"The reason I can split reality is that I already understand most of the rules of the Home Universe. No change in the entire universe escapes my control."
"And the realities I split off are created according to the rules I know. Compared with the Home Universe, if you compared all those split realities on a universal scale..."
..."
"They're pitifully weak."
Brad finally understood, his expression terrifying.
Of course, weak here did not mean weak in the conventional sense.
It was a matter of all their aspects taken together.
The Beyonder also noticed that Brad finally understood, so his explanations became more concise.
"It's like picking out different counterparts of the same person across the endless Multiverse."
"There will always be a couple of universes where the guy is either unbelievably lucky or absurdly powerful compared with his counterparts elsewhere. In short, they must have something that sets them above their counterparts in other universes."
"Earth-616 and Earth-1610."
"They were the first two."
"They're also the universes with the most complete rules and the highest ceilings."
"Just as you've actually fixed the upper limits of all your split realities, suppose the original Main Universe of this Multiverse we inhabit had someone like you."
Brad drew a deep breath.
"Then that would mean not only is everything we do under that person's scrutiny, but our upper limits are also firmly fixed."
Immediately afterward, something occurred to Brad.
If he could reach Earth-616 and Earth-1610...
...would he actually be very weak there, too?
As always, the Beyonder read Brad's thoughts, then nodded and shook his head.
"What you've mastered is still yours. But you really wouldn't be able to throw your weight around in those two places."
"Any supercriminal or superhero there with some knowledge of computers might be able to