..After several moments, Sho wakes up again, then sees in front of him an entity wearing grayish-black armor, so he is surprised and quickly stands away from him.
.At that moment the entity looks toward Sho, then tilts his neck and puts his sword into the ground forcefully and approaches Sho.
.Sho does not feel any aura coming from the entity at all, so he says to himself:
"[This is strange, I must be careful, I do not know what that entity wants]"
.The entity stands 5 feet away from Sho, then takes off the helmet from his head, and Sho is extremely shocked, then the entity smiles and says:
"Hello Sho, I have not seen you in a long time, my old friend"
.Sho is surprised while his pupils widen and he says:
"John?!"
.And at the beautiful beach Nihil and Ford play in the water while Ford uses the power of imagination and creates dragons from water, trying to hit Nihil, who moves quickly and destroys all those dragons, saying:
"You are strong indeed, you only need to become a demigod like me and Lady Litha, I can feel a Master aura coming out of you already"
.Ford smiles and says:
"I took advantage of my time inside those strange worlds and trained"
.Nihil destroys the dragons while Ford creates others.
.Litha sits on a chair, with an umbrella and sunglasses visible, and looks at the sky where something strange resembling a sun has an eye that opens and closes; whenever it opens, white light comes out as if it were the sun, and whenever it blinks, it closes and in its place the lights of countless other stars shine, and there is no change in the strength of the lighting.
.Litha is surprised, then whispers saying:
"This thing looks like a strange eye in the sky, I think it is a monitoring ability or something like that"
.On the other side Sho sits with the entity that has gray eyes, gray hair, and almost white skin, and then John speaks and says:
"I have been waiting for you, I wanted to meet you for a long time indeed. Welcome, Sho. Tell me, how are you? And who are those outside, are they your team? I am monitoring them through my eyes that are in the sky"
.Sho is surprised while his thoughts are conflicted, so he says to himself:
"[The only thing that can be inferred is that this is the opposite of the entity, this is the law that always exists for every entity, its opposite. This reminds me of the counterpart in religions. John died in the world of demigods. This is John, but at the same time it is not John]"
.Then Sho speaks and says:
"Tell me what happened, how did you get to this place?"
.The lord of the castle of beginning and end sighs, then says:
"I was always here, Sho. You were the one who was somewhere here. I heard that you destroyed all the clans here already"
.Sho is surprised and was about to justify himself, but John raises his hand asking him not to justify, and that he understands everything, so John continues and says:
"I know that your mother is one of the eight gods, Sho. You came here so that you could reach the second layer, right?"
.Sho tries to analyze the way John speaks to him to conclude that John does not know everything that Sho went through, and says to himself:
"[He does not know anything except the relationship between me and that lady, which I will think about later. This is definitely John's opposite. He has memories different from the original John and a different journey. John died below and this John is still here above. This means only one thing: since he remembers me, since he is John's opposite, he remembers me as an opposite too. Therefore I have become the opposite of my previous self in the lower worlds!]"
.Sho whispers and says:
"So I am the only entity in all the worlds whose opposite is not separated from him or another entity, as if I am the zero in the equation of existence, neither positive nor negative!"
.Then John speaks and says:
"You know the conditions to ascend to the second layer, right? You must be at least in the demigod layer in the upper world"
.Sho seizes the opportunity and says:
"Are there other layers higher than demigods?"
.John smiles and says:
"Certainly yes, for example I am one whole sequence above you. I am in the Lord of Worlds sequence, and I have my own concept, and through it the shard strikes that Amon was trying to manifest between that god and your mother, an extremely ancient conflict. And when I used that ability to decompose you, I was about to help you indeed if I had not noticed that interference from your mother and had to withdraw"
.Sho thinks again and says:
"[What is the story of that one called Eternal Night? She accepted me and embraced me as if I were really her son]"
.Then suddenly Sho realizes something and says to himself:
"[My mother Jessica died in the material world once and was completely erased in the spiritual world. This means only one thing: there is a possibility that Eternal Night is either my mother, who is the opposite of Jessica, or she is merely a manipulator and deceiver. But if she were a deceiver, why did she protect me? What does she want from me? Could it be that she wants the power Amon spoke about and my existence's connection to the power of the primordial god?]"
.Then Sho continues speaking and says:
"Well then, thank you for all that information. Do you want to join my team, John, and ascend to the second layer?"
.John thinks for a moment and looks confused, then says:
"I cannot, even if I wanted to. My existence is tied to that castle. I have a power that exceeds the 3 types found in the chaos of the first layer, and that power is called the gray mist, a mysterious, unknown, and terrifying power. That power became linked to the castle, and after that I could never even think about escaping"
.Sho feels a little sad, then says:
"Well then, no problem, and thank you for the help"
.Then John stands and, with one movement, opens a mysterious gate from which a terrifying aura emerges, then says:
"This is the road to the second layer. Between each layer and another there is primordial chaos that exceeds infinity. I tell you, you must be careful there. There are ancient entities as old as the demigods themselves, and not the demigod sequence. I mean true demigods who inhabit that chaos"
.Then, with a simple movement, Nihil, Ford, and Litha appear beside Sho, which makes him and them extremely surprised.
.Litha immediately asks about the nature of this entity, while John extends his hand to shake Sho's, then Sho hugs him, which makes John feel some regret!.
.John smiles a fake smile at Sho and says:
"Stay safe, okay? The moment you enter inside, you will find a path of something like tree branches with strange colors extending beyond infinity. From a certain point you will be transferred automatically, just as happens with you here too. You arrive at some area in the world that surpasses infinity, and suddenly you move to another place, and then you will find yourself there in the second layer"
.Sho orders everyone to enter and stand so that they wait for him. Then Nihil and Litha enter, and suddenly Ford is pushed away forcefully and falls to the ground.
.John speaks and says:
"What do we have here, a little Lord-sequence boy who can never cross in such a way"
.Sho is surprised, then thinks for a moment and looks toward Ford and says:
"Forgive me, okay, but do not worry, the place will not be bad"
.Ford is surprised for a moment and says:
"What?"
.Suddenly Ford disappears as a result of the power of the Eye of Infinity, to be trapped inside one of Sho's worlds that are formed immediately and directly from the black sea inside it.
.John is surprised by that ability and confirms that it is unique among us. Sho stands at the gate and looks toward John one last time to bid him farewell.
.John speaks and says:
"As I told you, you must be careful. Those entities in the chaos are much stronger than me to a degree that neither you nor even I can perceive or imagine. Just stay calm and everything will be fine"
.Sho smiles and then says:
"Goodbye, my old friend"
.John smiles in Sho's face, then Sho enters and the gate disappears.
.John sits and wears his special helmet while feeling absolute loneliness again and feeling guilt and regret, then whispers saying:
"Sorry Sho, I lied to you. I can go to the second layer"
"[I do not want to go there. This place is more peaceful than the world of the gods. The second layer. All the logically possible upper ideas are there, like Jesus, Jehovah, Buddha, and other ideas that were manifesting in the human mind. I remember them. Those humans are entities that live only a flash compared to the age of their universe, and they leave everything to the generations that come after them. All the logically possible ideas that they manifested corresponded to the limits of human creativity. They came from that world, the second layer, and it is impossible to receive higher or more transcendent ideas than those of that layer. And in the second layer even ideas that could be less existent than this world become there, where they reach their maximum logically possible potential. Therefore I do not want to go there. The entities do not end and the crowding is unbearable]"
.John feels a guilt that does not stop bothering him, then sighs and says:
"Well then, no problem, I will leave this absurd place and go upward"
.John stands while clenching his hand, then opens a completely different gate from the previous one, a gate directly to the second layer, where he has already been recorded in the historical register of this world as an official entity, while Sho's team is on its journey to be recorded.