"Morgana, give me a preliminary analysis."
"Yes, master…According to my analysis, the Floating City has barely reached a Tier 10 Weapon."
"Barely?"
"Yes. A Tier 10 individual has enough power to destroy a universe with one move. Meanwhile, the floating city would need between 2 to 5 attacks."
"I see. Anything I need to pay attention to."
"Yes. One Aether Core is not enough to sustain the energy required to operate. You need at least three of them or optimize the current core."
"I figure this might be an issue. I'll deal with it. Anything else?"
"Yes, you need to test the new Energy Conversion System as there seem to be some problems with so much energy interacting."
Edward checked the data, and she was correct. Once the Floating City began to harness a tremendous amount of energy, the converter enchantment began to malfunction.
"This only needs more trial and error to modify, so you can deal with it. You're also in charge of installing the technology system. Just show me the final result."
"Yes, sir."
Edward proceeded to work on the Traveling System. With the recent development of Void Energy, he can travel instantly to anywhere as long as he knows the coordinates. However, the system still had to be fine-tuned.
He called Rowena to help him and to see if she could modify and improve the process. And she did. He also took this opportunity to spend some alone time with her.
Once the process ended, he tested. He activated the city and entered the void. As he looked at his environment, Edward felt something different despite not being the first time he was here.
"I'm truly lucky."
Edward knew if it were not for that Void Tear he discovered in Rowena's timeline, he would not have so quickly discovered Omniverse Travel. The best outcome was that he would have found the Astral Realm and other planes.
As for how he could leave the Source Wall and enter the Void, he might have to wait until he reached Tier 12.
"It doesn't matter. Luck is also a part of success."
He activated the city and instantly appeared outside of the Konosuba Universe. He started it again and appeared in the Full-Metal Alchemist Universe. Edward proceeded to revisit all the places he traveled to before returning home.
"Next is the Karma Empowerment System."
The way he planned for the floating city to reach Tier 10 was through the use of Karmic Empowerment. Luckily, his research, Hermione's, and Lily's Arcane Spark made that possible.
His design is to fuse the Underworld and Elysium from Black Clover into a super Arcane Spark for the entire system, allowing it to use Karma Empowerment to boost all its systems–including the attack mode.
For this system, he called for Hermione and Wiz's help. Hermione was currently interested in studying Karma and was even trying to build a Karma Staff with Karma Authority. Meanwhile, Wiz was naturally gifted regarding things of the opposite nature, similar to Yin and Yang.
So, she was a great help when Edward had to ensure Elysium's positive Karma and the Underworld's negative Karma were perfectly balanced in the Arcane Spark.
The final result was a black crystal the size of a ten-story building floating above an empty room. Immediately, Edward entered the Void to test the effect.
"You've succeeded, boss. The Floating City is a Tier 10 Weapons."
"Indeed. Let's get more data."
Edward then traveled to a parallel universe before entering the Mirror Dimension of that timeline where there was no life. Then, after waiting for the Aether Core to recharge, he activated the Divine Spark and fired.
The sight he witnessed was both beautiful and scary. An entire universe, comprised of infinite planets, stars, and galaxies, vanished in seconds. All matter, particles, dimensions, energy, and spirituality, vanished from the face of existence.
'What a scary world we live in,' thought Edward before leaving. After returning to his timeline, he continued his work. He had one thing to add before dealing with the energy issue.
He installed a Rebirth Pond in the city, which he took from Eve's Elysium. A new angel will be born by placing a pure soul in the pond. He even created another birth that gave birth to devils.
'With this pond, I will have a Demon and Angel Legion. Adding to the Golem Legion, the Floating City is a walking armed civilization.'
"Next is the Aether Core."
"Boss, I've discovered something," said Morgana, who suddenly appeared. Then, she showed him a video of the Arcane Spark. Edward saw it was absorbing a bunch of black and white lights.
"What's this?"
"Positive and negative emotions. The Divine Spark can naturally absorb these emotions and convert them into karma."
"Really? That would deal with the issue of slow growth."
Unlike Arcanist's personal Arcane Spark, the one in the city is based on Elysium and the Underworld, which had the natural ability to generate positive and negative karma. However, the process is very slow, so Edward has to be careful about how much karma he uses for empowerment.
But now, he no longer had to worry about this issue–especially since there were plenty of emotions during this war.
"An unexpected but welcome development. Test and gather more data."
While the little elf did that, Edward proceeded to deal with the Aether Core. Because of his Divine Artificer Title, he had Unlimited Stamina when forging, so he did have to take a rest.
The first thing he did was create a second one. Normally, this process was tedious and required a lot of effort to gather so much mana from the leylines.
However, he could now directly absorb mana from the Mana Grid. So, creating a second Aether Core only took a few days. The next step was to optimize the original core.
Edward called Aqua for help. The Water Goddess had an uncanny talent for purification, making her perfect for this task. Of course, Edward had to bribe her for her help. To be exact, he almost tricked her into helping for free, but Kazuma interrupted him, forcing him to pay for her service.
So, after putting a curse on him that would make his life miserable for the next month, he took Aqua away. He immediately plugged her into the second Aether Core to elevate her purification powers.
Then, he had her purify the original core while absorbing a large quantity of mana from the Grid. And his method succeeded. With the mana quantity and quality drastically increased, the Aether Core elevated to contain Tier 10 energy.
Edward also took this opportunity to gather enough data on purification to ensure he would not need Aqua's help when he wanted to create a second Tier 10 Aether Core.
"Truly a masterpiece, boss," said Morgana as she looked at the final result.
"I know, right? However, we shouldn't be too proud since this is nowhere near the pinnacle of Artificer. Alright, let's add the blocker."
Edward went to add a few more enchantments to the city before activating them. Then, nine black magic circles appeared above the city, sending an invisible energy wave throughout the galaxy that no one could detect.
Only Guddnad felt something had occurred, but he could not detect the origin or the exact change until his follower came rushing into his throne room, telling him something significant had happened.
The galaxy had lost connection to the Universe Web. And Guzznad was not the only person who received the news since everyone used the Universe Web for communication.
Meanwhile, the perpetrator of this incident also received the news.
"So, it worked," said Edward. The blocker was simple as an idea. The Mana Grid exuded a unique frequency.
As such, if he used some energy to disrupt that frequency, it could disturb the communication properties that the Tier 10 Gods used. And from the information he received from the future, Anti-Magic was the best power to use as a counter.
So, Edward accessed the part of the grid that flowed throughout the Milky Way Galaxy and disrupted it. That way, the Grid will remain intact in the other part of the universe but rendered useless in the Milky Way.
Outside of the Milky Way Galaxy, seven individuals floated in the void, looking at a purple shield that surrounded the entire galaxy. Multiple color lights flashed from their movies as they used devastatingly powerful attacks against the protection.
They used attacks on the universal scale that would cause a major catastrophe if not for them concentrating all their power on the shield, preventing their strength from spilling. Unfortunately, their attempts were useless–at least, they appeared as such.
"This is pointless," said Lifer, the God of Light, Justice, Balance, and Commerce. He was a man with golden hair and blue eyes, dressed in all white, and a noble aura emanating from him. He had a silver scepter with a bright blue gem on top. "The magus weapon used is probably a quasi-Tier 11 artifact."
"Even more reason we should not give up," replied Nwa, the God of Darkness, Curses, and Cruelty. He was a man with black hair and green eyes, dressed in all black and holding a black scepter with many jewels of different colors.
"Nwa is correct; this might be our only chance at reaching Tier 11," replied Morticia, the Goddess of Death, who had a dark purple robe, silver hair, and holding a cliché scythe. She is also the Goddess of Subjugation, Pain, and the Goddess of Elves indicated by her long ears.
"Don't be a hypocrite, Morticia. We all know you don't want another Tier 10 Death God to appear since it will reduce the power of your [Authority]," commented Lavi, the Goddess of Life, Fertility, Druid, Joy, and Dark Elves. She was a beautiful woman with purple color skin, long ears, and wearing a pure white dress and a crown made of flowers.
A common fact of the universe is if two people reach Tier 10 of the same Authority, their power will be shared, thus weakening both. As such, the top Tier 10 Gods will not allow anyone to reach the same level as them. And this is also the reason they all have secondary [Authorities].
"You all know it's pointless to argue. It's also pointless to keep attacking this shield as we need a better method," added Delilah, the Goddess of Magic, Knowledge, and Communication. She had a blue magic robe with a hood and runes inscribed in different places, along with a wooden staff.
"Isambard, do you have another way?" she asked, looking in the direction of a short man with long red hair and a beard wearing leather armor and holding a large hammer.
"Isambard," repeated Delilah with a slightly raised voice.
"Did you say something?" asked the God of Forging, Runes, Technology, and Dwarves. He did not hear anything as he was too busy admiring the work of the magus race. Many people praised him for being this plane's greatest forger/artificer. Still, Isambard was always humbled when he came across any work belonging to the magus–even the lower Tier ones.
"I ask if you have another method to enter?"
"The only weakness of this artifact is its user. The Tier 9 Death God does not have the power to wield such a powerful item. According to my calculations, even if we do not do anything, in about 5000 years, the artifact will stop working.
"If we can continue to attack, we might reduce it to about 2000 years."
"That's a very short time," commented Nwa. "However, the longer we spend here, the higher the chance that something goes wrong."
"Honestly, I'm surprised these stinky dragons have not come yet," said Morticia with a sneer.
"The news that the dragon temple was searching for the Thunder Dragon King is most likely true," commented Lifer. "However, I could not fathom why Tiamat did not show up; she loved to meddle in other people's business."
The dragon race was, without a doubt, the most powerful race in the plane. However, they were divided into factions: the Dragon Temple with all the Dragon Kings and the Dragon Pantheon led by Dragon God Tiamat.
Because of contradictions that traced back billions of years, these two groups never got along very well–unless the existence of their entire race was threatened.
"Forget all this nonsense," said Ga'nar, the God of War, Blood, Slaughter, and Orcs. He had dark gold armor on his body with an enormous ax. "Nwa, when are you returning the [Cruelty Authority] to me."
The Cruelty Authority once belonged to him but was stripped by Nwa.
"I've won it fair and square."
"How could there be War without cruelty?"
"The same can be said for darkness."
"Enough, Ga'nar. You've agreed to the rules of our alliance. Follow the rules or pay the price," said Lifer with a stern look. Meanwhile, as Ga'nar sensed all these people looking at him with dangerous lights deep in their eyes, he relented:
"Fine."
"I'm worried about the Guardians showing up," said Lavi. And as soon as she said these words, everyone became somber. Their alliance–called the 7 Pillar Patheon– is one of the most powerful factions of this plane. They controlled the Intergalactic Federation, the Universe Web, and the Cosmic Bank.
Although there are many other Tier 10 Gods or individuals, none have conquered as many planes as them, meaning very few factions are on par with them. In strength, they can rival the Dragon Temple or Pantheon individually. Nevertheless, they had to be afraid of the Guardians.
"There is no need to worry," said Delilah. "They are bound by their duty, so they cannot act for their profit."
"Do you think they will not risk everything for a chance at reaching Tier 11?
Commented Morticia with a sneer.
"That may be so, but they would also pay a severe price for breaking their oath," rebutted Delilah. "I'm trying to say that we do not have to worry about them for now. So, let's focus on how to deal with this barrier. Isambard."
"Huh?" he muttered, distracted by studying the shield. "Right, method. The other solution is to have someone from the inside affect Guzznad. As long he is weakened or even distracted long enough, we can use the opportunity to forcefully breakthrough."
"From the inside? We could lure some people to do our bidding," analyzed Delilah. "With the current situation, a promise of salvation is very enticing for man- -"
Delilah stopped her words as she squinted her eyes. She rapidly closed her eyes for a few seconds before opening them with an intense look.
"I've lost access to the Universe Web."
"What do you mean?" quickly asked Lifer.
"Something went wrong with the Mana Grid that ran through the Galaxy. I've completely lost access."
As the Goddess of Magic, she was mainly responsible for the Mana Grid and Universe Web, while Lifer was responsible for the Cosmic Bank. Of course, the others had powers to balance each other, but they were the main leads.
"Does it have something to do with that Arcane Empire?" asked Lavi.
"I don't know, but it is very likely," replied Delilah. "Our guess that they acquired a primary inheritance of the Magus is very likely."
The magus once ruled the plane, spreading through countless planes. According to analysis based on archeology findings, the race had many Tier 11 Powerhouses and controlled 70% of all the planes in the Astral Realm.
Then, they suddenly disappeared. Many people wondered why, but these seven discovered some secrets: the magus wanted to reach Tier 12 and leave the Source Wall. And their disappearance was the result of failure or success.
And from what the group knows, the magus race left their inheritance scattered in different planes. Individuals left most inheritances, but the entire civilization left some; these inheritances were called primary inheritances. Anyone who acquired them could build a Tie 10 Civilization in a short time–if they could decipher it.
"Once we enter, the first thing we must do is get rid of the Arcane Empire," said Lifer. "The way they operate is too similar to the magus race."
"Agreed," said the others.
"But now, we must know how to pass this barrier."
"I may have an idea," added Delilah.
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