John held the remains of his concept in his hand. He felt a bit emotional.
What he had done was something that couldn't be easily reversed.
He shook his head, dispelling these emotions.
He flicked his hands and the flame vanished. It didn't go out.
John had stored it within his storage space.
John's body was now a supreme treasure to other existences. It is too bad that his 'will' is extremely secure.
This essence of his concept. He was doing something nobody had ever done before. He was walking with his true existence on him.
This was madness!
But nobody would suspect it... who would be crazy enough to travel around with the core of their being on them? Most would store it in the safest dimension.
Most didn't even have a true existence in the first place!
The cosmic order was the perfect space. It was something that many hoped to store their artifacts in. But only a few had succeeded.
John was among those few.
Well, he used to be.
Not anymore! You could say he had gone from being rich to being poor. He had gone from owning a 'house' to being homeless.
But John wasn't sad.
Why was this? It was all according to his plan.
Invulnis would use the fragments from the trial to progress. John might lack his concept. But he could still communicate through the A.I Chip. He just couldn't create another person with the powers of Invulnis.
John planned to cultivate the methods of the soul.
This was all just a ruse though. In secret. He would actually be cultivating his true existence itself.
So Invulnis was very important to his future growth. As he needed him to pass the trials so that John could get the brands for his soul.
Although he would have these unmodified brands on his soul. He wouldn't allow any backdoors to affect him.
John's goal was to create a space at the same level as the 'cosmic order'.
Only then would he feel it was worthy to house his true existence.
He had the password needed to open up his soul. It was through his observation that he developed a new method of cultivation.
Cultivating the true existence! A legendary path. One worthy of him walking down it. He had changed his attribute panel again. Now his rank would be the level of his soul. While his existence would be his true rank.
Name: John Destinatus
Age: 185 (21)
Rank: 0
Existence: 0
Strength: 25
Dexterity: 25
Constitution:80
Perception:1000 (100000)
Energy:1000
Abilities: Aura Body, Respawn, Teleport, Disguise, Detonation, Waypoint
"I'll make it to rank 10! Then I'll go even further beyond!"
John was just starting... but his expectations for the future were absurd.
But who was he? He was John Destinatus!
John began construction of a pod to hold his true existence for operations. That's right! He planned to manually add onto it.
His tools? Cerebium!
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Soon a flicker of blue flame was on the operating table in a special pod. John was very careful. If he destroyed this artifact on accident. It would be on an entirely different level then merely shattering his soul. He would be wiped out.
At the same time he was operating on the artifact. He was also operating on his soul. More specifically, he was using admin access to look at the structures of the soul.
He was building a framework of layers to put around his artifact.
He spent 80 hours adding the first layer to his true existence. It now looked like a marble with a blue flame inside.
John had built the framework for rank 1. This now meant theoretically. He could build his existence up to rank 1. He merely needed to fill the gaps up with energy.
What energy would he need?
GR!
But he had no access to such divinity. He would have to steal it from somewhere else. Him seeing the layers of his soul had enlightened him.
"What if I use my soul as the source of my power?"
His soul had become unbreakable. If it wasn't for him finding the password to open it up like a flower. He would be out of luck.
He opened up his soul and looked at the orb in the center of it.
The orb looked just like his artifact now.
"How interesting..."
It was a direct connection to his true existence.
"I won't be able to use my soul. Consuming other peoples souls might work."
John thought about this.
He then went to the biotech department of his lab. He took some of his DNA and began the process of making a clone of himself.
"Nothing stops me from using the souls of others!"
He soon had an entire warehouse full of vats growing copies of himself.
He had each recorded by his special soul camera. The moment a soul became ripe. He would perform surgery on it.
He would then inject his true existence with the essence of soul.
After doing this for a year.
Name: John Destinatus
Age: 186 (21)
Rank: 0
Existence: 0
Strength: 25
Dexterity: 25
Constitution:80
Perception:1000 (100000)
Energy:1000
Abilities: Aura Body, Respawn, Teleport, Disguise, Detonation, Waypoint
He had killed hundreds of clones of himself. His existence was still at rank 0.
"It seems this way of cultivation his considerably harder then cultivating soul."
Invulnis was still stuck on the 42nd floor.
John found out progressing wasn't so simple. He had to design a talent for his true existence. Think about it this way.
If somebody had the law of time. They could speed up, slow, or reverse time. Or possibly create a loop.
John was building an idea from the ground up. He lacked his concept currently. But what exactly was it that made his original concept special in the first place?
What exactly was 'Emflowcreagen'? It was a combination of five smaller words.
"Beyond"
"Myriad"
"Overflow"
"Create"
"Generator"
The first word encapsulated John's curse of calamity. He was always seeking ways to go beyond. The second word was what gave this concept the characteristic of searching through the multiverses. The third word represented it's insane processing power that outclassed universes. The fourth word was what gave it the ability to bring things into existence. The final word was what allowed his concept to grow.
The 'E' from Beyond.
The 'M' from Myriad
The 'Flow' from Overflow
The 'Crea' from Create
The 'Gen' from Generator.
'EMFLOWCREAGEN'
So John now faced a conundrum. His concept was gone. The leftover remains were the flickering flame on his true existence.
He couldn't just randomly make the first rank a random shield type ability. That was the case for other rank 1's. No, John planned to do something brand new.
So what ability did he choose to be his foundation? He was designing this framework in a way that would strengthen as he climbed the ranks.
John thought he would be facing supreme beings in the future. So what was most effective against them?
What could do serious damage to a god?
John thought about this deeply.
He then had a moment of enlightenment!
"The first ability I will unlock is Soul Mimic!"
John began to study the structure of his soul. It was easy after opening it up.
Soon. John broke through to rank 1.
Name: John Destinatus
Age: 186 (21)
Rank: 0
Existence: 1
Strength: 25
Dexterity: 25
Constitution:80
Perception:1000 (100000)
Energy:1000
Abilities: Aura Body, Respawn, Teleport, Disguise, Detonation, Waypoint
Talents: Soul Mimic
So what did mimic do? It scanned his opponents soul. It then allowed him to temporarily copy the shape and properties of his opponents soul.
This meant that if he was fighting a rank 7. He would be able to bring his level up to rank 7 for a few minutes. This didn't copy the physique though. So he wouldn't acquire a body of laws through this. So he would be a bit weaker then his opponent.
But it made him a far bigger threat then he was before.
This was the foundation of his future abilities.
His true existence had reached rank 1. It also had the internal logic of Mimic.
Now that he broke through to rank 1. He began to gather energy to fill up the second layer of his true existence.
He started to design his rank 2 talent.