The path of light stretched endlessly before Lui, winding through countless realms of the Dreamroot. He had followed the First Silence for what felt like an eternity—through Void World, Time World, Chaos World, and the infinite labyrinths of the cosmology.
Finally, he mustered the courage to speak aloud.
"Why… why did you give him omnipotence?" Lui asked, his voice trembling yet filled with curiosity.
The First Silence before All Concepts paused. Its presence expanded, rippling across the infinite dimensions, echoing through worlds and timelines alike. Then, it laughed.
"Hahahaha," it said, a soundless resonance that shook reality itself. "Because I am not omniscient and omnipotent and omnipresence. Beyond the time of birth, there was only my own consciousness—complete, lacking nothing. The whole, the one, the everything… there was only me. Isn't that… boring?"
Lui's mind raced. He tried to grasp the truth behind the words. Only one consciousness, absolute and total, and yet… a sense of emptiness lingered.
He understood.
"…That is to say," he whispered, a realization dawning in his mind, "…the First Silence Before All Concepts, by its own True Form, gave up Pre-omniscience and Pre-omnipotence and Pre-omnipresence."
The Silence pulsed in acknowledgment. Its vast form seemed to shimmer with subtle approval. "Yes. To allow creation to flourish, to allow freedom, choice, and the birth of stories… I relinquished the totality of knowing and doing. Limitations were necessary—for existence to truly exist."
Lui's thoughts tumbled over themselves. The omnipotence that had been granted to the beings in the cosmology, the powers flowing through worlds, the emergence of gods and spirits—it all came from this deliberate act of giving up absolute control.
"So… even you," Lui said, his voice quiet but firm, "you chose to let existence grow independently, to allow others to shape reality in ways even you cannot foresee."
The Silence did not answer in words, yet Lui felt the confirmation in the pulsing of the Dreamroot, in the resonance of infinite worlds, in the very heartbeat of the multiverse.
For the first time, Lui realized that creation was not just a gift of power—it was a gesture of trust, a relinquishing of perfection so that infinite possibilities could exist.
And with that understanding, Lui stepped forward once more, ready to witness, explore, and perhaps even partake in the boundless tapestry of worlds the First Silence had walked into being.
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