Most of it had already been said.
Dante was born in the Heavenly World and fought it in order to gain talent and beco great. He eventually did, establishing Void Palace and becoming one of the strongest people in the world.
When he was at his best, his enemies targeted him and his family and forced him to run.
Well, that was what others thought. Otherwise, there wasn't a way for him to find a way to the lower universe to bring Damien into existence.
"I died back then."
Damien raised an eyebrow. It was sothing that would floor anyone else, but Damien had also died so it didn't hit him as hard.
"Damien, have you heard of the Firmant Board?"
Damien shook his head. This was obviously not going to be a story about Dante's life, but he was going to let his father speak anyway.
"One day, you will sense it. For the rest of us, it was the mont when we truly beca Unrecorded, but as you have attained that level before Godhood, you must not have felt its call yet."
Another chanic of the universe?
Damien didn't think there was anything else he didn't know about the world. As he had even scanned it with his Existence when he returned, he thought that everything was within his expectations.
Even the matter of the Heavenly God Plane was sothing he already knew about. Dante's explanation rely gave him more information on it. However, clearly, the Firmant Board was sothing different.
It was sothing that was beyond "Existence" alone.
Dante summoned another energy. Only two other people in this world knew that it existed, and that number had now beco three.
"The Firmant Board is the reason why I have lived until today. In essence, it is nothing more than another form of the universe's acknowledgent. If you can gain its attention and carve your na onto its surface, then you will officially surpass the bounds of the known power scale. It is what gave the ability to sense Existence, and more importantly, it granted a gift."
Dante summoned another energy. Only two other people in this world knew that it existed, and that number had now beco three.
"This is the energy of Boundless Samsara."
Damien's eyes widened in true surprise when he sensed the contents of that energy.
It was perfect. It was an exact representation of life and death. Damien felt clearly from that energy the sa thing he felt when he was facing the Wheel of Samsara itself.
"This physique is not sothing that should be possible," Dante said, his eyes hardening.
"It is a physique that makes immortal."
True immortality was not possible for anyone. Damien did not have a lifespan anymore, as he controlled Existence. Hypothetically, as long as the True Void Universe existed, he could constantly return his existence into being. However, nobody else was truly immortal. Gods could be killed, and if they weren't killed, then they'd eventually die even if it took trillions of years.
Damien was a unique case. He never worried about immortality as a curse, but it was indeed his curse if it was sothing he had to possess alone.
It had always been his goal to make everyone he loved immortal as well. As he always said, he didn't want to stand at the peak alone.
To find out that Dante was also immortal…
He was a little happy, but mainly just confused.
"If you're immortal, how did you die?"
It was an easy question to answer when the previously shown energy was taken into account, but Damien asked regardless.
"You're funny," Dante responded with a smile.
"It's as you think. If I ever die, then I will be reincarnated. I live with only an instinct to train until 4th class and then regain my mories of the past. I died thirty-nine tis in the Heavenly World before I was reborn in Grand Heavens Boundary. There, I spent almost the sa amount of ti as the Saint Emperor you know." A ntion of the Saint Emperor at this ti was not sothing Damien expected.
"That ans…you were in Grand Heavens Boundary near the inception of the Nox?"
Dante nodded.
"They were created to hunt , in the first place. Their goal only changed after I was located and the Gods of the Straea Clan found ."
"Wow…"
None of the mories Damien consud said anything about that.
'That ans it was like that only at the very beginning of the universe's tiline.'
At a ti when even the universe itself did not have mories, Dante was there, struggling.
"It was around that ti when Earth existed."
"Sorry?"
"Oh, I guess there's no way for you to know. The Earth you were born on was just a copy. I made that to mimic the world I was reborn on."
"Wha…"
"I an, co on. Earth was a pretty normal place where people didn't even know that mana existed. It had a good run for a few billion years, but it was swallowed by its own sun a long ti before you were born."
"I recreated the world later when I realized that your mother's soul had followed to the lower universe. There, she was reborn and I was able to et her again, and there, you were born."
Damien certainly didn't think he'd hear answers to questions he'd forgotten by now. The mysteries surrounding Earth, which was a far more mystical planet than it was ever ant to be, were all the doings of Dante Void.
As he continued to speak, Damien learned that the original Earth was pretty much the exact sa as the new one. The only difference was, the legendary heroes of the Earth that Damien knew were all different faces of Dante.
The myths in their history were Dante's creations, made to resemble figures and places that existed in the Heavenly World and the greater Grand Heavens Boundary.
It was a place that was almost specifically made so that Damien could be born.
Obviously, the tiline didn't line up. It was caused by the sa ti difference that allowed Damien to have a younger sibling despite his father being captured eons ago.
The Heavenly World was a place where the ti flow was never stable between regions until Serena aligned the ti flows for the sake of her array. The lower universe, as a much smaller body that had an even more chaotic ti flow, could never align with it.
As ti passed, their flows separated further and further until a million years could be equated to only a few thousand.
How long was Dante's struggle? He moved from one to the other and back, experiencing millions upon millions of years in both places.
He was only focusing on the important parts, but beneath it all, Damien found a struggle even greater than his own, one that provoked imnse respect.
The Heavenly God Battlefield, the Firmant Board, the secrets of the lower universe; Dante had spilled many secrets since he started talking.
But…
The latter two topics were left unfinished.
There was still more left to be said. Dante hadn't even told him why he brought up the Firmant Board yet.
The two matters had to be connected sohow.
And once Damien learned of that, his quest to reach the absolute peak would resu.
The key to everything was Dante Void.
So, for many reasons among which this one was just a small piece, Damien was very happy that his father was back.
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