"You'd think so, but... the thing is, your variant of Alaya is... just as powerful split away as the entire rest of the Alaya's combined. Before, it was passive and part of a hive-mind that they share between each world occupied by humanity, composing a great deal of potential strength for the rest of Alaya to draw on for their own goals." That sounds ridiculous! A single version of Alaya being equal in strength to a the entirety of the rest of them?

"But, why is it so powerful?" You don't mind being told that your version of Alaya is the best and strongest version of Alaya that exists already, but you want to know just why that's the case.

"It's quite simple, it mostly told you how itself, the fact that this timeline has never branched away means that it still contains all of the energy that was used to create it from the original splitting point from. That is to say the world where you don't exist." Wait, so that means that... your version of Alaya, when compared to a version from another timeline, would be able to crush it with ease? Thanks to not losing any energy from a timeline being created? Unexpected, but you suppose it makes sense. Your version of Alaya is very much less like a physical law, and more like a genuine deity of sorts, but it's still strange to think it's meant to be that much more powerful than the rest of them.

Part 31