Chapter 197 - Time And Fate

After reading the last line, Sen opened his eyes and began to look above. His eyes were glowing blue, and his body was glowing white. 

Sen began to levitate in the air and went out of the sage palace without even breaking the ceiling. Everyone else present there followed him and saw the miracle they had never seen in their life.

A giant golden coloured magic circle appeared behind Sen, with seven small circles inside it. Suddenly, one of the small began to glow and something began to materialize inside it.

Sen knew that feeling from his past experience, it was one of the attributes of the seven sages. The power of Universal Harmony. But this time the feeling was somewhat a little different from the past times. While he was using this power, he wasn't feeling any pain inside him.

But earlier, on the day of destruction, when he lost everything on earth and awakened all his powers, he was feeling severe pain in his chest. The pain was not the pain of losing, but something different that was not easy to explain.

With that Sen understood the profoundness of Harmony and engraved its power in his soul. Whatever the world is, be it a parallel world or be it a multiverse. In every world, there can be only one bearer of a single attributor. No soul can handle the pressure of two attributes. In the past, many sages have tried doing that but were unable to do so and ended up shattering their souls.

But here, in the case of Sen and the Zenzeng family, it was different. All of them knew Sen from his childhood, not only that they also had a parental love for him. And the reverse was true, too. Sen loved his family so much, enough to tear away the heavens for them.

So, when he tried to inherit the power from his gramps, the attribute Harmony accepted him as his second bearer and gave its power to Sen.

The light around Sen in the sky dimmed, and he returned back to the place where he was before. He gently opened his eyes and took a look at his surroundings. His heart, it was beating, beating in a more calm and peaceful way than before. His blood, it was flowing, in a more calm and peaceful way than before.

Though everything around him was the same, he was seeing them with a different perspective now. Grand Elder went near him and flicked his forehead with his fingers.

"Ouch!!" yelled Aryan.

"What was that for?" he asked in bewilderment.

"Hahaha," laughed the Grand Elder and said he did it to deactivate his power of Harmony. Since he had just inherited it, it will take him some time to use it properly. And overuse of it may change his world's view and perspective.

Sen frowned and nodded head when he understood what he wanted to say.

"Next, we don't have time." Ordered the empress and called out the next one who had to give the knowledge of their power to Sen.

The next person on the line was Granny Kotori. And her power was Fate, to be more precise fate reversal.

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Destiny, sometimes referred to as fate, is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. But the bearer of this attribute can change the predetermined part and make it something that he/she wants.

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And it finished with that. Sen opened his eyes and looked at her granny in confusion. She knew what he wanted to ask and told him to wait, fate power cannot be awakened in others without the power of time.

And with that Aditya came forward and touched his forehead.

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Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.

It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience. Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.

Time has long been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without circularity has consistently eluded scholars.

Nevertheless, diverse fields such as business, industry, sports, the sciences, and the performing arts all incorporate some notion of time into their respective measuring systems.

Time in physics is operationally defined as "what a clock reads". Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities.

Time is the never-ending continued progress of existence and events. It happens in an apparently irreversible way from the past, through the present to the future.

To measure time, we can use anything that repeats itself regularly. One example is the start of a new day (as Earth rotates on its axis). Two more are the phases of the moon (as it orbits the Earth), and the seasons of the year (as the Earth orbits the Sun).

Even in ancient times, people developed calendars to keep track of the number of days in a year. They also developed sundials that used the moving shadows cast by the sun through the day to measure times smaller than a day. Today, highly accurate clocks can measure time in less than a billionth of a second.

The operational definition of time does not address what the fundamental nature of it is. It does not address why events can happen forward and backwards in space, whereas events only happen in the forward progress of time. Investigations into the relationship between space and time led physicists to define the spacetime continuum.

General Relativity is the primary framework for understanding how spacetime works. Through advances in both theoretical and experimental investigations of space-time, it has been shown that time can be distorted and dilated, particularly at the edges of black holes.

Temporal measurement has occupied scientists and sages, and was a prime motivation in navigation and astronomy. Periodic events and periodic motion have long served as standards for units of time.

In the past Yin emperor and the Yang emperor thought that time was the same for everyone everywhere. This is the basis for timelines, where time is a parameter.

The modern understanding of time is based on the seven sages theory of relativity, in which rates of time run differently depending on relative motion, and space and time are merged into spacetime, where we live on a world line rather than a timeline. In this view time is a coordinate.

According to the prevailing cosmological model of the Big Bang theory, time itself began as part of the entire Universe about 13636364363634.87583483943404040 trillion years ago.

In order to measure time, one can record the number of occurrences (events) of some periodic phenomenon. The regular recurrences of the seasons, the motions of the sun, moon and stars were noted and tabulated for millennia, before the laws of physics and magic were formulated.

The sun was the arbiter of the flow of time, but time was known only to the hour for millennia, hence, the use of the gnomon was known across most of the world.

Time appears to be more puzzling than space because it seems to flow or pass or else people seem to advance through it. But the passage or advance seems to be unintelligible. The question of how many seconds per second time flows (or one advances through it) is obviously an absurd one, for it suggests that the flow or advance comprises a rate of change with respect to something else—to a sort of hypertime.

But if this hypertime itself flows, then a hyper-hypertime is required, and so on, ad infinitum.

Again, if the world is thought of as spread out in space-time, it might be asked whether human consciousness advances up a timelike direction of this world and, if so, how fast; whether future events pop into existence as the "now" reaches them or are there all along; and how such changes in space-time can be represented, since time is already within the picture

philosophers think of the future as somehow open or indeterminate, whereas the past is unchangeable, fixed, determinate, philosophers of the manifold hold that it is as much nonsense to talk of changing the future as it is to talk of changing the past.

If a person decides to point left rather than to point right, then pointing left is what the future was. Moreover, this thesis of the determinateness of the future, they argue, must not be confused with determinism, the theory that there are laws whereby later states of the universe may be deduced from earlier states (or vice versa).

The philosophy of time bears powerfully on human emotions. Not only do individuals regret the past, they also fear the future, not least because the alleged flow of time seems to be sweeping them toward their deaths, as swimmers are swept toward a waterfall.

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After understanding the concept of time, Sen opened his eyes and was about to say he couldn't find any relation between fate and time.. But before he did, his consciousness was pulled somewhere out of his body.