The All Seeing Eye

I was now at the top of my black tower.  Lady Freud and Athena were with me.  The top of the tower was flat, with two metal arches pointing into the sky on either end of the tower.  At the center of the tower was a metal helmet.  It was made of black iron and had sharp, jagged spikes all over it.  The helmet had large glass goggles on it.  That was it.  There were no big machines, and the helmet didn't need to be attached to anything.  The tower's structure, along with the two large arches, acted to enhance the helmet's power.  Once I put the helmet on, I would be using the All Seeing Eye.

"Is that it?"  Asked Lady Freud.  She sounded a little disappointed.  That was to be expected.  The rumors of the device had become stranger over the years.  People had all sorts of speculations as to what was actually at the top of this tower.

I picked up the helmet.  It was the first time I had ever touched it.  My father had claimed to have never used it as well.  I was holding in my hand my grandfather's legacy.  This was the shame that my father had to bear throughout his life.

"I'm sorry, Dad."  I took a deep breath and carefully placed the helmet on my head.

I suddenly felt my body become very light, as if drifting through the air.  I almost felt like I might fall...  But no...  It was like I was already dead.  My soul was drifting above the towers between the two archways.  I was looking down at me standing on the top of the tower.  I could see myself looking up.  

And it's hard to explain, but my body could see my spirit and my spirit could see my body.  It was like I had multiple sets of eyes that could see everything.

"What's it like?"  I could hear a faint voice.  It sounded like Lady Freud.  But looking at the eyes through the man on the tower, I could see she hadn't moved her lips to speak those words.  They were the words on her mind.  The ones' she was about to speak.  And before she said anything, I was able to answer her.

"I heard your question before you asked it."  Was all I said.  Controlling the little man on the tower took a lot of effort.  It was much easier to float around in my new spirit form than anything else.

And now it came to the crux of my plan.  Hooke had used blue plasma to give Athena her powers, but those powers came at a heavy cost to her sanity.  But there was one way to turn Athena into a God without causing her any harm...

The answers lie within Newton's Sanctuary.  Newton had discovered the secret to immortality.  And even if he hadn't kept his notes, I would be able to discover his secret.  Nothing could be hidden from The All Seeing Eye.  All knowledge could be at my disposal using this device.

The little man on the tower, who was me, looked up with all his power.  And the spirit that was also the little man floated away further.  Actually, time and space didn't matter.  My spirit form was already inside Newton's house.  I recalled everything clearly from my previous time here.

Newton was sitting in an armchair.  His golden eyes were looking down at a piece of paper.  It looked like he was studying something.  Newton was ever the scientist, even after all this time.  He wore no clothes, except his golden chastity belt.  His eyes raised up once, looking right at me.  And I almost feared he could see me, but nobody could see me when I was in my spirit form.  The golden stare of his eyes, though, was fierce.  Newton looked back down at his paper and started writing notes on it.

I looked around the house, using the power of the device to lead me to the secret I wanted to uncover.  There was a bookshelf near the fireplace.  Something I hadn't noticed before.  There were many titles I hadn't seen there before, but it could also be that I was seeing what the bookshelf may have looked like a long time ago.  And I looked in the fireplace.  And I saw something very curious.  There was a silver chain on the floor.  I attempted to grab the chain, but to no avail.  Instead I flew through the blazing fire through a secret trap door in the floor.

Down here was a dark and moldy place.  Brown bricks with must and mildew made up the foundation of this area.  And there were metal bars shaped like a prison cell.  And inside that cell there was someone....  Or what was left of someone.

Inside this cell there was a cut-off head of a person.  But it was still moving.  It was still alive.  The mouth moved as if to speak, but only writhed in pain as it tried to say words.

This man, like Newton, was immortal.  Even having his head cut off could not end his life.  Instead, he spent all his eternity in agony.

"What great villain of Newton are you?"  The head couldn't answer me.  But next to the head was an old tome.  The pages of which were withered with age and impossible to read.  But the name on the book was still legible.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

This man was obviously some scientist, but I had never heard his name before now.

The faded book was the key, though.  No passage of time could stop me from reading it.  I restored the book to the way it should have looked when it was finally completed.  And I use my eye to see the pages as they should be read.  And what I saw was strange.

Calculus?

Yes, and no.  It was calculus, but there was something different about it.  This wasn't the calculus as Newton had presented it in his books.  No, this was a little different.

And something dawned on me at that moment.  This man.  He had been a rival scientist to Newton when Newton was still a mortal man.

And then I came to the end of the book.  The last few pages.  And everything about immortality and becoming a God was written there.

"Wait...  Leinbniz had discovered how to become a God at the same time as Newton?"  No, that wasn't the truth.  The All Seeing Eye could see the real truth.

"Leinbniz discovered how to become a God and Newton stole his idea...."

Yes, that was the truth.  Newton had become a God, not of his own talent, but by stealing it from his archenemy.