"Impossible, Your Majesty." Doctor Manhattan's mastery of researching the operational logic of universes was second only to He-El's. The He-El Universe had also opened all manner of universal operational logic for him to observe.
In terms of the technicality and creativity of certain applications of universal operational logic, He-El was even somewhat inferior to Doctor Manhattan.
After all, Doctor Manhattan had always devoted himself to researching universal operational logic, while He-El still needed to acquire more underlying operational logic from universes. He was often either on the other side of the Traversal Vortex or returning to the DC Universe to handle Parallel Universe mergers. He had never truly settled down to study the technical applications of underlying universal operational logic.
Of course, every result Doctor Manhattan researched had been recorded by the He-El Universe, which was equivalent to He-El having mastered it.
He-El immediately understood what Doctor Manhattan meant by impossible.
"The thoughts of living beings in every universe form their will and consciousness, yet they differ greatly even within their own universes. With differing foundations, we cannot use them to cultivate the World Tree," Doctor Manhattan explained.
The thoughts of living beings had actually been the most likely possibility. No matter the universe, the personality traits reflected in whether living beings were brave or cowardly, decisive or hesitant, passionate or indifferent, cheerful or depressed, strong or weak, crude, and in their attitudes toward society, the collective, work, labor, others, and themselves were largely similar.
Universes might differ, but the thoughts of living beings could always be traced.
Perhaps this was the sole similarity among living beings in all universes: their thoughts were more or less alike, and their needs amounted to nothing more than the spiritual and material.
Living beings spent their entire lives pursuing themselves.
But even if