Master of Time Chapter 85: Spiritual Awareness

Everything around burns.

Raging flas explode outwards like a supernova, lighting up the endless darkness of the abyss of near infinite size. It shouldn't be able to reach the edge of the room due to spatial compression, but it can try.

Space is expanding faster than even the speed of light!

Extre heats vaporize bone and flesh all alike, yet one thing remains.

My consciousness…

Although I could heal my physical body endlessly thanks to my power, my soul could only take so much punishnt before fracturing.

I do have a soul even I am an Aspect, right? It would be strange if I don't, so I will believe I do have one for the sake of not overthinking things. Besides, its existence is evidenced by my spiritual awareness, therefore, I must have a soul or sothing close to one to be able to feel spiritual energy.

When did I beco aware of spiritual energy?

It wasn't when I first et Terra, the Master of Chaos.

Nope. It was when I had jumped all the way to the beginning of ti, just to see what is at the start of everything.

In the presence of those Primordial beings, shrouded in darkness, my spiritual awareness was forcibly awakened.

I didn't notice it back then, but now that I think more about it, it must be one way to awaken spiritual energy within a person. Perhaps I can use this to awaken others later on.

Hmm…?

Regardless of what a soul might be, I could feel it breaking under the relentless assaults by the divine flas of a Dragon God.

The attacks actually making beco more and more spiritual aware, forcing to learn faster and faster. I could finally feel the spiritual energy of the world.

Incredible! I didn't expect that!

The astral entity, born from the will and intent of a Dragon God, drawls all its power from the magical energy within my body.

It is quite an ingenious curse.

And until my magical energy is depleted, the astral dragon does not dissipate. It will continue to attack , physically and spiritually.

I have withstood the attacks with my will and my will alone. My power rewinds ti whenever I finally lost consciousness. Even when my body is vaporized by heat and fire, I still didn't lose consciousness and remain aware of my surroundings.

It is a very strange feeling. An out of body experience…?

The experience is becoming stronger and stronger, lasting longer and longer with each painful death.

Why do I put myself through such unfathomable sufferings?

I need data. I need to experint. I need to understand. I need to feel exactly what is happening!

Knowledge is power!

And true powers co from the ability to crush the wills of others without even lifting a single finger, and I am willing to do what it takes to acquire such power!

While I am unable to reverse the damages done to my soul or essence, it seems to heal itself overti, relatively speaking.

Everything is relative when you are talking about ti.

I am unable to speed up the healing process since my power does not affect the soul at the mont, so I will have to just wait it out like a caveman.

Great…

As I continue to fall in the dark abyss of near-infinite width, height and length, I have a read through all the data that the far-future Alex and Hans have provided for .

It keeps my mind off all the pains my spirit is suffering from. The divine fla is no joke, but it seems to make stronger each ti I pick myself up again.

Good grinding! I will make this curse works for !

As for all the data I have uploaded to Legion, when I needed a research done instantly, I will just jump into the future and grab the research before returning to the present again.

It is not cheating!

Cheating would be knowing everything without needing to figure out loopholes. I earn everything I've learned through blood and sweat. Well, except my power of ti. That just cos with the package I suppose.

It is a good thing that I take the shortcut. I would have to wait a few millennia for the complete analysis of spatial compression otherwise.

It does take Alex and Hans and Mystic that long with basically infinite resources at their disposal.

Did humanity survive beyond the 31st century?

Nope.

They destroy the world by the 23rd century due to the widespread use of magic. A knife is enough to kill a person when given to child. A nuclear bomb is enough to kill millions, so I have expected as much when you give basically reality-bending power to the human race.

A cataclysmic magical event shatters the planet and destroy much of the solar system.

So idiots must have decided that they know better than everyone else.

There are always those idiots, ruining it for everyone else. Only this ti, they have killed pretty much everyone else in the process.

But thanks to the advances in both technology and magic, Hydra and Shield continues to live on. And with the fabricator technology at their disposal, as long as they have energy, they can survive in the depth of space practically forever – I assu.

Neither Hydra and Shield is not there, waiting for when I had jumped to the future and witnessed for myself what remains of the solar system. An endless debris field drifting in the unforgivable nature of space.

Hydra and Shield probably have left, looking for another habitable world.

That is the contingency plan should Earth is destroyed for whatever reason. I didn't bother finding out where they have gone, but history tends to repeat itself until soone put a stop to all that pointless destruction – .

Alex and Hans are still there, waiting for all alone in the void of space. Quite a few people did wait with them at the start, but many have ascended to higher realm once they reached 10th circle magical power.

How they manage to beco that powerful are within all the data they have given .

Unfortunately, their thods are not very useful since they have speed through the whole thing. This makes them so of the weakest 10th circle mages ever lived in comparison to Azula reality, but still the greatest mages the pri universe has ever known.

Furthermore, Alex and Hans only concentrate on a single elent, their natural affinity. This is pretty much the sa with everyone else who awakens their magic.

It is very difficult to master two elents. It takes exponential amount of ti and resources. Neither they have after the world is destroyed.

Alex and Hans would be considered as 10th circle dot mages for having mastery just over a single basic elent. Mastery over two elents, would make them a line mage. Three would be a triangle. Four would be a square. I think you get the picture.

Mastering them all would make the mage a paragon. I am aiming for that since it is investing in myself, not simply just ensuring the survival of human race.

Any less than perfection is not worth my ti.

While I won't be using their training thod, it does give so insights to how to level up. Endless training increases their proficiency, hence growing their magical and expanding their understanding, but taking thousands of years to reach 10th circle seems kind of long.

Well, I do have plenty of ti. And I inherit all of their spells. They figure out all the runes we acquired from the Nazis. The rune that empowers bullets is called Protect.

Wow, I can see the irony!

When Protect combines with an Elental Rune like Fire or Wind, it becos an Enhancent or an Enchantnt spell, protecting whoever being casted upon or an item.

This is very interesting. Hans spends a lot of ti on creating Enchantnt or Enchantnt spell. This would make him an Enchanter. Alex on the other hand, spends more ti working on offensive spells, but he does have Conjuration spells, summoning monsters.

Very, very interesting.

I thank both Alex and Hans for their hard work and then erase them from reality by jumping back to the past. The future is no different with I am here.

And they will be the most powerful mages in all realities, not just this one! But for now, I will let them go their own pace. It will take a while for them to reach 1st circle.

I do wonder what is this realm they are talking about?

Alex and Hans do not know since from their experience, whoever ascends won't be able to return to the mortal realm again. That is why they didn't want to ascend, on the account of .

Interesting. Maybe I will learn about this realm thing later.

It is ti to torture my body and spirit again. How many tis is it now? Well, I have plenty of ti. I did compress the ti around just like when I was with Eliana.

Temporal compression allows to make ti flow faster or slower. Making it flow faster allows to experience years while only a fraction of a second passes outside.

I explore this concept when I got tired of jumping back to the past and rging with myself repeatedly. Keep doing that makes does make lost track of ti.

There is just so much to my power.

"Analysis completed, Supre Commander."

Legion notifies when there is no new information can be acquired with simply torturing myself. It did take several hundred cycles. Kind of slow, to be honest.

The room return to normal, and I could see scorch marks all over the wall. The mircomachines that is the walls quickly fix itself, returning to pristine conditions.

The divine flas reach that far? I didn't underestimate the power of a Dragon God no matter what kind of insults I spews in the heat of the mont. But this really makes thing.

Heat can travel faster than speed of light.

Also, with that kind of repair capability, it will be very hard to destroy my robotic army.

Plus, their number is endless.

They are designed to take down both Hydra and Shield after all.

It is my insurance against all human-lead organizations. If freedom is the cause of extinction then I will remove freedom, but what kind of dystopia will the future be?

Thinking too much on that wastes ti.

I revise the new data, learning that the divine flas originate from the center of my body, where my heart should be. It spreads outwards and engulfs my entire body before attacking my spirit. All of this happens very quickly, but not fast enough to escape Legion.

Magic on the other hand, forces magical energy to flow through the limbs, usually the hands and then infests the air, forming an incantation magical diagram for casting. Magical energy can co from the core or from the pathways. The core takes longer than the pathways.

"Require more data for cleansing affliction known as Burning Curse. Alternative options are possible, Supre Commander."

Legion informs and shows several options. I review each one before making my decision. There is no way to remove the Burning Curse, but there is a way for to cast magic. Since magical energy flows to the limb, I will just store it right where the hands are.

This is where magical capacitor cos in. However, they are huge and bulky. But huge and bulky are no longer a problem with spatial compression.

"Schematic acknowledged. Processing request."

Legion notifies as it constructs a new apparatus for . A tallic wristband is created. Two to be exact since want to practice with both hands. Those bands wrap around my wrist.

"Excellent work, Legion. It is ti to beco a part of ."

I request and take off my Hydra ring and toss it towards the wall. The wall opens up and seems to eat the ring. While Legion is carrying out my order, I try to form a magical incantation diagram.

Seeing the diagram manifests in the air does bring a smile to my face.

However, I feel a sharp piercing pain in my chest. It seems that the Burning Curse didn't like my little bypass. Like I give a shit. But the pain will beco fairly unbearable as my magic core grows in size. I will have to find a permanent solution to this – or just kill the Dragon God.

Killing the Dragon God seems easier, so that is plan A, I guess.

The room collapse all around , as all the micromachines swirl into a singularity. That singular is the new ring on a pedestal.

It has been upgraded.

I reach out my hand and grab the ring of power. Without using magic, I can see the endless darkness within the one ring in my mind.

This is the power of Magictech. Magical energy is not required to cast any spells. With it, however, the spells beco more powerful!

Countless red light emanates in the endless darkness, revealing each individual machine in the ocean of tals, and they stretch far beyond the horizon.

"I am Legion, for we are endless."