily, Those in the Deathless network seemed to be safe from control of this entity.

John formed a phantom soul in his universe and had it tempered until it had a nascent soul.

He then checked his stronghold in the lower layer of the world.

It seemed his phantom souls were immune to this controller.

"Just what sort of existence has invaded the wizard world?"

John summoned the first 20 founders of Deathless to the throne room.

Only half of them showed up.

Death was among them.

He looked like a lich. As soon as he saw John he spoke:

"Your memory has been tampered with by the cosmic order."

Nobody knew what Death was talking about. It wasn't Death! The entire wizard world had been infiltrated.

The Infinite Maze was a safe haven. So those in the Deathless network were safe. But Death didn't trusted his soul with John. So he had been taken control of by the concept. He had become a puppet.

Emflowcreagen had the power to take over the souls of other creatures. But he really only took over Death, so that he could come in contact with John.

John remembered him doing something. He did indeed feel like he had forgotten something.

Death spoke:

"You collapsed the abyss. Causing an entirely new realm to be born. You wished to be able to exist without soul. You have accomplished this. Return to yourself and allow us to become one."

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John felt like his mind had awakened.

"That's right! My experiment to reach the cosmic order!"

But John didn't let down his guard.

"What exactly are you?"

"I am Emflowcreagen."

Death held out his hand.

"Join me."

John then laughed.

"I'll pass."

"Why? I have a mysterious destiny. I am a concept. I am an original incarnation. I have unlimited power."

"I refuse to join, it would be too easy. I wish to surpass myself. Not rule some accident."

"Accident?"

"You aren't me. You are a poor imitation."

Death started to chuckle.

"Who said you had a choice?"

A wave of blue light covered the entire stronghold.

John as his skeletal body. Looked at the Deathless network get contaminated.

Luckily, it was sealed in a special cube.

Emflowcreagen was shackled to the calamity realm. But it was able to control souls of other entities. Its will alone could takeover others souls with no problems.

It Hijacked the nascent soul body that was in the stronghold.

John cut his private consciousness from this body.

He mentally frowned.

Emflowcreagen now had access to a nascent soul 'John Destinatus'.

During that brief instance he had recovered a lot of lost memories. He knew the coordinates of his universe as well as the key to infiltrating the infinite maze.

You see. The key to his full authority of his universe was the soul of John Destinatus.

Emflowcreagen used its hands to pry open a hole between realities. He stepped through it.

John appeared as his skeletal body on the lifeless planet where he did most of his experiments.

Emflowcreagen cracked his neck.

"This is a good thing. You won't regret fusing with me. I am you!"

John spoke:

"There is no such thing as free lunch in this world. If something is too good to be true. It probably is. If you were doing so well as a concept. Why would you want to fuse with me? What could I possibly offer you?"

"..."

"There is clearly some restriction to being a concept. There is a reason you haven't shown your body here. You either lack one. Or you are trapped in that new realm."

"By fusing with me. You hope to get around this weakness. But I don't care."

"I am the real John Destinatus! You are just a remnant will that survived my experiment."

Emflowcreagen sighed.

"I am the entire reason your destiny became eternal long ago. I am the cause of you being able to see soul in the first place. You think that seizure just happened to give you supernatural power?"

"Every single version of John Destinatus has fused with me. You are the only outlier that refuses."

"You are like Death. You don't trust me, right? You will miss out from this mindset."

John frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"I am the controller of the calamity realm. I have seen all alternate versions. I have been around since the beginning. I will be around to the end. To me. You are just a lucky survivor that got a wave of my intent before you died."

John thought this entity was bluffing.

"What reason do I have to lie to you? I am John Destinatus!"

"Everything! You stand to gain everything."

John then spoke:

"I refuse! You'll have to beat me. In-"

John saw his skeletal body fall to the ground. His head had been cut off!

Emflowcreagen stretched.

"I missed this body! It is quite powerful... Such a shame. I am beyond using such weak vessels."

John picked up his head and reattached it.

He then vanished and appeared in his infinite maze.

He observed this entity.

But Emflowcreagen looked into the sky. It looked as if he was looking through the barrier between realms and looking directly at John.

"Impossible!"

John used Dimension Seal on this entity. But it walked through it as if it didn't exist.

"Tier 8 spells? Nice. You'll need something stronger then that though."

Emflowcreagen jumped creating cracks in reality.

He then grabbed John while he was in the Infinite Maze and smashed him through multiple walls.

"How!?"

John was confused.

So began a legendary battle never before seen in history. Really, no one saw it. But it was legendary!

An immortal named 'John Destinatus'.

Versus a concept named Emflowcreagen. Who claimed to also be 'John Destinatus'.

"You don't understand John. From the perspective of the multiverses. I am more John Destinatus then you! You are just one man."

"Then leave me alone!"

John teleported back into his universe. Attempting to boost his power through it.

John controlled tribulation lightning striking Emflowcreagen many times. But each time he sent out a punch that destroyed the momentum of the strikes.

Hundreds of phantom souls formed. Forming bodies.

"Let's see how you deal with-"

All of the copies disconnected from his private consciousness. They then stared at John.

"That's bullshit!"

All of them were sucked into the phantom souls and they then vanished.

"John. You lose."

Emflowcreagen then felt something happening to their body. It was breaking down into runes. John had deconstructed the body Emflowcreagen was using.

"I see..."

John breathed a sigh of relief.

He used his knowledge of formations to pull of a win in the end.

But then a portal swallowed him.

John had entered the calamity realm.

He saw a giant blue star.

From it, he could sense an ancient powerhouse.

"Where am I?"

"The Calamity Realm."

John tried to use his ability of space to vanish. But he wasn't able to. He tried to manipulate the formation of this realm.

"No... there aren't any rules to manipulate!? Just what type of place is this."

Emflowcreagen spoke:

"I win..."

John laughed.

"You think I'm weak just due to not being in my universe?"

"I still have access to my mental magic. Good -"

John then realized he was surrounded by gods and eldritch beings.

"You were saying?"

"Fuck."