"What weakness?"
"You're missing something quite important!"
"What am I missing?"
"You're able to duplicate your body. Your able to revive after death. You also exist inside of and outside of a time loop. You are not bound to your birth or death...yet you think this is enough to beat Owtz?"
"You're missing soul."
"Soul?"
"Owtz has the ability to copy his opponents soul. "
"At the beginning of the fight, he can simply make an infinite amount of clones. Then copy your soul, making them all rank 7's. What's your plan for counterattacking that?"
"..."
"Exactly! You must master soul."
"But I've already transformed my soul. It is in its strongest state!"
"Which is exactly why, you'll get shit on by Owtz."
"So... what am I supposed to do?"
"I have a solution for you."
"Lose your soul!"
"...lose my soul?"
"Indeed. I found out this weakness on accident. He once tried to copy my soul... but I had accidentally moved it to a different dimension."
"How does one accidentally do that?"
"You're one to talk"
"Fair point."
"So you're saying I need to have my soul exist in a different dimension and essentially power my body as if it is a puppet."
"Exactly!"
"But how am I supposed to separate my soul from my body?"
"That sounds like a 'you' problem."
"..."
"If I helped you too much, that would be a little unfair, no?"
With the snap of Gaia's fingers.
Zero was kicked out of his sea of consciousness.
He then began to think.
"I wonder if I can visit the cosmic order in reality like I did in my dream."
He entered a universe at random.
He then walked.
He kept walking until he reached the end of it.
He went beyond this point.
Until he stepped out of the sphere that was that universe.
He then walked until he reached the end of this 'container'.
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He broke past the container and instantly died.
"Am I not strong enough?"
He revived in the abyss.
His soul began to rapidly change his body.
He was rank 7 again after a few moments.
"My connection with the antimagic realm has eroded."
"I must have been asleep for a long time..."
"Time to experiment!"
Now that Zero had the ability to manipulate his soul.
He would carry out experiments on the soul.
"First I need to check on my friend..."
"He must of broke through as well!"
He walked to the chaos realm.
Then walked to the obsidian door.
Entered Owtz Eerth's multiverse.
He then teleported to the 2nd dimension.
Zero reached into his storage dimension and pulled out a phone.
Somebody laughed at him for using a phone.
"He has a historical relic!"
Zero ignored the person and dialed Werlin.
There was no connection.
Zero uses something he learned in his dream.
Spiritual Sense.
From one of those cultivator worlds.
He can sense a range of 200 km.
So he flies around the world looking for traces of Werlin.
But he is unable to find him.
"Maybe... he ran out of lifespan?"
Zero waved his hand and time began to rewound.
He remain unaffected.
A hundred years.
A thousand years.
Ten thousand years.
One hundred thousand years.
He then saw himself through his spiritual sense.
He witnessed himself open up a portal to the chaos realm.
"I wonder what would happen if I stopped myself..."
Zero shook his head.
He flew around the world and finally found Werlin.
He was lying down in a cave away from society.
He seemed to be asleep.
"I shall be your guardian..."
Zero watched him sleep for ten thousand years.
But then his life force started to fade.
"What kinda shit guardian am I? I can't just let you die!"
He used some GR and extended Werlin's lifespan.
"Hmm... maybe he is trapped in a contract?"
Zero looked at Werlins soul.
It was a white sphere with a knife stabbed into it.
Zero took his consciousness and entered Werlin's dream.
He was chained up to a cross.
His hands and feet were also nailed into it.
This level of pain was nothing to Zero.
But he couldn't feel his rank 7 power here.
He looked beside him and saw someone that looked like Werlin.
His eyes were blank.
As if he had given up on everything.
"Pss... It's Zero!"
"Silence!"
Zero was whipped.
Zero became slightly annoyed.
This insect dare strike him?
Zero multilated his own hands and feet and broke through his restrictions.
He then used the very nails that had bound him to kill the man that whipped him.
The crowd around him started to throw stones at him.
"Oh! You guys want some of this too? Alr-"
He got knocked out by a stone.
His body did atleast.
His consciousness never went offline.
He watched as everyone stopped.
It was like a simulation.
Everything disappeared.
He then found himself on fire in the nether.
This level of pain was just so... annoying.
Zero spoke.
"You apparently haven't learnt your lesson."
The entity crafting Werlins dreams spoke to himself.
"Why does he look familiar?"
"Wait... it couldn't be."
Zero then turned his head and stared at the entity, breaking the fourth wall.
"Oh hell nah... I'm out!"
The entity then vanished.
The fire on Zero's body went out.
But he was burnt beyond recognition.
The smell was also disgusting.
He walked up to Werlin.
Who lied there not reacting to anything.
He waved his hand in front of his eyes.
But it was as if his soul had left his body.
Zero clapped his hands and the scene changed.
They were now in a mental hospital.
"Hey Werlin! Wake up."
"Werlin... that's not funny."
But Werlin simply didn't react.
"Did something happen to his consciousness?"
"Why didn't this happen to me when I went to breakthrough?"
Zero was trapped in this dream with Werlin.
Zero used his ability 'Time Skip'.
Millions of years in the dream world went by.
Werlin died in real life.
Then Zero broke out of his dream and found himself by Werlin's dead body.
Zero held out his hand and created a fake soul.
He then went through the steps needed to reach rank 6 in an instant.
He then had this fake white soul rotate around his real soul.
He cast his spell.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Ressurect", Level: 5, Type: Target, Element: Mana, Cost: 5000, Desc: "Bring target back to life."}
He cast it on Werlin.
Werlin opened his eyes.
But he just sat there in a daze.
"I see... you've lost yourself to the infinite lives."
"Don't worry! I'll save you. I promise!"
Werlin died again shortly afterwards...
His lifespan had run out.
Ressurecting him just delayed the inevitable.
Zero rewound time all the way back to when Werlin had first took the potion.
Right afterwards, he moved his consciousness into Werlin's dream.