[Advancent Task: Understand the core purpose that drives different individuals to live.]
[100% Complete]
[Each person’s purpose is a unique key, crafted to fit a lock they also invented.]
[To you, the progenitor of the aningless, "My destiny" is the most personal and persuasive fiction you will ever write.]
[After all, you are the sole author and sole audience of your life’s significance.]
[You feel your existence heighten... the call of the aningless grows within you.]
[As its progenitor grows, all existences that clothe themselves in aninglessness grow stronger.]
[The book of the aningless has revealed itself...]
As the final line of the notification appeared, Seth felt a sudden, profound dissociation.
For a mont, it was as though his mind detached from his body.
His fingers, his breathing, even the sound of the wind seed distant.
He looked at the world as if he were a stranger staring through a glass window.
Nothing felt familiar.
There was no warmth nor hatred... Only a deep, still indifference.
In that indifference was a strange comfort.
A sense that nothing mattered.
That aning was not a rule nor a truth, only a habit people forced on themselves.
He could see it clearly now— the "purpose" people placed on their own shoulders were invented by their own hands.
The more he understood this, the more he felt sothing within him stirring.
The sins accumulated inside his body turned into fuel, rushing toward an invisible point within his soul.
There, sothing hungry devoured it all, consuming every fragnt that carried evil or malevolence.
Deep within his soul, he sensed a taphysical chain snap and release.
From that chain erged a "book" with no cover, and its pages blank.
Seth did not know how long he remained in that state.
When he finally returned to himself, he found he was sitting on a bench, staring at nothing.
"What an odd sensation..."
He whispered, frowning slightly.
For the first ti, the world looked empty.
And yet, it was not frightening.
[Second Circle has been unlocked]
[Second Circle abilities of the Sin of the aningless have been unlocked]
[View personal profile?]
[Yes/No]
Naturally, Seth ntally clicked yes.
[Sinner] Seth Arden (Progenitor)
[Sin] The aningless
[Progenitor Na] : (Unnad)
[Progenitor Ability] aningful Resurrection
[The more the Progenitor dies a aningful death, one that alters destinies, ends eras, or births new anings for others and himself, the stronger they beco upon returning.]
[Energy Affinity] Chaos
[Book of the aningless] (Slot : 3)
[Stage] First Circle
[Abilities] :
[Authority of The aningless (1st Stage)] Experiencing first-hand the abilities of other Sin users grants knowledge about their Sin’s properties and limitations.
[Null Presence] Others overlook your existence, forgetting details about you easily. Tracking abilities, clairvoyance, and even fate-based targeting struggle to lock onto you. This ability also allows you to beco invisible against people who do not actively seek you out.
[Null Presence (First Death)] When Null Presence is activated, the physical limits of your body will beco aningless. Allowing you to naturally exert brute strength, flexible movents, along with inhuman speed and senses. (This ability is limited to the Progenitor.)
[Authority of the aningless (2nd Stage)] Your authority allows you to take away an item’s "purpose" and relocate it. Your destiny has also beco masked from certain divinations, making fate slightly aningless against you.
[Fate Consumption] Consu a selected portion of a target’s fate to empower yourself, montarily giving your identity a "purpose."
[Word of Silence] You hold power over the word "silence". Once uttered, all those that hear it will halt their actions and your environnt will temporarily beco solemn.
Seth read through his updated status carefully, noting two major new additions.
The first was the Book of the aningless...
It was shaped like a book.
It was not physical, yet it felt real enough that he believed he could pull it out into the world at any ti.
When he reached toward that sensation, it responded faintly, as though waiting for him.
Seth had a clear theory about its use.
Phoebe’s story explained that she beca a witch by signing a Progenitor’s book in a dream.
Logically, his own book must function the sa way.
He could use it to induct others as witches of the aningless.
But there would be qualifications.
Only soone whose life was in a true state of "aninglessness," or who held a deep, genuine indifference to the world, could likely sign it and gain the Sin’s power.
He reflected on the similarity he felt between the Sin of the aningless and the Sin of Coldness he had absorbed from Arthur.
Both Sins seed to involve a kind of "not caring."
However, the specific energy and attitude were different.
The Sin of Coldness felt like an active state of arrogance or emotional isolation.
It made the user feel superior, as if others and their problems were beneath their notice.
It was a coldness directed outward.
In contrast, the Sin of the aningless was more fundantal and internal.
Its state seed to not be about feeling superior to things...
It was about seeing the entire structure of existence—goals, emotions, struggles—as inherently pointless. It was a philosophical emptiness.
In short term.
Coldness says, "You are not worth my ti."
While the aningless says, "Nothing is worth anyone’s ti."
Or at least that was how Seth interpreted them.
Still, he could not help but wonder if there were sins out there that were similar to the aningless...
’Hm... I wonder if the seven deadly sins from the Bible exist here. They should, right? If this world has sins, then pride, greed, wrath, and the rest should also exist. The progenitors of those sins must be terrifyingly strong...’
The thought made him curious and uneasy at the sa ti.
But there was another matter that needed his attention.
The second major change was his new set of abilities.
The second circle abilities of the sin of the aningless seed to specialize in indirect usability rather than ones that could be directly be used in combat to harm another person.
’I feel like a support character in a moba gama...’
Seth mocked himself silently, but he did not look down on them.
In so ways, indirect abilities could be more dangerous if used properly.
Killing did not have to be based off of pure raw power after all.
His odd powers could be the most dangerous kind.
In fact, he was imdiately relieved by the upgrade to his Authority of the aningless.
The description stated his destiny was now "masked from certain divination."
This was a direct counter to his biggest fear... the unknown manipulator controlling his fate!
It wasn’t complete immunity, but the very least, he was less susceptible to fate manipulation!
The other part of the ability was more abstract: "Your authority allows you to take away an item’s ’purpose’ and relocate it."
He didn’t know what that ant in practice.
To test it, he needed a controlled experint.
Glancing around, he picked up a simple stick from the ground.
He activated [Null Presence] and walked into a small, open-fronted paper shop.
No one noticed him.
The shopkeeper and custors walked around, busy with their tasks.
None of them even turned in his direction.
He took a cheap pen and a single sheet of paper from a display.
Holding the pen, he focused on his newly upgraded Authority.
The mont he focused, a strange instinct appeared in his mind.
He felt that as long as he knew what an item’s purpose was, he could "take" it away.
The pen’s primary purpose was simple: to write.
He raised his palm above the pen.
Sothing invisible was taken away...
He did not see anything move, but he felt a shift, as though a tiny thread had been pulled out of existence.
Then, he turned his palm toward the stick and released it.
A faint tingling passed through his hand.
Seth picked up the stick and pressed it to the paper.
He picked up the stick.
It was no longer just a piece of wood.
He touched its tip to the paper and tried to write.
To his surprise, dark lines appeared.
The stick was now writing... but it was not like the black ink on the pen.
Instead, the color ca from its wood, like sap or dye seeping out from its fibers.
It did not drip, but it spread gently as if the stick was trying its best to fulfill its new purpose.
Seth lifted it again and wrote another line...
The result was the sa.
’So I can’t just create a new purpose from nothing,’ Seth analyzed.
’I have to take an existing, defined purpose from one object and force it onto another. The recipient object will then twist its own nature to try and fulfill that purpose, often in a destructive or inefficient way...’
He thought of an example to clarify it in his head.
If he took the purpose of a key—to unlock—and gave it to a spoon, the spoon wouldn’t magically beco a key.
Instead, it would likely bend and warp itself, trying to fit into a keyhole, probably ruining both the lock and itself in the process.
It was a power of conceptual theft and forced, unnatural function.
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