Fury passed through several galaxies in a row; they appeared and vanished faster than he could blink, and he could blink very fast.
The universe truly began to unveil itself. Other galaxies swam into his view, from a distance; some resembled elliptical clouds, irregular splatters, majestic spirals like our own, each containing hundreds of billions of suns, each with its own trillion potential stories. They formed clusters, gossamer webs of gravity and dark matter, a cosmic architecture of unimaginable scale and grandeur.
He was approaching the limit now, and this limit was not a physical boundary, for the universe, by definition, for lower-dimensional beings, had none. Fury was choosing to travel this way because he wanted to experience the growth of a mortal, but that growth had reached its limit, when the universe kept stretching for an eternity in front of him.
Looking back for the last time, with a thought that was both a farewell and a blessing, he stepped sideways, and the universe seemed to shrink, condensing from infinity to a small glowing cube, smaller than a grain of rice.
Fury glanced around him, and even though he was not looking deep into existence, he already saw trillions of universes, and they appeared like tiny fireflies. He knew that if he wanted, he could wave his hand and erase trillions of these universes, and all of the wonders and mysteries they contained would be gone in the blink of an eye.
This was a higher-dimensional realm at the fourth-dimensional level. It was this dimensional realm that held all these trillions of universes, and if he wanted, he could spend countless trillions of years roaming through this dimensional realm alone.
Fury began to move through the dimensional realm, and he saw countless universes, all with their own rules and specialities, and then he began to see higher-dimensional immortals at the fifth or sixth dimensional level serving as custodians.
To lesser immortals, they were beings of immense power tending to cosmic balances, shepherding universal clusters, their forms vast and luminous. These custodians felt his passage and bent like reeds in profound, bewildered reverence.
A Primordial was passing by, and although they all wished to reach the highest level of Existence one day, that dream was still far. He felt the countless universes he was passing through, in their limited way, reach out for him, knowing that a Primordial dwelling in them would be a great source of growth and blessing for their inhabitants, but Fury did not stop.
This Dimensional Realm, for all its impossible vastness, was just a fourth-dimensional space, and he continued to move until he reached its "edge." n
This edge was a metaphysical boundary in space/time, and Fury could see it as a trillion shimmering orbs that structured themselves in a hyper-geometric, multi-dimensional lattice.
Each orb found its place in a structure of impossible beauty, like atoms in a crystal, but a crystal existing in multiple dimensions. This lattice was the Realmโs true form. And as he focused beyond it, he saw that this lattice, this single Dimensional Realm, was itself one jewel in a vaster setting, and he passed through it, and he stepped into a seventh-dimensional realm.
The seventh-dimensional realm held laws and concepts, and dimensions that lower-dimensional immortals could not imagine, like Memories and Fate and Destiny could be found here, and a trillions fourth dimensional realms floated through it like bubbles on a beach.
How long could he spend here if he wanted? An eternity, and yet, fury knew that even this was not enough to hold his true glory and purpose, and he looked beyond the seventh-dimensional realm to a place in the distance that called to him.
The direction of that call was not up or out, but in and before. He closed his eyes for a moment, acknowledging that call, and then he followed it, moving past the glittering jewels of the dimensions, into a space of deepening quiet.
The brilliance of all those dimensional realms faded into a space that was the anteroom to the Origin. Here, the concepts that were solid law in the dimensions below, causality, entropy, and duality, were soft, unformed things. Here, a sound could precede the idea of vibration. A color could exist without wavelength.
He had arrived in his Origin Realm. Given to him by his brother Eos after he reached the Primordial Level, and of course, Fury called his realm the Origin Realm of Resurrection.


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