The Brahma Canon's "Mahasanghika Vinaya" recorded: one kshana was one thought, twenty thoughts were one instant, twenty instants were one finger snap, twenty finger snaps were one luoyu, twenty luoyu were one xuyu, and one day and one night contained thirty xuyu.
In the space of an instant, the Dark King seemed to awaken. Attacks beyond all reckoning fell upon Hawkins. These attacks could not be seen, known, or predicted.
They had no color, no scent, no form, no trace. No one knew where they came from. They were like flowers appearing out of thin air, or fruit appearing out of thin air.
Hawkins's body was twisted, torn apart, instantly killed, shattered, split, hollowed out, burned, frozen, crushed, and mutated...
None of these attacks possessed a process. There was only the result, and by the time the result came into being, everything was already an established fact.
Just like a soldier on a battlefield, who only realized he had been sniped after discovering that his vital point had been struck by a bullet.
Where the attack came from, the soldier did not know. When the attack began, he likewise did not know. The only information he could know was that a bullet had pierced his heart and that he was about to die.
That was the result.
And the results upon Hawkins were even more complex, because these attacks had no "cause," only "result."
Put simply, these attacks could not be healed, because they were like things Hawkins ought to have possessed in the first place. Even if causality were reversed, because there was "result without cause," there was simply no way to reverse them.
Black Gold's personality was actually mixed with many things. After all, he was merely a thought-form constructed from Hawkins's many useless memories. Without personality or