~ "Every choice has a long afterlife of consequences." — Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness
Bit of an info dump this chapter... I promise that the more action-packed and story based chapter's will be coming, but I have to try and set up a whole omniverse of mythos and Void concepts first. Volume Two is going to mostly going to focus on the Wizarding World and the Shadow Copies POVs before returning to the main body in the Asoiaf universe.
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~ Void Emperor.
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~ Shadow Copy Three - POV ~
~ Omniversal Void ~
Trying to map out the Omniversal Void seems to be an almost impossible adjective, especially when said Void is in an entirely constant state of fluctuation. And made more so because of the ever present space and time folds and more. I've explored and learned so much and barely comprehend a part of what I've learned from the Omniversal Void and everything that it contains, and it contains multitudes.
The Omniversal Void isn't just "empty space between universes." It has its own geography and physics.
The Void is not space. Nor is it time. It is the medium in which both concepts exist. If a universe is a fish swimming in water, then the Void is not the ocean—it is the laws that allow oceans to exist at all. Every multiversal cluster (Marvel, DC, the Wizarding World, Castlevania, etc.) is like a self-contained "cosmic organism." Inside each cluster, spacetime behaves consistently. Outside them, neither distance nor time has objective meaning.
Between clusters, "space" constantly folds upon itself. Imagine taking a sheet of paper and continuously crumpling and unfolding it, except the paper has infinite dimensions. A cluster may appear nearby one moment, a heartbeat later, that same cluster is farther away than an infinity of universes. Nothing moved, the Void simply changed its geometry. This means there is no fixed direction; North, south, left, right, above and below only exist inside universes; outside them, orientation constantly rewrites itself. A traveler who believes he has traveled "forward" may unknowingly arrive behind where he started.
Time is even stranger. Each multiversal cluster carries its own temporal current. The Void has none. Instead, countless temporal currents bleed into one another. Imagine standing in shallow water where thousands of rivers collide, every current pulls differently; some run faster, some slower, some backwards, some branch; some loop forever. One cluster may have experienced ten billion years, another has not yet begun, and a third has already ended. Yet all three coexist simultaneously within the Void.
Then there are the folds of space and time create phenomena that I've dubbed as 'Tides'. These are temporary pathways connecting cluster's to one another. They appear without warning, remaining stable for seconds... or millions of years, then they disappear. Entire civilizations could build gateways around one, only to discover it vanished overnight. This is why permanent travel is nearly impossible.
The greatest mistake explorers make is assuming maps describe locations. Maps don't. They describe relationships.
On Earth: A city remains where it is, roads remain connected, distances stay constant, but in the Void, relationships themselves constantly change. Imagine making a map where every road changes every second. Every mountain teleports, every ocean changes depth, every continent rotates independently. Now multiply that by infinity. That is the Omniversal Void.
Then there's the orbital pathways of the clusters. Instead of orbiting a sun like Earth does the sun, every multiversal cluster is orbiting every other cluster simultaneously. There is no center. Each cluster subtly influences the movement of countless others. The result resembles a flock of birds with no leader, no fixed pattern, and yet an unmistakable order emerges. An observer might think two clusters are approaching one another. In reality... both are being diverted by the invisible gravitational influence of trillions of distant clusters. The overall motion resembles galaxies dancing without ever settling into a stable configuration.
That's not even including the 'Cosmic Weather' of the Void: Void Storms – regions where folds become so violent that travelers may emerge in entirely different omniversal regions. Chrono Maelstroms – storms of conflicting temporal currents where centuries pass in moments or moments stretch into millennia. Echo Fields – places where memories, extinct universes, and forgotten timelines drift like ghosts. Concept Eddies – whirlpools of abstract ideas where laws such as gravity, magic, or even identity temporarily stop behaving normally. These phenomena make travel hazardous even for powerful beings.
A cosmic being may possess enough strength to destroy universes, yet still wander the Void for ages because it lacks the instinct to read its ever-changing structure.
And yet, none of that has yet to bother me, or inconvenience me to an impossible degree. It's almost like I have been blessed by the Void itself, a child of it, protected from all of it's cosmic horrors. Not to say I'm not effected by spacetime or that cosmic weather isn't dangerous, I'm just... resilient to the Voids consequences. For the moment at least.
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~ Shadow Monarch-Copy Two - POV ~
~ Invincible Universe ~
I've finally arrived at the Invincible multiversal clusters. It's honestly been really only a few days since I left the boss in the Asoiaf universe, and only a few hours since running into that decaying Solo Leveling universe. The fact that I now have the full might and potential of the Shadow Monarchs legacy within myself is quite mind-boggling.
I could probably head back now to the Asoiaf universe and re-assimiliate back with the boss without the Viltrumite DNA and he'd be perfectly fine with that. Not that I plan to, I just could. Still, the Void is truly a gift that just keeps on giving. To think this all started as a weird instant power up afterlife scenario.
'Sigh. Stop thinking about it. You have an assignment to finish. The boss or Shadow Copy Three will figure it out.' I thought to myself as I took in all the timelines of the Invincible multiverses.
I already have my target for the Viltrumite DNA that I am going to devour. I just had to find the perfect timeline for my acquisition.
I could either go for early timeline or a little later down the road. If I used my new Shadow Monarch abilities with precision I could even get some of Battle Beasts genetics as well.
Or I could go for my second Viltrumite target and possibly devour some of the genetic abilities of the Guardians of the Globe. Choices, Choices.
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