"Trinity? Do you mean—the process of using three Sequence 1 characteristics to support the Uniqueness?"
After a moment's thought, Stiano asked with some puzzlement.
That was the only thing he could think of that had anything to do with the term.
But he had already accommodated the Uniqueness, so that should hardly count as the next stage.
"Have you ever considered what that process itself signifies?"
At that moment, Edwin spoke again, posing a question in return.
"Well—"
At the question, Stiano's answer caught in his throat.
What did it signify?
He had honestly never thought about that.
After all, every potion formula, advancement ritual, and method of accommodating the Uniqueness to become a god had come from the Blasphemy Slate.
Both he and the other gods who sat in the Astral World looking down upon all living beings took these things for granted.
Just as the sun rose in the east every day, water flowed downhill, breathing required air, and life would ultimately end in death.
These were laws, the underlying code that governed the world's workings. Who would ask why the sun was hot? Who would question the necessity of breathing?
"Whether the Uniqueness or Beyonder Characteristics, they were all originally chaotic."
Seeing his reaction, Edwin began answering the question himself. "And potion formulas and advancement rituals are a set of procedures—a program that imposes rules upon chaos.
"They allow disorderly power to be borne by orderly, carbon-based life-forms."
"From chaos—to order? Are you talking about entropy reduction?"
Stiano caught on, and that concept naturally came to mind.
It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics proposed by Edwin: spontaneous processes in an isolated system always proceeded from order, or low entropy, toward disorder, or high entropy, resulting in an increase in entropy.
Yet preparing Beyonder Characteristics into potions