In a lower reality. Zero had successfully become rank 9.
What is a rank 9 relative to other things?
Well...
Gods would be rank 7.
Overgods... rank 8.
Zero was rank 9. But he was neither a god or overgod.
Currently...
While Zero had a lot of abilities.
Both from his technology and genetic modification.
In this reality.
There were no ranks.
He was rank 0. Despite how strong he was.
He wished to change this.
He wished to build a matrix over the entire world that would allow for true supernatural power.
He just needed one thing.
He needed a connection with his main body.
Why were gods and overgods mentioned earlier?
Well it has to do with praying.
You can reach out to gods or eldritch beings through prayer.
His main body was more eldritch horror then god.
So he needed to target himself.
"Dimension Zero. Ruler of time and space. Paradox! I pray for a beacon. I pray for a connection. I pray for an anchor!"
Nothing happened.
Zero had expected this.
This world lacked supernatural power.
Sure... there were those extraordinary. But they were basically mutants. Power derived from their cells.
Zero had shown how unreliable such power was.
You see... Zero had something far more potent then prayer.
Laws!
Gaia had given Zero half of the law he had gotten from an Observer.
Zero wasn't like Gaia.
He didn't naturally have the power to ascend realities.
But... that didn't make the law useless.
He would burn it.
That's right!
He would force open a wormhole and reconnect with himself.
[ECHO]: 'Observation' Comprehension has reached 45%
[ECHO]: 'Observation' Comprehension has reached 35%
He managed to open up a microscopic portal to the lower reality.
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[ECHO]: 'Observation' Comprehension has reached 25%
Now he would try praying!
"Dimension Zero. Ruler of time and space. Paradox! I pray for a beacon. I pray for a connection. I pray for an anchor!"
He immediately saw a giant clock and a metallic yellow fleshy abomination wrapped around it.
He saw himself.
The being turned its head.
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Still Zero remained trapped in the book.
"Now we play the waiting game. I can assure you... I will win!"
And so he did.
He waited millions upon millions of years.
He never felt any feedback.
For now.
He then heard a voice in the mind of his main body.
"Dimension Zero. Ruler of time and space. Paradox! I pray for a beacon. I pray for a connection. I pray for an anchor!"
Zero then spoke:
"I've found you! Hahahaha!"
Zero saw through all of the memories of his ontology
In an instant he realized that such an opportunity was exceedingly rare.
25%
23%
Zero was burning through the 'Observation' law to maintain this connection.
He was breaking the rules of reality.
Bringing something from fiction into reality.
21%
Zero grabbed his avatar's independent consciousness through the link.
He merged with it.
A special artifact was constructed in the wave of his independent consciousness.
It was a blue mechanical clock.
He changed him from that of a human on a soul level to that of an Abyssal Paradox.
His species had been updated.
Now he would be able to keep his senses in negative, positive, relative and constant time.
This was a form of uniqueness, he even restored his timeless existence.
After doing all of this... the law was exhausted.
It was at this point that the microscopic portal between realities closed.
But his connection was eternal.
He had successfully invaded the higher reality!
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[ECHO]: 'Observation' Comprehension has reached 25%
Now he would try praying!
"Dimension Zero. Ruler of time and space. Paradox! I pray for a beacon. I pray for a connection. I pray for an anchor!"
He immediately saw a giant clock and a metallic yellow fleshy abomination wrapped around it.
He saw himself.
The being turned its head.
It spoke, it's voice sounding like screeching metal.
"I've found you! Hahahaha!"
For some reason. Zero felt a shiver down his spine.
It pinched his independent consciousness.
He could feel it fusing with himself.
He didn't fight it.
It was him after all.
[ECHO]: Species updated...
Zero felt his eyes burning.
His body was undergoing some sort of change.
He was becoming a timeless existence once more.
A special clock was constructed in the wave of his independent consciousness.
He could feel that as long as this clock remained.
He would have a sliver of a connection with his main body.
A mass of information filled his mind.
Even his eyes of original incarnations felt as if they had activated briefly.
The power of his main body was trying to construct a chaos realm in this reality.
But the laws were fundamentally different here.
He was unable to construct such a realm.
Still...
Zero grasped some of the GR from his main body and cast a net over the entire world.
Birthing a world will for this world.
He had woken the world up.
There would be some serious changes to this world now.
Zero used his eyes of Knowledge and Time.
The spatial waves from using his eyes and seeing through infinite outcomes.
These waves had alerted some of the gods of this universe.
He had broken multiple laws.
Not mortal laws.
He had albeit briefly, stepped into the domain of the gods.
This was an existence erasing offense.
The microscopic wormhole closed.
His connection was mostly cut off.
Although his soul artifact remained.
He could feel the might of his main body still.
He could feel the power of fiction.
Using such a power in this world was blasphemous.
It literally wasn't allowed!
But Zero didn't give two shits about what was and wasn't allowed.
During that brief instance he had peeped at infinite outcomes.
He saw himself meeting his end to a pantheon of gods.
"Well, well, well. So there are gods in this realm as well?"
Zero was no stranger to gods.
He had killed quite a few after becoming a rank 9.
He had also stripped some of the more clever ones of their powers.
"If you think you can kill me. Just because of some mere omnipotence, you're out of your god damn mind!"
Zero's confidence was boosted.
He might not be even rank 1 right now.
But he had gained back his status as a paradox.
He had gained back his timeless existence.
He had felt the flow of time and space from his eyes.
He had a new artifact in his independent consciousness.
He had also caused the world to awaken.
Originally there was probably less then 200 people out of billions of individuals that had actual powers.
Now... with the world awakening.
All sorts of miracles would become possible.
Zero waved his hand and a matrix was cast over the world.
It was then he felt his GR drop back down to 0.
He had used up all of the power from that instance of connection.