2280 - Candidate
“…That day in the cave!” Robin raised his voice. “The All-seeing God placed me inside a sphere of golden light as well, similar to what happened with Althera!”
Robin opened his eyes as he recalled the scene before him.
When Robin came out of that sphere back then, he had returned to being a child. The All-seeing God told him that he had used the Fundamental Laws of Time and Life to rebuild his body, and that was the end of it.
In fact, he even asked him to rebuild Caesar’s body as well, given how easy it seemed to him at the time!
Could it be that something else hidden was happening at that moment besides restoring his body?
Thinking about it…
The All-seeing God returned Helen to her bedroom through sectors and belts with just a wave… Did he need to wrap him in golden light for minutes just to apply the Laws of Time and Life? Why didn’t he do it with a wave as well? Restoring a mortal’s body is much easier than transferring a Nexus State through belts!
Second, when transferring Helen, he didn’t consume any energy from her body at all; he did it entirely himself. So why did he consume all of Robin’s solid levels to activate Time and Life? Especially since Robin’s foundations and even his Soul Domain were lawless and didn’t need cleansing.
"But this only raises more questions... If the All-seeing God did it to him, how could he have done it to Althera?!"
Robin raised his hands and pressed his head forcefully.
Something is missing!!
In that state of hysterical thinking, Glacion spoke: "Allow me to stop you here, Lord Robin. There is a slight contradiction in your words."
"A contradiction?" Robin turned to him in surprise.
"We just concluded earlier that Lady Althera had indeed reached the limits before leaving home, attaining immense power, and only then did she enter that Golden Sphere and lose everything." Glacion pointed at Robin. "But what you are explaining now is the situation of the Golden Sphere—something that supposedly happened after the limits were lifted in sequence, or at least separately from it."
"..." Faced with his own conclusion, Robin nodded in defeat and began pacing slowly back and forth. "But I can't recall anything special in my life before the All-seeing God appeared. There's no point I can point to and say: this is it, you understand me? Surely that moment of mental clarity beside Rita wasn't it..."
"...?" Althera narrowed her eyes. Rita?!
But Robin suddenly stopped and furrowed his brows. "No... there is one."
"What is it?!" Glacion asked quickly, feeling as though he was participating in solving a cosmic puzzle.
"A fraction of a second before the All-seeing God appeared." Robin narrowed his eyes. "When I discovered the Fundamental Death Law, along with the First Level of the Master Law of Truth."
"Do you think that at that moment you obtained the cancellation of limits?" Glacion wondered.
"...Not sure." Robin shook his head. "At that moment, the All-seeing God stopped time before I could feel anything, and time did not resume until after he disappeared and I exited the Golden Sphere." Then he nodded several times. "I can't think of anything else."
"That's it." Glacion pointed at Robin. "That was your ticket to the cancellation of limits."
"...?" Robin furrowed his brows. "Are you saying the All-seeing God had no hand in that?"
Glacion pointed at Althera. "Did he have a hand in what happened to Lady Althera?"
"But my Master Laws are what affected her." Robin furrowed his brows. "Without them, I would have continued the Breakthrough without anything new."
"And at that time, you broke through to become a true Truth Chosen, not one of those clowns who merely claim the title," Glacion replied quickly. "This must carry some weight!" Then he continued, "What if achieving the First Level of a Master Law immediately cancels the limits from all Cosmic Powers? That makes sense—how could ordinary cosmic laws affect a user of a Master Law?"
He then quickly added, "And this seems even more logical considering that Lady Althera was affected by your successive breakthroughs. Perhaps the Heavenly Laws themselves became confused and vacated the space quickly for the same reason!"
"Thinking about it..." Althera spoke, "the Threads were trembling in fear and stopped several times before finally making that move."
"Look!" Glacion said joyfully. "The several times equal the several breakthroughs, trust me!"
"...I don't know." Robin resumed pacing back and forth. "I think the train of thought has gone off track. Building conclusions based on mere expectations is not my style."
“What if we just take it as a hypothesis for now?” Glacion opened both hands. “Let’s assume you obtained the cancellation of limits the moment you acquired the Master Law of Truth, and Lady Althera obtained hers thanks to your breakthroughs today, and that was the end of the story, as Your Majesty put it.”
“…” Robin nodded. “Continue.”
For Robin, this was not merely a waste of time or an indulgence of vanity—the sheer number of applications that could be derived if these theories were proven was simply staggering!
“Now we come to the second part.” Glacion spoke quickly. “The All-seeing God placed you in a golden sphere and returned you to zero, while you placed Lady Althera in a golden sphere and returned her to zero.”
“…A golden lock and shackles appeared above your head and shattered without you feeling a thing, while a golden lock appeared above Lady Althera’s head without her feeling a thing.”
“And besides this match, there are two variables.” Glacion raised two fingers. “First, the breach incident of Your Majesty’s lock and the appearance of Lady Althera’s lock coincided with the emergence of the Sixth Symbol… and second, you are the only one who can see Lady Althera’s lock.”
Then he closed his mouth and stared into Robin’s eyes with a calculated gaze.
"...?" Althera furrowed her brow, trying to grasp what he was driving at, then looked toward Robin. "Do you understand anything?"
"...." Robin continued staring at Glacion for a few seconds with his eyes wide open.
Then he turned back to look at Althera with a faint smile. "If I understood correctly, in short..." He then pointed at himself. "I was the All-seeing God's candidate."
Then he pointed at Althera.
"And now you are my candidate."