"I'm back!"

John didn't want to use his universe as he felt it would hinder his growth in the past. But Zero had really left him without a choice.

John felt something unfortunate. He couldn't manipulate this universe at the same level as before. It was due to various reasons.

Time being the biggest factor.

He should've found a copy of his skeletal body in the infinite maze. But he received no feedback from having entered his universe.

Something had happened to his skeletal body! But what?

He was like an outsider to his own universe. He had no control over the rules of it anymore.

It was also like a rusted machine.

John flew around the planet. He found ruins of the previous stronghold he had built. But everyone was gone.

John needed to reach his infinite maze.

But how? He found a solution immediately.

He planned to blow up his universe. Just like how in the past he had blown up the abyss. He would cause the collapse of his universe and use the energy to launch himself through to the infinite maze.

His universe would be far easier to destroy then the abyss.

But many years had passed for his universe. He would be destroying all life within. But this needed to be done.

John didn't even need materials for his formation.

He used his body as the material.

With the snap of his fingers and some manipulation of energy.

An explosion was set off with him at the center! He was launched through reality. But things weren't so simple. He had a very specific destination.

He focused his eyes on the lines of existence. He grasped his Infinite Maze and broke through! It was unfortunately starting to collapse.

In the center of the maze. He saw the manifestation of his skeletal bodies soul. The main phantom soul. The server essentially.

The private consciousness seemed to be dormant.

It was huge.

He also saw a few souls from Deathless. Since John had removed them from the otz room. Even when Immortalize ran out. Their souls were stuck in his infinite maze.

John landed by the main soul.

The thing that carried his private consciousness.

He then put his hands on it. A blade of cerebium formed one of his hands as he started to spin the soul with his other one.

"It's all in the spin."

Layers were scraped off as John entered the password correctly. It opened up like a flower.

John then stole the true existence from the center...

He now had an artifact with faint power of laws.

As for what this artifact did? It had the power of his skeletal body.

It could help him travel through the multiverse!

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John still wondered what had happened to the copy of his skeletal body.

Time was up. The realm fell apart completely.

John held the artifact in his hand. It began to spin as the remaining souls of Deathless were sucked into it.

John found himself trapped in the abyss now.

He used the negative aspect of his Lifesteal talent to inject power into this new artifact.

He then did the opposite. It was a push and pull of information. John was sucked into the true existence. It remained floating in the abyss.

He could control it like a spaceship.

He chose a random world. It appeared there in an instant. He was pushed out of the true existence. He then put it in his storage space.

"I became a concept before. Why can't I do it again?"

In the past John had made a legendary formation that had collapsed the abyss. This had caused the apocalypse for many worlds.

As things that don't exist briefly exist in the abyss before getting erased. He brought things from nonexistence into existence.

It was extremely 'evil'.

He used this explosion to launch himself through reality. The top level entities tried to stop him. Those being Gaia and Somnus.

But things were so unstable that he was able to escape their grasp.

So why didn't he do it again? Couldn't he become a concept the same way?

NO! Zero had felt the collapse of the abyss as well. He just didn't care about the birth of a new concept. But now, things were different.

If he found out John survived... things might not end well for John.

John needed to hold off on pulling off this feat again until he had Origin.

This was a little weird. He needed to skip laws and concepts. He had to do things in the wrong order.

John wasn't alone though. He had some of the surviving souls from Deathless with him. He took out his artifact and controlled it. Soon a soul flew out of it.

He used his admin method to search through the soul for information.

"The wizard world is no more? Deathless was hunted down?"

He then saw something that interested him greatly.

It was the reason for the destruction of the wizard world. They had invaded a world they shouldn't have. This wasn't a world of gods... It was something far scarier.

A space with adult concepts.

Think of how powerful John was after becoming a concept. He was the first mortal to become a concept. Now think how powerful a being born a concept was.

But they spent their time simulating universes. They had no real personality or goals. They were like the computers for the universe... similar to overgods, but of a higher level.

But the wizard world did something unforgivable.

A baby concept was born.

A rank 7 wizard actually stole the baby! He then killed it in a ritual and absorbed its power.

He became a rank 9!

But these concepts were stronger then original incarnations.

He was wiped out along with the entire wizard world's universe.

John's skeletal body was also wiped out. Even though he was just an innocent bystander.

That made things easy for the current John. As he didn't need to deal with any resistance when destroying his universe.

John searched every soul of every member of Deathless that he still had. Unfortunately, none of them had the coordinates for the space full of concepts.

Zero was actually the reason these concepts had been manifested. They were there to provide a threat to him in the future.

It was similar to the space that shouldn't be named.

Except concepts did almost nothing. While they were the ideas of the universe. They almost used their power for nothing.

"Time for a heist."

That's right! John planned on stealing power from the concepts directly! Even a rank 9 getting wiped out? Pfffff... Do you have any idea how many times John has been 'wiped' out. Too many times!

Surviving was becoming his thing.

"Great risk. Great Reward!"

John held his artifact and focused on transcending this space.

He entered the collapsed universe of the wizard world.

That's right! He was existing in a collapsed universe. That's just how strong his body currently was. But he felt a burden on his body. It was as if he was existing in the center of a blackhole. The force was on a completely different level.

But his body was abyssal. It soon adjusted to the environment.

He began to sort through the remains of the wizard universe. This was far more complicated then reconstructing his global existence.

He had to rebuild an entire universe.

He tried to put the parts of the puzzle back together. But parts were missing... He actually couldn't do it! This surprised even John.

He was once a formations 'god'. He had dealt with things so complex that a normal person would become an idiot simply by gazing at his creations.

Yet... the wizard world was too far gone.

It is easier to destroy then to create.

John then realized something.

"Perhaps I don't need to restore it at all. I just need a very specific method."

John sifted through the data and fragments of souls and consciousness. He found it! The world will of the wizard world. It had barely survived and was also in a sleep.

Within it lied the afterlife of this universe.

John ignited this weak will.

He destroyed the afterlife of the wizard world! As souls began to dissipate. He applied admin mode on billions of souls. This was an incredible feat.

He searched through them all at the same time!

"So that's how you did it..."

John now had the key needed to enter the space with adult concepts.

He also found out the name of this space.

"It is called Provenance? How interesting..."