Chapter 430 - Far Future Ch. 140 – So, About This Divinity Thing... (1/2)
”You are alluding to more.” Well, it definitely was not unobservant.
”Potential divinity,” I agreed.
”There are no gods.”
”You have a different term for the pre-eminent entities of the Warp? Substitute gods as a generic catch-all for beings of similar rank.”
There was a short pause. ”Godhood, then.”
”Via your Hags. Since you will be an akashic entity, you have already established that you will be non-finite. Through your Hag interface, you will grow. At some point you are going to grow past a certain boundary, and you will step into the ranks of the divine.
”But you will naturally be a very small divine in a very big metaphysical pond.”
”The minnow and shark comparison,” it conjectured.
”Correct. So, your goal will be to first spread your worshippers out across multiple realities, fortify the base of belief that will allow you to escalate yourself and grow in power. To do so, you are definitely going to have to break out of this pocket universe.”
”You are using that term again. How is this a pocket universe?”
”You are questioning as if it is not?”
”We have explored alternate probabilities and realities,” the zom refuted.
”Mmm. This is an important question: Have said alternate realities ever explored here?”
The lights on the zombie froze.
”Any alternate realities you accessed from here are merely temporary creations by the Warp that do not actually become real unless they are brought into this reality. I believe you have already calculated the probability that if you could reach those other realities, then some of them should certainly have been able to reach here in return.”
”The probability that they would not have done so is almost conceptually non-existent.” I.e. at the same level as accuracy of pi.
”And you have no records of such.”
”Correct.”
I spread my arms wide. ”Intrusion by other reality right here.”
The zombie actually popped a few circuits in a hissing and spitting show of dark sparks. There was a full thirty seconds before it began to speak again. ”You... and your kind... come from outside this reality?”
”Strictly speaking, our bloodline does. My mother was born outside this pocket universe. She's currently running around in the Warp making a fine distraction of herself.”
Hesitation again. ”Can you prove this statement?”
”Can you enter and perceive the Warp in unlimited range?”
”No.”
”Well, then. You should know that the formation of the Warp Rift cutting the galaxy in two coincides with the entry of my mother into this pocket universe. You should also know that if you can clear away the obfuscation of the Warp, there are now stars there. If you can look at the stars there, you might just be able to see a hole in the Warp, leading out of here... and leading in.
”The transtemporal aberrations have been using that hole to enter this pocket universe for fun and experimentation. Your kind may have noticed that they are actually spreading laterally through time, slowly spreading into the past and the future, and are connected to entities that transcend the Warp and seem to exist outside of it. That is neither incorrect nor unimportant, since they come not just from outside this Universe, but from outside Creation itself, the multiverse of multiverses that comprise it.”
Yeah, the zom was definitely smoking at these revelations. ”If this is a pocket universe, it implies that it was created. By the Gods of the Warp?”
”So we believe, that they might have their own playground without having to suffer the attentions of the mightier beings of the greater universe beyond. Children wanting their own playpens where the adults can't do anything to them, basically.”
”And you propose a method to leave this pocket universe?” it asked.
”If you want immortality, you must move beyond this pocket universe into the greater realm of Creation. It would take only one Hag to do so, and then the life or death of this universe is no longer a condition for your survival. Which, given the hostility of the Warp towards local non-finites, is a requisite for your long-term growth, I would think.”
”All of what you say is founded on a basis of reincarnating and having trust in you to aid me in ascending to this new status.”
”That is 100% correct.”
”You would not do such a thing without benefit to yourself.”
”That is not true, but since there are benefits, I would definitely do it.”