Lord of the Truth

Chapter 2056 Master abilities -2 ”... Of course not. How would you ever obtain one? Hehe~” ”...”

Richard furrowed his brows hard, his expression tightening. ”Are you mocking me right now? Then what was the point of all this talk in the first place?” ”Iʼm only trying to open your horizons to something,”

Robin sighed deeply, his voice calmer and heavier. ”Even though the universe is ancient, with a history stretching back nearly 98 million years, there are still countless unknowns. Things we are only just beginning to discover, as if they were miraculous revelations. That alone shows you how shallow our civilization truly is, and how completely our ancestors failed to leave us anything meaningful that we could truly build upon or benefit from.”

He paused briefly, then continued, ”And it also shows you something more important: trying to explain everything according to the limits of what we already know is not always the right choice... We know nothing. Truly nothing. We are ignorant. And I intend to try to fill this gap in my era, even if it costs me everything.”

Then he turned back toward the sea with a dreamy, distant smile. ”I wonder if Iʼll be able to turn the Golden Cloak, the Analyzing Eye, and the Dismantling Strikes into Fundamental Laws after I break through a World Cataclysm, hehe.” ”....”

Richard simply stared at his father in silence.

Everything he said felt too vast, too grand, too far beyond him.

Once again, Richard began to realize that his own ambition, to become the strongest, was nothing compared to his fatherʼs ambition...

But that wasnʼt what he needed right now. ”So then, how do you explain my anti-life ability?”

His voice became more focused. ”What did you actually see when I activated it in front of you?”

Richard understood the deeper meaning behind his fatherʼs long words.

He was telling him, in his own way, that he had a grand explanation. And that Richard shouldnʼt mock it for sounding unrealistic, because it might actually be true. ””

Robin waited for a few moments, gathering his thoughts. ”What I found,” he finally said, ”was the Fundamental Law of Fission.” ”..?”

Richard furrowed his brows deeply. This was the first time he had ever heard of such a law. ”Itʼs a law with a simple principle. Extremely simple”

Robin began to explain slowly. ”Everything in the universe is capable of being split. There is nothing strong enough to preserve itself forever. Solid, liquid, gas, it doesnʼt matter. Form doesnʼt matter. State doesnʼt matter. Everything can be divided. Everything can be fractured. Everything can be separated.”

He continued, ”Simple, right? Yet it is one of the rarest Fundamental Laws in existence, and one of the most talent-demanding, just like Destruction itself. Only a single Behemoth and his family use it. No other family in all of history has ever even reached the third level of it.” ”Fission?”

Richard said in disbelief. ”What does that have to do with an anti-life ability?!” ”What you did to that rock wasnʼt just life energy absorption like you think,” Robin pointed toward him twice, his gaze sharp. ”I was confused as well when I first saw what happened. Truly confused. But when you explained your original idea to me, your basic concept, everything became much clearer.” ”...What happens in the Anti-Life technique,”

Robin continued, his voice turning precise and analytical, ”is that the Fundamental Law of Fission splits the bonds between anything it touches. Not the matter itself at first, but the connections that hold it together. And during that act of fission, an enormous amount of energy is released. A truly massive amount. So vast that you cannot complete the process perfectly, and you cannot absorb all the energy produced by it, no matter how refined your control is.”

He paused, then added, ”...After that comes the role of another law. An unnamed law. A hidden law. A law that makes that massive released energy appear in your eye as if it were life energy itself. So you greedily and intensely absorbs that energy, with extreme density and hunger, even though you have no rightful claim to it, as itʼs not life!!” ”I did that?”

Richard pointed at himself, disbelief filling his voice. ”Iʼm using the Law of Fission, and another law that even you donʼt know the name of, a law that changes the very nature of energy itself?”

Then he pointed at himself again, more forcefully, almost accusing reality. ”Me?!” ”Amazing, right?”

Robin laughed openly. ”It has nothing to do with martial arts at all. Even your energy gathering center and your meridians donʼt seem to interact with any strange or foreign laws, and thatʼs exactly what shocked me the first time. Thatʼs what made me question you about the origin of that technique in the first place.”

Then he pointed at him twice. ”You said you believed everything was made of destruction, death, shaping, and life, and that you thought about separating life from them and absorbing it.

Isnʼt that right?”

Then he laughed again. ”Your theory is naive. The Law of Creation is not composed of those four laws. Itʼs just that if you understand them deeply and connect them together correctly, you might have a chance to understand the Law of Creation as well, thatʼs one of the paths to do so. But they are not its components.” ”... Second, even if you were right, even if the Law of Creation were actually composed of those four laws, what does that have to do with matter?”

Robin continued. ”Matter is made of primordial chaos, if you want to dismantle something you should do so to the primordial chaos not creation. Are you trying to dismantle construction tools, or raw materials?”

Then he laughed again. ”Your naive idea was flawed from its very foundation, stupide idea.” ”...

Richard looked down in embarrassment, his face tense with shame and confusion. ”But it worked,”

Robin continued seriously, his tone shifting. ”And it worked by relying on two completely different laws to form an ability made of four laws: three Fundamental Laws, and one unknown law related to the forms and nature of energy itself.”

He paused briefly, then added, ”And honestly, I wouldnʼt be surprised if that unknown law is actually a technique-split from MasterIdentity itself...”

Then he stared directly into his sonʼs face. ”How?”

Richard kept staring downward. ”Youʼre asking the wrong person.” ”... Right,”

Robin slowly looked forward again, his voice lower. ”I canʼt believe Iʼm saying this, but maybe if you went to anyone else in the universe, they wouldnʼt have an explanation either, but I can... because I have a somewhat similar experience.”

Then he fell silent for a few moments. ”You can call it a supernatural experience, I guess?” ”....?!”

Richard turned sharply toward his father, eyes wide. ”Something like that happened to you before?” ”Yes,”

Robin nodded slowly. ”That was when I was in that cave on Jura, when I swore I would discover the

Law of Truth or die without doing so, refusing to use any other law to prolong my life or extend my existence by artificial means...” Then he continued after a slight silence, his voice deeper. ”In the end, I tasted death. My heart stopped. I felt my consciousness collapse, fragment by fragment. In those moments, I discovered the key to the path of the Fundamental Law of Death. Then the Seer appeared, and so on... that story youʼve probably heard before.” *****

Richard remained silent. No matter how many times he heard that story, he never grew tired of it.

It was a famous legend throughout the True Beginning Empire, a myth about the founderʼs iron will and unbreakable resolve.

Of course, excluding small details like the appearance of the entity known as the All-Seeing god. ”Why are you telling me this now?”

Richard finally asked. ”Because later, the All-Seeing told me that on that day I collided with my destiny. A destiny that was supposed to end with my death on the planet Jura.”

Robin continued calmly. ”When the thread of my fate was cut by certain death, I reconnected it. I forged a new thread of fate for myself. A new path thatʼs tied to my original fate.”

He paused, then added, ”Later, I learned that this granted me a special ability derived from the Master

Law of Causality called Omen of Truth. An ability that warns me of disasters before they happen, if events continue on their current course.” ”An ability from a Master Law...”

Richardʼs eyes slowly widened, his breath shallow. ”Yes,”

Robin nodded, then pointed at his son. ”I think you have one too.”

Then he added seriously, his voice heavy with meaning, ”...and from the eighth Master Law at that: Will.”