Absolute Being is complex character. (Theory)
The Absolute Being is the creator of the universe that Sung Jinwoo comes from. However, he is not unique. There are many beings like him—the Itarim, a species of creator gods who existed before time, space, and all known reality. They dwelled within an extreme nihility that preceded creation itself.
After an eternity in that emptiness, they began creating and destroying universes. Worlds were born, civilizations rose and fell, realities expanded and collapsed. Yet no matter how grand their creations became, it was all the same cycle repeated endlessly.
Creation.
Destruction.
Creation again.
An eternal repetition with no true end.
One day, the Rulers begged the Absolute Being for help in their war. They pleaded with their creator to intervene. Yet he remained completely silent. He did not answer them. He did not comfort them. He did not even acknowledge their suffering.
The Rulers grew furious.
And why wouldn't they?
The Absolute Being possessed powers that should have allowed him to see every possible outcome. He could manipulate reality itself, observe the flow of time, and perceive both the future and the past. If such a being existed, then surely he knew what would happen if he continued to ignore them.
He knew they would rebel.
He knew they would come for him.
He knew he would die.
Yet he did nothing.
He never attempted to explain himself. He never tried to reason with the Rulers. He never defended his throne. When they finally confronted him, he remained seated, calm and unmoving. There was no desperate struggle. No visible resistance. No sign that he feared what was about to happen.
That is why I believe the Absolute Being allowed his own death.
Not because he lacked the power to stop it.
But because he had grown tired.
He created the endless war between light and darkness to entertain himself, hoping that conflict would break the monotony of eternity. Yet even war became another cycle. The same battles repeated endlessly. The same victories. The same losses.
Nothing was truly new.
Nothing was truly exciting.
Perhaps, after an eternity of creating and destroying worlds, the only experience left was the one thing he had never known himself:
Death.
The Absolute Being was a being for whom death should never have existed. Yet for the first time, he may have become curious about it.
What does death feel like?
What does pain feel like?
What does terror feel like?
What lies at the end of existence?
This is where my theory connects to Ashborn.
After his death, the Absolute Being bestowed a new existence upon Ashborn. Ashborn became the Shadow Monarch, embodying concepts such as death, fear, pain, and eternal rest.
I believe these concepts represent the final experience of the Absolute Being himself.
When the spears pierced his body, he felt pain.
As his end approached, he felt fear.
Then came death.
And finally, eternal rest.
The very concepts Ashborn came to embody may have been the final truths the Absolute Being experienced before his own end.
This same pattern appears among the Itarim.
Like the Absolute Being, they spend eternity creating and destroying realities. They wage wars for amusement and manipulate worlds as entertainment. Yet beneath all of that lies the same problem:
Eternity eventually becomes repetition.
And repetition eventually becomes boredom.
Then something unprecedented occurred.
One of their own died.
A creator was killed by a creation.
A being who should have stood beyond death was suddenly confronted by it.
Most gods would react with fear.
Most gods would retreat.
The Itarim did the opposite.
They became excited.
Rather than avoiding the universe where it happened, they rushed toward it. They wanted to witness it themselves. They wanted to understand it. They wanted to experience the impossible phenomenon that had shattered their expectations.
Even when facing beings like Antares and Sung Jinwoo, they displayed fascination more than caution. The possibility of death did not repel them.
It attracted them.
For the first time in eternity, they encountered something genuinely new.
They felt alive.
They felt curiosity.
And as the saying goes:
Curiosity killed the cat.
But in the case of the Itarim—
Curiosity killed the God.
(I asked chat gpt to fix my grammar and wording. 😭 But it's fine, it doesn't change anything that I'm intended to explain. My English suck.) Lol