"Don't be too confused." Shadowheart spoke as he walked through the crowd of powerless Elentalists, heading towards those with three robes who had been watching the fight calmly.
"My power lies in eternity, and how to control it. For the longest ti, my biggest mistake was my misconception that it was used to grant immortality to myself and perpetuity to anything else."
Shadowheart continued speaking, but his words were mostly aid to enlighten the other God Serpents, who were thoroughly confused as to his sudden power display. They nodded as they listened to him explain.
"Fortunately, that man quickly showed that my thinking was wrong. There are two types of control, manipulation and expulsion. Manipulation ans that one can control the essence of the power in it origin, while expulsion is simply gathering the essence of the power and using it as it is."
"Die!!" A two colored Elentalist pulled a knife from her robe and tried to stab Shadowheart in the back, only shouting out when she was about to pierce into him. Shadowheart only tapped her legs with his staff, and the woman froze in place completely.
"Expulsion is crude, practically what you fellows do with your elents. You don't control them, you just have access to them. Manipulation is the true thod of control, because you control both the positive and the negative." Shadowheart continued as he walked through the crowd, who began to part fearfully in the face of his actions.
"A person who expulses a fireballs does so at a fixed power level that they are able to access. A person who can manipulate fire controls heat in essence. He can make his fire as hot as the sun, as ta as a warm light or as cold as a blizzard. That does not an he controls ice. He just has the ability to send his fire to the positive or negative of its state."
Shadowheart eventually stopped a few ters before the seven three colored robes leaders, who still sat calmly in their places, looking down on him with cold expressions.
"I control eternity. If I slide up the scale, I can elongate the state of existence of... anything. Likewise, if I turn the scale down, everything goes to nihil."
Shadowheart smiled with amusent. "Let give a demonstration."
"I have split my power into three abilities. The first is Ti Control, the second is Existence and the third is Nihil."
Shadowheart tapped his staff on the ground, and the woman who had been frozen in place began to move again.
"When you think about it, the ability of Eternity is just the ability to take ti to is extre. The ability to reverse Eternity is also the sa, so one could say the core of my power is the ability to control ti, to fast-forward it or to slow it down."
"Typical ti based abilities are Ti Skip, Ti Accel, Ti Slow and Ti Stop. Ti Skipping is simply jumping from one point in ti to another, both outcos predetermined. So if I am going to punch you 5 seconds later and 5 seconds later you would defend it successfully, ti skipping allows to reach the predetermined outco of punching you at this instant, so you would not be in your predetermined position 5 seconds later, but in your position now."
Shadowheart explained this calmly as he tapped the floor. The woman who had been unpaused showrf a look of confusion before she disappeared from everyone's eyes, only to appear near the door the next second.
"As you can see, the action she would have perford within 5 seconds was to flee in terror after having been stopped in ti previously." Shadowheart revealed with a chuckle.
"As for Ti Accel and Ti Slow, they are obvious. One allows a person or an area to move faster than others in relative ti and the other does the opposite. We've all watched enough sci-fi to know what that does."
"As for Ti Stop, it's a really difficult ti concept that is also quite famous. If you imagine the ability to control ti as a slider, where moving right speeds up ti and moving left slows it down, then ti stopping would be the extre of the left side. I have already demonstrated this using her, but I shall do so again."
Shadowheart tapped the butt of his staff on the ground, and the woman who was about to exit from the door stopped once again, frozen entirely in place.
"That's as far as I can do with Ti Control for now. It's possible for to unlock the more advanced abilities like Ti Theft, Ti Wipe, Ti Destruction, Ti Looping and more."
"Now for Existence, this section is quite simple. Eternity can be seen as the ability to control Ti, but that is only if ti is a slider. Eternity itself is synonymous with Existence, and is the length of existence of all things combined into one."
Shadowheart scratched his cheek. "This is a bit complex. Basically, I can control the state of being of any living thing."
"I can either make you eternal..." Shadowheart tapped his staff on the ground, and a golden light rushed out from his body and entered the frozen woman.
Nothing seed to change about her, but every living thing in this room could sense that her State of Being, her fundantal essence, had changed from theirs imperceptibly. It was like looking at a giant tree that had existed for ages, that feeling of agelessness and tilessness that it would have.
"…or I can make you cease to exist." Shadowheart finished as he tapped his staff once more. This ti, the golden light he infused into the woman ca out, and with it ca another smaller golden orb, only the size of a groundnut.
The one Shadowheart had sent was the size of a football. Both orbs returned to him and entered his body. As for the woman, she did not even change from her current state, simply turning into ash that dissipated with the wind.
For the first ti since he started speaking, the three colored robed Elentalists had their expression change greatly. A hint of fear appeared in their eyes because this kind of power superseded sothing that control over the elents could beget.
After all, Shadowheart's first display was - in its essence - him showing off his ability to control ti. That made him no different from any other Ti Elentalist and there was one among their midst.
That was why they allowed the God Serpent group to slaughter, for that Elentalist would simply reverse ti and resurrect all those who had died. However, soone whose existence had been undone would not resurrect even if you reverse ti, because they were 404 - unable to be found by Existence.exe!
If it wasn't the case, then Existence would just be another form of ti control and not its own thing. Ti control could also achieve sothing like this, de-aging a person until they beca a baby then into nothingness, or aging them rapidly into nothingness.
But the fact was that another ti user could bring them back using the opposite ans at any point. However, this power was absolute, for Shadowheart took the very core of the essence of an organism's existence.
That was the power of Eternity.
With Ouroboros, he could attach the Essence of Infinity to anything and let it exist forever, and this was a power he always had. However, Draco's avatar showed him how to do the reverse and take away the power of infinitude from everything else.
By taking away infinitude, he was taking away their essence of existence and reducing their length of existence from XX years to nil. So this ability did two things.
Firstly, it drained the length of existence and gave it to Shadowheart. If he refined it and gained enough of it, he could form a full Essence of Infinity that could be granted to anything else. So his previous limit of only having 100 Essences of Infinity was overturned.
Secondly, it drained the essence of existence, aning that one thoroughly ceased to exist. Even if ti was reversed or any other ans was sued, that person was gone for good. Of course, nothing like people forgetting they existed would occur, as that had to do with mory and the soul.
"And finally, there's Nihil. There's not much to say about this one, it's essentially the sa as Existence." Shadowheart began once more, but this ti he slowly raised his staff.
"The only difference between Nihil and Existence is the forr affects living organisms, while Nihil affects everything else, especially abstract concepts or intangible things." Shadowheart finished as he slamd the butt of his staff down hard.
"That includes things your ability to control the elents. I can either make them exist forever or make it so you never even had those powers in the first place." Shadowheart calmly elaborated as a grey wave erged from his staff, encompassing the three colored robe elders who had been still seated calmly as if waiting for Shadowheart's tirade to finish before passing judgnt on him.
However, their expressions soon warped as they stood to their feet, their bodies trembling.
"My abilities? What have you done?!" The female elder with black robes scread crazily.
The others looked like wanted to ask the sa thing, but were barely able to keep themselves calm. They had gone from all powerful gods who could look down on these eight invaders, even though their display was impressive, to mortals who could not even survive a particularly bad paper cut.
Apart from endless fear that drowned their hearts, they were feeling potent despair and coldness. They sorely regretted their arrogance in not making a move the mont these fellows showed up and suppressing them.
Don't bla them for such thoughts. If you thought about it, the display of the others could be linked to other elents, so it looked like the God Serpents simply had exceptional control of various elents. How could they understand the depth of a single God Serpent's power when they didn't even know what a God Serpent was?
"Impressive, it cost a total of 30% Bloodline Energy to nullify your powers. You guys really aren't too bad. It's unfortunate you chose to be the enemies of the wrong people." Shadowheart comnted with surprise.
Suddenly, it was as if water had poured on top of the heads of the three colored robe mbers.
That's right, we don't even know who these fuckers are! They just burst in here and started killing without any monologues or aimless filler-like chatting! Who does that nowadays?!
"Who are you?!" The elder nad Hanson asked with suppressed fury.
This ti, Nightwalker stepped forward and spoke seriously.
"We are the sons of the wizards you didn't bur- Ouch!"
His nonsense was stopped by Elle shooting him in the butt with a laser. Unlike the 'mortal' Elentalists, a God Serpent Inheritor like Nightwalker wouldn't be hard by just this, not to ntion Elle had lowered the potency greatly.
Shadowheart nodded to Elle for taking care of this troublemaker before speaking. "We are the top echelon of the Purgatory Group. You now, the you recently decided to set your sights on. As retaliation, we were ordered to slaughter you all."
All the alive Elentalists were left speechless, and even the ghosts of the dead ones who had yet to dissipate were feeling aggrieved. Many wished to pull their hair out on the spot, but their eyes had beco too bloodshot to even see what was in front of them.
Boss, we weren't even going to hurt a hair on your head! We were just going to apply corporate pressure on you until you caved in! What kind of full on nuclear response?! Who does things like this in the world?!
This was completely like being bitten by a mosquito once and deciding to slaughter all mosquitoes in the world!
How the FUCK does that equate?!
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