Location: Fifth Dimensional Universal Management Center
Context: Advanced cosmic civilization where Universal Wills manage individual universes
My name is Willy, and I am a Universal Will—one of countless cosmic entities tasked with maintaining the delicate balance of reality itself. This is the story of how a single human boy shattered everything I thought I knew about the possible.
The Academy Years
The Universal Will Academy exists in the Fifth Dimension, a realm beyond mortal comprehension where reality bends to pure thought and cosmic law reigns supreme. For three thousand standard universal cycles, I studied there among my peers—beings of pure consciousness learning the sacred art of universal management.
"Remember," our instructors would intone with the weight of eternity, "a Universal Will must never interfere directly. We record achievements, issue rewards, and coordinate cosmic defense. Nothing more, nothing less."
The curriculum was exhaustive: Cosmic Beast Classification, Reality Maintenance Protocols, Enlightenment Calculation Methods, Universal Law Integration, and Emergency Intervention Procedures. I was average in everything—not the worst student, certainly not the best. My evaluation scores consistently placed me in the 47th to 52nd percentile across all subjects.
"Adequate performance, Willy," my final assessment read. "Suitable for standard universe assignment. Low-complexity system recommended for optimal management success."
I graduated without honors, without distinction, just another mid-tier Universal Will ready for cosmic bureaucracy.
The Assignment
My assigned universe was exactly what the academy recommended: low-complexity, stable development patterns, predictable species evolution. Designation: Universe-7847-Delta, colloquially known to its inhabitants as "the Milky Way Galaxy and surrounding cosmic structure."
The dominant species—humans—had recently survived an elven invasion and discovered Origin energy cultivation. Their expansion across twelve billion inhabited planets followed standard post-awakening civilization patterns. Everything was textbook normal.
My duties were simple:
Record System Management: Maintain individual Nexus Records for all awakened beings Achievement Recognition: Award enlightenment chances for outstanding discoveries Cosmic Defense Coordination: Issue quests when void creatures threaten universal stability Law Enforcement: Ensure universal laws aren't violated beyond acceptable parameters
For the first few decades, life was blissfully routine. Humans developed their cultivation techniques at expected rates. Their greatest masters achieved respectable but unremarkable breakthroughs. I recorded everything, issued appropriate rewards, and filed my reports to Fifth Dimensional Command with mechanical precision.
The most exciting event in seventy years was when a human cultivator reached Cosmic Tier and developed a technique worthy of universal ranking #2,847. I awarded him fifty enlightenment chances and sent a standard commendation to his planetary government.
I was living the definition of an average Universal Will managing an average universe.
The First Anomaly
Then, on a routine monitoring sweep of Earth's dimensional space, my consciousness detected something impossible.
Buried beneath a modest family home in Neo Singapore, a twelve-year-old human boy was working in a secret laboratory that defied every probability calculation I possessed. Alex Chen—orphaned genius, loving son, apparent normal child—was about to upload something to the human cultivation database that would shatter my peaceful existence forever.
I watched through my cosmic awareness as his young fingers typed the final lines of code, submitting his work under the anonymous handle "Cosmic_Sage_42." The moment his creation entered the universal database, my entire consciousness screamed.
TECHNIQUE ANALYSIS COMPLETENAME: Eternal Convergence Sutra CLASSIFICATION: IMPOSSIBLE POWER LEVEL: PRIMORDIAL TIER UNIVERSAL RANKING: #3 of ALL TIME
I stared at the results, my cosmic form trembling with disbelief. This technique... I had seen its equal only once before, in the academy's most restricted archives. Primordial Techniques—cultivation methods created by beings so advanced they had transcended universal limitations entirely.
The Eternal Convergence Sutra perfectly integrated five fundamental forces: Space manipulation for reality bending, Time control for temporal advantages, Void mastery for dimensional access, Samsara law for soul transcendence, and Ice/Water elements for physical manifestation. The mathematical precision was flawless, the energy circulation patterns were elegant beyond description, and the advancement potential was unlimited.
No human should have been capable of creating such a masterpiece. According to every database I could access, no being in the current cosmic era should have possessed the knowledge necessary for Primordial-level technique development.
Yet here was a twelve-year-old boy on a mid-tier planet, casually revolutionizing cultivation across my entire universe.
I ran probability calculations:
Chance of random technique development: 0.0000000001% Chance of hidden primordial master: 0.0001% Chance of dimensional infiltration: 0.001% Chance of reincarnated cosmic entity: 0.01% Chance of impossible anomaly: 99.9889999% The Investigation Begins
Abandoning all pretense of non-interference, I focused my complete attention on Alex Chen. What I discovered defied every natural law I understood.
His soul signature was wrong. Beneath the standard human consciousness pattern lay something else—memories that shouldn't exist, knowledge from a completely different universal framework, and strangest of all, fragments of Samsara Law comprehension that suggested impossible experiences during reincarnation.
The boy had somehow retained complete memories through soul transfer, learned universal laws during the process, and integrated that forbidden knowledge with scientific understanding from his previous existence. He wasn't just reincarnated—he was impossibly reincarnated, breaking fundamental cosmic rules through sheer determination.
But that wasn't the end of my shock.
The Second Impossibility
Four years later, at age sixteen, Alex Chen uploaded another creation to the cultivation database. This time, I was monitoring him directly when he began the submission process.
TECHNIQUE ANALYSIS COMPLETENAME: Human Potential Development Technique (HPDT) CLASSIFICATION: REVOLUTIONARY IMPACT LEVEL: CIVILIZATION-TRANSFORMING INNOVATION RATING: UNPRECEDENTED
I read the technique description with growing amazement. Alex had somehow developed a method to stimulate latent human potential through pure technique practice—no resources required, no treasures needed, no pills or elixirs necessary. Just specific mental and physical exercises combined with a synthesizable brain activation serum.
In three thousand years of universal management training, I had learned only one method for awakening dormant potential: astronomical quantities of rare cultivation resources. Primordial Treasures worth more than entire planetary economies. Legendary pills that took millennia to mature. Heaven-defying elixirs guarded by cosmic-tier beasts.
Alex had achieved the same result with a technique manual.
Humans across twelve billion planets could now upgrade their cultivation talents from trash to excellent simply by practicing his method. Children born with the lowest possible aptitude could transform themselves into geniuses before their awakening ceremony. The technique was so effective that I had no choice but to make it mandatory across the entire human civilization.
Standing before the cosmic announcement system, I prepared the universal broadcast:
UNIVERSAL ACHIEVEMENT NOTIFICATIONCONGRATULATIONS TO "??-@#$??%?^?&?&*(??" FOR CREATING THE "HUMAN POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE (HPDT)"REWARD: ONE MILLION ENLIGHTENMENT CHANCES STATUS: MANDATORY PRACTICE FOR ALL HUMAN CIVILIZATION
The garbled text was intentional—my systems literally couldn't process Alex's true identity. Every time I tried to announce his real name, reality glitched. The universe itself was protecting his secret.
The Growing Crisis
Now, years later, I watch Alex Chen with a mixture of fascination and cosmic terror. He has created dozens of techniques, accumulated millions of enlightenment chances, and built a secret empire worth trillions of credits. His girlfriend—Luna Frost—carries the reincarnated soul of a Universal-tier expert, though neither of them fully understand this yet.
My once-peaceful universe has become the most interesting anomaly in Fifth Dimensional history. Other Universal Wills message me constantly, demanding to know how my "low-complexity" assignment became the cosmic equivalent of a primordial cultivation ground.
I don't know how to answer them.
The Real Problem
But my greatest concern isn't Alex's impossible achievements or Luna's hidden identity. It's what Alex might do if he ever realizes the truth about his situation.
He thinks he's just a reincarnated genius adapting to a cultivation universe. He doesn't understand that his very existence is breaking fundamental cosmic laws, that his techniques are advancing human civilization millennia beyond their natural development timeline, or that his continued growth threatens the stability of reality itself.
What happens when the orphaned boy who died alone, who fought to retain his memories through impossible reincarnation, who created primordial-tier techniques from love of family—what happens when he discovers that beings like me have been watching his every move since birth?
What happens when Alex Chen realizes that the universe he's protecting with his strength is managed by a cosmic bureaucracy that never intended to let him exist at all?
I fear I'm about to find out.
And I suspect that when that day comes, my peaceful life as an average Universal Will will be the least of my worries. Because if Alex Chen decides that the cosmic order needs changing, I'm not sure anything in the Fifth Dimension could stop him.
After all, he's already done the impossible twice.
Who's to say he won't do it again?
END OF PROLOGUE
Next: Chapter 1 - "The Earth Genius - A Life Cut Short"