Chapter 2447

2447 - The All-seeing God's Past - 2

"Guess what happened." Helmor raised his head slightly.

"Hmm, from what you're saying, the situation seems very bad." Robin nodded, "But I have a feeling that The All-seeing God's Patron no longer competes much."

"Never competes would be the correct expression." Helmor understood the sarcasm in Robin's words, "The anger that The All-seeing God's Patron gathered from the rest of The Transcendents had a strong reaction. Usually it would be imposing fines or perhaps threats of more interventions in his own universe in The Cycles to come, to prevent cheating and prevent him from creating more Transcendents, but a variable appeared here..."

"The All-seeing God." Helmor's voice became calmer, "The All-seeing God cooperated with a number of those ancient Transcendents. They agreed upon a pact and formed an alliance under his management, and they managed to trap The All-seeing God's Patron, sealed his powers, and imprisoned him. They got his Seals, and The All-seeing God got the universe A-7 and became its Lord after him."

"Imprisoned him?" Robin was surprised, "Why didn't they just kill him?"

"You can't kill a Transcendent." Helmor shook his head gently. "Those Seals transformed their cells into immortal, indestructible cells. This is one of the reasons Transcendents avoid fighting one another—it's futile because of the immortality. And the more transformed cells there are, the more it makes even something like imprisonment impossible."

"..." Robin let out a whistle, raising his eyebrows.

Those cells were far stronger—he had tested them himself—but reaching immortality? That was... amazing!

"Since the All-seeing God's Patron was imprisoned—the Transcendent known as the Warden—and the universe was handed over to the All-seeing God, things have changed among the ranks of the Transcendents." Helmor explained. "This young man who recently became a Transcendent caused the elimination of an ancient Transcendent and took control of a universe of Category A. That's aside from the fact that he managed to find a loophole in the pact and took a number of the Warden's Seals during his siege and imprisonment—the Seals he won from that Cycle that the All-seeing God won on his behalf. So the All-seeing God became stronger and more dangerous!"

"..." Robin shrugged and began tapping his arm seriously.

The moment the All-seeing God appeared, he turned the world upside down—perhaps not in a very good way, but he did. That suited his style somewhat.

"The All-seeing God then entered a new fray." Helmor returned to explaining, glad that Robin had finally begun listening with interest, "After he left universe A-7 in the midst of the process of erasure, rehabilitation, and reorganization, and after he earned the name A-3 following that brilliant victory in that Cycle, the All-seeing God focused on something else… on his standing among the Transcendents."

"…His standing was not the best of things. The Transcendents wanted to use him to overthrow the Warden and strip him of his Seals, but instead he gained Seals from the Warden and took his place. So the great ones among the Transcendents began to look at him as an intruding rat, someone who harmed his master and swindled them. Some of them told him openly that he would regret it."

"…So he began using his methods, trying to draw closer to the other Transcendents who had not yet earned his enmity—the Transcendents who had lost most or all of their Seals. He tried to gather them around him, but he found the matter extremely difficult. They wanted one thing, and that was Seals. Give one of them a Seal and he will work under your command for the agreed-upon duration… but the All-seeing God did not want to give up his Seals that he had just collected. He wanted to recruit them with the nonsense that came out of his mouth and dreams of the future, but he failed."

"...The All-seeing God is intelligent, but he was dealing with entities whose age was many times his own, and his maneuvers did not work on them, so he ignored them, and this earned him their enmity. The people who wasted their time listen to his nonsense in order to convince them to join him." Then he continued, "Then the All-seeing God turned to his last refuge, the middle Transcendents, like him, who try only to coexist in that difficult environment, perhaps he might find a place for himself among them... but even this failed."

"That class of Transcendents does not want problems with the whales of the Seals above, they do not want conspiracies, they only want to preserve their Seals, and perhaps increase them by a Seal or two every so often by obtaining a good ranking in the Cycles. For them, forming groups and protecting a newcomer like the All-seeing God had no weight or benefit, especially since he made it clear that he would not give up any Seal... so why would they tire themselves with him?"

"This seems like a very hostile environment..." Robin let out a sigh, "...for a place where there is no killing."

"Believe me." Helmor furrowed his brows slightly, "Some of the Ashen Ones there wish for death."

"The Ashen Ones... let me guess, that is the title of the Transcendents who have lost their Seals." Robin sighed.

It seems that even obtaining a status like this, even immortality, is not the end of the road.

"Yes." Helmor nodded, "It is an extremely isolated environment where everything works for itself, and the *Allies* there are comrades of the cup and the word, but when competition comes and the Seals are exchanged, they are the first to tear into each other."

"I understand…" Robin nodded, "What happened to the All-seeing God after he found no ally?"

"What did he have to do?" Helmor showed a wide smile, "He tried to surround himself with an aura of absolute genius and hostility, chose for himself a few other titles like the All-Knowing God and the All-Capable and others, and promoted himself as having broken through again in one of his laws and increased his Seals, but this made his situation worse and increased the greed of those around him."

Then he continued, "This continued until the next Cycle began and he started finding candidates for himself and trying to develop his own universe — A-3 at that time — but he was shocked that The Whales above began executing their threats. They were not empty words. Soon the universe began to collapse from within, and before the first million years had passed, The Plague had occupied the entire universe and life was annihilated. The All-seeing God suffered a devastating loss that placed him at the bottom of The List, killed the universe's ranking, and returned it to being A-40."