Chapter 2543

2543 - The Drawing - 3

After he fell to his knees, Dandy began striking the ground with his hand, then he stood and started hitting it with his leg, after that he began ramming his head against the wall of the house, then he looked upward and started waving!

"What is he doing?" Shaddad wondered.

"He's angry, angry because he's weak and can't wake his friend to move like him." Robin stared coldly at Dandy, "He's also angry at me, and because he's just a two-dimensional drawing he can't see us, so he started looking upward automatically... By now he has felt the limits, and felt the laws that cannot come arbitrarily, he's angry because I imposed limits on him, because I imprisoned him, and because I didn't comply with him in reviving his companion." Then he nodded upward, "Wait a bit, you'll find he's about to openly challenge me."

Immediately after, Dandy demolished the house and disassembled his companion's body and gathered all the remaining scribbles, then used them to strengthen his body made of a few sticks, so his arms began to become ten times thicker, and his body swelled greatly.

Then he jumped toward the square and pierced through it easily, and began running with power and confidence until he reached the end of the painting, and there he saw nothing, for those were the boundaries of his two-dimensional world, just a black end that his eyes could not examine.

He began punching that end, punching and kicking the edge of the painting, but to no avail—it was merely ink moving back and forth on a canvas made for that very purpose.

"...Why is he doing all this?" Shaddad wondered in confusion. "He had everything, and now he's gone mad!"

"He thought he had reached a power with which he too could build worlds, a power with which he could challenge me—even though, had he focused a little, he would have found that all his power was derived from what I bestowed upon him." Robin smiled with a trace of annoyance. "I always conduct these experiments, and most of the time I'm annoyed, and today was no exception."

"If you told him now that you can see him and that he can do nothing about it, wouldn't he calm down?" Shaddad asked quickly, watching Dandy silently tearing himself apart.

"Why would I do that?" Robin chuckled. "Perhaps he doesn't know me personally, perhaps he hasn't seen me, but he has seen what I did for his sake. He came to know the laws and understood that he is a created being, and in the end he chose to challenge me using what I taught him and gave him." Robin shook his head. "Wouldn't tearing up the painting and forgetting about him be the sensible choice?"

"...." Shaddad let out a long exhale, then turned toward Robin. "What are you trying to say?"

"Nothing. I'm just clarifying some examples of the master laws for you." Robin chuckled in a low voice. "When you accept that you are a drawing within a painting, and that you are merely searching for the elements of that drawing to use them without giving them more weight than they deserve—not to break the painting or search for its painter—then your progress will be extremely easy."

Then he continued, "And from what I've experienced, the best way to search for the elements of the drawing is to see them. You might find this obvious, but training your eye to regard everything you see as merely a drawing—merely creatures slightly more complex than yourself—will make reaching them easier and faster... and this applies to the eye itself, meaning to the law of truth."

Then he stared hard into Shaddad's eyes. "I spoke with the Cosmic Elder once, and he told me that he and the Truth Chosen Azramid believe that truth is the ground, and that the hypothesis that everything is truth is the foundation of everything. I told him that I agree as well, but it is not the complete truth..."

Then he fell silent for a moment. "Truth... truth is to see and be seen."

"....?!" Shaddad's heart clenched.

But Robin continued anyway, "...You see the drawing in its entirety... and you realize that there is another realm watching you, a fourth dimension, perhaps a fifth and sixth or more, in which the artist exists, and to him, you are... the painting."

Shaddad swallowed and looked around unconsciously.

"No need to panic." Robin laughed to break the tension. "I'm telling you this so you know that the engravings of truth, the higher you climb in Level, the stranger their movement becomes and their behavior departs from our third dimension. And from what I saw of the last engraving of the law of truth at the fourth level, this is no longer a third dimension at all—you will see what you yourself have recorded and understand."

"Your initial eye of truth is a means to break through the third dimension, just as our friend Dandy revealed the composition of ink in his second dimension a short while ago, and could not see anything further. The higher your level, the greater the precision of the breakthrough. But the truth also gives us the key to taking the next step toward seeing other dimensions in its obscure engravings, which leave everyone incapable of even attempting to understand them."

Then he continued, "Train your eye and mind starting from the first engraving of the first degree and upward. The more your eye takes a step higher in understanding the third dimension and begins to touch the fourth, you'll find that exploring the other master laws is not that difficult—in fact, exploring the rest of the degrees of truth itself is not that difficult."

Shaddad slammed his head against the ground as he wept, "Aaa... I... I will live as your servant for as long as I live!"

This information he had never heard before, nor had anyone ever heard it before, and perhaps no third person after them would ever hear it either.

He had received true knowledge in a short session that would make him leap an enormous leap in the remainder of his life.

No, if he died now... he would feel no guilt!

"Get up." Robin chuckled and gently pushed Shaddad to sit again, "Wipe your face. We need to talk about a way to develop the three Sky Opening Cities... I have ideas and a monstrous ambition that I need help with!"