Power Paradox was a fundamental phenomenon.
If an existence acquired power that vastly exceeded its own existential tolerance, the result would be immediate structural collapse. Physical matter, metaphysical matter, energy, information, soul, and consciousness—everything would fail under the burden and be destroyed.
It was one of the most basic laws governing growth.
Clementine smiled faintly. "Then let me ask you something. Who am I?"
Aezaleon immediately understood where she was going.
There was no need to discuss Clementine's identity, her former rank, or the sheer weight carried by an existence that had once stood as a rank ten divine entity and the possessor of an absolute. Such things spoke for themselves. The burden a being like her should place upon someone weaker was immeasurable.
By all logic, the moment their souls connected, Aezaleon should have collapsed beneath that weight.
Yet he hadn't.
