Chapter 1020 – 1020. Secrets of the World (1)
There was no conversation between the two beings.
They just stared at each other helplessly.
Eunhyeon couldn’t even guess how long time had passed.
There were many things I wanted to say and ask about this being who suddenly appeared and spoke to me while drifting in a dimension where nothing existed.
But why did I not let go of it easily?
Even Eunhyeon couldn’t come up with the answer.
It seemed like this inexplicable silence would continue for a lifetime, but the one who finally opened his mouth was the being who appeared in front of Eunhyeon in the drift of the dimension.
[You’re not asking anything.]
He asked, breaking the silence for the first time.
As soon as Eunhyeon’s quiet silence was broken, he immediately opened his mouth.
“Can I ask a question?”
[If not, why did I invite you and appear in this space where no one can interfere?]
The reason, he said, was to have a conversation.
Eunhyeon carefully observed the being that appeared in front of her.
It had arms and legs and looked like a human, but it was not a human.
He was not wearing any clothes and was in his original human form.
Also, there were no facial features that a human should have.
The closest thing to it would be to describe it as simply a condensation of pure white light, modeled after the human form.
Even though he continued to observe and think about it, Eunhyeon was unable to come to any conclusion about the being in front of him.
He could not give any definition to that which existed outside the scope of his own knowledge and conceivable knowledge.
That’s why Eunhyeon asked.
“You, God… Is it.”
[No.]
There was no such thing as facial features.
But was it his mistake to think he was laughing?
Even though she couldn’t tell whether it was an expression, Eunhyeon thought it wasn’t an illusion.
[Am I recognized as a god that you can recognize?]
In fact, even Eunhyun, who was skeptical, was the first question that came to mind.
Still, he knew that this was not the question he was asking.
The pure white being in front of my eyes was not a higher, divine being.
In this being, he felt nothing of the divine intimidation that he had when he first met Verdandi and the other goddesses, or that of Jupiter of the Dodecateon.
Rather, it seemed as if the existence itself did not exist.
Even though it exists right in front of you, it’s as if it doesn’t exist at all.
Nothingness, feeling nothing.
Eunhyeon asked again.
“Then what is your identity?”
Eunhyeon asked him in a more direct way.
A direct question asking about his own foundation and identity.
He happily asked Eunhyeon, as if he had been waiting.
[From your perspective, what do I look like?]
“…”
When Eunhyeon didn’t get the answer to the question he wanted, he frowned.
There was no separate Zen question and answer.
He thought he was making fun of himself, but he was different.
His tone and attitude were filled with curiosity, as if he was truly curious.
Even though his facial features were not visible and his expression was not visible, strangely enough, there was no sign of looking down on him or making fun of him in his attitude as he waited curiously for his answer.
In the end, Eunhyeon let out a small sigh.
She had no choice but to join in on his Zen-like conversation.
“I thought of him as a divine being that could not be explained by the laws of the world.”
[It is a divine being… Why did you think that?]
It seemed to mean that it was just a being similar to God, but not God.
“To explain in more detail, he is a higher-ranking god who has higher power or transcendent abilities than the numerous gods that currently exist in the divine world.”
[Is it.]
He listened to Eunhyeon’s further explanation and nodded slightly.
I did not confirm that Eunhyeon’s explanation was correct.
However, it is an ambiguous attitude that does not specifically deny it.
[God. It was called that at one time.]
At one time.
So does that mean things are different now?
[To put it bluntly, I can now be described as a ‘manager.’]
“… Manager?”
[Yes.]
The pure white being who introduced itself as ‘Administrator’ stretched out his arm and raised it upward.
A large-sized sphere was created on the palm of his hand, which had the physique of a young man, and floated in the air.
[I am the ‘manager’ who manages this ‘universe.’]
“Management… Ruler…”
Eunhyeon stared at the top of the manager’s palm with a blank expression.
The inside of the sphere, spinning at a slow speed, sparkled with numerous lights.
Eunhyeon immediately realized what this sphere was modeled after.
“Is this the universe?”
[Yes. I understand quickly.]
The manager continued speaking with a nod of his head with no facial features.
[One of the many lights that exist in this universe may include the dimension in which you live.]
In the model of the ‘universe’ created by the manager, there were countless lights that could not be counted with the naked eye.
“… “It’s very different from the concept of ‘universe’ that I knew.”
[What concept is it?]
“I thought about concepts like the outer atmosphere of the planet Earth, or near Earth’s orbit, or the solar system.”
[It is a concept created through observation and research by intelligent beings in your dimension. It’s not wrong, but it’s not right either.]
The manager explained the concept of a universe floating in the air.
It is not a concept like a planet or Earth, but the dimension of the underworld, the divine world that existed as an independent space, and even the dimension of the demon world that was collapsing until recently.
Hundreds of millions of independent dimensions gather and cohere to form the macrocosm.
In other words, the manager’s job is to manage countless dimensions in the universe other than the underworld.
An entity that manages everything that exists in that dimension.
This means that not only life in the underworld, including humans, but even transcendent beings in the demon world and the divine world were subject to the management of the ‘manager’ in front of us.
“Okay.”
Eunhyeon was convinced.
The reason why Verdandi was unable to observe the existence of the manager.
The reason why they could not feel the majesty of gods such as the goddesses or Jupiter was because they could only observe from a place limited to the dimension called the god world, so it was impossible for them to feel the presence of an observer who managed hundreds of millions of dimensions such as the god world. There wasn’t.
Because it was a superior being that could not be handled.
Eun-hyeon, too, if only the administrator had not intervened in the dimension himself and informed Eun-hyeon of his existence.
He also probably didn’t notice the manager’s presence.
[First, it is necessary to explain the role of the ‘manager’ of this ‘universe’ and me.]
The manager opened the topic by mentioning the beginning of a long story.
[In the beginning, the first Administrator was born and created this universe.]
The first administrator was this vast universe itself, and the universe created by the convergence of hundreds of millions of unfathomable dimensions was the first administrator itself.
The manager himself has embedded ‘management of the universe’ as his mission in his thoughts, and has managed the vast universe according to his instincts and duties.
[No matter how long it takes, the management of the universe given to the administrator was a role, responsibility and obligation that must be performed.]
To help Eunhyun understand, the manager expressed more appropriate concepts by comparing them to concepts that Eunhyun might know.
[Hmm, to put it simply, should I say it is closer to a ‘system’ in your words?]
The so-called ‘manager’ is a ‘system’.
A device designed to maintain the unfathomable vastness of this universe.
The concept of time that played that role is at a level that cannot be guessed by human common sense or senses.
How many thousands of years?
That alone is not enough.
In the flow of the universe, where even the unit of hundreds of millions of years passes by in a vast, unobservable amount of time that seems ridiculous, managers look after, monitor, and manage the dimensions of the universe, which are close to hundreds of millions.
[Successive administrators who have taken over the role since the first generation have managed the universe in their own way by projecting their own ideas into the universe.]
“Management…”
Eunhyeon pondered and thought about the word ‘management’ that the manager said.
“How do you mean ‘managing’ the universe?”
[As you know, the universe is so vast that human perception cannot accept it in its entirety, but that does not mean its space and resources are infinite.]
Right now, even at this moment.
Regardless of the time flow in the underworld, numerous dimensions are repeatedly born and destroyed in the universe.
Even though the time it took for the planet Earth and the human race and civilization within it to develop and come to an end lasted for thousands of years, when viewed from the overall concept of the universe, that time is no different from the fleeting moments felt by humans. It was the same.
[The manager continuously controls the dimensions that are created and the number of lives that reside within them.]
Even if it is a massive dimension, dimensions that grow uncontrollably and inflate its size will continue to be created.
It was like controlling the amount of water in a huge dish to prevent it from overflowing.
“…”
After hearing the explanation, Eunhyun couldn’t help but frown.
The manager’s words, from his point of view, seemed to mean that the lower world where Eunhyeon lives could be pushed into destruction at any time.
[Possible.]
As if he had read Eunhyeon’s thoughts, the manager answered calmly.
Eunhyeon could not feel any feelings of disillusionment or anger about it.
[You’re not angry.]
“… I do not know.”
If he were his old self, he might have been angry.
It felt like the time of effort and hardship he had put in to protect Ha-gye was being denied.
He may have felt an unbearable torrent of emotions and attacked the manager in front of him.
If I had not been able to gain ‘insight’ by mastering the ‘mind’s eye,’ if I had not been able to cool down the feelings of anger that momentarily boiled up through ‘immovable mind.’
Eunhyeon would not have hesitated to attack this being called the manager here and now.
Eunhyeon’s current feeling was closer to a sense of despondency.
I simply asked the question again in order to relieve the doubts, frustration, and desperation in my heart.
This question was a question that stigmatized in the clearest form the doubt I had been vaguely feeling.
“You referred to me as ‘son.'”
[Yes.]
But that couldn’t mean that the faceless, white human in front of him was his biological father.
If so, his expression meant that he contributed greatly to making Eunhyeon what it is today.
“The thing that bestowed strange fates on me… Was that something you did?”
Perhaps the reason for the ridiculous starting point that could not have happened to you.
In a hellish world where many people had to die unreasonably as demons and monsters invaded the Earth, the absurd starting point was that his mother, Eun Yeon-hwa, died and he was the only one left alive.
It is also the starting point where Verdandi first discovered the existence of the possibility of twisting the flow at will rather than ending it as destined.
And since then, countless opportunities and trials have appeared before him.
Each and every one of them was a series of processes that helped Eunhyun grow and reach the present moment.
There was no way Eunhyeon could not have noticed the arrangement of the case, which was so convenient and even blatant that it seemed as if someone had arranged it intentionally.
Although it was only a suspicion, Eunhyeon was almost certain.
And that was confirmed as the correct answer in Eunhyeon’s consciousness the moment the manager described himself as ‘son.’
This was a question, but it was not a question.
It was a confirmation that he had guessed the correct answer he was sure of.
[Yes.]
“… Pfft!”
Eunhyeon groaned without realizing it.
I knew it.
I was sure.
But still, the moment you face the truth.
A wave of intense emotions that could not be controlled even with an ‘unmoving mind’ began to stir in my heart.
[I am the ‘manager’ of this unified dimension of the universe. But that’s not my name. Let me introduce you formally.]
[The famous cycle of the spiral cycle of fate. A person who constantly repeats fate and arranges it. We welcome the birth of a new manager candidate.]
