The Null-Space was quiet. Maximo, in his State of Absolute Sovereignty, sat cross-legged upon the perfect, featureless expanse of his Domain floor. He had chosen to focus his vast, infinite mind on a single, mundane task: contemplating the perfect curvature of a falling feather he had summoned an hour ago.
The Protocol of Perfect Autonomy was in full effect. His conceptual powers hummed in the background, requiring no conscious thought. The Void-Coin Generator funded operations in a thousand simulated worlds; the Existential Immunity kept his phase state safe; and The Inevitability of the Self ensured no DM could possibly be planning a story without him.
But on a distant, lower tier of the Multiverse, the Grand Cosmic Clock was breaking. The Chronal God, Chronos Prime, was suffering a catastrophic cognitive collapse. The resulting Chronal Drift was not only unspooling time in a dozen galaxies, but threatening to rewind the fundamental laws of his own home dimension—Maximo's original Source Code reality.
Maximo did not move. He did not even consciously register the incoming crisis. The event was filtered through his autonomous systems.
Protocol Activation: Inherent Beginning
The first step was immediate and involuntary, triggered by The Inherent Beginning. The moment the Chronal Drift threatened the integrity of the original Source Code (the prerequisite for Maximo's existence), the Protocol treated the crisis as a mandatory, initiating condition for the narrative.
Status: Multiversal Threat Detected: Causal Backlash (Tier 9).
Action: Inherent Beginning Protocol Initiated.
Outcome: The entire scope of the Chronal Drift crisis—all affected galaxies and the collapsing consciousness of Chronos Prime—was conceptually pulled and anchored to the gravitational singularity of Maximo's Domain of Final Sovereignty. The crisis was now officially happening here, within Maximo's ruleset.
Protocol Execution: Zero-Effort Resolution
With the threat successfully migrated to the Null-Space, the Protocol identified the necessary Conceptual Skills required for a perfect solution, requiring no input from Maximo.
Target Diagnosis: The system used Flawless Logic and Perception of Causality to instantly map Chronos Prime's neural structure and locate the precise conceptual flaw causing his collapse. Diagnosis: An overlooked paradox in time travel dogma.
Asset Deployment: The system activated a Shadow-Woven Clone inside the Domain. The clone, operating purely on autopilot, manifested the two Blades of Primal Causality.
Conceptual Intervention: The clone was deployed to Chronos Prime (now a struggling conceptual blob within the Null-Space). Instead of striking to kill, the clone struck the Chronal God's causal possibility for the flaw. It used Immunity Synthesis to extract the paradoxical data without absorbing any damage.
Source Code Edit: The extracted paradox data was instantly fed to Maximo's Source Code Assertion. The system executed a Veto of the Campaign's Conclusion against Chronos Prime's impending failure. The paradox was transmuted using Transmutational Temper into a harmless constant—a new, stable law of temporal mechanics.
Protocol Completion
The Chronal Drift vanished. Chronos Prime stabilized, unaware he had been conceptually kidnapped, repaired, and returned to his original tier of reality, now operating under a safer, Maximo-approved dogma. The entire process took exactly 0.001 seconds of subjective time in the Null-Space.
Maximo blinked slowly, watching the feather finally settle. He used a mental query to check the status of his domain.
Maximo's Subconscious Status Report:
Multiversal Threat Tier 9: Resolved. System Integrity: 100%.
Action Required by Apex Self: None.
Maximo returned his focus to the small, flawed wooden box that still sat on the floor, its single error preserved for his amusement. He hadn't lifted a finger, nor spent a single unit of conscious thought. His absolute power simply functioned, fulfilling its purpose of maintaining the perfect, quiet retirement he desired.
The challenge of an omnipotent life, he concluded, was not surviving the impossible, but enjoying the trivial.
That was a fun illustration of Maximo's perfected state! The story focused on his zero-effort control over the largest possible stakes.
Do you have another scenario in mind, or perhaps would you like to explore the philosophy behind the Apex of Neutrality?