John Hell's POV:

"I want you to develop a special machine..."

"Special machine?"

I was given full permissions for this simulation. Destinatus told me he wanted me to develop a machine that could warp reality.

I had a highly advanced lab full of tools from some race called 'godkillers'.

I got to work right away.

"Warping reality? There are a few things that reality is based on."

"There are a few constants. Like the speed of light."

"Consciousness itself is like the universe experiencing itself. Master consciousness and you master the universe. But this is a wrong path. It leads down psychosis and mental illness. Even if you have completely mastered the internal. You won't be able to affect reality without the proper tools."

"For a normal person. The tool is their body. The nervous system and other systems in their body which are incredibly complex, allows them to interact with reality."

John sighed.

"But this is the lowest level of manipulation."

"So what Destinatus wants from me... is a machine that can manipulate reality entirely."

"A special tool that interacts at the highest of levels."

John studied the equipment of his lab and did his own experiments.

"Gravity is the key! Time dilation. The stronger the gravity. The slower time passes."

"But the scale is too small. You would need an insane force for this to be measurable at all..."

He created a massive device that could generate this amount of gravity. Unfortunately, the device collapsed on itself forming a blackhole. He was sucked in.

He didn't go through 'spaghettification'. His body was timeless and similar to an abyssal body. He found the experience quite beautiful.

From the outside of the blackhole. It looked as if John had stopped at the event horizon. From John's perspective. Time had stopped completely.

This had become his universe now.

Time had stopped and space ceased to make sense.

What exactly is within a blackhole? This interested him deeply.

You might think it is simply emptiness. Similar to the abyss. But this couldn't be more wrong.

You see. Destinatus had unknowningly prepared John for this experience. The sheer gravity and forces that would rip apart a normal person. It was nothing compared to getting erased by the abyss!

His existence felt a deep pressure. But he endured!

He reached a point where he could only move inwards. There was no escape.

He passed through the gravitational radius without any problems and found himself standing before the singularity.

"How interesting..."

He wasn't seeing the actual singularity... as it was too small. But he could tell it was one based off the collapse of space around it.

It was as if his body was warping from merely being in its presence.

He reached out his hand and grabbed the singularity. It was floating in the center of this blackhole. It had infinite mass and density.

It then did something insane. The already collapsed structure started to collapse again!

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John was crushed into a point even with his abyssal body. As the point exploded creating a big bang. The universe of the simulation he was in was overwritten by an entirely new universe.

But that was only from his perspective.

In reality. When he touched the singularity. He had entered an entirely new universe...

The old blackhole evaporated in his simulation. The old universe wasn't overwritten at all.

His consciousness had fused with this universe much like how Destinatus had his consciousness branded on spiritual energy.

Except this was a different application.

"This!?"

He lacked a body.

But...

"My consciousness has become a universe!"

He had accidentally created a universe.

But he was strictly an observer and couldn't interact with it.

He used mental commands and reset the simulation to before he did this experiment. His universe vanished as he found himself back at his lab.

"What a pity... I can't feel the connection anymore."

He waved his hands as holographic screens appeared around him. He observed what happened to the blackhole once he entered it.

What he saw surprised him.

Nothing happened.

For many billions of years... nothing happened.

Then the blackhole dissipated.

It had consumed the lab and everything upon its formation.

"This isn't right. It obviously created another universe..."

"But it is only from my perspective?"

"Again!"

He constructed the same device and had it collapse creating a blackhole. He was sucked in as time seemed to stop. He traveled to the singularity.

As physics and rules broke down. He started to do something incredible.

He was recreating the feat he had done in the abyss. He was synchronizing his actions across all timelines of himself.

He grabbed the singularity infinitely.

As reality seemed to get erased and overwritten by a newborn universe.

His consciousness had become a universe.

But there were an infinite amount of timelines.

They had all done the same thing! He noticed right away as he sorted through the memories of his alternative ontologies.

"Each universe is different! It is like a random generation..."

Since the universes generated were different despite him taking the same actions. This meant something huge.

"Within a blackhole. Cause and effect are useless..."

"The present is the result of the past. The future is the result of the present."

The chaos created from the randomness of the birth of a universe caused John to feel slightly dizzy.

The pressure was too much and his Hivemind shattered in an instant.

He had lost connection to those other timelines as they themselves each created an infinite timeline for every individual variant.

It was like multiplying infinity by infinity.

He reset the universe again.

He was standing inside his lab.

"The consciousness of a human only experiences one state. That state is the present. The brain hallucinates the past and the future. Does the past actually exist?"

"Does the future exist?"

"What if... by manipulating the present completely. What if you could change both the past and future?"

"I have a timeless existence."

"But I have seen the chaos caused by my experiment. No ordinary human would be able to reach the singularity."

"If I can create a device that prunes all alternative timelines... making everything follow a single timeline. I can completely control time."

"As for how to make such a device?"

John was starting to have some crazy ideas. He got to work right away. This time he didn't recreate his failed experiment.

He created a special watch.

One you could wear on your wrist.

"Instead of creating a blackhole... I will become the blackhole! I will make myself a constant across all timelines. Instead of collapsing space and time. I will forcefully become the singularity!"

He twisted the crown of his watch to a certain time.

He then pressed down on the surface of the watch as if it was a button.

His body looked as if it had become the event horizon of a blackhole. Even light was bending around him.

He looked as if his body had become a concept.

He then locked onto the other versions of himself. Making them activate the same protocol. It was as if infinity became finite.

The infinite timelines that were created for each cause and effect. They were fused into a single one! He didn't have 'Infinite Mind'. But his processing power had officially surpassed gods.

"If before I had been a leaf flowing down the river of time..."

"Now I have become a rock that has fallen to the bottom of the river."

"I remain in the same location of time and space. But time and other entities will still pass me."

He had trapped himself in a timeless state!

There wasn't darkness in this 'realm' he found himself in. There was nothing that could be clearly described.

His experiment had pruned all other timelines. It had also trapped him in this realm of time.

He was already extremely sane. So the weird rules he saw and the craziness was unable to effect him. He couldn't even use his permissions to reset the simulation.

From Destinatus's perspective. He only saw John standing still with the outline of his body matching that of a blackhole.

He had no idea that John had entered a mysterious realm.

A realm of time.

You might wonder how such a thing is possible... Destinatus's simulation follows the rules of an ordinary world. He had done this so that the things created in this simulation could be used in reality.

But you must remember. John had died... He had covered his brain in spiritual energy and had used a technique to enter the Paradise of Destinatus.

So even though he was just in a simulation. His consciousness was real!

The device he created that didn't even exist. It had actually brought his consciousness outside of the simulation! This was extremely dangerous...

John Hell had done the impossible.

He had broken into a mysterious realm.

Destinatus soon realized what had happened.

"That's impossible!"

But he smiled.

"This 'aspect'...has potential!"