''Bliss State" was actually what gave Sho the inspiration to create ''Void State.''
But there were many differences, although they seemed similar. Both had a connection to time obviously, but the way they affected it in Sho's mind differed. The newly created ''Void-State'' Allowed for incredible improvements of his overall cognitive abilities, for a brief moment. What he did was basically speeding up the time in his head. Meaning he could calculate and reason much faster.
Hence it was not the time slowing down at all but rather his brain unlocking a part of his hidden, non-developed potential. He didn't know how much of his brain capacity he was able to use during this weird phase, though. But they sure soared to a level above the 20% of his brain potential. It meant his aptitude could still grow even more while using ''Void-State'' both in duration of usage and proficiency.
On the other hand, ''Bliss-State'' was something that altered directly the flow of time by an insanely huge margin in Sho's head. It did the opposite of ''Void-State''; it was akin to freezing his mind and forcefully forcing oneself to enter his subconscious mind while being conscious of what to do in it. So although ''Bliss-State'' could last for factice years in his spirit world and allow him to think and reason even better than in ''Void-State'' this was actually wrong.
First of all, ''Bliss-State'' only gives more time; it doesn't increase his keenness, reasoning, or understanding abilities. Nor did it impact one's logic and aptitudes in the area of psychology or any brain-related skills. It just made time flow differently.
Secondly, Sho was in his subconscious mind, meaning he only had control of what to do before entering it; when in it, he would see and live a sort of film made out of his previous emotional state desires preceding the entry into the dream-like world.
Thus ''Void-State'' and ''Bliss-State'' are diametrically opposed. Those were the characteristics and differences between the two powerhouse.
Sho, now frenziedly worn out, had arrived at his home. At last he could rest and enjoy the vibrantly placid, peaceful mood that dwelled in it. When meeting his family, Sho remained impartial and polite. Not cold but not warm like a father and mother would expect a child to be. You see, even though most children now are acting as if they were depressed and suffering martyr for nothing and show little emotions to their parents when growing older, Sho's case was different. It was like he talked to his parents like he'd do to strangers. But like a well-educated and intelligent man would.
It always struck his parents vividly how their son had molted in such a drastically unfillial way. Needless to say that in the end all they could do was accept whatever transformation Sho was going through, endlessly. They knew of Sho's trouble and pain. He had, for 11 hours, 27 minutes, and 56 seconds, recounted to them his story. Tears were shed upon discovering the bolted scars that marked Sho's entire life.
Huge lines of a salty, deep blood red shade had been invisibly covering his whole body. Unreaparable lesions that tightened Sho's neck to a metal leash had been suffocating him. Etched wounds, of a blemish moral degradation, scars of the soul forever tainted by the erosions of a dull existence, haunted him.
Manifestly, this was what his parents feared most—this dull, void-like face Sho harbored and this emotional-less aura that emaneted from his very being. Despite his body being physically present, his mind was elsewhere. Far from the land of the living. The look of death in his eyes that he sometimes possessed made them quite warry of Sho's mental situations.
But Sho never cared; undoubtably, he hadn't had any reason to squander time on his parents pointless concerns.
Sho finished the formalities with his dad and mom and headed without delay to his bedroom—untouched by doom. A non-typical teens bedroom, dark and blue painted walls, a few shelves supporting a low amount of figurines, 3 posters from his favorite video game, and books rested on the back of the wall. The shelves were stuffed with dust as the long range of already read books stood proudly like an army having defeated their enemy. Now they could rest forever.
Amongst the untroubled books lay one about humans's psychology that Sho had recently bought, like 2 days ago. 478 pages of pure knowledge and wisdom that one could turn into his own power if he wisely enough applied their techniques and theories. Sho had learned only about a dozen or so new techniques and had still not mastered them yet in the span of 2 days, but he was going to change that this instant.
Sho had an idea about how to constantly use his different state of mind outside of dangerous or precarious situations, which hindered the usage he could make off such amazing talents. He first thought, 'How does it activate itself when I try and manifest both of those powers?' And it goes in order like this.
You need to be in an emotional turmoil to activate ''Bliss-State'' as well as being willing and hyper focused; sadness has to be one of the emotions that you feel the most for it to work.
And it required one to either be tired so as to enter his subconscious mind more easily or find an alternative that sho hadn't. This was his limit for ''Bliss-State'', as of now.
Now onto ''Void-State''; it required no emotial turmoil; instead, your body must be devoid of a semblance of emotions for it to even work. Mind and body had to align. If the mind marches, the body follows. If the body allows, the mind stands hallows.
You had to be so awake and concentrated that your subconscious would only be used to store information, whereas your conscious would be used to calculate and process all of that stored information.
If Sho could replicate a real situation of using any of those two powers while at home, he could soar even more when studying and working. He now had one more goal: 3 months from now he'd have to become five times greater than he currently is, in all aspects regarding the brain.
Sociology, psychology, logic, reasoning, calculating, memorizing, manipulating, maturity, understanding, general culture and knowledge, and stamina. With his brain's current endurance, he wouldn't last long if all of his abilities were increased five times over. But working on improving all of those areas with the use of ''Void-State'' would certainly increase his endurance furthermore.
As Sho sat on the comfy and supple mattress that turned his bed into a heavenly haven, he crossed his legs and took a meditative stance. Letting his mind drift through space and time again, touching boundaries upon boundaries of mental barriers, he now could see an almost physical wall that showed him where his current limits were. If Sho overdid it and overstepped his boundaries, things would go down south.
Sho had deeply immersed himself into this ''internal bewildered world'' which didn't quite feel his own. It was like going back to his first home, in which you had lived from your birth until you had moved out, after 20 years. But instead of nostalgia, you feel disoriented and lost because what used to be your ''home'' is so different. Like a distant part of your life had turned into an evanescent reverie of forgotten times. Blurring memories as if they were insignificant, in this vision that Sho had, everything seemed transient.
As if time didn't matter here, like the real world outside never existed, like when someone dies. Sho hadn't had the opportunity to delve into this beforehand because he got to analyze and work right away. But when he decided to stay in this intermediate space between nothingness and reality, no world existed. It was a null void, a void with no colors, no matter, no particles, no concept, or even existence itself. Just nothing; this area of his mind inhabited nothing. Or is it?
The only thing that seemed to be present in this place was this mental wall that Sho couldn't walk through or surpass. It was a mental thing within a mental state. Mind within mind, body within spiritual body, time within time... Something within another thing?
As Sho slid away from his serene state, he started feeling lonely and abandoned and decided to take another step forward to surpass this wall. He thus entered a new state within a pre-existing state.
Sho entered the 'Bliss-State' while in his 'Void-State'. Now, the empty world was filled with Sho's subconscious mind intricacies and wanderings. Time ripples appeared everywhere; black holes were sweeping chaos in all galaxies of Sho's infinite, self-expanding universe. Each falling tear of his ethereal vessel, deprived of any flesh, was akin to a celestial phenomenon. Constellations and nebulae fell like meteorites on the judgment day. Each spilled drop of blood became a deific chain of lightning overflowing with hellish thunderbolts.
Each Jolt was a brimming catastrophe of death. Stellar impacts, stars' collisions, worlds' destruction—a distorted apocalypse of madness and sheer devastation. This resounding cataclysm brought never-ending misery, ruin, and affliction to its ceaseless civilization. The whole world had been taken over by an otherworldly, heaven-defying existence. Sho's mind. It was bending time and grasping space, clutching every star and throwing them away like pieces of nothing.
Sho had no idea how much time had passed since he tilted to such a wander—a chaotic vortex of restlessness. He had transformed his mind into a frantic cosmos, and directly upon creating a world, he had instigated its destruction. Doom and anarchy were eroding it, but before it could fully collapse, he formed a dazzling pandemonium, which bloomed with infinity. The Archon Sho had regained control over his land.
''Exactly 11 minutes and 30 seconds; this is how long I have been in this state.'' Sho was able to tell the exact amount of time that had passed in the real world in this state. Moreover, without rest, Sho had been able to stay in a much more tiring version of ''Void-State'' for almost 12 minutes, which is close to thrice the number of minutes he had lasted during his first time. And that invisible, inpenetrable wall was now gone. He unlocked more of his human potential.
'I've surpassed my conditions, and I feel myself full of things that I didn't even think existed before, and I also feel an even deeper sense of nullness. I also get what ''Bliss-State'' was all about; in fact, this so called state of bliss never existed; it was just another part of ''Void-State'' abilities, but since those two concepts were so opposed in their usage, I thought they were two different statuses. Now it seems it all revolves around the ''Void-State'' that I'm so proud of.
It can be further upgraded as I theorized, and it seemed like I just completely unlocked it. I feel I've truly decoded it and am now able to use it to a certain degree of transcendental level. This is the first level of the true null state. It's first phase.
"Void State—Phase Nihility"