As a myriad of beings pledged Fealty and a shocking Universal War broke out, Noah's main body continued to float silently within the Universal Core of the Dark Universe.

He was currently within the innermost Realm where his homeworld used to be, floating in the skies as his fingers stretched to touch the swaying golden trees below that held bright and mature [Fate Apples].

Tens of thousands of Marks of Antiquity continued to condense and be drawn into him as he automatically branded them to his normal Galaxies to form new Dao Galaxies, his white robe fluttering behind him as he seemed like an ancient Saint blessing the skies with his presence!

It was such a drastic contrast to the terrifying war that his Primordial Ruination Clone was going through, Noah glancing at Valentina's Golden Mirror that was floating in front of him as he plucked and began to eat a Fate Apple, golden fate essence erupting out as he spoke calmly.

"Paragon to the Universal Realm...what can you tell me about it?"

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On the other side of the Golden Mirror, Valentina was still shaking her head at the sheer incredulousness this being displayed, only coming to as the vast experience of a Hegemony returned to her face!

She seemed ready to ask him many questions on exactly how the hell the things he was doing were even possible, but she held herself back as she had communicated this being long enough, and she knew that he would just say something to boast again!

So she instead breathed out her frustration as she glanced at the image of Noah that looked like an ancient creature descending unto the common world at this moment.

"If you are already looking to the path of a Universe after you've jumped across Monarch and gone all the way to Paragon, you have to understand first exactly what a Paragon is!"

RUMBLE!

Valentina adopted the demeanor of an experienced Universal Hegemony as her dark hair waved lightly, her voice continuing to ring out.

"A Paragon is...a quintessence of excellence! A thing that is seen as the perfect model! For the achievement of obtaining 100 Billion Galaxies within one's Origin- a being can be regarded as a Paragon."

…!

"But this definition and rank is not to express and admire those capable of being titled Paragons, but to further elevate the rank of a Universal Hegemony as this title of a Paragon was a mere prerequisite for someone to form their Universe. Before even proceeding to such a stage, one had to achieve a tremendous level of excellence!"

RUMBLE

Yes! Becoming a Paragon was just a prerequisite, one that very few beings met in the Primordial Cosmos, and even fewer beings ever went past this prerequisite to a Realm of beings who affected entire Universes!

"What many creatures struggle with after achieving the rank of Paragon is that they have no way to proceed forward, to the point that it has become a known saying that only those Destined could actually become Universal Hegemonies."

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"Paragons will remain in their rank until the end of their lives...merely just a bit over 1 million years after the Galaxies within their Origins run dry from the inescapable cage of Time."

Time!

Something that even Universal Hegemonies could not escape from, much less Paragons!

Planetary bodies had a factor of time as they would be destroyed sooner or later.

Galaxies had a factor of time as even they would be destroyed!

Galaxy Clusters, Universes...and appallingly even COSMOS could all eventually reach a time where they faced destruction! The period of time was of course an uncountable number of years that reached billions or even more as one went from a Universe to a Cosmos, but the core message was still the same.

None of them could escape the cage of Time!

Even those studying the Law of Time or those studying the Cosmic Dao of Chronos...even these beings could not escape the destination of time.

Even though there was a Legend that the answer to the question and deadly Devastation of time lay in the aforementioned Dao of Chronos, that is a talk for another time!

"To try and beat this time limit of 1 Million years, all Paragons seek to do a single thing that meets another prerequisite to form a Universe- and that is for them to form a cohesive and singular unification of all of their 100 Billion Galaxies."

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"For a Universe to be born, all the Galaxies within a being's Origin must be connected...and all 100 Billion connected Galaxies together can give birth to a Universal Seed! When this Universal Seed blooms...a Universe is born within their Origin!"

WAA!

Noah listened with shining eyes as golden fluids ran down his mouth with every bite of the Fate Apple, his eyes shooting out beams of golden light from Valentina's words!

First it was 100 Billion Galaxies, and then these galaxies all had to be connected as their connection would establish a Universal Seed...and then this Universal Seed had to bloom to birth a Universe!

In her isolated Realm, Valentina had a look of reminiscence as she continued to speak with a sorrowful look.

"But the connection of 100 Billion Galaxies is one of the major obstacles all paragons come across, and this was where the saying that only those destined will ever connect all their Galaxies and birth a Universal Seed. I held a decent amount of Universal Fortune and Destiny that I was able to slowly connect all of my Galaxies...in 400,000 years."

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400,000 years! A genius like the Hegemony of Summoning took nearly half a million years to go from Paragon and become a Universal Hegemony!

"That was me having a tremendous amount of fortune and destiny, allowing me to connect a maximum of 250,000 Galaxies each year until I reached all 100 Billion. Others are not as lucky as I am, their rate of connection reaching less than 100,000 a year as they would need over 1 million years to fully birth a Universal Seed...and they would be long dead at that time!"

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"This is also the reason for the mentality of many of the Paragons you come across, especially the ones that followed the words of Ambrose and chose to be influenced by him. They are beings with a limited time span, most of them knowing that they will die without ever reaching the Realm of a Universe! Unless...they attach themselves to someone of such a Realm and increase their Universal Fortune and Destiny, unless they increase the rate they can connect their Galaxies daily as they beat the 1 million cage of Time."

RUMBLE!

Noah's eyes shone brighter and brighter as he was enlightened to many things, his gaze going down onto his own 100 Billion galaxies as he wondered, just how many years would it take for him to birth his very own Universal Seed?!