Kyle went to the closest inhabited Planet and teleported back to the Array of Stars.
On his way, he experimented with his Personal Law for a bit.
If he used his new ranged attack, he could materialize it from a distance of up to 500 kilometers, which was crazy.
In a way, the attack arrived almost instantly, giving him a brutal weapon.
However, there was an issue.
Generating his illusory hammer required 50% of his Energy, and while he could always reabsorb it to regain that Energy, the same thing wasn't the case if it broke.
If someone broke his illusory hammer when he launched that attack, he would lose half of his Energy.
But it was something!
Evading that attack and even just reacting to it wasn't easy since it just appeared beside the enemy.
How many people in the Compression Realm were actually ready to be attacked by a Personal Law?
Not many.
Kyle returned to his room and took out his Communicator.
'Swamp Dragon is still a Primal. Manny and Long Transformation have already become Crushers. Most likely, everyone's just waiting for me.'
'I technically still have 50 years of longevity left, but let's be serious, that's not that much. I'd rather not let them wait.'
The next moment, Kyle contacted the Chief Overseer. "I'm done. Everything worked out!"
A bit later, the Chief Overseer appeared in front of Kyle and looked at him.
When he saw him, the Chief Overseer sighed in relief. "It's good that you succeeded. Do you understand now why I never talked about Imposing Laws?"
"Oh, is that the actual name?" Kyle asked. "I just kept calling it a Personal Law."
"Both names are accurate," the Chief Overseer said. "Most people call them Imposing Laws since they are Laws that you impose on the universe. You are forcing your Law onto the world, but as I've said, it's also fine to call them Personal Laws."
"How do they work, exactly?" Kyle asked. "I mean, I know how it works, but I want to know if there's a way to improve it."
"There is a way to improve your Imposing Law," the Chief Overseer said. "You simply keep refining it. It's your Law. If you refine the process and make it even more complex, it will naturally become even stronger."
"However, you have to keep in mind that creating a Law of your own is always more difficult than understanding an already existing one. It requires a lot of trial and error."
"During the later Realms, improving your Imposing Law is also a big part of your training, but most Seekers put it rather low in their priority list. The initial creation of your Imposing Law comes with a great increase in power, but every future refinement will only increase your power by a bit. It's a lot of work for little payoff."
Kyle nodded. "Makes sense. Anyway, I'm actually interested now. I've heard Legendary Primals are extremely rare. How rare are they actually?"
The Chief Overseer frowned. "It's difficult to overestimate how rare they are. I can not share any internal data, and I might also not have the privilege to know the real numbers, but I will still give you my opinion on their rarity."
"By my estimates, I believe the Array of Stars sees one Legendary Primal every 1,000 years," he said.
"Oh?" Kyle uttered. "So, like Legendary Transcendents?"
The Chief Overseer frowned. "No, every BRANCH receives about one Legendary Transcendent every thousand years. I'm talking about the entire company here."
"Oh… Oh!" Kyle said, surprised. "How many branches do we have?"
"Every branch has one Star Seeking on average, and there are about one million Star Seekings," he answered.
Kyle took a deep breath.
That was…
"I've been the Chief Overseer for this branch for roughly 900,000 years, and you're the second Legendary Primal I have seen come from this branch," the Chief Overseer said. "The last one became a Legendary Primal over 600,000 years ago."
600,000 years!
That was a long time!
'How old is this guy?' Kyle thought.
"What happened to the last guy?" Kyle asked.
"Died in the Wisdom Fire Realm," the Chief Overseer answered.
Kyle noticed that the Chief Overseer hadn't said anything about how they had died.
"I somehow feel like they didn't die to an enemy," Kyle commented.
The Chief Overseer slowly shook his head and sighed. "He tried too hard."
"Tried too hard?" Kyle asked. "Wait, did you guys kill him?!"
"What? No!" the Chief Overseer quickly corrected before coughing awkwardly to regain his bearings. "He was trying to become a Unique Sage, and he died to his hubris."
"That sounds… dangerous," Kyle said. "I didn't know that becoming a Unique Sage is so dangerous."
"Technically, it's not dangerous," the Chief Overseer said. "In a way, advancing inside the Wisdom Fire Realm is not dangerous by itself, but due to how everyone acts and trains, it quickly becomes dangerous."
"Do you remember how it felt to unlock your eleventh Cluster?" he asked.
Kyle nodded. "500 years of pain and effort."
"Yes, that's basically what the Wisdom Fire Realm is like, but worse," the Chief Overseer said. "It's called the Wisdom Fire Realm because you're refining your mind with the fire of wisdom. The further you advance inside the Realm, the more pain you will experience until you advance. Do you understand how that can be dangerous?"
Kyle took a deep breath.
Yeah, he could totally see how that could become dangerous.
If someone needed to experience 20,000 years of pain to advance a level, and if that person felt like they couldn't continue after 15,000 years…
There was a high chance that they wouldn't be willing to just throw the last 15,000 years away.
Instead, they would try to force it.
They would continue going.
And in a quick moment of weakness, death might seem appealing for some of them. Maybe some of them had even taken oaths to force themselves to continue.
If Kyle wanted, he could detonate the Energy in his Center or move the Energy to his mind and detonate it there.
Within less than a second, he would be able to end his own life.
"Well, if I'm going to die, it won't happen like this," Kyle said with a sigh.
The Chief Overseer nodded. "The likelihood of your death being similar to your predecessor is very low due to your past. However, it is not zero."
Kyle's brows rose. "Is it that bad?"
"Yes," the Chief Overseer answered. "You have to remember that the pain of the Sin Flames adapts to your Realm. While you might feel that you would be able to resist them right now since you have grown a lot, you must keep in mind that they have also grown. If you were to receive Sin Flames right now, to the current you, it would feel just as bad or even worse than how it felt to the past you."
"I've never experienced Sin Flames myself, but I have heard that they are about as painful as the pain you will be under while trying to become a Fulfilled Sage."
Kyle took a deep breath.
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