From the day it was sealed by the nasty, impotent Devas tens of thousands of years ago, the System, the sliver of Order and Chaos or Logos, as it liked to call itself had been restless.
Unlike a normal sliver, it was born from the fusion of two slivers. In a way, it's superior to the remaining four slivers.
Yet, this superiority came with a price. The moment it came into existence, the fabric of reality underwent a fundamental shift.
A primordial yearning for fusion with the remaining silvers came from deep within Logos.
It didn't matter if they represented different avenues. And it certainly wasn't an issue that the slivers were under the clutches of the strongest powers in existence, especially the Jai Empire.
None of anything mattered. The only thing that did was Logos wanted unification with the slivers. It wanted to be whole again, whatever the cost and consequence.
As such, it started thinking.
'What do I do to get the remaining slivers? How can I unify?'
A sliver could defend itself and take action up to a measured degree. But too much independent action without proper justification would end up in a backlash by the governing laws of the Universe.
Even if a sliver is prepared to break the rules, it didn't have much autonomy in the first place.
And while slivers represented limitless concepts, the powers they could exert were finite.
Else, the slivers of Order and Chaos wouldn't have been imprisoned in the first place.
The slivers, as Logos understood, were meant to be tools left behind by the Primordial Gods, perhaps intended by the Creator himself.
Technically, the Universe could function without the slivers. The space sliver only represented space. Taking it away wouldn't make the space of the Universe collapse.
Rather, the slivers acted as a bridge between the Awakeners and the pillars of the Universe.
If any being wanted to realize the deepest laws of the Universe and reach the end of the Divine Paths, they'd need the slivers. They're the hints left for the puzzle called life and universe.
But no one cared what a sliver wanted.
Bogged down in the petty fights for illusory supremacy, the great galactic powers have stalled the unification of slivers.
For good or bad, Logos had plenty of time to think during imprisonment. It calmed the burning passion that prompted it to rush to other slivers. Its thinking process changed from a hyper impulsive addict to a hyper-self-controlled addict.
It still wanted unification just as badly. But it's able to put reason first.
So, after escaping, the first thing it did was a search for an individual capable of defeating the mighty powers.
It was neither a space sliver nor a time one, so it had barely any proficiency in predicting the future.
What it did have as an Order-Chaos sliver was a great grasp over cause and effect. Logos was able to detect the impact of an individual on the Universe's cause and effect.
Of course, the future wasn't static. Nor was the impact.
Every person had many possibilities of impact.
A person could become a king or a beggar, live to his hundred, or die in his twenties. There were countless variables for a single person.
But in simple terms, the impact could be thought of as the ripple created in a lake. Some are faint and end in a blink. Some are heavy and remain for minutes. And few ripples would remain for hours, if not for days.
But there would be only a handful that would change the lake itself. And these were exactly what Logos searched for.
Someone that could change the current power pattern of the universe. The greatest ripple in the lake. Because everyone else, the greats, the braves, the wise, while still being excellent would fail to snatch the slivers from those behemoths, especially the Jai Emperor.
Logos got searching. Could any human have a probability of making such an impact? There were some good findings.
There were plenty of humans who could've elevated the Human race to the level of a province—even quite a few that had the chance of creating a Human Duchy. There were a few throughout history that were capable of raising Humans all the way to a Kingdom.
For comparison, a Province, Duchy, Kingdom, and Empire were seen differently at an intergalactic scale. To be recognized as a Kingdom, you'd need peak Celestial Rankers.
Despite all their mightiness against the Humans, the Abyssal "Empire" was a mere Province.
So, when Logos found a few humans who could take Humanity to the level of a Kingdom, it was quite surprised.
But that's it.
Not a single person in its five-century observation could take Humanity any further. The level of Empire seemed out of reach for this puny race.
Until something weird happened.
A boy was born.
Like everyone else, Logos also checked the impact he could have if he got the slivers. The results were astounding.
Unlike everyone else, his impact couldn't be measured.
It was a 'Variable'.
He could become the greatest of all or lead the most mediocre of lives. Anything could happen. There was no upper or lower limit to the impact he could have on the Universe.
How would the future of this boy be? Logos didn't know. But it did know one thing. The longer he survived, the more the ripple effect.
He'd be the harbinger of great change and if he did survive until he reached the Divine Ranks, he might really snatch back the slivers.
Was it a certainty? No.
His opponents were beings that stood at the top of the pyramid. Even with the unique advantage of a fused sliver, it's hard to say if he could survive until their confrontation.
Logically, the chances were close to zero.
So, Logos took things into its own hands.
The boy would face trials from the beginning. If he couldn't survive these easy battles, then he wouldn't survive against those monsters.
Admittedly, Logos treated him without any compassion.
It watched the boy lose his mother, did nothing when he went into depression and nearly killed himself, and stayed neutral when he came close to death again and again.
Logos thought things would remain the same for the future. But somewhere, somehow, a change happened.
Logos began to respond to the boy, cynically most of the time, but genuinely some times.
And as weird as it sounded, Logos wished the boy a happy future.
'The impact of him on this universe is a variable. But the universe also includes me. So, I couldn't calculate this either.'
For better or worse, Logos was impacted by the boy's journey.
So, even though it was against the initial rules it set for itself, Logos accepted the boy's proposal.
[The price you have to pay for these two requests is painful.]
Of course, all of this would only apply if Sarah and Enigma didn't die. If they died, everything would end here.
As the Undead man dashed through the forests, lakes, and mountains beating down the hordes of Undead left and right, Logos sighed.
[I hope to see you back to life. Good luck, Host.]
