Just as his master had insisted and repeatedly emphasized, the Sovereign was human.
This belief did not come from blind loyalty. His Sovereign encouraged him to think independently. Even Zero dared say so after first meeting the Sovereign in the arena of the City of Immortals and witnessing firsthand the Sovereign's essence, so dazzling it was painful to keep his eyes open. After the light receded, he had painfully opened eyes still watering from the burns and seen sorrow, impatience, humor, disappointment, and every other emotion a mortal ought to possess on the Sovereign's noble, beautiful face. Every one of those feelings reminded Zero that his Sovereign was merely a mortal with extraordinary strength and wisdom. Now, it seemed that his Sovereign was immersed in mortal nature, yet Praetorian Guard Zero could not imagine how his Sovereign intended to support that future with a mortal soul.
Zero did not know that while he was thinking independently, his Sovereign had become immersed in thoughts on information theory.
Salomon's hostility toward The Living Tribunal had completely vanished. Not because of the Sorcerer Supreme's persuasion, but through his graduate studies of information theory—at the level of microscopic physics, an electron was the continuous iteration of another electron undergoing minute changes. Each generation of electrons differed slightly, and no eternally stable electron existed in this world. The degree of change between one generation of electrons and the next depended on its tiny choices. These tiny choices formed the complex thoughts possessed by humans and other mammals. From communication to genetic foundations, from macroscopic physics to microscopic physics, everything reflected the importance of information. From this perspective, Salomon himself was an electron constituting the will of the universe. This universe had no need to care about any choice made by an electron like him. He