When Akasha reappeared, he was in the familiar realm of his mother. Everything was the same as last time. His mother laid in thin air in the center of everything. He took one step and appeared in front of her. He then sat down cross-legged. The moment he sat down her eyes fluttered open.
Her faced morphed into a smile and she spoke as she sat up.
{You missed your dear mother already?~} Her voice was everything. Just hearing a short sentence seemed to put Akasha into a deep state of peace.
He smiled back and spoke.
"Yes, you can say that." As he said this, he summoned some pastries for them to eat.
They spent a few hours together talking about all kinds of things. Things his mother liked to see and some of her dreams. It was crazy to think that even the strongest being in all of existence still had dreams.
Thinking this a wave of sadness briefly flashed through Aksha's eyes. Seeing his mother who seemed to be so full of life, but yet she couldn't even achieve her one simple dream. This steeled his resolve even more. His next moved would be something that truly set him on the path ahead.
Right now, his goal was no longer to simply adventure. Of course he would still do that, but now he had a proper goal.
And that was to free his mother from this self-created prison of hers.
His mother, Akashi, she noticed all of the subtleties he was showing. She sighed softly before speaking.
{Son, you don't have fret over it too much. You will eventually reach the point where you can fix everything.} On her face was the same beautiful smile. Even though she couldn't leave this place that didn't mean she was sad all the time.
She had gotten used to this after so long. But her being used to such isolation is what irked Akasha the most.
He then pushed everything to the back of his mind and spoke.
"Mother, can you explain to me where this realm is located?"
Hearing the sudden question caused Akashi to pause in eating a brownie. She raised an eyebrow before speaking.
{Well, this realm is outside of creation. It's outside of all the dimensions unreachable by any being aside from us. No one can survive outside of creation.}
Akasha began to ponder momentarily when he heard that. He then asked another question.
"Is existence and creation the same thing? Before you told me you were the first being in all of existence, not this creation."
{You are correct. Existence and Creation are two entirely different things. 'Creation' is basically this entire reality, and Existence would be this reality and others if it were more. Right now, I could create other realities, but they would be much weaker than this one. So, that's why I only created one.}
This caused Akasha's mind to begin calculating again.
"Alright I understand all of this, but what is nonexistence? Is this realm currently sitting outside of Existence? Or can we go outside of it?"
This time his mother didn't give an immediate answer. Instead, she asked a question of her own.
{Dear, where are these questions coming from. They don't seem randomly thought up questions.}
Even though she still planned to give him the answer. She just wanted to know where such questions were coming from.
"Honestly, this might sound a bit ironic, but instincts. I have no idea where such questions came from. At first, I planned to create my own physique, but I talked to Luna and Elysia and found out it wasn't so simple. Most physiques are tied to integral rules of reality and making a new physique would be like making integral changes to everything.
But the more I thought of this the more questions came to me. I don't know why but I feel like my answer is outside of existence...."
Akashi smiled hearing her son. She already figured it was an instinctual thing, but she wanted to be sure. She then nodded and spoke.
{I can't understand nonexistence. Well, it's not that I can't understand it, it's more like I can't accept it. That is because of my physique and as you just said all physiques are connected to reality. And mines is literally existence which means I can't comprehend nonexistence clearly.}
These words oddly caused a smile to form on Akasha's face.
"Perfect." He said and to this his mother said nothing because she knew what he was hinting at. Even though she knew what he was thinking she had no idea how he would do it.
After Akasha said those words, he closed his eyes and used his trait.
|The Origin of All|
He wanted to create an ability. With the help of this trait, it made everything quick and simple.
In the next moment a notification sounded.
*Ding*
[You have created a new skill. Skill - Clones]
[Clones - user can make clones as long as he has mana. Currently only 4 clones will have 100% of the main body's power. The rest will have 70%.]
As he saw this he smiled and then he created 4 clones. These clones could operate on their own, but didn't have their own personalities. Each one was basically Akasha and nothing would be different between them. The same thoughts and everything.
Everything except his women. It was an absolutely no go for his clones to even shake the hand of his women. Hell, he didn't want any men to even touch their hairs, but he knew he had to be reasonable at times.
Seeing these 4 clones his mother looked on with interest.
Akasha didn't have to give any orders to them because they already knew it. They simply disappeared and went handle their business. Each clone was headed to a major faction in this Galaxy.
When they left, he turned to his mother and spoke.
"Can you send me outside of existence? I don't know how long it will take, but don't bring me back until I'm ready."
Akashi didn't refute him one bit. She knew better than anyone how these instinctual feelings could be. She waved her hand and Akasha disappeared.
When he left her realm returned to his silence, but this time she didn't go back to sleep. She turned her attention to her son and watched.
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Outside of existence
When Akasha appeared, he was automatically consumed with confusion. The moment he stepped here everything began to lose meaning. Noticing this oddity, he moved quickly and cut his connection off between his clones. With this their minds won't be affected by his, but the four clones will still be connected with each other.
As Akasha looked around, he could see nothing at all. It was no structures, no life, or even color. The space he was in wasn't even shrouded in darkness nor was it beaming in light. In the eyes of Akasha, he could only see... nothing.
Confusing right? Exactly, but this was his current situation. He could see clearly but he saw nothing.
Hell, he couldn't even see his own arms and legs.
With this being the case he didn't panic at all in fact he just went with the flow. His eyes closed and then he began to slowly feel the existence of nonexistence.