"The above seven types of energy are known as Anti-Crisis Energy. The existence of these energies ensures the stable operation of the cosmos. Each serves its purpose, yet they are interconnected, forming the cornerstone and pillar of the cosmos."
"Apart from Anti-Crisis Energy, there is also the corresponding Crisis Energy. These Crisis Energies are the terrifying forces that can destroy the cosmos, each capable of leading to cosmic annihilation and mass extinction. They include Tears of Extinction, Static Power, Invisible Spectrum, Wind of Nothingness, Sixth Mark, Despair, and Black Apple."
"What exactly are they used for?" Primary Universe Batman asked. Although he had heard several familiar terms, such as Divine Speed and Emotional Spectrum, most of the others were unfamiliar, even to the extent that he'd never heard of them before.
"The Life Force and Tears of Extinction represent the evolution and destruction of the soul. It can be said that the soul of every life in the cosmos comes from the Life Force and heads towards the demise of Tears of Extinction."
"Divine Speed and Static Power can also be understood as entropy increase and decrease. The former is the force propelling the cosmos forward, while the latter is a force of stagnation. Although they are carried by speed, they are much deeper and more significant."
"Emotional Spectrum and Invisible Spectrum symbolize the emotions within the cosmos, one of the origin powers of God's creation. You should be quite familiar with the Emotional Spectrum, while the Invisible Spectrum corresponds to it as a colorless light, like a shadow under the light."
"Divine Power and Wind of Nothingness are the sources of all divine powers, including the powers used by all angels like Lucifer within the cosmic framework, derived from Divine Power. Wind of Nothingness can take away their powers, but only those manifested within the tangible cosmos; it cannot strip away their Universe administrator authority."
"Dimensional Structure and Sixth Mark signify the forces constructing and dismantling structures in the cosmos. If the cosmos is understood as a house, Dimensional structure is like walls and pillars, while the Sixth Mark can be seen as an excavator."
"Power of Faith and Despair Power represent the belief and despair of all lives or can be understood as belief and disbelief. This belief indicates both a faith toward goodness and devotion to God. I think Despair Power could also be renamed as Pride Power."
"Moreover, the most important elements I mentioned, Collective Unconscious and Black Apple. Collective Unconscious provides wisdom to all lives, affecting their cognition constantly. Additionally, the power of all mind power users originates from the Collective Unconscious, meaning mind power users are more profoundly influenced by it."
"The Black Apple represents cognitive collapse, symbolizing the destruction of all knowledge and wisdom, making everything unrecognizable, effectively declaring the destruction of the World of Order."
"I know using these terms might sound confusing, but what you really need to understand aren't many. The Structure and Dimensional Power are analogous to the cosmos' hardware, which is the computer itself. Divine Speed, Vitality, and Emotional Spectrum are the software system of this computer, and every software's operation relies on their support."
"Divine Power and Power of Faith belong to external forces. One is exclusive for divine use, generally inaccessible, and the other has some higher-dimensional attributes, which means 'belief is existence.'"
"The only somewhat special element is the Collective Unconscious. It acts as the connection between software and hardware, functioning as a software decoding tool based on hardware. If this is compromised, all writing functionalities become ineffective, leading to cosmic cognition collapse."
"But you said Collective Unconscious represents the wisdom of life. Since that's the case, it should fall under the category of software. Why does it affect the cosmos' structural framework?" Batman astutely noticed a logical flaw.
"This leads to discussing the fundamental logic of cosmic operation," Greed sighed and said, "The fundamental logic of our cosmos is that which is unobserved is nonexistent. As for why, even if I explained, you would dismiss it as nonsense, so I won't elaborate further."
This statement startled Little Superman; indeed, Greed's earlier elaboration on settings was entirely lost on him. When he reads comics, he detests spending time on such settings, typically finding them in lengthy passages written in ancient English terms, seemingly sourced from some obscure corner, entirely beyond his knowledge scope.
Although he suspected Anatoli may have forced him to memorize these, possibly stored somewhere in his super brain, he was too lazy even to recall them. Not until Greed uttered those words did he understand what "unobserved means nonexistent" entails.
From the reader's perspective, if it isn't drawn, it doesn't exist. From the writer's perspective, whatever is not drawn is not designed. It doesn't exist in the reader's cognition, nor does it exist in the writer's mind, thus, it doesn't exist in the entire cosmos.
Consequently, everything existent must appear in comics, at least mentioned in passing, observed by a character, or narrated from the God's viewpoint, ensuring it gets recorded within the comic, thus being truly "existent."
From this viewpoint, the most crucial among the seven forces is Collective Unconscious. Since the Collective Unconscious holds the wisdom of life, intelligence dictates what they can eventually perceive.
It might be a bit complex to say, but Little Superman quickly thought of using comic book plots as a metaphor. For example, comparing Batman with himself, Batman's wisdom is higher than his own, so he must recognize more things. When making a plan, Batman certainly investigates information and produces equipment. But if it were him, he would probably charge ahead directly.
It's not because he doesn't want to be as meticulous as Batman, but because the upper limit of wisdom is just there. Most Supermen are like this. They also want thorough consideration and flawless planning, but the hardware is in place, and the software is not; it really can't be done.
This implies that the wisdom allocated by the collective unconscious to an individual will determine the amount of cognitive information, as well as what can be recognized and what will never be observed, thereby influencing the cosmos structure.
Suppose the collective unconscious is extremely stingy, with everyone's average level of wisdom very low. Then all life might always remain on their planet like monkeys, climbing trees and eating bananas. How much could they recognize?
Not being able to recognize the cosmos structure means it doesn't exist. Then watchers, anti-monitors, world forgers, and creator goddesses wouldn't exist either. After all, who would watch this group fighting monkeys?
Conversely, if the collective unconscious grants extremely high wisdom, quickly entering the phase of exploring the multiverse and pursuing cosmic truth, writers would have to map out the entire cosmos structure, and those cosmos forgers would have to appear early; otherwise, they couldn't explain where the cosmos came from.
Batman understood Greed's hint. He knew the so-called gibberish actually referred to matters related to high-dimensional observers and similar existences. Greed was inconvenient to speak directly with them, using this way to refer instead.
"Well, this is interesting," Batman said, "Do you have some way to influence the collective unconscious?"
Greed nodded. Surprisingly, Batman knew because, during the game with Brainiac, Bishop demonstrated such an ability, and the Robins all knew. It was just that Batman might have thought the collective unconscious was merely a psychology concept, not as one of the origin powers of the cosmos.
If this is viewed as a superpower, the operational scope would be enormous. Writing cognition is like creating the cosmos, undoubtedly possessing a part of God's authority. Could the Gray Ring that turns illusory into reality also stem from this?
Using this power, I can make people recognize something nonexistent, and once recognized, it will be written in, gaining corresponding attributes.
Primary Universe Batman still frowned and said, "But our universe isn't the same as that where the Outer Gods reside, right? If you can't control the universe where they reside, how would you create Outer Gods?"
"Indeed it's different, but there's some connectivity," Greed explained, "And the form of connection isn't like two Great Worlds. Beings from the Cthulhu Mythos can project here. Similarly, beings here with the Cthulhu attribute can also go to the depths of the stars."
Due to lacking certain perspectives, Batman didn't quite understand. Little Superman next to him was anxious to speak but ultimately held back.
To put it simply, the Cthulhu Mythos is open copyright, or rather not copyright but a style. Style is not restricted by copyright.
It's similar to how Disney owns the copyright to Disney characters but doesn't own the copyright to the rubber hose animation style. Anyone in the world can use the rubber hose aesthetic from the original Mickey Mouse for creation, and Disney can't pursue legal actions.
Nowadays, just adding a setting of blind foolish infatuation can be deemed Cthulhu style, and no one would have objections. Both DC and Marvel have many characters with this style.
On the contrary, characters created in American comics with a Cthulhu style can be integrated into the Cthulhu Mythos. Greed utilizes this point; as long as a character with a Cthulhu style is created in this world, it earns a ticket to the depths of the stars. Creation thus requires borrowing the collective unconscious's power to turn illusory into reality, so that the created character truly becomes that.
As for the content of creation, that can only be entrusted to Nya's dedicated writer Constantine. As a renowned author who has already successfully created several Cthulhu-style suspense novels, he is quite adept in this aspect.
Constantine himself is very interested in writing Iron Man as a Cthulhu-style character. Undoubtedly, this is a challenge for any writer because Iron Man becomes a superhero through technology, and technology itself represents order, the pride of human research and creation. To turn technology into unknown terror is indeed challenging.