Chapter 72: The birds in the biggest cages fly the fastest when free
Radhaan's lips parted, but he said nothing, trying his hardest to school his twitching facial muscles.
Time was something that moved in a straight arrow over space, and mass, stopping it was physically impossible without tearing down all space, causing timequakes— a single part of the universe being sent back a million years in the past, and the other forward, in simple words destroying the entire world.
As far as Radhaan's knowledge went for physics, Mass, space, and time were all interconnected, "mass" being living creatures, planets, galaxies, etc, existing, so they could age, cause let's say if there's nothing in this world to age to its eventual doom, there's no time.
Same with space, that's where everything is happening, if there's no space, there's nothing to hold it all.
At the speed of light, Radhaan had theorized, and daydreamed to control time, but he never meddled with this as this could literally mean destroying the fabric of the entire world, messing with higher dimensions he couldn't fully comprehend, and who knew how many dangers were involved in this task...
There are thousands of stories about the horrors beyond human comprehension existing, creatures that could destroy you with a glance, aether so violent that it would instantly make your aether cores corrupted, turning you into any form the 'being' wished you to be, and in this world, there was rarely something just a myth.
'I even wrote about it back in academy days... more than four essays explaining my theory, but this was treated more like a joke than anything... stopping time? Moving in Time? You're ridiculous.' Radhaan chuckled.
'Yet... this man, the man who I could've killed with a single flick of the finger, the man who was my puppet... Can actually do this?' Radhaan's mind spiraled down in a kind of existential crisis.
Radhaan's mind went back for a moment, a time when he was just eighteen, trying the spell that actually allowed him to turn into light—all on his own, transforming that simple spell to make himself the strongest, transforming that simple spell to give him the speed of light.