It was a unilateral massacre unprecedented in history. An absurd amount of gods were eliminated in just a few seconds. The rest couldn’t even move, feeling like mortals before a god. They hadn’t felt this pathetic in hundreds of millions of years.
"The big ones will notify the remaining small organizations about how space and resources will be partitioned in the new universe," declared Pai, ending the eting with that sentence.
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The cold was the only thing that existed, at least for a long and infinite ti. But then, sothing new erged: heat. The sphere felt heat coming from its center, which spread throughout its shape.
This heat made him feel alive. He just needed to try to breathe. The sphere didn’t know exactly what it was like to breathe, but its shape tried to imitate that, and with each cycle, it ward up a little more.
"Kayden" – that was the na of the sphere. He was sure of that after warming up for so long. So mories were beginning to return but at an absurdly slow pace. It was all about heat.
Breathe.
Heat.
Breathe.
Heat.
Breathe.
Heat.
Breathe.
This was a never-ending cycle, where Kayden didn’t hesitate for a mont. For so reason, he couldn’t get enough. His mind did not harbor any thoughts of giving up in the face of the cold. Every mont was the sa.
His mind was tireless, his will greater than the cold and ti. What moved him? Kayden didn’t know. He had no mories, no knowledge, just a strange, aningless will.
The cold remained constant, its intensity unchanged, always present. At that mont, Kayden began to rember so actions and things whose origin he did not know.
Words that he didn’t know where they ca from appeared in his mind. He did not know the origin of any words in his mind, nor how his thoughts were being organized.
What exactly was a na? Kayden had no idea. What was it for? His na generated no heat, and only heat mattered in his life. What was the point of words if they didn’t generate heat?
The only thing Kayden understood at that mont was the heat. Anything else was of no value in his view. But he also didn’t know exactly why heat was his goal or represented sothing valuable.
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"Right now, we only have 50% of the universe; the rest has been broken down into mana for Father to use," said one of the remaining gods at a council organized to decide the fate of the universe.
On this council, each large organization had an equal seat and vote. Small organizations were slowly incorporated into large ones through agreents or veiled threats. In the end, only the big ten remained.
The universe was being purified of many life forms and existences. So insane gods tried to enter directly into the area that Pai consud, but there was never any news of them again.
"How much left?" asked one of the representatives. None of the great gods personally attended these etings.
Even with the universe changing rapidly, most of them had no desire to leave their cultivation and private worlds to make decisions for their organizations.
The truth is that they hadn’t participated in them for a long ti. They had reached a level where they no longer had a social circle other than people of their level, nor even the resources that were necessary for their existence.
They had reached a level of strength where there was nowhere else to go, and they just tried to advance beyond divinity, day after day, without success. It was an infinite search of an infinite will.
Family and friends were sothing elusive at this level of strength, at least with people who weren’t on the sa level. Four of the great gods were couples with each other, and a trio also seed to be in a union of sorts.
While on the surface all organizations were hostile and fought wars over the minimum amount of resources, on the inside, their leaders treated each other as equals and ate at the sa table if the opportunity arose.
"Between 10% to 20%, according to the false gods. The mana in the universe has already increased to a large extent, and we have seen many new geniuses erging in these centuries." In just a short period, dozens of people with eight rays appeared on all sides.
"The lands are already perfectly divided, with a central region remaining with the false gods at its center. We are expecting a great increase in the overall strength of all mbers and the birth of many natural treasures."
Each god was comnting on what had been studied by their organization and how much they had learned during this period about increasing mana density. There seed to be a direct relationship with the number of geniuses being born.
"We are not going to build many planets. We are thinking of creating just a hundred, each with a few trillion people, classified by strength and capacity," revealed one of the organizations, presenting a simple and practical system.
"And how are you dealing with those with less than five rays?"
"We left out the weaker planets and only rescued the high-level ones. It will take a little longer, but in a few millennia we will have all these densely populated planets."
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"Collective psyche." This was the na Kayden gave to his thoughts and knowledge that did not co directly from him.
There was still not enough ti for him to recover his mories, but he was able to develop more critical thinking and recognize all this knowledge that seed to be innate in his mind.
He dubbed it "unconscious knowledge." All his actions were governed by him. His unconscious was his true self, but it was also a shadow in his conscious, which was still cloudy to Kayden.
This knowledge seed to be sothing innate to their race, sothing that transcended their own life and existence, almost behaving like primitive instincts. Where exactly they ca from was sothing he couldn’t yet recognize.
Author’s note: If you enjoy psychology and have read the classics, you will understand the references.
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