Chapter 655: Packing Up and Taking the World Away! Speculations on the Relationship Between the Infinite Tree and Worlds!
[Stella: ??? Hey, hey, hey, what's going on? We just confirmed the main world, and it suddenly merged successfully.]
[Ais: So many points… I've never seen so many zeros.]
[March 7th: Wow! All of them are in the billions! That's too much! I can buy all the juice on the Astral Express!]
[Tingyun: Hmm, this humble one remembers that Miss White Blood Cell and Miss Platelet, the main human population of their world, seemed to be people from Benefactor's world.]
[Chito: Oh, oh, I know! It's Sister Sakura and Sister Kaoru!]
[Ying Zheng: Therefore, worlds within the Administrator's world are considered to have already completed unification by default.]
[Rory Takakura: That's strange then. My Chito is also in Ren-nii's world, but there was no mention of it. Instead, Furina, who isn't in Ren-nii's world, showed successful unification.]
[Esdeath: There's a reason for this. Chito, Furina, tell me what the possibilities are.]
[Chito: This… I'm not sure either. Ren-nii clearly made me a life form of this world.]
[Furina: Ahem, Lady Furina has arrived!]
[Exusiai: Oh, a knowledgeable one has come. Tell us what's going on.]
[Furina: … …]
Furina originally wanted to show off her own wisdom, striking a pose in her room at the Opera Epiclese, but… upon closer inspection of the chat log, she realized she knew absolutely nothing.
[Ch'en: ? You don't know anything either, do you?]
No, I can't lose face! Not in front of so many people from other worlds!
Furina racked her brains, her heterochromatic eyes darting around her room as if the answer were written on the walls. Then, a sudden inspiration struck her like a bolt of lightning.
[Furina: Of course I know! It must be because Ren became the Heavenly Principles of Teyvat!]
That was the only possibility she could think of. The Heavenly Principles were the absolute authority; surely Ren had usurped them?
[Esdeath: Heavenly Principles? Is that an Emperor?]
[Furina: Not Emperor, just Heavenly Principles. The absolute law.]
[Kushina: Even if you say Heavenly Principles, we don't know what Heavenly Principles is.]
[Furina: Hmm! Heavenly Principles… Heavenly Principles is the true controller of Teyvat.]
[Ren: Alright, let me explain.]
Ren was the one who truly had a clue.
[Ren: Becoming the controller of Teyvat, the Heavenly Principles, shouldn't be the key.]
[Ren: In fact, the entire universe of March 7th and their world has also been controlled by me, whether it's the Imaginary Tree or the Aeon Paths, and so on.]
Ren sat comfortably on the plush sofa of his villa, his fingers dancing lightly across the holographic interface only he could see. Around him, the soft hum of the villa's air conditioning and the distant chatter of the girls in the kitchen provided a peaceful backdrop to the cosmic revelations he was dropping in the chat.
He wasn't boasting. He was simply stating facts.
[Ren: Even though I achieved something similar to Heavenly Principles in March 7th's world, there was no notification that March 7th and their world had unified and merged.]
The chat froze for a split second.
[March 7th: Eh? When did this happen? Wait, are you saying you own the universe?!]
[Bronya: This… I don't seem to have heard you mention it in the Chat Group, Ren. The Stellaron Hunters haven't reported anything of this magnitude.]
[Tingyun: This humble one didn't know either.]
On the Xianzhou Luofu, Tingyun paused in her paperwork, her fox ears twitching. A flush of pride colored her cheeks, masking the shock in her eyes.
Her husband actually controlled everything in the universe!
She wasn't angry that Ren hadn't told her; instead, she was extremely proud. That was her husband. A being above Aeons.
[Ren: I indeed didn't mention it in the Chat Group. It didn't feel very necessary. It probably happened when I encountered the Time Calamity King.]
Meanwhile, in a dimly lit room filled with the glow of multiple monitors, a silver-haired hacker sat cross-legged in a gaming chair.
"Crunch."
The lollipop in Silver Wolf's mouth was shattered by her teeth.
The sound was sharp in the quiet room, startling the beautiful, Kafka-esque woman sitting nearby polishing a blade.
"Silver Wolf, what's wrong? Did you lose a match?" Kafka asked, her voice smooth and teasing.
"… …"
After a few seconds of silence, Silver Wolf swallowed the candy shards.
"Nothing," she muttered, her voice uncharacteristically flat. "Just a bit too much strength."
Silver Wolf lifted her eyelids and replied dully to Kafka, but internally, she was screaming.
She was not calm at all!
Her fingers flew across a secondary keyboard, pulling up data streams on the universe's structure, looking for anomalies she might have missed.
[Silver Wolf: ??? Why didn't you say such a big thing earlier?]
[Silver Wolf: Doesn't that mean Ren can do whatever he wants to the universe? Then Elio's outcome... his scripts... they could be easily achieved, right? Or completely rewritten?]
If Ren controlled the Imaginary Tree—the very mechanism that dictated the flow of time and worlds in their universe—then Elio's prophecies were nothing more than fanfiction compared to Ren's authorial power.
[Ren: You didn't ask, it seems.]
[Silver Wolf: Uh…]
A suddenly unrefutable fact. She had been too busy gaming to ask if he had accidentally become God.
[Shiroyasha: Tsk, tsk, tsk, you secretly controlled someone else's universe. You don't have any bad ideas, do you? Like setting rules that all beautiful girls in the universe must wear stockings.]
[Tatsumaki: ???]
[Tatsumaki: Why can something like that be done? Is that even a valid use of cosmic power?!]
[Shiroyasha: If you control the rules of the universe, what's so difficult about setting rules? It's even possible to transform the universe into a game world. It all depends on the Administrator's taste.]
Ren rolled his eyes. Shiroyasha always managed to steer the conversation toward her specific interests.
[Ren: … …]
[Ren: You're overthinking it. I'm not that twisted.]
Game world… that made him think of the "Game World" that relied on wishing with the Star Cup from No Game No Life. Creating a world defined by games wasn't impossible, but enforcing a dress code on a universal scale seemed like a waste of omnipotence.
[Ren: Be serious, let's talk about business.]
This Shiroyasha really knew how to derail a topic. It was like this even in the Chat Group. No wonder she was one of the problem children of Hakoniwa in the past.
[Mikasa: It's so strange. The same process, but not the same result. If controlling the universe doesn't merge the worlds, what does?]
[Yuzuriha Inori: There are still undiscovered differences.]
Ren leaned back, his gaze drifting to the ceiling. The difference was subtle but fundamental. It wasn't about authority; it was about location.
[Ren: There is indeed a difference, because my universe of March 7th is still there, spinning on the Imaginary Tree. But I've already packed up and taken Teyvat.]
[Furina: Ah?]
[Nami: ??? Packed up?]
[Shinobu Kocho: Pack… up and take away? Like takeout food?]
[Kiana: Can a world be packed up like takeout? Is it spicy?]
[Durandal: ...]
Durandal sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. She clearly found that Kiana had a very high learning talent when it came to combat, but she always refused to use her brain seriously for anything else.
Sometimes, what Kiana said was always very jumpy. Just like now.
Ren chuckled, sensing the Valkyrie's confusion.
[Ren: Kiana… come to my place in a while. I need to develop you.]
Develop her body posture and such, and incidentally, develop her brain. Maybe expand her cognitive horizons a bit.
[Kiana: Ah? Develop me? Is it training? Himeko-sensei says I hate studying!]
[Ren: What I mean by 'packing up' can be simply understood as Teyvat being a gem, and I took the gem and put it in my pocket.]
A popular and easy-to-understand analogy.
In reality, it was almost the same.
[Ren: It's just that Teyvat was specifically transformed into a small world on the Infinite Tree. It no longer exists in its original coordinate space; it exists within me.]
This was the key. March 7th's universe was still "outside." Teyvat was "inside."
[Shiroyasha: So, worlds that become your taken possessions will also be recognized as having unified and merged with your world.]
Shiroyasha saw through the essence but also had new doubts. The logic held up, but it raised a philosophical question about the system itself.
[Shiroyasha: But, you are not the master of your world. Why would this judgment be made? Is it just because you belong to that world?]
Ren was stunned.
This question, at first glance, seemed obvious, but it also made his heart clench.
Yes.
Is there a necessary connection between the world belonging to the Infinite Tree and the merging of the world he exists in?
Moreover… Ren would not forget that he was also just a memory that had transmigrated.
He seriously considered the Chat Group's judgment criteria for the first time.
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