"Before you go, there are a few things you will need for your journey."
"What will I need?"
"First, you will need something to cloak your existence."
"Cloak?"
"When a foreign entity enters his multiverse. He simply erases them from existence. This is to prevent possible reincarnators and other powerful beings from using his world against him."
Gaia holds out his hand and a green light envelops Zero.
"I have just disguised your soul to match that of a native of his world."
"Also... I wonder why your soul originally looked like a blackhole. It must be due to the abyss fusion."
"Thanks...I guess?"
"Alright... the second thing you will need is soul for your echo."
"Why?"
"Your ECHO is missing a lot of functionality. Let me upgrade it for you."
[ECHO]: Updating...
"I see... you have put it over the operating system of that chip in your brain."
"Here. I'll merge your soul with it. Now you won't need to worry about getting brainwashed or mind controlled."
"You won't need that chip anymore. Should I get rid of it?"
"No."
"I still need the chip to assist me with suicide."
"You Paradoxes sure do have a unique thought process."
"The third thing you will need is a brand of my sublime power."
"A brand?"
"Think of it as a bit of my power to help you out, it is so the world will won't be able to suppress you. That by itself wouldn't matter since you use technology instead of magic. But once you start to walk the path of a wizard. The world will try to suppress your power. Well, if you travel to a higher level world."
"How do you give me the brand?"
"I've already given you it."
"Man... being a rank 9 existence is OP as hell."
"I suppose."
"Also, by activating that brand. You will be able to return here."
"You can only activate it three times before it runs out of energy. So use it wisely and don't waste my time over trivial issues."
"Now that your ECHO has been upgraded. You can check your properties."
Zero opens his properties.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Zero #119", Species: Abyssal Paradox (Human), Energy: 1 GR, Strength: 10, Vitality: 20, Nanites: 3.03264e+14 Spirit: 1000, Soul: 100}
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"An average person would have 1 strength, 2 vitality, and 10 spirit, 1 soul."
"You definitely do surpass the average."
"It says I'm an Abyssal Paradox. What is that?"
"To be honest. You fused your existence with the abyss somehow. Everything about you will slowly take on characteristics of the abyss."
"What does that mean?"
"It means you'll be unaffected by time. Basically you won't age anymore. It also means aspects of your personality will reflect that of the abyss. As you progress, your body in the abyss will also change."
"Well, if I'm an Abyssal Paradox... what are you? Can I see your stats?"
"Sure."
[ECHO]: {Name: System, Species: Gaia (Hivemind), Energy: 499 GR, Strength: 1065, Vitality: 5495, Spirit: 379570, Soul: 640}
"Not as crazy as I suspected for someone omnipotent."
"You must keep in mind I limit myself for the sake of every multiverse. Truthfully I can modify and make the values whatever I want. Except for GR. Which is something I used to be able to make an infinite amount of. Until Owtz Eerth stole my Create."
"What is GR by the way?"
"It stands for golden rods."
"Golden rods?"
"Don't worry about it."
"How do I have 1 GR?"
"That is from part of my brand."
Zero decides to speak up.
Its not everyday you meet such a powerful friendly entity.
So he requests a way to anchor himself to the chaos realm.
"Why do you want that?"
"I wish to be able to find my structures. With the randomness after exiting the abyss. My map becomes completely useless. I need a way to return to the same spot in the chaos realm no matter where I am located at in the abyss."
"I see..."
"I've added the function to your watch. If you click the crown at 6:66 AM or PM and it will take you to your bridge in the chaos realm."
"Thank you very much!"
"It's not for free. The original function that was 6:66 PM and AM has been taken away from you and has become my own power."
"Wait, what function did you take?"
"Don't worry about it."
"..."
"... was that all?"
"I think that is all."
With the wave of his hand a portal opens up.
"That portal leads back to the chaos realm. Follow the coordinates I engraved in your soul. You should just move by instinct and follow the general direction. I'll leave the rest up to you."
I step through the portal and find myself back at my bridge.
I slowly expand the bridge and make a path towards the coordinates given to me.
I'm a little excited.
This will be the first world I visit with supernatural power.
Isn't that the whole point of being a Paradox? It is to aquire the power of many worlds and make it your own!
He can feel his blood boiling from excitement as he gets closer and closer.
Eventually he sees a door a bit higher then his path.
So he builds a staircase up to the door.
The door is black. Looking as if it is made from obsidian.
He opens the door and sees a dirt house on the otherside.
He steps in and the door closes behind him.
He hears screaming and crying and sees fire everywhere.
"*(&(*^&^&^%^&&^%!"
A dude screams right in his ear.
"Did you really have to yell..."
The man collapses after that...
"Well... since he's dead... might as well scan his mind."
Some of his nanites leave his body and he dissects the mans brain.
It turns out this man was a simple farmer.
Something similar to feudalism was going on.
What the man has initially screamed earlier was 'BANDITS!'
I suppose this village is getting raided.
But... why would you raid farmers?
It's not like they would have any currency on them. If they did, it was so minisucle as to not matter.
There has to be a reason for this.
As he is thinking he habitually dodges a sword strike.
"Look at that mans clothes. He is definitely a Lord! With no bodyguards... we've hit the jackpot!"
"Nah... I'm no lord."
"Although... you are dead."
"haha-"
The mans head falls onto the ground.
"How did he-"
The other bandits are chopped and diced.
"Using the nanites to break down a single string of atoms is also a way to kill."
"He's an immortal!"
"Run!"
"Where do you guys think you're going?"
He uses nanites to chop off their legs and then decapitates them.
Afterwards he dissects their brains to get more information.
"I see... somebody was tested to have the aptitude level of 13?"
"So, they were sent here by a wizard to capture the child. Before they go off to an academy. As for why the wizard wanted the child. These lowly bandits didn't have that information in their brains."
What interested Zero was not the child. But the equipment used to do the aptitude test.
He wanted to know what his aptitude was for magic.
Judging from their memories.
The acolyte that did the test was still in this village.