Creeeaak
I can feel the World creaking because of the force I applied, but that is the only thing I have managed to accomplish so far.
According to her, the final phase of the escape will start when I rip apart this Space-Crystal.
This better work.
I make a beeline towards the new direction my Dimensional Compass is showing me.
With no immediate way out of this place, I can only resort to her strategy.
...
[I] do not have a name.
Only a purpose.
[I] was designed by the First Avatar, the being who existed before [I] came to be.
[They] gave me a property.
The property to create [their] essence.
With one purpose etched into [something] of [mine], that [something] I would later come to know as Fate -
«Create a New Avatar»
Through the property I was able to form thoughts, create new Space, resulting in the creation of more properties.
As [I] became more and more proficient, in creating properties, I was able to expand [myself], resulting in making a connection with Time.
"Oh, what do we have here? A new universe' fledgling? Boy your kind sure missed out on a lot."
Though its appearance was sudden and completely unexpected, I was able to tell the [identity] of the being before me.
Yes, Time.
It felt obvious, like it should always be there.
Back then, I didn't feel anything out of place, but that would prove to be a great oversight, something I would come to know in the Distant yet close event.
More than the uncertainty and doubts, I was much more entranced and intoxicated by the being before me.
I asked, as clearly as I remember,
"You. Who are you? How do I know you even though we've never met? Why is your... existence so vast yet removed from me?"
"Oh we got a smart one here, you're going places I tell, the universe born in this era that I encounter are all a bunch of infants compared to your vocabulary. That's nice, to speak and communicate! You have already passed one of the bigger hurdles!"
I absorb as much information as I can, without my awareness, I have already made a huge number of properties almost more than half of the ones before meeting this Existence.
But my attention is still fixed on the being before me. There is a very distinct quality, something like a property, no many properties that stick to it, giving him an identity.
"Alright alright don't look at me like that. I am the Power- Time. Clap clap clap.
Omnipresent since the Era of Power, and one of the fundamental beings that exist in the Omniverse. Without me a universe cannot even be born anymore."
Yes, that- Power, a new word, but it perfectly described the feeling I get from him, and also resembles the purpose that I received from [them].
"As a new universe born in the Era of Prosperity, you are both lucky and unlucky, but fear not it's not just you, many others like you are being born as we speak. Since the Era of Creation, a lot of History has been made-
That's true. But with me(Time), you will grow and progress faster, steadily and become able to accumulate your own History into the Omniverse!"
The purpose, it's not completely the same as the Fate, but the concept of Purpose itself feels tied to me and what that being is.
Without any hesitation, or doubt I ask the question that would make me walk into the Path of Power. The Fate trembles and becomes more noticable as I decide to do so.
"What is Power?"
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On a surface, that shouldn't even be there, as if sitting on empty space, a young girl stares down the Fractal Crystal that floats in all its masterfully crafted glory.
Her split hair partially covers one side of her vision, but instead of dark strands, she sees them as a blowing surface showing an image of the scene inside the crystal.
Her attire has changed slightly but it's shows a significant change in her demeanor compared to earlier.
With the dark pink sleeve replaced by a vibrant sky blue, she performs a motion with that single arm as if folding an origami, but in this case it's only until it's folded to the limit.
Then from under her other sleeve, its appearance that of an silk flowing fabric, on it is an amalgamation of colourful stars as if making a nebula -
a slender dark but colourful hand emerges.
It's made of a glassy material, reflecting all things back to their origin, it appeared as if one of the folds of the flowing silk sleeve came alive, instead of it appearing from under it.
It rests itself on the folded space, and makes a motion as if zoomingan image, and thats what happens the half made paper craft becomes another flat Paper, and so, the folding begins anew.
Each time she does so it slightly affects the Space-Crystal just below her.
I can feel a disturbance in the Space-Crystal. It's not at the level of even a dent, but it's still noticable.
Its a prison designed to impose complete Dilation of Time, to the point that if you rely on Time to get out, you have already forfeited your existence.
As someone who knows almost all the applications of Time with Space, she had added its properties to her Space countless times in History.
Even after this much, it can still move forward? Anomalies are beyond understanding, they can only be sealed in this way.
Among the many Space Path Worlds I am the only one who is closest to getting a Name, something that can only be achieved with a tremendous amount of History, and Statuselevation.
History isn't a problem, but my Status, since the moment I arrived had been incomplete, with only the Fate, acting as a substitute for keeping my existence intact.
"Now that's a poetic disavantage, a good head but scrawny body. I guess, Justice decided to do its job properly."
But no matter what I did, I couldn't find a way to travel a New Path.
According to Time, New Worlds have that option, but I could only follow the Path in the property, that I got from [them], I suspected that I may not even be a True World.
But after getting the knowledge of Avatars from Time, I was able to find a way forward.
"Cultivate Avatars. Nothing changes, all your other 'peers' would do the same, after all without a Name, an Avatar represents your default Status, for the most part. Just wait for an Avatar to show up, I guess I can help with that..."
Since then I have been creating Avatars, by influencig their way forward, and with each new Avatar that came and went, I became more aware through my connection with their Status and my conciousness developed at a speed surpassing other fledgling universes rapidly.
In the long run, taking away and Avatars autonomy completely or regularly is detrimental to a World's potential, but in the first place I had none, except when I am trying to fulfill my Fate.
I didn't take a single chance to allow an Avatar to be born without my supervision, that way, I could keep progressing my existence and at the same time, delay the Fate, and use it to elevate myself and keep up with the other universes.
As I am indeed creatingAvatars and following my Fate, it helped me progress- tremendously in each generation, all my Avatars walked the variety of Paths but were specially limited to Space-Manipulation by me, as my own nature is that of a Space.
As they accumulated History and their Status was influenced by my own machinations, my own History and Status kept transforming while they created thousands of Path of Powers burning their potential for me and elevating the properties I created for them.
A World could only walk one original Path and develop accordingly but I, I could walk numerous!
I thought with Time, I would eventually become a Power, and cement myself in the Omniverse. As long as I keep progressing forward there is nothing that could stop me.
Though it would've eventually come to me that using another Power only strengthens them, whether it's even using it to strengthen oneself or develop Power-Systems.
But before that could have happen, the Prosperity Era ended.
The Demon King had arrived.