The Luminious had long hypothesized that there were greater layers beyond the fourth layer of Origin, but this had never been confirmed.
The power of Lumina shared a common foundation with Origin, and as much as the Luminious hated to admit it, Lumina seemed to feed on the consciousness of Origin to acknowledge itself, and if there were only two layers to Origin, then there would only be two layers to Lumina.
Perhaps if they were more talented, they could push the power of Lumina to stand outside the domain of Origin. This power certainly had the potential for this, but the strength of their bloodline was so powerful that they could not separate the power of Lumina from their bloodline.
The bloodline of Black Zenith was like a storm, and Lumina was the lightning inside of it. No matter how the lightning tried to tear itself free from the storm, it could not travel far before it was dragged back into it.
So, they could only copy the mysteries of Origin and apply them to Lumina, meaning that essentially, the Luminious did not even understand their own legacy.
However, Luminious Silence did not know that in the depths of End, an Incarnation of Eos, under the influence of Luminious Transformation, Enoch, had touched Lumina.
Enoch was too young and did not understand the mysteries of Lumina, seeing it as just a special power to show the supremacy of the Luminious.
However, he did not know that for so long, Lumina was tied to mimic the effect of Origin due to the overwhelming power of their bloodline, but for the first time since the beginning of all Existences, someone had gained the power of Lumina, and they were not burdened by the overwhelming nature of the Bloodline of Black Zenith.
Of course, due to the fog of war and the Luminious nature of acting on their own, none of the Luminious except for Enoch knew of this change, and he did not know the significance.
However, Existence was ending, and so many paths were converging. Secrets were being revealed, and unexpected changes were coming.
Luminious Silence knew nothing of this; all he was concerned with millions of years ago inside the Origin Realms was that he had been focused on gaining the power of Eos, and the path to gain that power was with his bloodline Avatar, Prime.
Using the desire for Prime to find the fifth layer of Time, the mysterious path of the Future, Luminious Silence had found some old research about Time from the archives of the Luminious.
He did not take the best research theories, only the ramblings of a mad creature dead many Existences ago, that theorized some crazy research about the nature of time.
All he knew about this process was that it was extremely energy-intensive, and Prime would have to request the aid of Eos, and when he did this, the trap, Luminious Silence, that had been embedded inside the technique would activate.
As he suspected, Prime and Eos were too ignorant about the nature of time, and they began to run the experiment.
If everything had gone as Luminious Silence had expected, Prime would have been dragged into a storm of time and possibilities, the Primordials he sent on this journey would have been pushed into broken Parallel Dimensions where nothing made sense.
This would shatter the consciousness of the Primordials inside of Primeβs river of time and place him under the control of Luminious Silence.
However, to the anger and endless curiosity of Luminious Silence, they had succeeded. Somehow, this technique had worked, whether it was due to the endless potential of Eos and Prime, who seemed capable of turning trash to treasure.
Luminious Silence had watched with endless fascination as Prime began to journey towards the fifth layer of Time.
As much as Luminious Silence wanted to stop Prime from reaching the fifth layer of time, he knew that he needed this bloodline avatar to be weakened for the trap to work, and so he had to agonizingly watch as the blundering fool acquired a power that the Luminious could only dream of.
Everything was going as planned, although Prime detected his malice, but it was already too late, and even if Prime refused to merge with Eos, he would have no choice after his consciousness faded.
And then, out of nowhere, the end war began.
Luminious Silence had expected the pathetic defenses to crumble in no time, especially when he could not sense Eos anywhere inside the Origin Realms, but soon he realized that Eos was not present, and so too were their pawns, the Ancient Primordials, not present as well, and that meant that the defenses were not going to break.



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