Supreme Harem God System - Chapter 2380: You are insane.
Chapter 2380: You are insane.
“You learn what I learned after I cleared the Temple of Time and came here.
The Law of Origin.”
Nux stared at her.
For a moment, he said nothing, then he narrowed his eyes.
“Law of… Origin?”
The Seer nodded.
“Yes.”
“That is the name of your Law?”
“Yes.”
Nux looked at her for a while, then turned toward the endless Multiverse in front of him, then looked back at the Seer.
“For something that allows you to enter any Universe at any point in Time, the name is rather… simple.”
“Simple things are often the… largest.”
The Seer smiled.
“Is that so…”
Nux muttered as he continued to stare at her, waiting for an explanation.
“Every Universe has its own Time, its own flow, its own rhythm, its own direction. That is what separates one Universe from another.”
“Yes, I know that.”
Nux nodded.
The Seer nodded back, then she looked at him and—
“But that is not the complete truth.”
Nux narrowed his eyes.
“Every Universe has a unique Time, that is correct, but no Universe’s Time was born from nothing.”
The Seer then pointed at the Multiverse in front of her and started explaining.
“Every Universe here came from a Branch, every Branch came from another Universe, and all of them, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, no matter how old, came from the First Universe.”
“The Main Universe.”
Nux mentioned.
“Yes.”
The Seer nodded.
“The First Universe had the First Time.
The Original Time.
The beginning from which all other ’Times’ were born.
Every Branch changed it, every interference altered it, and all those changes… gave it a new Identity, a new Unique Time that later went on to become a Universe’s Identity.”
Nux listened carefully, the Seer then turned towards him and—
“But beneath every variation, beneath every distortion, beneath every change…
The First Time still remained.”
Nux noted those words with a new light in his eyes, still, he didn’t interrupt the Seer’s flow and let her continue.
“To ordinary beings, these Universes are separate existences with an entirely Unique Identity. To me—
They are countless variations of one Origin.
They may differ by a single breath, a war that never ended, a king that shouldn’t have perished, or a child who should have been born but wasn’t—
But all of them still carry the same base.
The same Origin.
The same mark of the Original Time, or the First Time.”
The Seer then turned silent for a while, letting Nux absorb what she told him as she herself moved her gaze back to the Multiverse.
Then, once she noticed Nux was ready—
She continued.
“Every Universe has a Time Signature.
A unique identity formed from the Origin Time and all the changes that shaped it. I use my Law to read that signature, and once I read that Time Signature, I understand it and once I understand that Universe’s Time Signature—
I can enter any point within it.
The beginning, the end, or any event I desire.”
Nux nodded as he tried to understand it all.
“So what you are saying is…
If we think of First Time as ’T’, then every Universe after it is T plus something, or T minus something, according to how much it has varied from the Original Timeline, correct?”
“Well, that is an extremely simplified version of it, but yes.
At some level, your assumption is correct.”
The Seer nodded.
Nux nodded back, soon however, another question appeared in his head and he frowned.
“Knowing all the Time Signatures came from the First Time is one thing, how do you know how much a particular Universe’s Time Signature is different from the First Time? How do you know the exact identity of a particular Universe?
Like, you know every Universe is T plus something, or T minus something—
But how do you know that this particular Universe is… let’s say… T+23184?
What I am trying to ask is…
If I put you in front of nine vigintillion Universes—
How do you know which one is which?”
The Seer just smiled at that question.
“This is why I said your summarization was an extremely simplified version of reality, almost childishly so.”
“I thought it was the easiest way to understand it.”
Nux frowned.
“Well, it is the easiest, but at a deeper level—
It is also wrong.”
Nux’s frown deepened.
“Time is not a number, Nux.
A Universe’s Time is not something you count from the outside.
It is a path.
A history that became an identity.
If you wish to know a Universe, you must know where it came from.
And if you wish to know where it came from—
You must trace it back to the beginning.”
She explained.
Nux looked at her for what felt like a good few minutes and then—
“So that’s your Law?”
“That is the first step of it.”
The Seer nodded.
“The first step?”
“Yes.”
She turned towards him.
“The Law of Origin is simple.
To know anything, return it to its Origin.
To know a Universe, return it to the First Universe.
To know its Time, return it to the First Time.”
Nux turned toward the Multiverse and looked at those endless branches.
“So you… trace every Universe back to the First Universe…”
“Yes.”
“There are quindecillions of Branches between some of them.”
He commented as he raised his eyebrow.
“Yes.”
The Seer nodded like it was obvious.
Nux turned back towards her and—
“So you trace back through quindecillions of branches?”
“Yes.”
“And you want me to do the same…?”
Nux asked, hoping she would say no but—
“Yes.”
Nux just looked at the woman in front of him with a ridiculous look on his face.
“You are insane.”
“I have been told that before.”
“By whom?”
“Myself.”
She laughed.
Nux stared at her, he had absolutely no clue what he was supposed to say here. The Seer, on the other hand, just shrugged.
Then she pointed at a pale blue branch far away and—
“Start there.
Trace that one back to the Single Root.”
“You really are crazy.”
Nux complained but—
“Stop complaining and get to work, Nux Leander.”
The Seer just laughed.
