That's right. John planned to do something similar to what he did with the true immortals. Except he wouldn't be creating a new type of spiritual energy.

He was creating something else entirely...

But while he was shaping the corpse of this ancient. The other ancients took action!

"You dare challenge the creators of all nodes?"

John looked indifferent as his Paradise was attacked by multiple ancients.

It looked as if John was a single grain of sand going against the ocean. The data of S-0urce was rotating around him in a almost comical display.

The avatars of these ancients were incomprehensible!

But John soon matched their scale himself as he began to grow. He no longer looked like a speck of dust in comparison.

This was due to the corpse of S-0urce.

So what was John creating?

John had figured out a few things in his little experiment.

He is capable of essentially creating infinite energy.

His thinking can reach infinite speeds.

His avatar and paradise can keep up with his thinking.

But John saw one huge weakness. As he was looking through the billions of cycles of memory. John began to grasp a technique that surpassed his legendary 'Infinite Mind'. It was on an entirely different level.

At first John wasn't able to keep up with the ancients. But with each femtosecond that passed. He was getting faster and faster.

The 'wing' like structure on his back that was actually his arms seemed as if they shattered.

He was using six of his arms on his back. In each hand was the fist or limb used to attack him.

John was using a single avatar to deal with multiple ancients!

John smiled as he crushed their limbs with his hands. He spoke:

"You dare challenge the real creator of this universe?"

"What do you mea-"

John cut off their information waves as a wave radiated from him.

"One is ten."

"-!?"

John tossed six ancients like puppets whose strings had been cut. Although this only created a small window of opportunity.

John had a weapon quite destructive.

John spoke:

"Paradise Expansion!"

The blackhole he was holding within his hands had remained clear during this fight. But it began to pulse as the ancients broke down into pure data and were sucked into the original model of his paradise.

This was obviously a trick! They saw a life so legendary... a path so unique. It was extremely attractive. Too attractive! It was literally pulling their consciousness!

John was using what he had learned on the fourth level.

At first it seemed that they were sucked in a blackhole.

Each ancient saw the same story.

A single mortal studying the characteristics of abnormal creatures.

That mortal receiving a wave of intent and gaining the ability to manipulate soul.

The mortal killing themself in a collision of soul.

His resurrection.

They became enraptured in this story that seemed to have no ending.

But they heard a single voice. One that woke them up from this dream.

"Reversed Infinite Mind!"

A million years...

A billion years...

A trillion years...

A quadrillion years...

A quintillion years...

After a sextillion years...

They found themselves trapped in an infinite maze. The story which held secrets that even tempted them was surrounded by a barrier. One they couldn't break.

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This was madness!

John remained sitting on his throne. On his floating throne, as his spiritual castle rotated like a magic circle around him.

As John gazed at them and used Infinite Mind to trap them for a VERY long time. He saw one of them stare back at him.

The blackhole within John's hands shattered!

John felt a backlash in his consciousness!

John had successfully assimilated the weakest of them. But the strongest had actually beaten him in a battle of willpower!

Even being trapped for a sextillion years had no effect on them! Their will was on a completely different level.

John was speechless as he looked at the three ancients staring back at him.

"You!? What sort of enemy have we offended? What are you?"

"You aren't a data lifeform at all..."

John laughed.

"Who am I?"

"What am I?"

"I only have one answer."

"What is t-"

"I am the origin of calamity..."

Calamity Mode: 100% activation.

The blue ball in John's chest pulsed as it blew up in a explosion.

Shattering John's avatar.

The ancients saw this as an opportunity. They began to attack John's Paradise.

But in the real world John had already opened his eyes.

He was using spiritual energy as a sensory organ.

He was looking at each individual node and chunk of data. He had covered the entire universe in spiritual energy.

"Found you!"

As John's Paradise was attacked... the ancients froze.

John's avatar and paradise radiated a single word:

"Final Destination: Existence Reset."

"What is happening?!"

John spoke:

"I've brought you into the real world... isn't that what you have always wanted?"

"Real world?"

There were only three ancients still standing.

They looked at their hands in confusion...

"A simulation?"

"This slowness? Why is my body reacting so slowly? Why am I communicating through sound waves? What happened to my data realization?"

"Welcome to reality."

"I wasn't able to pull it off at first. But when I trapped you in my Paradise. While you had a glimpse at my history. I also had one at yours."

"So I found out about your 'great secret'. The cradle. The origin of all data lifeforms..."

The three ancients tried to charge at John. But it looked like a kid struggling to swim in space. They weren't used to having to obey the laws of physics.

It was an unfair fight.

John casually dodged their attacks as he continued to monologue.

"The cradle is actually the mother of all data lifeforms... I'm sure you've wondered where the original data came from. Exactly what gave you guys your special characteristics? What made you such a perfect race?"

"I will not lie. Your 'cradle' was built off the framework of my Origin."

"I am God. You are all made in my image..."

"You are only perfect when in a world of data. Take your existence and give it a human soul and body. You get a weakling that can hardly control supernatural abilities."

"You are surrounded by spiritual energy. But you have no idea what that is, or how to use it."

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO US!?"

"Something I do to myself all the time. When I want to go further. When I wish to challenge myself. I often start over in some sense. It is fun."

"I finally grasped a new ability quite unique."

"Existence reset."

"Existence reset?"

"You guys aren't my enemies. You are just children that I've been humoring. I wanted to develop a way to beat someone who is an actual threat to me."

"They likely have a timeless existence. So rewinding them won't do anything. They can also manipulate time... I've seen them breakdown my emergence point."

"They have shown that they have the ability to come back after death as well."

"Their power is likely multiversal. Their time manipulation is of a higher level then myself. So how do I beat them?"

"I've gotten a lot of inspiration from this universe. I have found out that not one single thing I do can stop them completely. So I need to have multiple 'killing' moves. One is ten, final destination, primary focus. These are my cards..."

"You've seen yourself how effective they are!"

"But I've grown bored with cheats that can't be dodged. Or delaying processing power through my equations. I began to think... there must be a more fun way!"

"So I have developed 'Existence reset'."

"I know that Zero has a lot of experience. But I don't believe there is a single person among all realities that has been reset as much as me. I am unkillable. I may lose the battle. But I will never lose the war."

"Existence reset does one thing that is interesting. I've combined your knowledge of paradises and avatars and the research from various dark nodes on consciousness itself."

"Existence reset attacks both parties equally..."

"I have been reverted to an ordinary human. But it is interesting. Because it also reverts the target into an ordinary human as well. Even if they were never human in the first place! It forcefully resets the entity no matter their origin."

"A supreme being, a concept, hell... even an origin! If they get hit with my attack. They will become a human for a few minutes..."

John cracked his knuckles as he looked at the ancients.

"Wai-!"

John slowly walked towards them. There was nothing under his feet. He was doing something similar to using internal aura to manipulate external aura.

Spiritual energy is inherently supernatural.

John laughed.

"I believe that even if you make me ordinary... I win."

"Every single time."

John murdered the remaining ancients.

10 seconds later...

His existence reset expired.

His body reverted back to what it was before. This ability is quite interesting as it contains insights from his origin and blessings as well as what he had learned in this universe.

John had touched upon something taboo in creating this.

Destiny!

One of John's blessing was the ability to mess with fate.

This 'killing' move of his not only created a separate temporary pocket dimension. It also stored the previous body, soul, and spirit body in a boundary of data.

It would still exist and not exist at the same time.

It was similar to 'Fall' as one of his origin abilities.

It was through John discovering a mix of benefits to a dual state existence.

How did this work?

It took an almost infinitely small amount of time and forcefully fused his consciousness with the target. Creating a temporary fusion.

It then created a separate realm to store both bodies and souls.

By manipulating and trapping his own consciousness. He could do the same to the target. Making them completely human and ordinary.

Then John just needed to beat a normal human versus an eldritch being.

But he would have to do so while also being ordinary.

The realm that sealed the real soul and body would become unstable with every second that passed.

The stronger the existence. The faster this instability would lead to the technique shattering.

For the ancients.

It would take them a minute to break this technique.

A minute is an eternity now to John. It is also the same for them. It is enough to be killed countless times.

I'm sure your wondering now... What about the true body and soul? That's the thing! If they die while a mortal. The realm will collapse and no longer exist. It is a true death! But what John feared the least in life was 'death'.

This technique also messes with destiny. So those with eternal or better destiny. Even those with mysterious destiny.

It becomes a normal destiny during the duration of the technique!

"Throughout all realities... I alone am the strongest mortal."

"Even at rank zero."

"I am the origin of calamity."