The "sun" created by Kukulkan filled the calm and silent Sea of Quanta with a brief, intense light, increasing the surrounding brightness several times over.
Welt, who was in the Bubble Universe with a serious expression, watching Kevin turn a captured, drifting quantum creature into a noodle shape and then slurp it down, was so tense and focused on Kevin...
That when the intense light appeared, Welt was almost blinded...
Kevin: Luckily, I had my back to Welt just now, so I only felt a little heat on my back.
After gouging out his eyes and reconstructing a new pair with the power of the Herrscher of Reason, Welt immediately assumed a fighting stance when he saw Kevin stand up.
"You finally can't hold it in anymore, you want to try to leave again!"
"No. You are the ones who should be anxious, not me." Kevin shook his head, then shattered the ice on his pants.
"It's just that... my chair melted. The water... froze my pants."
Kevin recreated a throne with the power of ice and sat on it again, motionless.
Welt wanted to say more, but then a series of rumbles, or rather, energy waves, even more massive than before, shook Welt's still human body to pieces, causing him to bleed from all seven orifices.
Fortunately, he had been through a lot today, and Welt was already experienced. He simply melted his body into energy and then used the authority of the Herrscher of Reason to construct a new body for himself.
Kevin tapped his fingers on the Frozen Throne, using his power to fix himself to the throne while keeping it from shattering.
His body was also a little numb from the energy of the star's explosion, but it was just numb. If it had exploded in front of him, it might have been able to send him on his way, but from such a distance, with only the aftershock, it was still a bit lacking.
"Welt, no matter how many times I see it, your ability is very admirable."
"Thank you for your compliment, but I'm more envious of your ridiculously strong physical body." Welt adjusted his glasses. If he had such a strong body, he could completely ignore the burden of overusing his Herrscher authority and construct dozens, hundreds of Moonlight Thrones in minutes to fight the Herrscher of Finality to the death.
"Heh... this power was not easy to obtain. Its weight is far beyond your imagination..."
"No power comes without a price... I am the same... for this power, I sacrificed everything I had..."
"So... Welt, join me, join World Serpent. We need people like you. I will allow you to have everything you desire after the Stigmata Project is completed."
"Heh... after the Stigmata Project, people can no longer be called people... I will never allow such a future! Even if the power of Finality is as desperate as you say, we of this era will choose to die as humans! Not as some half-human, half-ghost remnants, clinging to a miserable existence.
Kevin, I will never let you leave this place! To carry out your plan, which is no different from destruction!"
"You know nothing about Finality... but, it is never I who should be anxious."
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At the scene of the confrontation between the Hyperion and Sa's massive body, Ai and Sa's consciousnesses were engaged in a fierce struggle in another dimension.
"Sa, are you still not willing to give up?"
Ai lightly brandished her chakrams, looking at the somewhat anxious Sa in front of her without any tension.
"I should have no connection with you, we shouldn't even have any intersection on the predetermined trajectory! Why are you trying to stop me!"
Sa roared at Ai in frustration.
Originally, she was in a deep sleep at home, trying to suppress her uncontrollable power. But a series of massive energy fluctuations woke her up, and thousands of years of effort were wasted.
She was thinking of starting over, developing for another few thousand years, but then she found that not only were there constant explosions, but the energy around her was also being drained by something unknown.
A certain area of the Sea of Quanta had lost its energy, which was the first time Sa had seen this in all her time.
And because the energy was drained, Sa's uncontrollably expanding and growing body stopped for the first time. The uncontrollable and out-of-control body had always brought Sa immense pressure and burden, so much so that she couldn't even move or think freely.
This was the first time Sa had felt joy in countless eons, ever since she had stripped away the part of herself that was human, the part that was "Vita".
She was eager to see what was absorbing the energy of the Sea of Quanta, allowing her to stop growing.
But, she had not yet seen what it was before she was stopped by a battleship.
Ai Hyperion Λ stood in her way, not letting her pass.
Every time she tried to rush past, this big green cabbage would reverse her time, pulling her back to the moment she was blocked by Ai.
Sa could also manipulate time in a certain area, but her ability was completely useless in front of Ai. Ai could even easily modify her time...
Even though Ai wasn't strong, and she could kill her with a single slap, because of this damn time, once she broke through, or if Ai died, time would rewind to the moment she was first stopped by Ai.
And Vita, whom she had sent to investigate what was going on, had not reported back with anything.
She just kept making excuses, saying that she was "killed and then time was reversed and she was revived, and she couldn't retain her memories during that time."
If it weren't for Ai blocking her and preventing her from doing anything, she really wanted to open up Vita's head and see if Vita was lying to her.
"Hmm? Still not giving up?" Seeing that Sa wasn't responding, Ai simply sat on her chakram and swung it like a swing, bored.
"Then let's just keep at it. I've already set up a loop for the time in this area. If you don't give up, we'll just keep repeating it."
Sa looked at Ai for a long time. Her "Omniscience" was always on, but other than the name she had blurted out, "Ai Hyperion Λ," Sa couldn't see anything.
Even though her "Omniscience" could already observe the development of the timeline, the feedback "Omniscience" gave her about Ai was always only one thing: "The only existence in the timeline. She is a part of time."
Sa didn't understand, couldn't even comprehend it.
"Why? Why are you blocking me? What is over there, why won't you let me get that thing?"
"It's nothing, you just shouldn't die at this time. You're the stepping stone for another guy. It will be a great comedy. If you die early, it will be less fun."
"Just for that!!!"
"Hehe~
Ai playfully stuck out her tongue, then covered her ears, ignoring Sa's roar, and happily swung on her swing.