Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

After entering his room in the house he built years ago, Corey sat on one of the chairs in his room and exhaled softly.

His eyes became pure white, and he looked in the direction of his stunned sister outside the building.

He saw muttering words of disbelief and confusion, and he could not help but smile.

He watched her for a minute, and then he deactivated his Eyes of Omniscience and his gaze became solemn.

"Nina. I'm ready. Take me to the Paragon Ancestor."

{Alright.}

Nina replied a few moments later, and then a pop echoed only in the room and not beyond it.

A tiny black dot appeared on the wall directly facing Corey, and the black dot began to increase until it became a swirling portal.

{It's stabilized. You can go in.}

Corey stood without saying a word, and then he entered the portal with a calm expression.

A second later, the portal closed with a pop.

Before entering the portal, Corey thought he was going to experience extreme discomfort because he believed that the teleportation to the Paragon Ancestor would take a long time and the distance would be immeasurable.

But to Corey's surprise, it was like opening a door and stepping into a new environment without any sense dissonance.

Unlike the time with the Prince of the Letherions- Prince Zakar'el Eron'Lethe- it hardly felt like teleportation at all.

Apart from this, another thing that stunned Corey was his surrounding.

He had no idea where he might appear and what his environment would look like, but he never expected to appear in a bedroom.

'No. It's not a bedroom but a game room?'

Corey's eyes were truly wide with disbelief and confusion as he looked around.

Because of the king-sized bed that was at the center of the room, he thought it was a bedroom, but when he saw the monitors hanging on the walls, the arcade games in several parts of the room, and the familiar face of the Paragon sitting in front of a large screen with headphones on his head and a gamepad in his hands... Corey was truly stunned.

"What the hell?" He could not stop himself from exclaiming out loud.

The Paragon Ancestor raised a finger. "Hold on. I'm about to win. I'm finally about to beat this woman in this damned game."

Corey was baffled, and then he looked at the screen in front of the Paragon Ancestor. His expression became even more strange.

"Football?" Corey exclaimed in extreme confusion once again, and the Paragon Ancestor stood and shouted.

"Goal!!!!! Take that woman! I finally- Wait! Wait! Wait! What do you mean it's offside?! It's a dying minute goal for heaven's sake!"

Corey stared at the Paragon Ancestor with a stunned and blank expression, not understanding what was going on.

He came here because of the Infinity Crystals and also because he wanted to see if the Paragon Ancestor could tell him anything that would help him with what he wants to do.

Never in his lifetime did he expect to see the Ancestor of one of the strongest races in existence to be playing soccer.

"What the hell is going on?" Corey said with a completely lost expression.

"Damn it! This game would be the end of me! How the hell is that an offside?! She's cheating! She's definitely cheating! And we both agreed not to use our powers!"

The Paragon Ancestor gripped his gamepad tightly, and Corey strangely expected to see the Paragon Ancestor throw his gamepad on the ground or to the wall in anger because his current expression and behaviour was strangely... human?

Fortunately for the gamepad, the Paragon Ancestor controlled his anger by breathing in and out heavily, and then he gently placed the gamepad on the table in front of him.

He turned and looked at Corey. Corey looked at him, and a seemingly long uncomfortable and tense silence permeated the atmosphere.

"Tsk."

The Paragon Ancestor clicked his tongue, and then he scratched his scalp with a frustrated expression.

"And this is why I don't like playing this game at times. See, I've lost all the respect and reverence this kid had in me."

Corey's expression became strange. "... I... I have a lot of questions."

The Paragon Ancestor snapped his fingers, and two comfortable chairs appeared behind Corey and the Paragon Ancestor.

The Paragon Ancestor sat with a slight frown.

"Of course you do. Ask whatever you want, but don't take too much time."

Corey immediately gestured at everything in the room. "What is all this? Why are you playing games? And video games? Aren't you like an all-powerful being? Don't you have duties to attend to?"

The Paragon Ancestor chuckled softly with his headphones still on his head. "You sound like my wife."

Corey's lips twitched, and he was beginning to wonder if he was sitting before a fake Paragon Ancestor.

Before Corey could speak, the Paragon Ancestor spoke while gesturing to the screens and arcade games in the room.

"When you reach the realm I've reached, where time has no meaning to you and there's no longer any path forward when it comes to power... One of the things you'll face is boredom and indifference."

"And I can tell you that those two things are very dangerous to beings like us. That's why you have beings like the Supreme Ancestor who knows nothing but war, death, and conquest."

"And that's why there are many beings in my realm that go to a nigh-eternal slumber. All because they have nothing more to do. All they did throughout their lives was to progress on the path of power, and once that is no longer, they can start looking for other means to while away their time... Unfortunately, many of them either go to sleep or perform evil deeds."

The Paragon Ancestor paused for a moment as a reminiscent light flashed in his eyes.

"I would have been the same, but my wives researched this game called soccer, and they recreated it into something that always keeps me interested and not bored."

"And well... I also get pissed off so many times because of it, so it's both a double edged sword I guess."