Three months later!
Inside the lakeside villa, Green sat calmly in the living room, eating breakfast.
Golden sunlight slanted in through the window, filling the entire living room with warmth and light.
A Puppet dressed in a maid's uniform stood motionless beside Green, not a trace of emotion on her face.
Beside Green lay a thick notebook.
The notebook was partly open, its pale yellow pages covered in dense notes.
Over the course of these three months of study, the more Green explored the knowledge of the Infinite Seeker Civilization, the more he could sense its potential.
At first, Green had thought the knowledge system of the Endless Pursuit Civilization was meant to connect with the Void Will of the Origin River and become something like a Guardian.
Then, by relying on the Origin River, they would survive the End of the Epoch and break through to the Ninth Level.
But what the Endless Pursuit Civilization sought was far greater than he had imagined.
Within the Origin River Void was an idea shared by the Endless Void and the Mana Void.
It was that once power reached its first infinity, continuing to raise it might be useful, but held no fundamental meaning.
There would always be even greater power capable of striking from a higher dimension.
Because, from the perspectives of mathematics and cognition, no matter how much one increased their power, it would never have an endpoint.
There was no end to orders of magnitude. All it took was a definition, and a number greater than every other number would come into being.
In worlds where the Laws were loosely structured, there were often individuals within them whose power seemed incomprehensibly immense.
They endlessly iterated their power, cycling ever upward until it reached astonishing heights.
Exponential growth, cyclical exponential