Having successfully passed his trial, Agustus and Jack were both sent back to Asterisk to mingle with the True Gods.
He would go back and speak with Jack eventually, but as of now, he had more important matters to attend to.
He warped through realities appearing in the Beyond.
In this vast darkness lie only two buildings, Spawn's massive technological facility, and the test arena.
He stepped through the door of the facility, its molecules parting as he entered.
"The unification of the three characteristics of life…" He muttered underneath his breath, striding through corridors until he reached a room, its title above the door.
"Lab-1." He exclaimed, the nano-bots of the door making way for him when he entered.
He stepped towards a large table, a holographic keyboard appearing under his fingers.
His fingers typed away, calculations appearing on the wall opposite of him.
"…" Looking at all his work, he backed away from the table, his mind running on over drive.
"Yes…" He spoke, turning away from the table and walking towards the elevated platform in the center of the rooms.
Climbing it's steps, he sat down in the lone seat at its top, his arms sitting on the arm rests.
"The soul." He flicked a finger, a cerulean orb of light appearing a few meters in front of him.
"The mind." An ethereal brain materialized above this light orb.
"The form…" A translucent human body appeared around the two objects, the soul resting within its chest and the mind in its head.
Looking at all three aspects, Spawn could see the natural connection they held.
"This is not enough." He said, his hands rising towards the model.
With a mental snap, Spawn realized the creature before him, giving it actual life.
And with actual life, came thought, which sparked the production of brain activity, which in turn created mental energy.
Even though the amount of mental energy was so minuscule that it wouldn't be capable of affecting reality at all, it was a starting point for the basis of power.
"A section of the Natural Law of Life states that a living creature needs vessel, mind, and soul to live. The Natural Law of Soul states that the soul is a construct that stores the natural personality of a being within its shell, and their energies within the origin." He said.
"The Natural Law of Mind states that the mind is the aspect that is responsible for intelligence, wisdom, and the storage of knowledge and mental power. The natural Law of Form states that the form is what allows one to interact with reality, it is the shell that stores both the mind and soul." Spawn refreshed his mind, his gaze alternating focus between the three.
"With the upgrade of soul comes the slight upgrade of the body, and the upgrade of the mind. With the upgrade of the mind comes the upgrade of the soul, and with the upgrade of the body comes the upgrade of mind, and its connection with the soul." He ran simulations of his words.
"But these are individual upgrades… If you let them grow together, you can reach qualitative evolution points in which the changes undergone are unbelievable!" Many things were displayed in the space before him, and he couldn't help but marvel at it.
The 3 Laws of Soul, Mind and Form were all things living creatures were born with. So these Law's essences ran deep within their existence.
Knowing this, there was a specific route that was opened up to Spawn.
"Living beings are born with an imbalance in their characteristics of life, with the soul being much more powerful than the mind and body."
The graph appeared next to the model, showing the amount of Soul Essence within a being compared to their Form essence and Mind essence on average.
"Despite Mind essence and Mental power being two different energies, they are capable of mixing and amplifying each other. As long as a being tempers their mind, their Mental power will increase, allowing for easier manipulation of reality, and their Mind essence will increase, bringing the unification of Characteristics closer." Spawn said, watching as the model before him meditated, increasing his brain activity, producing more Mental power and in turn increasing his Mind essence.
"With an increase to the health of ones body, alongside their physical strength, Form essence is created." The model switched to intense workout, its muscles growing more chiseled.
"Once the Form and Mind essence has caught up to that of the Soul…" The graph evened out, the ethereal body exploding in light, as if it had just broken out shackles binding its power.
"They reach resonance… This is where the changes truly happen."
Spawn's fingers twisted, the Characteristic essences that ran through the beings body all shooting towards his origin.
They easily pierced its outer shell, resting inside his soul in a clump of energy.
*Snap*
The 3 energies melded together, creating an essence filled with power similar to that of a supreme Law.
"Aspect…" Spawn muttered the name of this newfound energy, watching as it made the model's Origin its home.
This energy would be a pure, natural essence. It could be materialized, and it would take the form of a cerulean blue energy.
The model released Aspect from it's Origin, letting it travel from it's soul within its chest, to its palm.
*Shhii*
A ball of light crept out of its hand, floating in the air.
The model could only sustain it for a few seconds before running out of energy and the ball collapsed.
"With the complete exhaustion of your Aspect comes mental, physical, and spiritual fatigue, which could even cause death in serious occasions." Spawn narrated.
"The speed of regeneration, alongside the maximum capacity of Aspect, depends all on the beings power." He said.
"Though, with the unification of the three Characteristics, a beings power can now be easily increased!" It was an incredible capability!
Just by meditating and tempering the mind, both the form and soul would gain power, to maintain resonance.
This would happen because of the newly created Natural Law of Aspect!
The only Law in existence without a Law Essence, is what guaranteed the fact that the soul, form, and mind would forever maintain resonance after having reached unification.
It created never before seen capabilities.
By working out and strengthening the body, both the mind and soul would too increase in strength.
With the strengthening of the soul, the addition of essences to the Origin, the body and mind would too rise in power!
It was incredible!
Just by meditating, one could strengthen their bones, empower their mind and quicken comprehension of Laws, and expand their Origin to allow for the storage of more Law essence.
And now, with the existence of Aspect, one could lace their Aspect with Law essence, to lessen the strain on their Origin when manifesting the supernatural energy.
It would even allow for more control, and faster output as the essence wouldn't be as untamed.
"[Firebolt]." The model said, energy rushing down it's arm as a bolt of fire struck a far wall in just a few moments.
It was Aspect essence, the culmination of combining Law essence with Aspect, specifically Fire essence.
"Haha!" With the creation of Aspect, beings within the Apocryphal Domain would be able to reach whole new realms of power.
Aspect was a vast, and wide source of power that was currently unexplored, only the basics being laid out by Spawn.
"Now, for the reworking of the Realms of Power." He smiled, swiping the model out of existence.
"Resonance." Spawn said, naming the very first barrier of unifying all Characteristics.
"Aspect Essence." The second realm, in which after accessing Law essence, the existence goes on to learning the process of lacing Aspect energy with Law essence to create Aspect Essence.
"Aspect Sea." The realm in which you condense Aspect Essence into corporeal seas within the origin.
"Mental Aspect." The fourth realm, where a being must succeed in coating their Aspect Essence, and form with Mental power, increasing the potency of their abilities.
"Solar Aspect." The realm which requires the condensation of Aspect Seas into stars, in which the existence gains the durability, strength, and longevity of a star amongst other benefits.
"Law Assimilation." The realm where an existence has successfully assimilated a Law, and imprinted the law onto at least one star within their Origin, gaining minuscule Authority over the Law's portion of reality.
"Galactic Aspect." With the increase in star formation speed due to the Authority of a Law, this realm is where beings condense at least 100 billion stars, and bind them together with their Law Authority to form a galaxy.
"Universal Core." Was the realm an existence succeeding in collapse a galaxy within their Origin, accumulating all of its energies into a core that could act as the basis of a universe within their origin.
"Universal Aspect." The realm where 10 billion galaxies have been condensed, then linked together through a universal core and a Taboo or Natural Law Authority. This is the ream where beings gain the durability, and longevity of a universe, alongside being capable of dishing out punches of pure physical strength equivalent to an exploding universe. Upon reaching this realm, the existence is gifted with a special Authority, set in stone by the cerulean crown that floats around there head.
These were only the first 9 Realms of Power, as Spawn new he would soon forge more when beings started creeping upon the peak.
"Now… When I release this evolution of reality, and the Natural Law of Aspect, it will mark the beginning of the First Coming of Apocalypse." Spawn smiled reading fate and watching the futures that lie ahead.
He blinked an item into existence, pushing himself out of the seat on his platform.
In his hand was a Law Gem.
"The Natural Law Gem of Aspect." He voiced, stepping forward and appearing in a completely different space.
He hovered before the massive celestial body known as the Primordial Heart, his eyes gazing upwards as space fluctuated before him.
"Greetings, All-Father." A feminine voice spoke, the voice belonging to a beautiful, white skinned women wearing a white dress, with short platinum hair that covered her eyes.
She look like a crystal empress, with a three pronged cerulean halo levitating around her head.
It was a crown of Universal Aspect.
The solidified Authority of an existence capable if destroying universes with a punch!
Having the crown meant the being had been gifted with a natural resonance with the Natural Laws of Reality, alongside a brighter fate!
It was full of benefits.
And the being that had this crown on their head…
Was the Primordial Sage!
"I have just created Aspect and its Natural Law, and you have already took it upon yourself to reach the peak of power…" Spawn said, a smile forming on your face.
"It's the least I could do to honor your genius, All-Father." The women nodded, floating just beside Spawn as the two moved towards the Primordial Heart.
"It was nothing much." He responded, waving off her words.
"You have glimpsed fate too I presume? You have seen the series of events that play out after I implement the Law gem, correct?" Spawn asked her, twiddling with the cerulean crystal in his hand.
"I have, I realize I will need to gift an existence within the Astral, incredible power, and I have already decided who." Sage said, conjuring an image before Spawn's eyes.
"Julius Randell." The screen displayed a young man, no older than 20 years old.
"He is a human from a slightly advanced civilization, though his soul is much stronger than the average existence." Sage explained, gaining Spawn's undivided attention.
"Believe it or not, this soul is the progenitor of the human race within the entire Apocryphal Domain, and he has lived thousands of times, each time his soul getting stronger." She finished, nodding as she swiped the screen away.
"If he sticks to his fate, he will battle the True Apocryphal Gods in 25 years time, and seal them within an artifact powered by his very own Aspect Essence, circumventing the destruction of the Apocryphal domain for this very first cycle of apocalypse." Sage added, turning towards Spawn, who had finished playing with the gem in his hand.
"Well, I'll stick with you and watch this first cycle with you." He said, thrusting the gem into the Primordial Heart.
*BOOM*
The shockwave covered the entire reality in an instant, crumbling the Essences within all living thing's Origins, implementing the Law of Aspect, and rewriting many being's existences.
At the same time, the implement of such a powerful law outside the reach of the Primordial Heart, caused rifts in space to form all over the void, and even inside of Asterisk.
Monstrosities unbound by the Primordial Rules, as Sage called them, and Eldratic beings of pure destruction entered the Astral through these rifts in space.
They found themselves floating in space, arriving in already inhabited worlds, and even landing inside of desolate realms.
Though before anymore intruders could enter the Astral, the Primordial Heart temporarily sealed off the holes in space, denying entry from all the destructive existences that weren't even strong enough to alter reality at the lowest level.
Though there were few entities that weren't effected too much by the erasure of their Law Essences, like Jack The Apocryphal God, they coincidentally happened to be nowhere near any of the sealed ruptures.
If they were…
It would have been chaos.
"Now that Aspect has been introduced, I can seamlessly indoctrinate every existence into the system, and bind them to me." Sage said flatly, her hand twirling with the Authority of the Law of Data.
Simultaneously, as lands rumbled across the Apocryphal domain, a series of prompts appeared before every lifeform.
For those within the Astral, the screen read;
{Apocalypse is coming and the [Primordial Sage] has decided to assist the existences of the Astral.}
{With her gift of the Infinite System, rise to power and combat the monstrosities of the void, and the Apocryphal ones of Asterisk!}
And for those not native to the Astral;
{Gateways to the Astral have been brought into existence ! Rise to power to open them and unleash havoc!}
{You have been gifted with a small portion of the Authority of the Law of Assimilation. It can be used to devour souls and assimilate their power into your Aspect after having reached the realm of [Resonance].}
{A technique to reach Resonance has been implanted into your mind.}
Despite not getting access to the System like the natives of the Astral did, the non-natives received the natural ability to devour souls and steal their power.
Both sides received benefits from the event that would come to be known as the Rupturing.
…
…
…
Within an expansive forest on a planet larger than some stars…
An existence radiating a cerulean light sat in mid air, his legs crossed while dozens of animals watched him.
{You have successfully reached [Resonance]! Congratulations on being the first existence to successfully enter this realm, the Title, [First of Aspect] has been unlocked.}
"Mmm~" The ethereal, translucent being hummed, feeling the culmination of power inside of his Origin.
"Aspect?" He questioned, opening his eyes and manifesting the blue energy.
"It is… the perfect fusion of the Characteristics of Life?" He smiled. "The All-Father is truly of genius intelligence!" He exclaimed, his eyes closing as he returned to meditation.
He focused on his Origin, feeling the aspect swirling within it.
~I can feel the path I need to take.~ He spoke in his mind, turning his attention to a law he had previously comprehended.
~I simply need to refresh my mind.~ The Natural Law of Fate presented itself to him.
His mind re-explored all areas of the previously fully comprehended Law, watching as his quantified comprehension rose on a screen within his head.
[Comprehension of Fate: 9.99%]
The screen read, and as soon as it crossed the threshold of 10%…
{You have passed the first threshold of Law comprehension! Form a Runic Ecriture of Fate, using Aspect energy, within your Origin to gain a source of passive Fate essence accumulation.}
It said, telling the existence something he already knew how to do.
~What a strange artifact…~ He muttered to himself.
Previously, after breaking the first threshold, the Runic Ecriture of a Law would instantly appear within the Origin, spawning the passive collection of essence.
But now, he had to manually form it using the newfound Aspect.
Though he didn't complain.
He simply followed what the artifact told him, materializing the Runic Ecriture of Fate within his Origin, which was simply a collection of lines to form a nearly incomprehensible letter.
And after doing so…
{You have successfully formed the Runic Ecriture of Fate! You have opened the Skill-Tree, [Fate Lord].}
Upon reading these words, the existence could feel a branching of small Runic Symbols originating from the Runic Ecriture.
Being slightly confused, he focused on these branches, trying to understand them.
Glimpse of Destiny|
[Fate Skill]
-Proficiency: 0.0%
-[Information]: Utilize Fate to peer into the writings of fate and get a glimpse of the most probable Fateline. The determine precise time frames, or peak at specific existences, more energy is required.
____
Fate's Foresight|
[Fate Skill]
-Proficiency: 0.0%
-[Information]: Release Fate essence into the immediate surroundings to read the fabric of reality and know how reality plays out 10 seconds beforehand.
____
Reading the screens, the existence understood what the branches were.
~A blueprint, for a use of Fate essence!~ He thought, exiting his meditation for the second time, his eyes opening as he was brought back to reality.
"[Fate's Foresight]." He mumbled, his perception of time seeming to change as everything around him moved slowly.
Phantoms of reality started moving normal in a normal speed.
He could see a ethereal leaf falling from a tree, landing on the phantom of a gigantic Elk, which stepped through the forest, biting at a small puddle of water below it.
The movements of reality slowly followed behind, the predestined leaf falling onto the snout of the Elk, and being blown away in the wind as the creature bent down to drink.
"The movement, and materialization of essence… It's so smooth!" He exclaimed, his ethereal skin started to burn before he cancelled the 'Skill'.
"Though Law essence is still as volatile as ever… Especially with my body-or Aspects weakened to such an extent. I'm barely capable of utilizing Law Essence." He frowned, thinking of a way to overcome this difficulty.
"Aspect is an energy as well, is it not?…"