Vicente was in a very special state. In this state, he could extend his mental power or divine sense across the entire earth.
Whether it was the bottom of the sea or the whole surface of the earth, every stone, blade of grass, trees and living beings, everything was within his sight.
He began to contemplate the entire earth. If placed in the terms of xianxia novels, he should have reached something similar to enlightenment.
But he himself didn't notice this, he just found it very beautiful to contemplate his entire home planet.
Yes, he realized, even finding it bizarre that his universe had not been created by any mythology.
He wasn't an obsessed person who would have his faith broken by discovering that the existence of his God wasn't real.
Looking at the planet in front of him, he observed all the historical points recorded in books.
Things like
The First and the Second World War
The unification of China.
As well as its various empires.
He saw the beginning of its republic.
He also saw Brazil, well, he looked at the time of slavery.
And he also looked at its liberation.
Other countries also had their moments, and I witnessed all of them.
Looking at all human history, even though he was a little surprised by the existence of aliens, it wasn't that much.
He doesn't know very well, but he feels that something inside him solidified?
It's a strange feeling, but he feels that it isn't bad and his emotions seem freer and happier?
He will look into that later, because he looked at his tiny version growing at an accelerated rate and was surprised.
He didn't remember the name of that "person" unless he focused, and that's because it is himself.
If it were others it would be even worse. He looked at the records in his brain and realized that the name Vicente Gabriel never existed.
Vicente: "Creepy."
Even knowing this would happen because of Ellie's warning, it is still bizarre to suffer from this.
Time passed. After he left, he realized that his relatives didn't notice anything abnormal.
He was surprised, not about that, he thought it was normal. What surprised him was the case of the dog.
A dog was injured and killed by teenagers.
The teenagers fled to other countries, but it was such a big case that the residents of that country deported them by force.
Vicente: "Unfortunately Brazil doesn't have the death penalty, not only for these cases, so after some time they will be free again and act as if nothing happened."
"The same happens with pedophiles and rapists."
"I can consider myself a villain, but the only things I can't stand are rape in real life and pedophilia."
"Children should be protected and have a happy childhood, because when they become adults most of them will be screwed."
"When I was a child I always heard adults saying to enjoy childhood because it passes quickly and adult life is depressing."
"I thought it was just a way to scare kids, but when I grew up I didn't even need to become an adult, in my adolescence I was already screwed."
Vicente thought angrily for a while, until when he wanted to see the continuation of the case and how Totó, my dog, was.
He realized that the people who did such an act weren't punished at all, their parents were fine too.
The parents of those who committed the act were rich, and how to say it, if you have money you have the world.
Especially in Brazil where politics is crap and money really can buy everything.
Today it was a dog that was ignored,
tomorrow it will be a child, then a homeless person. Even if those people don't do anything else, Vicente can already predict.
Brazil will go through a dark era with crime by teenagers and the rich skyrocketing.
Especially teenagers who are about to turn 18 but still haven't, they will be protected and then sent away as if nothing happened.
If Brazil doesn't adapt a new law it will turn into chaos.
Although if it's a poor kid killing someone the treatment will be different, the rich are still the minority among Brazilians, right?
Vicente: "It's a pity I still can't return to Earth, otherwise I would like to bring my animals to evolve."
"As for changing Brazil, changing the world or conquering it, I have no interest, it's too annoying."
"Honestly, I envy China for having those strong travelers who, as long as they see China in any world, protect it."
"Well, even if they say there is brainwashing by the government, it doesn't change the fact that if the government were only bad it wouldn't be protection but destruction."
"I don't deny that there is crap or injustice in any country or place in the world, but it's really complicated to be the target of injustice in Brazil."
"Observing all this, whether in the past or now, it just seems that humans evolved in technology and regressed in wisdom."
"Technology didn't increase human morality or wisdom, it only brought weapons of mass destruction to idiots who caused damage to the earth."
Vicente remained completely silent floating in the river of time when suddenly—
(CRAAASH)
Abruptly, in the river of time, a sound of glass breaking echoed.
Vicente almost had a heart attack but he didn't have a physical body at the moment, so he couldn't.
No normal person would "break" the river of time even if it was just a branch.
The river of time guards all history and connects past, present and future until the end of the world itself, whether from the main timeline or parallel worlds.
To "break" the river of time you would suffer heavy cause and effects that could even lead to the death of certain powers.
Now you tell me that he simply saw someone "breaking" the river of time, how could someone so "cowardly" stay calm.
Then while he was going crazy he heard a voice laughing coming from that darkness.
The voice was strange, like those voices when the news hides the face and someone confesses something.
Unknown voice: "Hahahahaha wow wow, let's see what we found here, I didn't expect to find you here exactly at this moment."
"In the future you will know who I am. I'll talk fast before you react. There's no use calling me sir, senior, great god, because the punch I'm going to give you won't be smaller because of that."
"It's not the right moment for you to be here. Go after the rest of your body, you bastard."
"Honestly, I've wanted to do something like this for a long time."
Before Vicente could even understand what the hell this existence was talking about.
He saw something like a fist coming out of that hole and when he reacted it was already enlarging in his field of vision.
With enormous pain on his face, Vicente didn't even ask why his strange body could be hit. He doesn't think he is greater than the river of time.
Following the logic that time could be broken, it's normal that he could be hit.
When he woke up again he was already in the shop with Ellie looking at him with a subtle face.
Ellie: "Master, you really had considerable gains this time, clearly very different from the amount you spent."
Vicente didn't hear properly, his face still hurt. When he adjusted, he saw Ellie looking at him speechless.
Ellie: "Master, your trip was really refreshing, looking at your own past, entering the river of time, watching the creation of a universe."
"Watching the fight of two supremes, watching different life forms, civilizations in space, watching a bit of the future of your world and then getting punched by some unknown existence."
"I just found it strange that I didn't feel the pain of the punch. Since you are the shop and I am the spirit, I can be considered your clone."
"Logically this person must really know us and be strong enough to hit only your face while avoiding me."
"Master, do you have any clue who you could have irritated enough to want to punch you like that?"
Vicente rubbing his face in pain answered:
"Regardless, I only know that when I meet this bastard I will return the punch."
"Logically looking at what he said it means he wanted to punch me for a long time but obviously couldn't."
"So either I grew too fast and he became weak, or he is still weak and needs my 'help' at the moment."
"Possibly I implemented the plan I had been thinking about for a while and he might have been one of the successful users."
"Because he feared I would identify his past version he hid his voice."
"Of course regardless of the situation he definitely doesn't want me to know his identity at all."
Ellie: "Indeed that seems to be the correct logic. The master's previous plan maybe couldn't be done due to lack of strength, but now with your ascension to 'level 1' the shop has recovered a bit."
"Even if it's incomparable to its peak, it's enough to start. After we upgrade we can improve the situation. For now that's it."
Vicente: "Perfect, it would be even better if I hadn't taken that punch."
"So we'll do it that way. Speaking of that, where is my adopted little sister Lisa?"
About how Vicente knows the name of the child he adopted even though she fainted before he asked is simple.
Everyone who enters his territory (the shop), if they aren't stronger than him, will have a data panel showing names, qualifications and age.
Obviously Ellie also has this ability, so they know her name and that she is 9 years old.
Lisa also wasn't very surprised that they knew her name even though she never said it, because in her mind gods are omnipotent.
Ellie: "Master, she woke up a little over an hour before you. I made food for her according to your memories and she liked it a lot."
Vicente: "Very good indeed. And how long have we both been sleeping?"
Ellie: "If you're talking about time like Earth's time, you two have been sleeping for one month."
Vicente: "One month is much less time than estimated. I was already prepared to wake up and thousands of years had passed."
Ellie was speechless: "It's not that exaggerated, master. If that happened it would be far in the future, probably levels 9 and above."
Vicente: "Indeed hehe, then let's go see my new dear little sister."
With that Vicente headed toward the kitchen.
Ellie: "Master, she's eating and watching TV in the living room."
Vicente then turned, left the room and went to the living room.
(End of chapter)