Will of chaos-Chapter 1780: Cap 1778: Potential Void

Pov Selene:

I was in the underground room of Wendel's house, outside the Ascendant Temple, around me there were hundreds of spheres of compressed blood, each sphere of blood has hundreds of thousands of drops of blood coming from different individuals.

I was meditating, even without using my Divinity, there is no one who understands Blood as well as I do below the Entity Level.

What I am studying is something I have noticed since we entered the city, there were two fundamentally different creatures here, but I did not know where this difference was, how it started and why it was making my senses vibrate.

"I see... it's the eagerness... they don't realize what they have done." (me)

I wave my finger and 10 drops of blood come out of 3 different spheres, when I looked closer I realized that they were all from the same lineage, 10 generations of the same family.

"(Now I understand what was itching my senses.)" (me)

"So you're Selene...?" (???)

"What are you doing?" (???)

"..." (me)

I look at the young Ascendant who approached, he had 3 pairs of wings and a seventh wing closed discreetly, his appearance was the same as when I saw him next to Mavor, I also talked to Orion about him.

"Valius, I didn't expect to see you here." (me)

"Mavor dismissed everyone, he rewarded me generously by helping me reach my seventh wing." (Valius)

"You don't seem happy about your increase in power." (me)

"He helped me refine the spirit of 3 planets to achieve this, of course I'm not happy." (Valius)

"But you still haven't answered my question, what is all this?"

(Valius)

"Research, knowing your enemies is always a good choice, information has always been the greatest weapon for those who know how to use it." (me)

I am no longer as reckless as in my youth, I also have many more responsibilities as a Goddess, I cannot afford the luxury of unforeseen events or assumptions, so the more I know about the enemy, the better I will be able to face him.

"Wendel collected this blood?" (Valius)

"Yes, it seems that collecting blood is part of the Ascendants' routines to my surprise, he even had all of it stored." (me)

"Every Ascendant is a researcher, our Laws are the result of our research, collecting blood does not have much to do with my studies, but there are many types of Ascendants who use blood in their research, whether to a lesser extent or regularly."

(Valius)

"There are even Ascendants who use living people in their research, the 3 leaders do these things too, that's why there's blood collection for sampling." (Valius)

"I see." (me)

"What did you discover?" (Valius)

"Depending on what it is, maybe it would have been better to read the books with the research done in the past." (Valius)

"I doubt any research they've done can go as deep as I did regarding blood." (me)

"What I discovered was a gradual effect on the lineage of their population." (me)

"You see." (me)

I wave my hand and the 10 drops of blood move as they line up in front of Valius, from each drop of blood the image of a person appears, some are adults, others are old, others are women and even children, of course these are just representations of the individuals when the blood was collected, it does not represent their real ages or their seniority in this lineage.

In addition to the images, an Aura emerges from each drop of blood, it was a light Aura and yet complete with the individual's traces of their mind and Soul still present because it had been so well stored.

"Do you feel anything different about them?" (me)

"They are Humans, they all seem to have an affinity with each other, probably due to blood connection and they are from the Ascended people." (Valius)

"Yes, they are one of the oldest lineages in this sample and the one with the most individuals collected, that's why it was so useful." (me)

"Don't you feel anything else?" (me)

"No, their Auras seem healthy, their Vitality matches their ages and I don't notice anything else." (Valius)

Just as I thought, they don't notice or maybe they aren't able to notice, but the 3 leaders are ancient and are founders of the Ascended, even if they can't notice like I can, they must have been able to see the changes over time.

"Tell me, the population of this universe lacks creativity, innovative thinking and a highly rational consciousness almost to the point that emotions are weak in general, isn't that right?" (me)

"Yes, that's one of the reasons for the stagnation, the environment is so highly controlled and the policies so rigid that the culture doesn't develop, there's no reason to invent something if there are no problems to be solved." (Valius)

"Exactly, but it's not just that, is it?" (me)

"We bring in immigrants from the conquered Universes to renew the mental state, but with each generation it seems to have less effect to the point that completely emotionless individuals are already born." (Valius)

"The more highly rational, the harder it is for these individuals to become Ascendants, more than 95% of the Ascendants are like me, people from a conquered Universe, some were forced to become Ascendants by the experiments of the Leaders, normally reserved for more exotic races."

(Valius)

"The vast majority, however, become Ascendants because they were traitors since before the Conquest or out of fear after losing their universes, so they merge with the Ascendants." (Valius)

"Exactly, you must think that the people who spent generations in this universe are failures, just another one of the failures, right?" (me)

"You think that their mental states are the only problem." (me)

"Where are you going with this?" (Valius)

"The truth is deeper, I realized this by studying the timeline of the bloodlines, they are empty shells, the bloodlines exist to pass the potential from one generation to the next." (me)

"A lineage of warriors will be blessed with strong, flexible or resistant bodies with their minds perhaps even possessing a greater capacity for reaction, they will also have instincts to learn to fight much easier than others, growing up in an environment of warriors will only help this latent potential in their bloodlines to awaken more easily."

(me)

"The same can be said of a lineage of Mages, a lineage of Vampires or a lineage of Artisans." (me)

"A lineage carries the potential from generation to generation, even though there are exceptions within the lineage and the awakening of this latent potential can happen to a greater or lesser degree, varying between each individual. The more specific the individuals of these lineages are, sooner or later someone exceptional capable of completely awakening this potential will emerge and perhaps even be able to go beyond this potential." (me)

"Most geniuses and talents in any area come from this." (me)

"People adapt to the environment, people adapt to what they do, all this adaptation is not lost when the individual dies, it is passed on through their lineage." (me)

"This happens because Souls are potential, they are pure potential and just like lineages, they also carry a bit of the potential from one life to the next, a potential that is more difficult to awaken." (me)

"Now tell me, Davoth told me that even the Ascendants' Reincarnation circle is exclusive, isn't it? Artificially made in their universes." (me)

"Yes, it's not entirely independent, from what I've heard it's more of an appendix linked to the standard Reincarnation circle, but most of the Souls remain here." (Valius)

"This happens because many children have presented mental and emotional problems because they were suddenly unable to withstand our universe." (Valius)

"So tell me, what happens if a Soul that has been reborn dozens of times in this universe were to be born in the body of one of the oldest lineages of these people, do you have any idea what the common potential of these people is?" (me)

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"No, but from your words it doesn't seem like a good thing..." (Valius)

He has no idea how bad this is, not for us, but it's still something that doesn't begin to suggest what kind of individual he would be, he could be something incredible or a complete aberration.

"The potential that these people pass down through their lineage is emptiness... an emptiness that continually grows with each generation and rebirth, an emptiness that they must not even know is there." (me)

"They are increasingly hollow inside, so their minds become distorted, uncreative, and their emotions become shallow." (me)

"They are as shallow as the Ascendant Laws, they lack purpose and essence..." (me)

"Now comes the question, what happens when such an individual awakens his latent potential completely? What will this emptiness bring forth as potential?" (me)

"He will try to fill the void... but fill it with what?"

(Valius)

"Exactly, filling the void is a basic instinct, from there arise all emotions, instincts and desires... love for another person who completes us, hatred for someone completes us, anger for something completes us, envy for someone who has what we do not complete us, the hope of getting something we want completes us and even hunger for something is a way of filling the void of our energies that we spend during the day." (me)

"Everyone wants to fill their lives with something, some with love, happiness and friendship while others fall by filling their lives with anger, hatred, greed and so on." (me)

"One thing I am sure of is that if this individual exists and becomes an Ascendant, what will happen when his potential awakens?" (me)

"..." (Valius)

"But how does this help us?" (Valius)

"Will knowing all this help our plans?"

(Valius)

"Indeed it will, Davoth is thinking about changing the Ascendants' Universes as well as the Ascendants themselves, but he is taking for granted that the population is safe." (me)

"Knowing about this void within everyone, we can fill it during the transformation of the universe, a complete rebirth for the entire population will fill this void with something useful." (me)

"How would you do that?" (Valius)

"I still don't know, but now that I know about it, it makes it easier to find the solution." (me)

"(A craving for something that one doesn't know exists and doesn't understand, what kind of thing would that be? What would fill such a great void would be an eternal obsession, an Anomalous creature would surely be born from that...)" (me)