At the age of 2,500, Zero returned. He came back with a new form called the Golden Form. His body was covered in golden marks, his energy more dense and wild than ever before. He had trained in strange, hidden places where time and space broke apart. He said only one thing to Ian: "This time, I will win."
At the age of 2,503, their fight ended. It had lasted three years from the outside, but to them, it felt like only seconds. They moved so fast that time around them stretched and slowed. Planets aged and stars died while their fists met in less than a blink. In the end, Ian, of course, won, Zero fell, defeated once again. But the cost was great, half of the First Universe cracked under their power. Adam and the True God of Space acted fast, mending the broken sky and the bent worlds. After the repairs, the True God of Space gave Ian a sharp warning: "If this happens again, even Adam will not protect you. I know I can’t beat you but the Devils can."
At the age of 2,505, Ian took Zero’s preserved body and began devouring it for biomass. He gained almost 30 million biomass points. He consumed half of his biomass to change his very being. He reshaped his blood and his core. From that point on, he no longer needed to transform. All of his past forms were now one with his base self. He became the True Paths God. As a result, his base form had no weakness, and his vampire traits were now perfect. He had reached something new, beyond bullshit forms, beyond power-up.
At the age of 2,600, the God Realm stayed silent. Many gods and true gods avoided Ian, while others watched him from afar. He was no longer just a true god in their eyes. He had become something that did not follow their laws. Meanwhile, small wars began to grow in the 10th Universe, which had long been forgotten by many.
At the age of 2,671, the Grand Devil sensed the rising threat in the 10th Universe. Titans and Primordial Beasts were clashing. Whole galaxies were vanishing. She reached out through Adam and called for Ian. She said, "Go, and bring silence to their madness."
At the age of 2,678, Ian began his journey to the 10th Universe. But on the way, something strange happened. A time vortex opened without warning and pulled him inside. He was tossed through time like dust in the wind. He tried to resist, but the flow was stronger than him.
At the age of 2,709, Ian woke up and realized he had gone back in time. The stars, the sounds, the space around him, it was all from the past. After checking, he found out he was back at the age of 1,350. Everything he had lived through... he would have to go through again.
At the age of 1,350 again, Ian accepted the truth. He was angry, but fear sat quietly in his heart. The time vortex had shown him that even gods were not safe from fate.
At the age of 1,351 (again), Ian quietly asked Adam about the Time Vortex. Adam went quiet at first, then slowly shared what little he knew. He said it was tied to something called Lost History, a part of time that all beings had forgotten, even the gods. Adam said no one knew if it was erased by force or if time itself just ate it.
At the age of 1,352, Ian began to forget that part of the talk. He remembered speaking with Adam. He remembered asking something important. But the moment he tried to recall the words "Time Vortex," his thoughts blurred, and his memory turned silent like a dream fading away.
At the age of 1,353, Adam said he knew one who might help, Main God Suelo. But then he warned, "Suelo is not kind. Sometimes he smiles, and sometimes he erases people for asking dumb things. Even I stay away from him." Ian gave up on the idea at once.
At the age of 1,355, Ian made a choice. If time wanted to trap him, then he would fight it in his own way. He began changing things, small things at first, then bigger ones. When he sensed the Conspiracy of the True Gods growing again, he crushed all of them in one move, reducing them to pulp. But this time, he did not kill them. He left them alive, broken and scared, as a warning.
At the age of 1,368, a minor god discovered a way to send thoughts through dream-planes. This did not happen in the last timeline. The god later disappeared, and Ian suspected he had been erased by higher beings for knowing too much.
At the age of 1,379, the Sword of Dawn, once buried deep in the Star Graveyard, was found early due to Ian secretly changing the search paths of a group of explorers. That sword ended up with a child who didn’t do anything significant in the last timeline.
At the age of 1,420, Ian gave up his right to judge rising gods, a job he once held for 300 years. The God Council replaced him with a True God who later caused small wars across the mid-realms. These wars did not exist before.
At the age of 2,100, Ian stopped a fight between two star dragons. One of them, in the past timeline, had destroyed three worlds before dying. This time, both dragons lived.
At the age of 2,678 (again), the Grand Devil called on Ian to stop the war in the 10th Universe. Ian refused. He believed this would avoid the Time Vortex. He even stayed inside the First Universe and hid in a silent field of broken planets.
At the age of 2,679, the Time Vortex appeared anyway, right in front of him. It took him by force before he could escape. He screamed in rage as he was pulled in.
At the age of 1,351 (for the third time), Ian woke up again. The sky looked the same. The sounds, the feelings, the flow of time, it was all the same. He was back. Again. And this time, fear was joined by a deep, burning hate for the thing that kept dragging him back.