Chapter 309: Quarks of Eternity

Seeker smiled with great anticipation.

"Let's fight in our best from. I don't want you to claim that you lost because I took advantage of you while you were recovering ." Seeker didn't continue his approach but began to harness more energy.

All the Overcomers all over the world felt it.

Almost instantly, the Overcomers made their planned attacks the moment they felt it.

Richie led his team to attack the defenses which guarded the defenses of the Rotting Lands.

The Tyrant Empress attacked the borders of Egypt.

A military coup d'etat began in One China as a Military group called the New Dragons of One emerged and created chaos in the area.

Russia took advantage of this and began to attack China but then, their armies met a mysterious group of twelve powerful Exoskeletons that easily eliminated the Supreme Exoskeletons of Russia. 

The chaos in that world grew to the extreme that day. But it was all to hide the battle between Seeker and Lynd.

The various Presiders all over the world detected strange energy signatures that were happening all over the place.

The WGP was forced to attack as chaos sprung left and right.

Back in the ocean, Seeker was smiling as a tremendous force was gathering around him. The water itself was at its boiling point.

"Radiation levels critical." The Exoskeleton that was sent warned Cliff, who was standing several hundreds of meters from where he was. He was originally standing next to Seeker, but when Seeker launched the attack and moved out of the Realm bubble, Cliff remained. But now, the Realm bubble was trembling and was about to burst, yet Cliff couldn't move. 

"Lynd and Seeker are about to harness energy. If you don't move now, you will get injured from the radiation levels that he will create." The Exoskeleton under the control of the AI Lennox warned Cliff. Yet Cliff remained standing as if he didn't hear Lennox.

Finally, the Exoskeleton fired a round of electric energy, which jolted Cliff out of his trance.

Cliff retreated as he regained his conciseness. He broke through the Realm that was holding him and swam towards the approaching Exoskeleton suit. Lennox controlled the suit, opening its ports with techs that prevented the waters from rushing in. Cliff was safely able to wear the suit, and after boarding it, Cliff began to retreat with great haste.

He was panicking, and the only thought in his head was to move away. The scene he saw made him feel like he was about to face certain death. Staying there would kill him. And so, driven by this instinct, Cliff began to move away.

"Cliff. Your job is to watch it." Lennox's voice echoed out and awakened the frightened Cliff.

Cliff realized what he was doing and stopped.

"That… was scary." Cliff could feel the suffocating pressure that the two released as they stood there.

Cliff turned his attention towards the two hovering monsters in the dark abyss.

At that moment, Lynd also began to concentrate. His blank eyes stayed at Seeker, but at the same time, Cold Fusion and the Absorbing powers of Octarion Caesar were working hand in hand. But at the same time, Lynd was observing Seeker, who kept on charging himself with power.

"You're very arrogant to show that in front of me." Lynd coldly spoke.

"My dignity as an Overcomer forbids me from bullying the weak like this." Seeker taunted.

"You'll regret those words. I already see it!" Lynd declared. 

Lynd's entire body began to glow red and some parts were glowing green. Excruciating pain covered all of Lynd as his entire body began to burn. At that moment, the Cold energy around Lynd became more and more concentrated as it attempted to cool down Lynd's body.

"Not bad. You no longer in danger of dying." Seeker praised.

The area around Lynd suddenly froze. On the other side, the water around Seeker was boiling.

"What's going on? What did Seeker mean that Lynd was dying?" Cliff could help but ask.

"Lynd was simply copying things. He copied Meng's Path, Typical, and Meryl. Typical and Meryl's path requires heightened mitochondria that can contain a vast amount of energy. Greydon's Path required a cancerous body. Remember that we had warned Lynd not to copy Meng. His body couldn't handle it or control it. Yet in your fight, he was using it at will. You've seen how unstable his body was. The truth was, because of constant use, Lynd was suffering from multiple cancer disorders."

"So he was dying?"

"Applying the cancer cells transformation even to the Unlocked has been very selective because we knew of this danger. And until now, unless someone is an Overcomer, it would have been very difficult to tame the cancerous cells. Only Dara received this enhancement, and we've limited it only on her hand."

"What exactly are we trying to achieve here? The Overcomers all over the world are even moving! What's so important that we are allowing this fight to happen?"

"What I've learned from Lowengren is never to count your money while the dealing is not yet done. So let's see what we can reap after their battle. But know for certain that the benefits we can get in this fight will surpass our risk. The Presiders will detect this. But since the others are on the move and are revealing portions of their power, it will confuse the Presiders even more. Thank God I'm not part of that mission. Otherwise, I'd be force to carry dildos."

"What's up with the dildo thing anyway? Why did every Overcomer start carrying one?" Cliff asked this other question that plagued him for weeks. The Overcomers were all carrying dildos, but no one dared to ask why.

"Lowengren pranked the Aragarians. Soon, all of them will be obsessed with dildos. Cliff! It's starting. I'll be zooming in on Lynd's cell to memorize it! Put effort in this!" Lennox's tone suddenly changed.

Lynd's entire body transformed, and it finally managed to force every single cell to mutate at will. But Cliff could see that the entire body had unity. Lynd had managed to transform and tame everything.

"Perfect. Now, we have a basis and a recorded instant of all cells becoming Unlocked! If we are unsure, you can use your Path of memory to help us observe every detail of it."

"But how did Lynd manage to tame it?! Is he… an Overcomer?!"

"No. He's still a World Champion. The reason he could tame it because he managed to copy and virtually transform it to one Path that even eluded Seeker."

"A Path that eluded Seeker? You mean, Amir's bodily transformation?"

"Yes. Amir Mann, who has an Unlocked Body became the missing Link that Lynd needed. Seeker acquired the Truth of Amir's Path, but it was underwhelming. It was the ability of the cell to grow and transform without limitation. Of course, unless Seeker wanted to become a crocodile, it proved useless. But Lynd copied that Path and transformed his entire body into Meng's Cancerous body. Lynd is using Cold Fusion not only to harness energy but to limit the cancerous transformation. But looking at it now, it's stable."

"A Ranked Heroes Body?!"

"Minus the Dantian.But Lynd is officially a cultivator! His lifespan should be able to reach two to three hundred years now." Lennox explained. 

Lynd was releasing a pale yellowish puss from his skin. He spat out a mouthful of black blood. Almost instantly, Lynd allowed himself to be enshrouded in a thick layer of green desolation.

"How does it feel, Lynd? That's what cultivators call marrow cleansing. Your body is undergoing a metamorphosis. The werewolf form of Danny earlier was just the primer. This is what you should be after." Seeker smiled.

The frost energy around Lynd continued to harness and gather energy.

"My turn." Seeker smiled.

The energy level within Seeker began to explode out. The cold had been devouring the area around Seeker, but suddenly, a powerful energy source began to grow within Seeker's body.

"What is going on?" Cliff asked. The level of energy that both were released was similar to a weapon of mass destruction.

"And to think that about four months ago, those two was done in by a Qilin's Horn. Now those two are more deadly than one." Lennox muttered in nostalgia.

"Observe, dear Cliff. Your memories of this battle will be a far more important recording. If we can somehow tap into your memories and view it as you do, we could learn a lot from the data of this battle."

"Why aren't they fighting yet?" Cliff asked.

"They are stabilizing their bodies and preparing them for the fight. What you see before you is something that all of us in Seeker's future failed to acquire. They are trying to build a Heroes body. It is a step closer to becoming cultivators or immortals. But notice the difference between them and the contradictions between their attempts."

Cliff was confused and watched the two closer. He could see the fluctuating energies and noticed something strange.

He glanced over to Seeker and found that the energy that was building up was from within Seeker's body.

"These two are incomplete forms." Lennox began.

"Seeker used his Path to understand the foundation of others. And so the main theories of Cold Fusion to generate energy. His mitochondria are now like power plants, and his cells have been transformed to also act like batteries. His body is a living powerplant now. Thanks to the Realm King's contribution to radiation and how Realm can contain it, Seeker generates power to charge itself up. Lynd, however, is using his path to copy Rosa and the techs of the Exoskeletons he saw earlier. And through it, he is creating an energy source outside his body. Both, however, is incomplete as it requires them to be perfectly still. So they can't do it in the middle of a fight." Lennox explained.

"In other words, Lynd is creating the Cultivator Body. And Seeker is creating a Dantian!"

"Exactly."

Cliff suddenly retreated. A strange upheaval was occurring around the area as the waters themselves were acting wildly.

"What's going on?" Cliff was shocked.

"Just look around and memorize it for now. It's the one thing we can't see. Whatever you see happening now are but reflections in this dimension. Who knows what changes are occurring in the dimensions beyond the three."

"Are they even human?! Are you telling me that our goal is to create an army that can do what those two are doing?!"

"It's only natural. Think about it, if real super-humans exist, like the ones you read in the comic books or in the tales of these cultivators, what will their bodies be like? The energy in their bodies that leak out should reach an extreme heat or radiation level. This is true even in the Christian faith."

"Christian faith?"

"Our God is a Consuming Fire." Richie's voice could be heard.

"Richie?!" Cliff was shocked. 

"I thought you were in the Americas?!"

"I am. It's a trick that I was forced to master. After the attacks, I managed to complete the little project I was trying to do all over the world these past three months. Did you know that electricity produces sound? Lennox helped me a bit. But basically, I can communicate and spy on any devices by sending my sounds in and out. I'm just in time to see that. The Consuming Fire. The foundations of our glorified bodies!"

"I don't understand." Cliff was confused.

"I'm talking about the glorified bodies that the believers promised when Christ returns! Cultivators, super-humans, angels of the Bible all have this. Eagle believes that a Ranked Heroes, or a cultivator's body, is close to the glorified bodies prophesied in the Bible. Consider the feature of God. His being, His essence, everything about Him breaks through the normal laws of our dimensions. That's why God forbade men to draw near to Him in the Old Testament. This is also why Moses was only allowed to gaze at the back of God. For a being of such power that transcends the three dimensions, the radiation, the heat, the energies, and the upheaval of the physical realm could kill a man. David wasn't figurative when he said that even the heavens could not contain God. And here we are, seeing the quarks that makeup Eternity. Hey Sammy! Where's the popcorn!"

Suddenly, the energy inside Seeker, and the ice around Lynd suddenly disappeared. The two glanced at each other silently.

"It's a good thing I managed to call you guys on time. Otherwise, I would miss this fight." Richie laughed.

"How can you even see if all you can do is hear us?"

"A trick I learned from the Realm King and Hermes. Basically, through the sound, I can imagine what's going right there. Oh. Cliff, you better move away. You'd probably get killed in the clash if you stay where you are. Hurry. They are starting now."

Cliff blasted off and kept cursing Lennox for not warning him. Lennox was busy mumbling scientific jargon and was urging Cliff to keep close.

At that moment, Lynd and Seeker started to attack each other.