.And suddenly, in a split second, Max loses consciousness.
.And inside Max's consciousness, as a result of losing consciousness, he sees himself standing in one of his infinite worlds made of a single lotus leaf.
.He sees before him ground covered in snow upon which the shadows of the approaching night have been reflected, coloring it with the overwhelming deep blue that dominates the atmosphere, adding to the painting a character of stillness and poetic mystery. A wide, deserted snowy road extends deep into the frame, on whose surface the fine terrain of accumulated ice is clearly visible.
.On the left side, bare and dark bushes line up like silent shadows guarding the edge of the road, followed by power poles rising in a harmonious geometric sequence that gradually fades toward the distant meeting point on the horizon under a partially cloudy sky.
.And in contrast, on the right side, a passing train breaks this stillness, racing along the track and leaving behind a visual trace of motion, while its rectangular, illuminated windows appear like a connected band of bright light in the darkness of night.
.Max stands looking at a very realistic beautiful girl, almost like the realism of the real world. That girl, with black hair, walks beside her lover, who has brown hair and brown eyes.
.The girl smiles at him while he continues and tells her about his problems and the difficulty of earning money, which may affect their relationship and delay marriage.
.The girl does not care about those things, and then in a soft, beautiful, poetic voice she speaks and says:
"We are not in love and no stories bring me together"
.The boy is shocked and astonished and feels a break in his heart while Max watches in silence and no one can see him.
.The girl continues and says:
"But there is something in your eyes....do not be afraid, shadows know me well. Let us leave the world behind us and take me with you through the night, and let us fall into the dark side"
.The boy is shocked, and his eye tears up, and he embraces her strongly, then Max whispers and says:
"Stories and tales and history, all of that in my imagination is indeed real, but before me not the truth. Between possibilities, truth is always relative, but I swear to protect those worlds and leave them as they are without destruction, for in the end I was once part of illusions before"
"[The worlds have become more beautiful and realistic as a result of the first lotus leaf becoming more stable. I know that I am unconscious now and at the same time the beauty of those worlds and that situation make me do one thing, since I have full knowledge of everything in those worlds and can use every power in this possibility and possible world]"
.Max extends his hand toward the boy's phone and, very simply, suddenly an amount of money exceeding 100 billion dollars reaches his account, and a message comes from someone saying:
"The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and make for yourself a purpose in this world, and do not forget that the most important love is platonic love"
.The boy is so shocked that, from joy, he suffers a heart attack.
.The girl is struck and falls to her knees and tries to wake him while he is already dead, so Max laughs and very simply brings him back to life, and the girl hugs him strongly while he is at the height of joy.
.Max suddenly disappears and wakes up to see himself in the castle that was behind the waterfall, while he cannot move and before him is that girl, Xia.
.Max speaks and says:
"Huh? Your hair was purple, what happened to you, why did it turn pink again"
.The girl smiles coldly and says:
"You have finally awakened, Cho"
.Max is extremely surprised and with sharp, angry features says:
"How do you know that name?"
.Xia laughs softly while she prepares some tea, then says:
"I already know a lot about you and I know most of your journey that you went through and your killing of your friend Mr. Moon in order to ascend to the real world"
.Max replies seriously and says:
"He was not my friend, he was merely a pawn in my path that likes killing him for ascending. From where do you have all this information?"
.Xia smiles while the water pours so that she can prepare the tea, then says:
"909 your foolish, clumsy, cowardly friend from the material world was himself Mr. Moon, or better said his shadow or his opposite, whoever Mr. Moon was, and since he had knowledge of the existence of Cho, he had to be killed first in order for you to reach the real world inevitably"
.Max is struck and speaks saying:
"Lie, what are you trying to convey to me with that talk?"
.Xia puts the tea down and drinks slowly, sitting on a chair while Max is sitting on his knees unable to move.
.Then Xia speaks and says:
"When the Empty One or its manifestation, after it completely controlled your father and your father disappeared, the Empty One's word was that which erased the memories and existence of the entity completely and finally, even from the deleted record or garbage. Did you ever think why, in the first place, that authority existed in the manifestation of the Empty One or your father?"
.Max replies and says:
"So that they erase whoever stands in his way?"
.Xia replies and says:
"Wrong, but rather so that he could go to the real world. The existence of the five pieces is not enough at all for you to be able to go to the real world. Your old history and existence must be completely erased, and Mr. Moon knew a lot about you and knew about your old existence, and even if you had obtained the pieces and did not kill him, you would not have reached here at all"
.Max feels that his thoughts are a little chaotic and then says:
"And what do you want from that, what is your goal?"
.Xia speaks and says:
"You are being watched, Max. There is an entity that is plotting and steering your future and destiny in secret as it wants. It was no coincidence that your foolish cybernetic friend 909, whose opposite was Mr. Moon, was not a coincidence. Your discovery of a way out of that place other than the five pieces was not a coincidence. There is something hidden controlling you like a puppet since your existence, since you were in the material world, and that is all I know about you. I wonder what way I can ascend despite the breaking of one of the five parts"
.Max is extremely surprised and says to himself:
"[So I had to erase my existence in order to ascend. If I had not killed Mr. Moon, I would never have ascended, because in some way he remembers the existence of Cho and in some way he also transcended the infinite sequence and emerged into the primordial superuniverse. This explains a lot and it seems then that when he told me that he had always been here and thought himself the necessary being, that seems to be the result of the madness and absolute loneliness he was in]"
.Max becomes angry and then says:
"And what am I supposed to do now?"
.The girl speaks and then says:
"You must join the Star Organization of the Star City affiliated with the true creator, the being I am who I am, and you must choose one of the paths belonging to the Path of Origin."
.Max is surprised and thinks angrily and says:
"[Everything was clear when I was in the superuniverse. I am who I am is just another deceiver, it seems]"
.Max speaks and says:
"And what are those Path of Origin routes?"
.Xia speaks and says:
"You will know when we get there"
.Suddenly they move to the old library that belonged to the old man, so the old man is surprised and wakes up again while Xia moves toward the shelves and says:
"Here is the organization's secret door, it is exhausting me"
.Max is surprised again and looks toward the old man then says:
"You deceiver, and you also took my money, hand over the money"
.The old man laughs softly and confirms the ease of deceiving him.
.Xia looks sideways at Max and continues saying:
"By the way, I am the one who placed the book so that you would understand the situation. We need your help, you are special, and in return we will try to protect you from that mysterious entity"
.Xia lowers the upper book on the first shelf a little so that a strange door appears inside it with an elevator, then Xia asks Max to follow her.
.The elevator descends extremely quickly, and at that moment it suddenly stops and opens, so Max sees before him a world extending to infinity.
.Xia speaks and says:
"This is the underworld. You thought this world was extremely ordinary, devoid of magic, and in truth we were always moving in secrecy among people. No one realizes what we do and no one realizes what is happening here"
.Max speaks while they head toward somewhere in that underworld close to extremely cyberpunk worlds and then says:
"So where are we going?"
.Xia speaks and says:
"Toward the middle region so that you can officially join the Star Organization, and this infinite underworld, everyone in it is within the Star Organization and works for it, and everyone here is considered awakened"
.Max thinks a little, and Xia stops his thinking as they reach the middle region or the middle earth so that Max can determine which path within the Path of Origin he will choose.
.Xia and Max pass through countless numbers of awakened people, then suddenly stand before a door called Alchemy.
.Xia speaks and says:
"There are 3 paths within the Path of Origin, namely the Essence Path, the Cosmic Consciousness Path, and the Overflow Path. Each path has a nature that determines its field and a major advantage that gives it its identity and effectiveness, and a weakness that prevents breaking the structure of the world, and a direct counter from another path that limits its dominance. There are also 7 sequences from sequence 7 to sequence 1, and each path has its own special way of ascending through it, so be careful and choose carefully. Each path will determine your future and which region in the Star Clan you will join.
.Max is a little surprised and then says:
"What do you mean by that fate determination?"
.Xia replies and says:
"The Star Organization consists of 3 regions connected to the middle region, namely the Blue Star Region, the Thinker Region, and the Formation Region. Each region has its followers according to the path you will choose from the three paths of the Path of Origin"
.Max speaks and says:
"Okay then, but what is your goal in the first place?"
.Xia remains silent for several moments then says:
"Enter now and you will know later"
.Xia pushes Max inside the door so he finds himself in a room full of countless potions, while a person coughs and a strange potion explodes in his face, releasing a green cloud.
.The person is surprised and adjusts his glasses, then speaks in a very strange and funny voice and says:
"Welcome, please come in and sit here, you seem to be the new one that Miss Xia brought"
.The person is surprised by his voice and Max, so the person speaks and says:
"This is my fault. I was testing new magical potions, and one failed and was responsible for temporarily manipulating existence, and it seems it affected my existential voice haha"
.Max smiles looking at him strangely, then sighs and says:
"I came to choose my own path"
.The person replies and says:
"I know, I know, just let me arrange some things here and I will come to you. By the way, call me any name you want, but I prefer people to call me Faro"
.Max coughs a little then says:
"Okay, Mr. Faro, what are the features of those three paths? I know some information, Xia told me a little about them"
.Faro takes a paper out of his pocket and puts it in front of Max and asks him to read it carefully while he arranges some potions and strange effects.
.Max takes the paper and reads in amazement in an inner voice and says to himself:
"[I who am love creatures, and since he is all-knowing and omnipotent and has all possible perfections, he created the entity with his power. 3 paths under the name Path of Origin, where the Essence Path focused on the essence of things and their fixed properties. This path does not create power from nothing, but rather from establishing the inner truth of the thing. The more rooted something is in its concepts, the easier it is to deal with it, while the Cosmic Consciousness Path focuses on the mind, thoughts, and linking the entity's essence. This path does not dominate through raw power, but through mental synchronization, speed of understanding, and control over mental structures, while the Overflow Path was the best among them for the supreme ruler, as it focused on energy, formation, and emergence from nothingness. This path is the path of gathering and birth; It does not merely move energy, but creates new structures and feeds them]"
.Max whispers and says:
"You fool, it turns out that you have many followers besides me, as I expected. Everything from the beginning was just a joke, and you are not the absolute one as I thought"
"[I see that the Overflow Path will be the worst step I can take. I do not want to be bound to any path of these at all. In that way I will be watched by him. I do not know whether I am being watched by him now or not, but my choosing that path will make me like a thread in his hand that he cuts when he wants]"
.Max thinks for a little and says:
"[I found a solution that may awaken my energy without needing to join and become among those failed paths. I know exactly what I am going to do haha. I only hope that thing succeeds]"
.Faro comes after finishing arranging the potions then says:
"Okay, which path did you choose, tell me? I strongly recommend the Overflow Path to you, in my opinion it is the strongest path, while I see that the Cosmic Consciousness Path is an extremely weak path with power and influence far less than the Essence Path and the Overflow Path"
.Max sighs then says:
"I decide to choose the Cosmic Consciousness Path"