The System Awakens: Rise of the Champion - Chapter 245

Capítulo 245: Chapter 245: The Primordials

While Damian was undergoing his transformation into a primordial being, something magnificent was taking place somewhere within an unknown space, located in the uncharted regions of the boundless universe.

Seven globes of immense light, each more colossal than a sun or star, glowed ethereally, suspended in the vacuum of space saturated with energy.

Yet despite their brilliance, they appeared to be nothing more than masses of pure energy.

No mind, no consciousness, no functionality seemed present.

That, however, was only what the ignorant would perceive.

The truly powerful, the higher forms of existence, could sense the truth hidden within them.

The ancient and incomprehensible connection these seven globes maintained with every nook and cranny of the universe remained bright and strong.

Still, the truth persisted: they seemed lifeless, even though they were automatically performing everything that needed to be done.

Their functions sustained the universe, keeping it operating and continuously expanding, and they did so unfailingly.

But not all hope was lost.

The seven globes of energy shone in different colors: black, white, gold, silver, green, blue, and purple.

They were known as the Seven Regulators of the Universe, the strongest beings in existence after the Universal Tree, the Positivity Tree, and the Negativity Tree.

They were known as End, Beginning, Judgment, Change, Life, Renewal, and Continuum.

Incomprehensible even to the most powerful eyes in the universe, the regulators grew stronger with each passing second, and the vast karma of existence swelled endlessly.

It shouldn’t have been long before they gained consciousness.

By all reasonable estimates, it would have taken a few million years.

At least, that was how it should have been, judging by the current pace of things, until something strange occurred.

The white globe of energy representing the regulator of Beginning released a faint wave.

Though subtle, it carried enough power to annihilate planets and stars, reducing them to nothing but dust.

Moments later, something astonishing happened.

The regulator of Beginning erupted, the white sphere of energy exploding outward and reshaping itself into a humanoid form composed purely of power.

She was so colossal that her eye alone was as large as a sun.

The regulator of Beginning revealed her full majesty, no skin, no human features, only condensed energy forged into the outline of a woman standing in the boundless vacuum of space.

Countless stars and drifting cosmic dust began to orbit her, as if she had become a gravitational anchor in an instant.

“I’m… awake?”

A serene, feminine voice resonated as her colossal hand lifted before her face.

“How long has it been?”

In the next instant, everything that had ever happened in the universe over the last few billions of years was instantly recalled in her mind.

“Right, it’s been so long…”

Her pale face turned toward the remaining six Regulators who still hovered in their incorporeal forms, globes of energy growing many times faster than before as a side effect of one of their own awakening.

Her return to consciousness was accelerating the awakening of her counterparts as well.

“You are awake,” the Regulator of Beginning, also known as Primordial Beginning, heard a man’s voice say.

Her senses instantly identified the source, and she found a human floating before her.

To her, the human was smaller than dust, utterly insignificant, yet she could clearly see him.

More precisely, she simply knew everything about him the moment her senses touched his presence.

Then her figure began to shrink rapidly.

In the next instant, her vast form contracted to human size, and the pure energy that made up her existence reshaped itself into a human-like body, an alluring woman with silver eyes, silvery-white hair, and flawless white skin.

“Human form? That’s new,” the man, Damian himself, muttered as he examined her.

“Well, I know you like it,” Primordial Beginning replied.

In the next instant, her figure vanished and reappeared, hugging Damian tightly while her legs wrapped around his waist.

“I missed you too,” Damian muttered as he patted her back, but her face remained stoic, as if she didn’t possess emotion.

She didn’t possess emotion; she only possessed functions, universal-level functions that were absolutely essential, ones she could only follow to keep the universe going.

The only emotions she possessed were those related to the beings maintaining existence, like the Universal Tree, the Positivity Tree, the Negativity Tree, the World Trees, the remaining primordials, and Damian himself.

The Primordial Beginning observed the man in front of her with a curious gaze, and that was all she needed to learn everything about him, from his soul to his physical body, and everything in between.

“You have become a primordial… no, almost a primordial… a Primordial Progenitor,” she muttered.

“You’re naked, by the way… if you’re going to take a human form, then you have to wear clothes,” Damian said, shaking his head.

“Clothes are inconsequential,” Primordial Beginning replied simply.

“Well, they make your human form look good,” Damian said as he sent her an image of the clothes he wanted her to wear.

In the next instant, she was dressed in a floral white dress that made her petite figure look elegant, her curly white hair tied back.

“You look nice,” Damian said.

“Yes, I do,” Primordial Beginning replied with the same expression.

“To answer your question, yes, I did become a primordial progenitor, and I will become the true Primordial Progenitor once I become the progenitor of the remaining few races,” Damian said.

He didn’t need to explain it, she already knew everything as the primordial overseeing the beginning of the universe, but he still liked saying it, and she loved hearing his voice.

“That explains why I was the one who woke up first… Since progenitors are a significant part of creation, and creation falls under my domain, your ascension as the Primordial Progenitor accelerated my recovery,” the Primordial Beginning said as she glanced at her six counterparts, still in their incorporeal forms as globes of energy.

“Since I have awakened, my brothers and sisters will awaken soon as well, because our existence and domains are interlinked.”

She turned her gaze back to Damian, studying the mysterious aura surrounding him, an aura only she and other higher forms of existence could perceive.

“Your karma is constantly and consistently rising, and the rate is continuously increasing…” Her eyes drifted into empty space in random directions.

She could see traces of that mysterious aura extending far beyond him.

“Your attunement with all concepts of existence has reached such a high level… Why are you putting off becoming a god? Once you ascend, I expect that more than one-third of the accumulated karma will be restored,” she said.

Then her eyes shifted slightly, as though shocked by a sudden realization about his reason for delaying godhood.

“You can probably do it… can’t you?” the Primordial Beginning asked.

“Hmm, I thought you could say it with certainty,” Damian said, surprised.

What he was about to attempt was something no one had ever considered trying, because it simply should not be possible.

Attempting it would be like challenging the rules of reality itself, and the potential repercussions were unimaginable.

“I… can’t really say. It falls mostly under the domain of Primordial Judgement. You can go ask him now.”

Even though the other six primordials still existed only as incorporeal globes of energy, Damian could still communicate with them through their mental connection.

Of course, any answer he received came as pieces of information delivered directly into his mind, not traditional conversation.

“I already confirmed it with him. He said I can probably do it, though he wasn’t certain either, since nothing like this has ever happened before. And because my existence is connected to our universe yet not bound by it,” Damian replied with a sigh.

“I just wanted your opinion since, among all the primordials, you have the strongest connection with me right now.”

The Primordial’s eyes glowed for a few seconds as she used her full senses and authority, looking into something only she could perceive.

“You can probably do it. But once you ascend to godhood, your authority will overwrite all beings connected to godly concepts and laws. I see you’ve discovered the role of your existence,” she said.

“You do see what I will become once I ascend to godhood, right? Aren’t you concerned as one of the seven great primordials, the Primordial Beginning?” Damian asked.

“I mean, I’ll literally manifest a new hierarchy of authority within the universe, something that has never existed before. I might even interfere with your own authority.”

“Your existence is a necessary one. You would have been a dangerous anomaly when our universe was still part of the greater cosmos, but our universe no longer belongs to any cosmos. Your existence, as that anomaly, becomes essential for our survival. As a primordial, my calculations within the Authority of Beginning indicate that your existence is required for the universe to endure,” the Primordial Beginning said, her eyes glowing with white light, as though millions of tiny stars revolved within her pupils.