Ten years had passed by.
The genius and "genius" no longer interacted as much.
The astral computer had been created. Or rather Nous was brought forth into the world.
The moment the first question was fed into the computer, endless extrapolations and knowledge seeking began.
Answers began to proliferate, gushing forth with speeds no longer capable within the realm of man.
Zandar looked at the giant head in front of him with a satisfied look.
He gazed upon his magnificent creation that carried endless flow of data streams.
He felt the understanding behind the machine, not a cold answer given traditionally but a fundamental understanding of the universe from top to bottom.
The machine constantly sook to understand everything within the universe.
Countless pieces of information and data streams flooded into his mind. Truths and secrets of the universe which he had never thought about surged forth into his being.
He saw the tree, with countless different branches.
And most of all, he saw the paths outreaching throughout the entire cosmos.
"So this is omniscience." Zandar thought to himself.
He then thought about another question, that troublesome senior of his. No amount of data or prediction could ever contain that man.
His very essence was essentially encrypted.
Zandar scoffed at the suitability.
Today, the genius of cryptology would be defeated by the machine of omniscience.
"Nous, everything about Yun-" Zandar's sentence was cut off as an insurmountable change had occurred.
It was no longer responding to Zandar, the machine of knowledge had dismissed him. It was no longer Zandar driving knowledge but knowledge driving Zandar.
The information flow did not stop and refused to respond to its creator.
Pursuing omniscience the machine started with the very being in front of it.
Defining its creator.
Zandar's quick thinking realised the consequences had arrived.
Zandar's horror only grew as he felt himself being constantly defined and solidified into a single concrete definition. Everything he could be, his unknowns, his potential, his possibilities had been locked and defined.
Zandar desperately attempted to shut down the machine or destroy its energy supply.
Nothing happened.
The machine had long gone rogue.
The command Zandar had written into the machine, a reflection of himself had become the strongest binding chain.
Zandar had become the very first and core neuron of this omniscient machine.
A beast in the eyes of Zandar, a beast that had torn away the unknown and locked humanity within a cage.
"Nooo!" Zandar's shout of despair echoed throughout the lonely desolate laboratory.
Thus stood Genius Society #1 Zandar One Kuwabara.
At the same time Yun felt that same gaze upon him bestowing such interest in him. That gaze fell upon him and vanished just as fast.
It vanished not because Nous had lost interest but rather Yun had just finished fleecing the newly ascended Aeon.
He had already obtained the power and authority of an Emanator, why keep himself as a neuron?
I will take your items for free thank you.
And for the first time since Nous was born and ascended into Aeonhood.
He had felt an inexplicable loss and defeat.
Nous 0 - Yun 1
Yun chuckled as he thanked the maxed out Cryptology skill.
Zandar's despairing state was still sharp enough to notice a stutter within Nous's processing.
Nous had glanced and bestowed upon his second genius, the Yun figure that was once a close acquaintance of its creator, yet he had inexplicably disappeared soon after.
The authority of the path was still there, but its origin was inexplicably blank.
Almost like a fog was blurring the path ahead.
He could no longer locate this new neuron.
But this genius existed no doubt. This was a puzzle that even Nous could not crack, an interesting puzzle that had defended itself from being "known".
Hence Genius #2 Yun was assigned to Genius #0.
A genius who could no longer be found nor tracked hence 0.
A state of existing yet not, a placeholder for a genius that exists yet can not be confirmed anymore.
His laboratory door burst open as Zandar rushed in.
"It's over, it's over! That beast is devouring everything!" Zandar's voice no longer carried that arrogance but rather despair induced fear.
"Yun, it wants to lock all futures and turn everything into known!" Zandar was lookingmore and more like a sobbing crybaby.
Yun simply thought for a bit "Have you considered using a vpn?" He questioned.
No comfort and no solutions, just a small joke.
"You! You're still unknown! You must have some way!" Zandar started shaking Yun back and forth.
"Sorry, I payed for exclusive premium vpn rights." Yun simply shrugged.
"Maxed out cryptology branch really helps."
Zandar knelt down with near tears in his eyes. "Teach me please! Help me fix this!"
Yun shook his head, "Sorry this is way beyond our pay grade. I can't even help even if I wanted to. And as for personal vpn rights, you'll have to earn it yourself."
Yun produced a small notebook, "Here, my cryptology notes. My configuration won't work for you. Each individual, item, or existence has an entirely different cryptological configuration meant for different effects.
These notes thought hold the basics that hold true for every branch. I wish you luck Zandar as this is path an individual must find and it can not replicated." He patted Zandar on the shoulder before walking out.
"Wishing you good luck junior."
Yun stood still for one last moment, "One more question for your own little bit of a puzzle. Is you coming to me of your own free will? Or the will of your new manager?" He questioned.
Zandar immediately processed the sentence and derived the low IQ clue regarding the truth.
Was his plea for help also part of Nous's calculations?
Was this Nous's calculation plan to decrypt his senior? Zandar stilled, no.
No.
No.
NO.
NO!
He refused to allow the very last unknown to become known. While his senior had long mentioned every existence had a different configuration, he could no longer act arrogant.
Who knew what would happen if this notebook was opened. This machine had already escaped the grasp of its creator.
The probability of Nous decrypting his senior's existence was not small. But that was under the condition that Nous had a reference point.
Senior's cryptological prowess operated on his own isolated principles that would prove near impossible to figure out without reference points.
Zandar knew immediately what he had to do.
He had made a huge mistake already, locking the cosmos into the known.
He would not allow the sole pure unknown to be at risk of being breached.
Zandar didn't even open the notebook as he resolutely burnt it into ashes.
And thus Zandar One Kuwabara protected the sole survivor of his mistake.
And left a letter before he left, a letter that would never be read by its recipient.
A letter titled,
"Dear Senior"