Chapter 2555

2555 - The Metal Sphere

Step, step.

The All-seeing God left the Court's door to close gently behind him and began descending the stairs, with Athena directly behind him.

This time, the senior servants were not present; they had all already departed with their masters... There was no one but the two of them and the enchanting nature.

"What will you do?" Athena asked as she descended the stairs. "You cannot afford a great loss this time. Your Causality seals have already reached the ninth rank, and each one of them is extremely precious. Losing one of them would be a severe loss that would require entire cycles to make up for, and if you suffer a great loss, you may lose your foothold among the Transcendents forever."

Athena was truly worried, even if she hid her worry behind a mask of coldness.

Perhaps the All-seeing God was cold-hearted to the utmost degree, and she had seen with her own eyes as he watched the inhabitants of his universe being exterminated more than once, but that did not concern her personally.

She had been received in Sanctuary, and granted twenty immortal cells that made her body capable of withstanding the pressure of Eternal Sanctuary, and also raised her status above that of the Executioners. All of this was in addition to the fact that she had begun training in a better place, which brought her level and power to an awe-inspiring degree, and she was no longer limited to controlling a single Master Law!

All of this she had obtained thanks to the All-seeing God, and if he became dust or was imprisoned, then she, as his servant who had followed him for several cycles, would not escape the consequences either!

"I will not lose." The All-seeing God continued descending the stairs calmly, his eyes fixed in a frightening manner. "Robin is there."

"...?" Athena was puzzled. "Robin? Do you trust your candidate to face all those Transcendents? Won't you arrange something?"

"If I were going to arrange something, I would have arranged what would intensify the crisis and cast the blame on them. Perhaps I would involve Zara in the matter this time, and that would be enough and more, but frankly, I don't think The Weaver and the rest of the young ones who have been plotting for several decades will need my help."

"...." Athena stopped walking. "You're cruel, and we both know it. I approve of what you're doing because it serves me as well, but if your cruelty is blind enough to cause your candidate's collapse, then I have to wake you up."

"You just don't know him." The All-seeing God continued walking. "I haven't helped him with anything except saving his life twice, and I helped him once more when he wanted to merge death with fire for the sake of his son Caesar. And all of this cost me momentum equivalent to a full ninth-tier Seal, by the way—more than a hundred times what I've spent on any other candidate... and that tells you two things~"

Then he raised two fingers. "The first is that he became a Transcendent almost on his own, and all he needed was a strong push of events pressing down on him, and a great tragedy that changed the way he thinks." Then he lowered his hand and resumed walking. "The second is that I consumed that amount of momentum because I know he's worth it."

Then he continued: "But he exceeded expectations... and in a very dangerous way." The All-seeing God furrowed his brows. "A Transcendent who hasn't reached a thousand years old yet... my planning and my cruelty created a real monster. He must have seven initial seals, perhaps eight!"

"...." Athena was shocked. She looked down, then resumed walking behind the All-seeing God.

The most brilliant of the known Seal Whales obtained six initial seals on the day he became Transcendent.

As for the person sitting inside, the Arbiter, who was formerly called the Arbiter of War because of the legends woven by his exploits, which would be told for generations, but he renounced the title of War and contented himself with Arbiter alone to preserve the prestige of his position in the Court... that person obtained only five seals.

Of course, those were initial numbers, for the Arbiter now possesses a staggering number of tenth-tier seals... but they remain an indicator.

For all those who obtained large numbers of initial seals either became whales, or had their seals stolen early and were imprisoned.

"If we assume Robin possesses only seven seals, that grants him a great advantage. He possesses not only momentum, but the origin of momentum itself, and he possesses hundreds of Transcendent cells. I trust he will not be easily defeated by their schemes; they will do nothing but increase his fury."

"Does The Weaver not know what he is getting himself into?" Athena wondered in surprise. "He obtained the ninth degree of Causality long before you."

"Robin is outside all calculations of Causality. The Weaver cannot predict what will happen during the Coronation or after it, because Robin himself, the very person being targeted, is considered an external factor to the mechanics of Causality. The Weaver is now like someone holding a colossal hammer and trying to strike a small metal ball, without knowing whether it is empty inside or packed with explosives... but I know."

Then he laughed. "He believes that I am the one wrapping Robin in walls of Causality to prevent him from plotting against him, but even I, like him, cannot predict anything concerning him. All that can be seen are vague fates... I can, just like him, see that much blood will be spilled as a result of the Coronation, but who will do it, how it will happen, and what will follow from it—none of that appears."

"My rival there will increase his forces and support by an immense amount to avoid any variables. If he intended to support him with momentum equivalent to half a Seal, he might support him with momentum equivalent to two Seals because of this obscurity, and that frightens me somewhat..."

"Would it not be good to warn Robin so he takes precautions, even if you do not want to support him?" Athena's body shuddered when she imagined the support of eleven Transcendents against a single person.

"No, if I told him, he might cancel the Coronation, or raise his level of caution excessively, or attack their followers before they begin executing their plans." The All-seeing God smiled. "If I did that, then who would exhaust those giants and drain their momentum, focus, and attention away from what I'm doing? Tsk tsk~" The All-seeing God shook his head, laughing. "That day will be interesting from aaaall sides."