NOVEL NEXT Chapter 97: Black Hole Exploding
Fixing Zagronan would be easy for Rachel; she can modify his code.
However, it's important to note that, technically speaking, living beings don't have a 'code.' The term 'code' refers to instructions or rules artificially set.
These instructions can be established by various mediums, such as universal energy—a refined form of chaos energy—or realization energy, derived from the soul.
Regardless of the medium, codes typically cannot instruct actions disallowed by universal laws, which serve as the constitution of the universe.
Although universal laws are supreme and cannot be opposed, there are ways to suppress them temporarily. Realization energy, for instance, can achieve this, allowing the creation of codes that temporarily permit actions otherwise restricted by universal laws—at a significant cost. Only individuals with high mastery of concepts like formations, order, integrity, continuity, etc., can code at this level.
As a supreme grandmaster of many concepts, Rachel can code nearly as proficiently as rank 14 individuals. Her only limitation lies in her inability to code directly with creation.
She can treat living beings and souls as codes and alter them as she pleases. However, this ability is exclusive to her main body; incarnations lack this capability. To fix Zagronan, Rachel #1 must send him to her main body.
Nevertheless, there are concerns. Altering Zagronan will inevitably affect his soul, which is usually not a problem. Still, because he possesses an infinite complete law, Rachel wants to avoid even the slightest chance that a problem occurs.
Consequently, changing Zagronan's 'codes' is ruled out.
Rachel has access to many pills that can alter behavior, but Zagronan is unlikely to use them willingly. Rachel may need to resort to force eventually, but she decided to test normal methods for now.
Therefore, she called the main body.
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Jack looked at the black hole in front of him.
"Hmm. Too weak," he thought.
He is Savior's child, a transmigrator born with a system that increases his strength when he gets hurt. After this long, he has become as strong as rank 11.
What's most strange is he doesn't have any complete law, yet he is as strong as rank 11.
But it's not strange; after all, he has an original system that is more precious than a universal law.
Lately, he has been looking for things that can hurt him, but there are few. In theory, he should be able to easily get stronger limitlessly, but this is not the case. Today, he is so tough that nothing below rank 12, not even himself, can hurt him.
He tilted his head and walked into the black hole.
This world is a void planet world with a million complete laws. If any rank 11 sees him doing this, they would scream. Walking into a black hole is a dead end. One must move faster than light to get out of black holes.
Space near a black hole is in chaos, so teleportation is not possible.
In most worlds, rank 10s and above can suspend world rules and move faster than light. But not in this world; Rachel's incarnation has coded the laws of this world in a way that they can't be suspended.
This means even rank 10s and 11s will be trapped in a black hole. And being trapped is the best-case scenario; the worst case is being spaghettified.
Jack calmly passed the event horizon.
Time is greatly slowed near the black hole, and past the event horizon, time will be countless times slower than outside. But time won't truly stop; only in the singularity is time truly stop.
Therefore, Jack looked back calmly and saw the world whizzing by. His time is now much slower than outside, so what happens outside is countless times faster in his view.
At this moment, Jack cannot get out of the black hole anymore; the max speed in most worlds is lightspeed, which means nothing can go faster. One must move faster than light to get out of a black hole.
There are some worlds where light has mass, in which light is not the maximum speed. It's more accurate to say the massless speed limit—the speed at which particles with no mass move—is the maximum speed.
Nothing can reduce the speed of massless particles; their speed is constant at one speed, the massless speed. Some scientists consider the massless speed the world's default speed because it differs in different worlds, and knowing the exact speed can help them calculate many problems.
Reaching the massless speed itself is impossible, but there are many ways to reach close to it. When one gets close to the massless speed, time will slow.
Imagine this: someone is moving at 99% of the speed of light in a train. Then, they decide to turn on a flashlight and point it right in front of them in the direction the train is moving. At what speed does the light come out of the flashlight?
From the perspective of the people on the train, the light has a constant massless speed, say 300,000 km/s.
From the perspective of those who are observing from outside the train? The speed is still the same, 300,000 km/s.
But how can it be? People in the train are already moving at 99% of the speed of light, so why does the light still move at the same speed? Because light cannot move at any other speed.
This is a conflict.
The world is stable; no conflict can go unresolved.
As an example, for a moment, think the time in your house is 10 times slower than everywhere else.
Then, move to the window and observe the streets. What do you see? Of course, you see cars moving at unbelievable speeds! It's not that the cars are moving faster; it's that your time is slower, so you experience everything faster.
In the world, most things are explainable by science, but some things are just without explanation.
Why is some world's massless speed 300,000, while others are 400,000 or 1,000,000? The answer is that the setting and coding are different; these things are the foundation of codes and are set artificially by the coder.
There is an inherent conflict about the consistency of the massless speed; the world is coded to slow down the observer's time to resolve this inconsistency.
Therefore, the time of the one who is in the train will be slowed enough to allow the massless speed to remain constant; from their perspective, the light moves exactly at the speed of the massless—nothing less, nothing more. They will not notice anything abnormal, but from an outside perspective, they move slower or even completely stop, depending on your speed.
The closer they are to the speed of Massless, the more time slows, but it never truly stops; it only slows.
Now, with Jack in a black hole, he can't move out; as explained, he can't go faster than light. He continued falling toward the singularity of the black hole.
Singularity is a spot with infinite density; it's an endlessly deep hole in the fabric of the world. It's a bug, to be honest. It's patched up in most worlds, but Rachel coded it anyway.
Jack looked and saw nothing; singularity is infinitely small; it's not possible to be observed. But Jack did manage to see its surroundings and the messy space and time near it. He moved and reached it.
Anything falling into the singularity will endlessly fall with no ending. However, everything must be shredded into smaller particles, even beyond atoms, first. But how can Jack, someone who even rank 12s must put in a bit of effort to kill, be shredded by the force of some complete laws?
Therefore, he hit the singularity and felt a tickling! He sneered! "It can't harm me at all!" he smiled bitterly.
These days, without Rachel's help, he has trouble finding things that can actually harm him. Of course, rank 12s will be able to do it, but knocking on rank 12s is dangerous; in any case, Rachel won't allow it.
He wants first to get strong enough to resist rank 12s completely, then get permission to try rank 12s. As it is now, the rank 12s will find his problem and seal him. He is afraid of being sealed.
The singularity continued trying to crunch him, but it failed.
Jack placed his palm around the singularity and clenched his fist. The singularity was in his palm, but it was still unable to do anything.
What's more, because of his fist, the singularity cannot swallow anything else coming its way.
All kinds of radiations and planets' worth of mass were entering every moment, but Jack didn't care; anything that hit him got crushed.
Things started to gather around the singularity, and soon, a huge ball formed, which was made of energy.
They fall close to the speed of light but cannot enter the singularity.
"Sigh! Let's patch this hole!" Jack thought.
He moved his hand deep into the singularity! The hole is infinitely small, but he is as strong as rank 11 peak; he can do this much.
His hand moved and moved.
Jack couldn't reach anything, no matter how deep he went. But he has means beyond sense.
"Infinite grab!" he cast.
This spell grabs anything in an area.
The spell caught something!
"Oh! I got it," he started playing with it! It was soft, like a ball, very warm and comfortable! Of course, that is comfortable for him! For anyone else, even looking at it would disintegrate them.
He started pulling it out!
But it's impossible to truly pull it out unless …
"Space reinforcement!" he cast another spell.
With this spell, the space around got much stronger.
The singularity gradually disappeared, and his hand and a shiny ball appeared.
"Stabilize," he cast to prevent the inevitable explosion.
"I hope this can at least scratch me!" he thought.
He placed the ball right before his eyes and cast many "magnify" and 'concentrate' formations around himself. The force of the explosion would be mostly on him.
Then, he deactivated his stabilize spell!
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Blue Soil is a planet recently taken by three-legged humans. They are a strong civilization living in this world and a few more civilizations. Of course, all are under Rachel.
The planet was blue and beautiful, with seven moons and two rings. It was only 10 light-years away from a black hole.
They exploited this and developed technology to make energy out of the black hole.
The next moment, with no sound, in complete silence, everything disappeared. No big explosion, no fire, nothing.
Everything was just blown away, disintegrating.
...
Jack felt like an eyelash had fallen into his eye.
"Disappointing!" he thought.
He expected that at least his eyes would redden.
He looked around.
The explosion was big.
The bit that leaked out wiped out everything as far as 100 light-years. A big black hole's explosion must not be underestimated.
But it still was a rank 11 explosion, so Jack remained unharmed.
As he thought of this, everything around him changed.
He saw a familiar demon.
"Where did I see him?" he racked his brain.
"Oh, right, my grandfather, Zagronan!"