Magical Soul Parade

Chapter 387: Truly Limitless?

Her expression was completely hollow. Despite the fact that she had chosen to place her absolute trust in Finn’s plan, she couldn’t stop the instinctual, painful longing that tore through her as she watched Sage Limitless inherit a part of herself that she’d known longer than she could remember.

Across the expanse, the Sage suddenly brimmed with a terrifying, unprecedented volume of energy. His physical form underwent a rapid transformation, turning into a localized sun that burned with a light so blinding it became physically impossible to look at directly.

Althea shielded her eyes against the glare. Finn, standing firm behind his white bone mask, squinted through the slits as the intensity of the light steadily climbed.

The authority of Order was actively cementing itself within the old monster’s soul, weaving through his concept and rewriting his baseline existence. The process was massive and continuous. Finn could feel the metaphysical ripple expanding outward from the Sage’s body, tearing through the immediate peaks before surging across the far horizons of the continent. It cut through the higher atmosphere, touching every single molecule of mana anchored to the world.

The laws of reality were being systemically rewritten from scratch. Sage Limitless was acquiring the exact puzzle piece he had spent ages searching for. He was becoming ordered. He was becoming balanced. He was becoming whole. The self-conscious paradox of his existence was being resolved, transforming the world itself into something genuinely immortal.

It was a cascading chain effect, a wave of conceptual stabilization expanding across the entire plane of existence. Every single pocket where mana resided was being forcibly aligned to a singular, flawless standard.

The Sage’s consciousness, his massive ego, and his dominating will, which had been dangerously intertwined with the fabric of mana, were being balanced. The logical incongruence of a sentient, self-generating energy form was being accepted by the Great Dao as a permanent, viable aspect of reality, precisely as the old monster had predicted.

Finn watched the ascension unfold, a rare trace of genuine surprise flickering behind his eyes. It seemed he had anticipated some level of cosmic pushback or structural resistance from the universe. But now, seeing how effortlessly an entity that defied all baseline logic was allowed to integrate into the foundational laws of the Great Dao caused him to frown very slightly beneath his mask.

In that silent microsecond, his mind began to ponder the very nature of what was real and what wasn’t under the grand laws of existence. If a concept this fundamentally illogical could be made standard and legal by the Great Dao simply through the application of a balancing authority, what then was truly impossible?

The things that were perceived as normal, standard, and natural across the myriad dimensions right now… had they also originated as chaotic, impossibilities in the ancient past? Had similar metaphysical transitions occurred not just in this alien plane, but even back within his own original timeline on Earth?

After all, the Great Dao cut across all realms, all dimensions, and all timelines without bias. If it was possible here, it was possible anywhere.

Taking that terrifying line of logic even further, was existence itself… the very concept of sentience, consciousness, and life, nothing more than a massive, initial impossibility? Was reality an anomaly that should never have existed in the first place, but was somehow spurned into permanent being under the Great Dao simply because a specific, logical condition had been met?

Finn entered into a profound state of epiphany, an intense, reality-spanning clarity that felt like the absolute wrongest moment to lose oneself in philosophical thought. Sage Limitless was ascending to his peak at an accelerating rate, his newly gained authority working tirelessly to neutralize the entropic decay of the entire plane.

The world around them was physically changing, feeling heavier, more corporeal, and fundamentally solid. The immense spiritual energy the plane had been wasting just to combat its own internal decay was flooding back into the system, stabilizing the foundational structure of the realm.

It was restoring the exact environmental baseline required for higher-tier energies like pure faith and divine power to naturally grow, breed, and be contained stably within the world without a violent pushback.

But while this stabilization process would naturally take a long time to fully mature as the Sage climbed toward the absolute peak of his craved immortality, Finn’s mind was rapidly solidifying its own gains from the epiphany.

He knew he couldn’t allow this deep state of understanding to drag out a second longer…

It was time.

His glowing green eyes snapped open behind his mask, putting his cosmological pondering aside for the meantime. He refused to let himself be fully immersed in the euphoric clarity of the understanding he was gaining. He had a strict, unyielding duty to execute. He had given Althea his word, after all…

And even if he hadn’t, this was, in a way, the exact retribution he had marched across the world and time itself to achieve.

He locked his gaze onto Limitless first, then turned his focus inward to sense his divine power. Thanks to the Sage’s rapid stabilization of the world’s ambient environment, the friction against foreign divinity was vanishing. Finn’s makeshift divine reserves were becoming incredibly solid, building higher and mounting with an ever-steady, terrifying momentum.

Any moment now, Finn thought to himself, removing his attention from his internal systems and locking his sights entirely onto the white-haired entity.

Sage Limitless had become a literal beacon of cosmic light, a pure, unadulterated form of absolute energy. His physical body had completely lost all human features, transformed entirely into a blinding supernova. A deep, roaring well of stable, infinite mana. His very existence was the literal congregation of the world itself.

In this exact moment, Limitless was truly, undeniably limitless. He had achieved exactly what he had wanted, and even more than his expectations…

Or so he thought.

All of a sudden, while the Sage was completely immersed in the profound ecstasy of his climbing stability and the unending rush of absolute power, Finn opened his mouth to speak, just as the heavy, crushing gaze of the Great Dao descended fully upon the Sage’s ascending figure:

“Limitless. Do you forget our terms?”