• Prev Chapter
  • Background
    Font family
    Font size
    Line hieght
    Full frame
    No line breaks
  • Next Chapter

Chapter 1185

“Reality is a strange concept, Gravis," Orthar answered. "The fact that you're asking me about this means that you don't quitegrasp its intricacies."

"Okay? Then explain it," Gravis said with interest.

“Reality manifests and changes as it expands,” Orthar explained. "At the moment, | have the memories of Mortis entering myperception, but these memories are not as old as they seem to be."

Gravis only raised an eyebrow.

"Objective reality is objective reality, and time isn't a factor for objective reality. There is only one objective reality, and thatobjective reality only exists at one point in time," Orthar explained.

"We are in objective reality right now. The entire Cosmos is."

“Back when | said that | wasn't sure if Mortis would survive, his Samsara hadn't happened there. Things that haven't happenedyet can't happen prematurely."

"What? So you haven't felt Mortis in your perception back then?" Gravis asked.

Orthar nodded. "Correct. Before Mortis entered Samsara, | hadn't felt Mortis in my perception. That is why | said that | wasn'tsure if he could survive. After all, | hadn't known yet that he would survive."

Gravis scratched the back of his head as he tried to wrap his head around what Orthar was saying. "But you have Mortis’Samsara now in your memories, right?"

"Yes, | have these memories now.""But these memories are new?" Gravis asked.

"Correct. These memories have only been added when Mortis went into Samsara," Orthar explained. "Reality has to remainstable, and Samsara has an effect on causality. So, when something gets changed in the past, physical reality changesalongside it."

"Some legends and stories speak of time loops, and in nearly all of them, it is unknown what happened in the first iteration oftime and reality. We are currently in the first iteration. Mortis' Samsara hadn't happened yet, but as soon as it did, physical realityadapted."

"| was the only one that could feel Mortis' perception in Samsara, which means that | was the only one that had his memorieschanged. At the moment, | remember that | have never been worried about Mortis since | knew he would survive."

“However, | also know that these are memories of events that have never happened. In a sense, these things have happened,but they have not happened in physical reality. We only think that they have happened in physical reality," Orthar explained.

Gravis tried to understand what Orthar was telling him. "So, time loops can't exist?" Gravis asked.

"In physical reality, no, in perceived reality, yes," Orthar answered. "Time doesn't revert in physical reality. If you use the TrueLaw of Time to glimpse into the past, you will only see a perceived reality, not physical reality. The best you can do is freeze timefor a moment."

"So," Gravis said after some seconds. "You remember that you have felt Mortis' perception enter your perception, but you knowthat it has actually never happened."

"That's right," Orthar said.

Orthar looked at Mortis for a bit with an evaluating gaze.

"The first trial has been complete," he said. "Recover for the next 10,000 years. After that, you can enter the second trial.”“And what's, oh," Gravis said as he noticed that Orthar wasn't there anymore.

Now, there was only Gravis and Mortis left.

Gravis looked at the two closed gates. ‘Guess they won't open for a while. So, it's just like back then. After every trial, we get abreak.’

Gravis glanced at Mortis, who was still confused about the fact that he was back in his body."The first Samsara is always difficult," Gravis said.Mortis glanced over at Gravis.

"Do you remember my first Samsara? It was against some guy from one of the Peak Sects in Arc's world. It had only takenaround 10,000 years, but | also keeled over," Gravis said with a smile.

“Remember when we fought Nira?" Gravis asked. "Back then, | also used Samsara, and after | recovered, | was completelybeside myself. | couldn't even use my Form Law, and using my normal Laws also wasn't easy. After all, | hadn't used them for avery long time."

“How long has your Samsara been?" Gravis asked as he looked at Mortis.

"| don't know," Mortis answered absentmindedly.

“How old was the guy before he died?" Gravis asked.

Mortis glanced at the corpse in front of him with a complex expression. "Around two million years old."

Gravis nodded. "That's quite a long time. | guess you probably went through something like ten million years of Samsara. That'sa lot for your first time. How was it?"

Mortis wasn't sure what he should think right now."I'm not sure," he answered.

"Ah, | get it," Gravis said. "It's like a bad experience, but the bad experience managed to solve a problem of yours. It was stillhorrible to go through it, but in the end, you also feel like you're glad you went through it. After all, if you didn't, you wouldn't be asstrong as you currently are."

"Yet, if you could repeat the experience for the same gains, you would probably decline, right?" Gravis asked with a smirk.Mortis looked at Gravis for a bit."Yeah, that sounds about right."

Gravis only grinned as he walked over to Mortis. Then, Gravis sat down in front of Mortis and took out some coffee, which he hadgotten from his father a while back. He wanted to save this coffee for a special occasion.

When Mortis saw the coffee, old memories reappeared inside his mind.Mortis' connection to this coffee was just as strong as Gravis’ connection.Mortis took some of the coffee for himself and drank it.

For the next couple of minutes, Gravis and Mortis just silently drank. Gravis seemed relaxed, while Mortis appearedabsentminded.

"Tell me about the life of the Ancestral God," Gravis suddenly said."His life?" Mortis asked.

"Mhm," Gravis nodded. "Who was he? What did he do? What connections did he have? What Laws did he know? Whathappened to him? Simply tell me everything about it from the beginning.”

After some seconds of hesitation, Mortis began to narrate the life of the Ancestral God.

For the beginning, Gravis didn't say much, but as soon as the Ancestral God of the past had become sentient, Gravis startedthrowing in some questions.

“Was that the right decision?"

"Why did he do that?"

"Do you think that was the right decision?"

“What would you have done?"

“If you did that, how would the world have changed?""Is that truly what you want?"

"Do you really think that would be for the best?"

"Why would you do that?”

Gravis was throwing in one question after the other while Mortis was retelling the story of the Ancestral God.

Near the beginning, Mortis found ithard to answer these questions. TheAncestral God ha c@whathe'tiaddene, ald aatfings had alreadyhappened. Additionally, Mortis hadfelt that the Ancestral God's actionshad been only natural and logical.The content is on NovelDrama.Org!Read the latest chapter there!

Yet, Gravis' questions asked about the fundamental reasons of why.At some point, Mortis couldn't even give a clear answer as to why the Ancestral God had done something.Then, Gravis started asking Mortis about what he would have done.

In the beginning, Mortis' answers hadbeen nearly identical to.wh t thenAncest God wouldiave one, buteVertually, Gravis' continuous diggingmade Mortis reevaluate his answers.The content is on NovelDrama.Org!Read the latest chapter there!

Without noticing it, Mortis was slowly distancing himself from the past of the Ancestral God.

As more time passed, Mortis narrated the actions of the Ancestral God with a more distant and emotionless voice. It was like hewas no longer invested.

Why?Because the Ancestral God had done several things that didn't agree with Mortis’ belief.

In the beginning, Mortis had instinctively acted very similarly to the Ancestral God, but that connection had been severed.Eventually, Mortis was done with the narration. Due to Gravis’ constant questions, it had literally taken years.

"Nice story," Gravis said.

"| don't know," Mortis answered with furrowed brows. "He feels more like an idiot to me."

"Maybe," Gravis answered. "So, how do you feel?"

Mortis looked at Gravis. "Not different to usual.”

Gravis only smiled brightly.

"That's good to hear."

Mortis nodded. He had alreadyrealized what Gravis had done. Gravishad continually quegtiohediHe mMactions\sf the Ancestral God, forcingMortis to reevaluate them. Due tothat, only the actions Mortis trulyagreed with would stay in his mind.The content is on NovelDrama.Org!Read the latest chapter there!

Gravis had reawakened Mortis’ personality.He wasn't the same Mortis as before Samsara, but people Mortis knew would definitely feel that he was acting like Mortis.He had only changed a bit.

And that was normal.novelbin

Use arrow keys (or A / D) to PREV/NEXT chapter