"How interesting..."

John felt a white hourglass above his avatar in his paradise. As he focused on it. He felt something familiar. It was similar to when a supreme being had tried to soul search him and ended up becoming a mental inheritance.

"I see... these are your insights from the time realm."

John saw all sorts of applications of time and space.

"This is an inheritance of a paradox..."

"Perhaps with this... my odds against zero have increased."

John wasn't a normal mortal. If such a thing had been put in his sea of consciousness at the beginning of his journey. He would become corrupted entirely from gazing at it and trying to squeeze out potential from it. But his current consciousness was like that of a data lifeform.

His infinite processing power. In particular, 'Infinite Mind'. Within an instant. He learned all of the juicy secrets of Paradox.

He mastered the inheritance given to him as a gift. This gave him a few new abilities. He didn't know that these were the initial abilities of the 'aspect of time' he had created through his training regimen.

His body itself was inherently special due to his blood being made up of formations. So becoming timeless didn't really affect him much.

But he also got abilities like 'time manipulation' and spatial abilities like 'blind transmission'. He no longer needed to rely purely on spiritual energy to teleport.

That wasn't all that was within the inheritance. The mental object in his paradise also provided a sort of temporal immunity. Making him immune to time manipulation.

This included loops. So if he found himself trapped in a loop by another entity. He could use this hourglass to break out of it.

He was fully capable of creating his own time loops and controlling time. He no longer needed to rely on 'final destination' and saturating the environment with spiritual energy.

This was all possible thanks to John Hell's help.

Don't forget the entire purpose of John Hell either. He was made so that John would have an identity in this technologically advanced world.

Now that he had left to explore the time realm. There was no conflict of interest. He would observe all of time, while John would work on his goal.

'The Curse of Calamity'.

He would surpass himself. Again and again.

Not for no particular reason. But to destroy Zero.

The rank 10 entity! John hadn't forgotten about them at all. Oddly enough, it is thanks to Zero that John had the chance to become a Origin in the first place.

If he had been left to his own devices. He would probably still be a concept. He would be following a path entirely flawed.

It was through getting wiped out that he reached his current level.

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The blackhole vanished as the scientist gathered around looking extremely depressed. This was the hope of humanity! The key genius had died in a time travel experiment!

John controlled the technology and decided to test out 'Blind Transmission'. It was movement that worked by being collapsed by the observer. Basically, it was a teleportation that only worked if you were out of sight of the observer.

He cut the cameras for a split second and appeared outside the door of the lab. The cameras went back online as he appeared in the hallway of the lab.

"How interesting..."

John realized that 'blind transmission' required him to be blind as well. He was unable to take that crucial 'step' while his eyes were open. He had to blink and then the scene changed.

"What exactly is the mechanic behind this? Teleportation with such weird restrictions..."

John reached out to the door and knocked. It fell down and John saw everyone with bloodshot eyes look at him.

"You!? You're alive!"

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"Yes?"

"We saw you get sucked into the blackhole!"

"I comprehended the laws of space and time on the verge of death."

"..."

Soon John was surrounded by security. He held out his hands and sneered.

"I've mastered space from my experience in the blackhole. If I wanted to escape... nobody could stop me."

"Why did you come back? You could've pretended to be dead and lived well..."

"I have become immortal from this experiment. I don't want to be on the run for eternity. Why not work together. With my genius and your resources... Anything is possible!"

The head scientist spoke:

"Put down your weapons!"

The soldiers put down their weapons, but were wary. John had already shown himself to not be restricted by common sense.

Time travel? Teleportation? Immortality? He had displayed all of these abilities. Making enemies with him was suicidal.

What country would want an enemy with this power?

'Return to Source'.

John felt himself get a headache.

He had tried to use an ability in his inheritance called 'return to source'. Apparently it could take him to the time realm. But it didn't seem to work for some reason.

John waved his hands and the lab began to get reconstructed.

"You!? What power was that?"

"Oh? I just created matter."

"..."

"I can also destroy matter. I could wipe this planet off the cosmic map in the blink of an eye. In fact, I could destroy this universe quite easily."

"No human should have that kind of power! That is crossing into the domain of the gods..."

"Who said I am a human?"

John smiled. But the people around felt shivers down their spine.

John walked towards the lab and got to work.

"What are you doing?"

"Various time mechanics. I've been inspired by my death."

"I thought you survived on the verge of death?"

"Do you think a blackhole is a toy? Of course I died!"

John didn't experience paradox. But he sure pretended he did!

A lot of the scientist were incredibly interested in John's experience.

"What happened when you died? To become like a god. Just what did you experience?"

"You want the truth?"

"Yes!"

"I experienced dying an infinite amount of times. I experienced being trapped for billions of years alone with nothing but my thoughts. I had nothing but time. I memorized everything until I became too advanced. I then simply 'walked'. I escaped the abyss."

"What about all those other scientist that were sucked in? Are they also experiencing this? Won't they become like gods eventually. Why haven't they shown up yet?"

"Do you think time entities are cabbages? I am only here because I am a genius. I grew bored with insanity."

"I have plans for you guys. I need the cooperation of society. I want us to conquer this universe."

"But I am no longer your prisoner. I'm not trapped with you guys. You are all trapped with me!"

John lived a life of a researcher for decades. His abilities were coveted by the leaders of this world. They wanted such absolute power.

There were many assassination attempts and kidnapping attempts. But they were like children playing versus actual effective schemes to John.

Others had also leaked the experiment that 'made' John a time entity. The exact steps were repeated. But all those people ended up doing was dying a horrible death.

The godkiller technology became common place and John had his own team of scientist. His life story was spread around the world.

He had died in an experiment and became a time entity. Everyone knew the legend of John Hell.

John didn't forget that when he came to this universe. He had covered it entirely in spiritual energy temporarily to find humanity. There were still other races.

John also used his innate ability to tap into databases around the world to look at new derived technology.

Somebody actually created portal technology and teleportation technology.

A century later. Thanks to John's efforts and the random strikes of genius of humanity. All sorts of technology had been created.

Thanks to John's ability to create matter. Humanity had left the earth and explored space. They even had a dyson sphere around the sun.

Thanks to portals. The development of spaceships had gone far. John also had some experience in this area and helped 'push' the progress.

Du Hell was a nascent soul and had a good lifespan. But it wasn't infinite. He used an immortality serum to make himself immortal.

Humans had grown past the stage of dying from organ failure or old age.

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John was standing by a scientist who was very enthusiastic. Through their exploration of the galaxies over the years. They had found the universal wall. The standard portal equipment becomes unstable at a certain point. It is as if it overflows.

They made what they called a 'multiversal travel' machine.

John hardly looked like some sort of time entity. He was wearing a lab coat. The technology on him was pretty simple. He had a mechanical self-winding watch on his wrist.

But those in the room didn't underestimate him at all.

The scientist that made this multiversal travel machine was called 'Adam Destiny'.

John was invited to see this historical moment in person. He was also there just in case things went wrong as people knew he could reverse time. He was the perfect person to be there for the very first run.

Adam clicked the button on his panel and a wormhole seemed to start to form.

But it was just for an instant. It shattered and stopped.

"Failure..."

Adam apologized deeply and regretted wasting John's time.

John had a weird expression on his face.

He had sent in some spiritual energy in the brief opening.

"Try it again."

"But let me adjust the parameters."

John went up to the panel and used the feeling of spiritual energy to estimate the precision of the instruments.

"How interesting. He managed to connect to another one of my universes."

A multiversal portal opened up and John walked in.

Adam held out his hands fearing for John's life.

John turned around and held his thumbs up as he was crushed to death from the collapse. He felt himself getting stretched across space and time. The multiversal machine blew up.

"Hahaha... Is that it?"

A hole opened up and he found himself in another universe. His body was in a bad state. But through spiritual energy. Even his clothes seemingly regenerated.

John tried to cover the universe in spiritual energy. But he was surprised!

"This universe is already saturated with energy particles..."

"It is isolating my spiritual energy."

John used 'Eyes of Time' instead.

He locked onto a consciousness.