"I wonder... can you help me create a secret dimension to store my soul? One that cannot be reached?"
"Maybe..."
Werlin waved his hand and began to create an entirely new dimension.
"Imagination is quite powerful it would seem."
"Do you need help?"
Werlin looked like he was struggling.
He was sweating quite a bit.
Zero spoke to him.
"Here... I'll help!"
He grabbed Werlins hand and injected some GR.
As well as covered the new dimension in chaos.
"With our powers combined! This realm will be impossible to crack..."
"What should we name this dimension?"
"Since it will house my soul. I think it should be named Dimension Zero."
An idea then hit Zero.
He clapped his hands and the dimension collapsed.
"Ahhhh!! Why did you do that?"
"It would be idiotic to hide the dimension in Owtz's universe. If we are to do this properly... it should be somewhere more accessible."
Zero opened up a portal to the chaos realm.
"This place is accessible from nearly every multiverse. Now I just need you to layer a dimension over this one. I'll take the backlash for you."
Zero held out his hand.
Chaos covered Werlin.
Werlin began to wave his hand once again.
Magic circles started to fill the top of the chaos realm.
A red shield covered everything in the dimension.
Then a white shield layered overtop the red one.
Zero felt the GR in his body draining.
He also started to get a headache.
Werlin's hands were trembling.
The two shields pulled apart and created a black space between it.
Werlin pointed at Zero's soul.
A transparent sphere appeared outwards from his soul.
It expanded until covered the entire chaos realm.
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The black space between the shields disappeared.
Zero's soul was gone.
It was hidden in 'Dimension Zero'.
The intelligence left Zero's eyes.
"Are you alright Zero?"
"..."
"Zero?"
The nanites tried to vaporize his body.
But his body was too strong.
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When Zero broke through to rank 7 it felt as if all previous limitations were broken.
When his soul separated from his body.
When it became housed in Dimension Zero.
He felt omnipotent.
He could feel an infinite amount of 'him'.
He could connect to any version in the abyss.
In other words.
He could 'revive'.
But this was different.
He could also feel other versions of himself.
The versions that had never left his original world.
The versions of himself that were exploring the chaos realm.
He ignored all of these variations of himself.
His thinking began to speed up infinitely.
[ECHO]: 'Infinity' Comprehension has reached 75%
His body began to reform in this new dimension.
"Hmm... it isn't exactly what I wanted."
His 'main' body was hidden in this dimension.
He stretched his consciousness and crossed infinity.
Meanwhile this is his 'true body'.
It is deeply hidden.
He searched the infinite cosmos and found a braindead version of himself.
By this body was Werlin.
He reconnected to that body.
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The intelligence returned to Zero's eyes.
"Zero! It worked! Your soul is gone..."
"It didn't work completely how I expected it to. But now Owtz won't be able to copy my soul."
Zero looked at his arms and moved rather awkwardly.
"It is a bit weird manually controlling this body."
"I suppose I'll get use to it."
Zero reached into his pocket and attempted to pull out his pocket watch.
It wasn't there.
"I suppose it recognizes that this isn't my main body..."
"I must test out my abilities in this fake body."
Zero walked through time and space and found himself stopped.
"Who-"
His head exploded.
He wobbled around and then regenerated his head.
"How interesting. That force is beyond imagination."
A man that looked exactly Zero had stopped Zero.
"A hostile Paradox?"
"Bingo... die."
Zero could feel his body rapidly aging.
Millions of years in an instant.
But he is timeless.
Such an attack has no effect on him.
They both said at the same time:
"Interesting..."
"Interesting..."
The other Paradox waved his hand and time stopped.
Zero remain unaffected.
Zero punched the other one in the face and the nanite membrane broke.
The other Zero spit out some blood.
"You lack infinity? Yet, you try to battle me? Arrogance!"
"Infinity?"
The other Paradox kicked Zero's jaw...
But the infinity wrapped around him was impossible to cross.
The only thing that happened was him hurting his foot.
"Not good!"
The Paradox teleported away.
Zero sensed the disturbance in space and tracked the Paradox.
He then appeared in front of 'it'
And trapped it.
In a sphere of space.
Zero used chaos to cut off the space fluctuations.
In other words... he cut off the escape route for this Paradox.
But then the paradox pulled out its pocket watch and clicked the crown disappearing.
"..."
"It is quite annoying fighting Paradox's..."
Either way, Zero went back to testing his abilities.
It seems none of the functionality of his abilities have disappeared.
He still can 'walk' through time and space.
He can still freeze time.
Rewind it.
Speed it up.
He can also use his comprehension of space and infinity to create a pocket dimension.
He has the ability to go anywhere in the multiverse.
But he lacks the route.
It is like giving somebody a car.
But they don't know where they are going.
Right now... he simply lacks a map.
Zero decided that it is finally time to fight Owtz.
He walked to Owtz Eerth's multiverse.
Dimension level 1
Dimension level 2
Dimension level 3
Once he stepped through to level 3.
They tried to arrest him for crossing dimensions illegally.
He just laughed as he was attacked by multiple rank 6's
With the snap of his fingers their clocks began to rewind.
Everyone attacking him.
Their magic cultivation degenerated until they were mortals.
Once they were mortal.
They rapidly aged.
Until they became dust.
It was at this moment a man in a purple robe with the skin of hellstone appeared.
"I detected a foreign soul earlier... to think you've already become a rank 7."
"Owtz Eerth?"
"You know me?"
"Yes."
"I've come to kill you!"