Chapter 29: Time
Time...
What is time really?
For a lot of people, it means a lot of things.
It could be that clock on the wall. It could be he sun that passes the day. Or it could be the seasons and years going by.
But all of these in the end mean one thing.
Change.
Time is an abstract concept that is used to measure change. When the sun rise from the east and sets in the west, a change occurs and a we called it a day. When we noticed that the sun took 365 days to go around the sun, we called that a year.
For many things, change could eight be slowed down or hastened. Like how certain minerals could increase the growth rate of plants. Like how a person's aging could be slowed down with a good physical fitness.
But this form of hastening and slowing down is only considered to be physical changing. Making the earth move faster soul not be considered time altering now would It? So if one wanted to alter change, one would need to see deeper to what allows change to occur.
If one was to be able to look closely, one would notice that in the world, there exist a certain film. This film is what facilitates reality and all existence of the world. Without It, nothing would be able to exist.
This film is called by many names, but there is a name that appears more times that others.
Space.
Yes, space fills all things around, nothing exists without It. It acts a lot more like water. In fact, in many cases, it really seems similar to water.
And this is one of those cases. In water, depending on where you are, there is different levels of pressure on all its organisms. The deeper you are, the higher the pressure. The higher the pressure the harder it is to move.
He same could be said for space, only its pressure does not crush all things in existance. It instead makes changes to occur slowr. The higher the space pressure the slower the rate of chnage. When it is lighter, the rate increases.
As such, i one ever truly wishes to accelerate or slow down time, is to input energy it space nodes and forcibly male them vibrate. And if one what's to make them move slower, they need to do the same, only this time they would instead try to keep space in order.
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'7% completed,' Zenn thought.
After spending many hours trying to understand the time knowledge in his head, Zenn finally decided to take a break.
He stood up from the ground covered in many different letters and headed to the nearby forest. Well, calling it a forest is a bit exaggerated as there is less than twenty trees in total. Bit Zenn still like to call it a forest as he did not have a at her name for it.
In less than a minute, he reached the little forest. In the middle of the forest, Zenn saw the two goblins sitting together. In between them was a fire.
For a moment, Zenn could not help but look at the littel fire below. This was because this was the smallest fire Zenn had ever seen. Yes, one could argue that they had seen small ambers, but truth is, none of all that could come come close to what Zenn was seeing. This was because although the fire was very small, it did not seem to act like a small fire. It raged and burned as though it was normal sized fire. One could see it's flicker and cracking which could only be seen usually in large fires.
In the end, Zenn's gaze did not linger for far too long on the fire. This was because he has been in this world for a long time. After a few day of living in this world, he has noticed some things.
If the sand particles being very small was not a good enough indication, then surely the fact that the rocks Zenn previously threw at komoru exploded in bits was clear as day. So at some point he reached a conclusion: the whole world has been shrunk. Simillar to how he was able to increased and text ad the size of objects Zenn believed someone has done the same to this world. Although his power could be able to shrink the whole world, Zenn believes that the guardian before him or his so called ancestor could have.
That was why he was able to just dig his hands into the soil as though it was butter when he tried to take the god's hammer.
Thinking of the god's hammer, Zenn looked not too far from the sitting goblins. There was a very small hammer that he could barely spot die to the reflected light of the fire on its metallic form.
After failing to properly lift up he hammer, Zenn opted to just use other materials to to lift instead. All he need was a patch of hard soil and he was able to lift it without much trouble. In the end, he dropped the hammer in the forest.
There were many reasons why Zenn too the hammer with him. One of the obvious ones being that he wanted to see if he could wield it like komoru, but he so far had no luck.
The second reason was because Zenn was being cautious. The corpses in the mountain had just mysteriously disappeared. Zenn was not sure why they disappeared. Maybe it was because controlled corpses disappear after they lost their master.
Or maybe their master had not died...
After all, although Zenn had hit komoru with that rock, he had not gone closer to check if he truly died. But this possibility seemed small to him to two main reason.
One, there was no footprints so the corpses could not have left on their own. And two, the god's hammer was not taken. If komoru was to leave, surely he would not leave the hammer right?
But even so, Zenn decided to take the hammer in case there was a hidden danger lurking around.
The other reason he took the hammer of course was for testing...
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Chapter 30: hopes of home
The first few things Zenn immediately did when he got the hammer in the forest was to experiment. While he was walking the distance between the mountain and the forest, Zenn was struck by curiosity.
'What would happen if i shrunk the or grew the hammer?'
Such a curious thought had troubled him throughout the walk, but he ultimately held on and did not rashly do so. After all, he did not know much about the god's hammer other than it is heavy. So what would happen if he shrunk it carelessly? It might explode you know.
In the end, he did reach the forest and finally got to experiment on the hammer.
And it turned out that shrinking and growing it is possible. The only problem was that it took too much energy. When he shrunk it, his energy reserves were almost hollowed out, but The hammer barely got much smaller. So he just let it be.
Zenn sat on the ground just near the goblins. He picked up a fruit from nearby and grew it. With a bite, the bitter fruit entered his mouth.
Once again, he could not help but think, 'I miss home foods.'
But this time, he did not look sad of discouraged. He instead looked determined ad hopeful.
This was because unlike what he had expected, he had reached 7% very fast. He was not sure why, but he had feeling. He felt that what he read of the space knowledge was not necessarily all there is. Like he was just looking at the tip o the iceberg. Well, the same was for the reality knowledge, but there was something different about this time. It was like all he so learning now was just basic or elementary knowledge that is my even delving see into the true topic of time.
Whatever it was though, Zenn was happy. Because he now had only the last remaining 3% that's left between him and the space knowledge. And maybe, just maybe, home as well.
So in his eyes, hope grew like a flikering flame. He does not know what will happen tomorrow, but he was eager. In fact, had he not been really tired, he could have went on till he finished it all. But mental fatigue was a serious thing he could not just force. Since the new it builds up, the more mistake he is likely to make.
Such mistake may either set him back or make thing harder and longer for him. So it was better to rest and save the work for another day.
As these thought passed through his mind, the two goblins below bowed to him.
"Greeting lord creator."
Zenn did not say much, he only gave a nod and told the goblins to return to what they were doing.
And as he watched them, he could not help but feel bored. The two goblins just sat on bear the fire and basked in its radiance. There was nothing else for them to do in this night other than such. Since the problem of food had been solved with his time acceleration, they np longer needed yo go around looking for new food sources.
'If i am this bored, i fear to know how they feel.'
After all, although he is bored, he at least has has something to work towards and do. The goblins on the other ha had nothing. This forest is all they have now. Farr beyond this is nothing but wreckage or destruction. So what to do?
According to Zuri, they were truly the last of their race. Thet could go around looking to see o there were any others, but how long will that take? Although the whole world does not look like much to Zenn, to them its like looking for a single person in a country on foot. It's near impossible and can only be attributed to luck. Zenn could help them, but he had his own thing going. So he simply does not have the time. And even if he did help them, it would not do much. It may even be detrimental as a giant person strolling around isn't something you would wish to go towards unless you are suicidal.
'Speaking of which, there is a great possibility that these two are the only two living beings of their race. That means to repopulate they would at some point...'
Zenn looked at these two goblins with two different sizes weirdly. Unhealthy images soon appeared in his mind. Although he found it weird that these two who looked so different are of the same race, he was able to accept it. Just like how lion and lionesses look so different.
'I guess they wouldn't worry about entertainment if they do that.'
Zenn took another bite of the bitter fruit. If he could, Zenn was unwilling eat this fruit any further, but it was all he had and he needed the energy for tomorrow. So he do not skimp on his bitter meal.
A little while later, he was done eating. He went to his personal space. Which by the was merely just a place without any rocks or trees in it. There was no bed or anything to get a good night sleep. Which was a reminder and a fuel of his determination to go back home. True ot was horrible, but for now, it was enough.
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The night seemed short as he rising sun returned before Zenn knew it. But even the longest night always seem like they aren't enough.
Zenn was not complaining though. His body may long for a moment longer in sleep, but his mind did not. Because it was time. Time to see whether his hunch was true. It was time to get his space knowledge.
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