Chapter 118: Gaia's Thoughts
Chapter 118: Gaia’s Thoughts
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Within the depths of Earth, its core was glowing with a dim green and yellow light.
An enormous crystal laid in the depths of the planet, showing clear cracks all around its surface, several areas were slowly fragmentation away, dying.
This was Planet Earth’s Origin Core.
An Origin Core was the core of the Origins of a World.
The Origin Core contained all the information, events, and history of a world, alongside harboring its power, Primordial Essence, and more.
It was the heart of a world, without it, a world would crumble and disappear as if it never existed, to begin with.
The Origin Core created the Laws of the World, and through the Laws of the World, the Origin Core was able to connect with the Fabric of Reality and become a real existence within Reality.
However, whenever an Origin Core began to fragment, the end of that world was soon to come.
Usually, with the fragmentation of a world’s Origin Core came to an era known as Apocalypse.
The world’s energy fluctuations would become wild, infusing itself everywhere without any control, creating chaos, making monsters appear more regularly to the point where those that kept them in check would not be able to hold them all off the public, and dungeons would begin to appear more commonly, as the Domains that were created naturally would merge with the real world, becoming permanent landscapes where monsters and dangers roamed.
Such an era was slowly approaching Earth… However, the being that represented this planet did not desire for such a thing to occur.
Unlike most worlds, Planet Earth was vastly unique.
It had a consciousness.
A collective consciousness that encompassed all nature and the entire planet itself, which was named after many names.
One of them is Gaia, the current most known name.
Gaia could be considered to be the Goddess of the Earth, the personification of an entire planet.
Although she had lived more than any living being on Earth, she was not all-powerful, this is because there were many things outside of her scope…
Beings born in her world capable of defying her, and even, beings from other worlds as well…
Recently, Gaia had discovered something quite important.
She sighed, as she contemplated the world above her.
Only a week has gone by since she lost the Source by a conflict against two other entities that desired her powers.
And through a chance of luck, the Source hit a boy within Japan named Frank.
At first, Gaia had thought that the boy getting hit and even surviving and using the power to what it was intended for was mere chance…
But after she delved deeper into the boy’s history through the Origin Core, she realized that there was not a thing such as chance.
Everything was connected, and everything had a reason behind it.
Even a ‘random’ kid being hit by a thunderbolt at night, was not mere chance.
Even Gaia held not much power over Fate, and sometimes, individuals that defied fate would appear, always surprising her.
This one individual was one of them.
After finally seeing what he had behind on his history, she realized how special he was.
Not out of luck did he got the Source, it was because the Source saw him as the most fitting vessel…
“To think that he possesses the inherited power of an Overseer… To fathom that such a being once inhabited my world is baffling… He even had a child…” said Gaia.
“But why? Even as much as I look for clues… I cannot find what was the reason behind his stay in my world. A being such as an Overseer, who can freely travel through the Fabric of Reality… what did he found in my world that was so different from the many he visited?”
“Perhaps that woman? His former wife? But Overseers are… not really humane to begin with… Perhaps he was different than the rest… and perhaps he was here because of that… An odd Overseer… Maybe he escaped from his kin?” wondered Gaia.
Overseers were beings that transcended space and time, who lived out and inside the Fabric of Reality…
Beings so strong could not possibly go around worlds and then fall in love with a random mortal to have a kid… right?
Certainly, it was incredibly bizarre for Gaia.
And even more when she realized that the boy, Frank, was a half-Overseer…
“Is this why the Source manifested itself as that ability to travel through worlds? I mean, I intended to draw power from elsewhere… But not to make it so literal as to travel to other worlds and all… Especially because it is incredibly hard to do so. Each world always has its own Origin Cores… if someone does not share the Origin with that world, the Origin Core of that world will deem that being as an otherworldly invader, and try to immediately suppress it through the World’s Laws… yet Frank seems completely immune to this… Even more, he seems to completely fit in in any world, it is just like Overseers, he possesses a Primordial Origin,”
“How… fascinating…” said Gaia.
“Only a week has gone through, but I have managed to heal a bit, to the point that the healing is finally being a bit faster than the damage… Perhaps there is hope for me, huh? To think that an Overseer would save me from all beings… I wonder where that man could be now…” said Gaia.
Gaia seemed fascinated by Frank’s past, the child of a normal human from Earth and an Overseer, a being that transcends space and time, entities that exist inside and outside of the Fabric of Reality.
Even for a sentient world such as Gaia, which seemingly has enough power to do things unthinkable by normal mortals, was baffled.
Overseers were beings way above any God, even the Gods that she had seen through Frank’s System in Terra who seemingly had created an entire world through their combined efforts were the same as Overseers.
Beings that transcended space and time would usually not be… so attached with lowly lifeforms from a random world, right?
Or so, thought Gaia… However, she quickly assumed that it was pointless to think about what kind of mentality did this Overseer had that made him so different from the rest.
“The thing is, Frank is just recently discovering his powers, the Source perhaps had helped him awaken and manipulate them faster, though the System that he has is half my own creation and half the creation of his own expectations of what the ideal power would be… Perhaps if his mind was a bit more detached from video games, his power might have manifested differently, but alas, he acquired such a power, and I, as some kind of administrator of his own System, have to work and tweak it around… Well, at least, I get energy from it…”
Gaia used her Divine Sense to manipulate and maintain Frank’s System from time to time, although the boy’s Primordial Origin, a special hidden power within his soul that Gaia discovered, seemed to hold on an endless amount of power, which constantly nourished the boy’s ability.
However, Frank’s power seemed almost as if it were sealed.
“Perhaps his father had left his power sealed through the artifact he used. It is obvious if a half-Overseer were to go loose with his powers… perhaps the entire world would crumble into pieces,” said Gaia, contemplating the possibilities.
“However, he’s still barely strong enough to fend off small threats in this world… Although he possesses great talent and hidden power within, it will not be of any use if he dies prematurely… I hope he can cope out with everything… Hm,” thought Gaia, as an incredibly vast and powerful existence, she possessed an enormous consciousness, divided into many personalities and minds.
However, the one thinking and speaking to herself now was the motherly version of herself, and perhaps the most mature as well.
As Gaia finished tweaking some things within Frank, she began to contemplate what he had done recently…
“Although I do have some power over his Ability (System), I don’t have the authority to do whatever I please or decide what he gets. The Fragment of a God that he acquired… That was not my intention at all… Those were simply his own powers manifesting themselves through the System… But how odd, is the reward system luck-based? I have never seen such a strange and bizarre Ability before… Ah, well, now that I think about it… There is that one world that has been strangely getting close to here… Genesis…” said Gaia.
“Well, Genesis is a completely different world, so I shouldn’t really compare it to Frank’s Ability, which seems completely unrelated…”
“Sigh, to think that he would end up like that… The powers of an Overseer are indeed law-breaking, even if sealed, it seems that by chance, his powers manifested more than the usual, ending upbringing the fragmented soul of a god from a parallel Earth, the being that names itself as Hades… oh, and right afterward, he conquered a Dungeon in Terra! How curious… It was not my intention either for that to even occur… But I guess I end up being benefited from that… I only hope that the Goddess of Chaos of that world doesn’t Frank…”
“I really wish I could exert some of my Divine Sense in Terra, but it seems that my powers are limited to what Frank can see… All of that information ends up gathered into my Origin Core after all, so it is not like I am peeking at him, it is just that this info gets to me automatically…”
“Ah… Those annoying Chaos Spawns are still looking for the Source? Frank has been lucky enough to be protected by that Clan, and through an Oracle, I managed to tell that Great Ancestor to prioritize Frank’s safety… That’s as much as I can do for now… I can only hope for Frank to be cautious enough and for that clan to do their work properly… But even that, you can’t really rely on, isn’t it?”
Gaia began to see through her mind countless possibilities, countless events happening all across her mind, like a stream of endless possibilities.
This was her power to see the strings of fate, special agglomerations, extensions of the Fabric of Reality that were connected with all living beings within a world.
By seeing them, she was able to accurately predict certain future events, although it wasn’t always completely perfect, and such events might diverge in countless possibilities, giving her also countless ends.
“This is dangerous… I cannot possibly let Frank die, but what I can do now in my weakened state is very limited… These futures… there is none where Frank is not on the verge of death… Most of them even show his imminent death…”
“However, he is a being that lives outside of Fate… Perhaps what I see is what the Origin Core can see, but not what truly lies beyond the future. After all, if he is truly a Half-Overseer, he can naturally manipulate the Law of Fate, and decide his own future…”
“For now, I can only observe and gather power…”
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