บท 190: Project Pangea (II)
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King Nedakh was surprised despite not showing it on his face. The royal family has just decided to take action against the Arcane Empire, yet they have already received the news. This could only mean that the higher echelons of their kingdom have been infiltrated.
This made him furious and worried at the same time. However, he could not display his emotions in the current situation.
"What are you talking about? The Kingdom of Atlantis has not done anything, but you have attacked us."
"I do not care if you want to deny accountability," replied Edward calmly. "My attack just now was just a warning. Next time, I will send my armada to break your shield and destroy your kingdom.
"By then, even your precious Sea God could not save you."
The hand of King Nedakh on the throne squeezed the harm rest, forming a dent on the metal. He wanted to shout and roar but did not dare. In the past, he feared the technology of the Arcane Empire, but not the people.
But now, he just witness the Emperor use one spell and almost destroyed their shield. In the past, this would not have been possible. To be exact, 5 years ago, this should not be possible.
'How could his strength increase so much in just five years?' thought the king. Although he wanted to know, there was currently no way. So, he snorted coldly before ending the conversation.
Then, the mermaid who was holding the crystal rapidly swim under the ocean, fearing that the Arcarne Emperor would unleash his wrath on her; she was just the messenger, so she did not want to die for no reason.
Edward ignored the Atlantean King. When he first discovered the City of Atlantis, he was quite excited and even sent someone on a diplomatic mission. However, the response of these people was quite arrogant and even injured his messenger.
He understood the mentality of these people. They hated muggles for polluting the ocean. Oddly though, they did not intervene. As for the magical sides, they disdained how weak and backward they were. So, they never interacted or intervened.
Over the years, he tried to make diplomatic relationships with the Atlantis Kingdom to exchange knowledge and resources. But he received the same treatment. So, he stopped trying.
He trained a powerful navy and created special spaceships designed for both naval and cosmic battles. Armed them with powerful weapons and placed them under the sea.
Between the many small conflicts between the two nations, the Atlanteans have always been the ones who suffered. The only reason that Edward has been patient with them so far was that he knew that Atlantis existed in many universes, so he feared that some powerful being would have an issue if he destroy this one.
Additionally, they may have a weapon with the power of Tier 5 or 6.
However, after his return trip and his conversation with Merlin, he did not have that fear anymore. He still will not antagonize the kingdom. After all, he did not want to rely on Merlin for everything.
Nevertheless, he will still take a more aggressive approach when dealing with them.
After sending King Nedakh away, Edward began to focus on the task at hand. Under his supervision, all the continents and scattered islands fit together almost perfectly.
As for the missing gaps that existed, alchemy was used to grow these patches of land so that everything fitted perfectly together.
"Huh?" muttered Edward as he noticed something. He used a spell to scan the Pangea Continent and discovered something. After all the leyline nodes were connected as one, the process of them activating was suddenly accelerated.
Previously, after the Mana Trees were planted, it would still take thousands of years for them to activate on their own. But now, the time needed was drastically decreased.
"Why is that?" muttered Edward. From what he knew, the other planets on the solar system also had leyline nodes and were connected together. Yet, they were still unactivated.
Edward waved his hand to cast a Cloning Spell. Another version of himself appeared next to him for a brief moment before disappearing. A few minutes later, the clone appeared next to him again.
"As you suspected. The other leyline nodes on the other planets have also begun to activate."
Edward nodded his head while looking at a map in front of him; he seemed distracted.
The map was the Pangea Continent. However, there were marks in different spots on this map. They were different ancient monuments that are famous in the world.
Edward focused on the Pyramids located in Egypt, Peru, Mexico, Sudan, and other countries. He could see a pattern by drawing on the location of these pyramids on a map.
It was similar to the continent-sized transmutation circle that he was previously using to move the continents. The only difference was that this pattern was not a circle, but looked more like…
"Ancient Runes?" he muttered. However, he could not find anything from his memories to fit this pattern. However, he did have some clue as to the reason that the leyline nodes were suddenly starting to activate.
He guessed that some ancient civilizations like the Mayans, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians may have created some sort of magical ceremony using the entire world to reactivate the leyline nodes.
However, given how far apart these civilizations existed in history, how could they work so well together? Unless someone was leading them from the shadow.
"Herpo," muttered Edward. "Well, this guy has worked really hard, hasn't he?"
The question now is why did he stop? Why did he not continue with his plan?
Edward shook his head to remove these distracting thoughts from his mind; he was currently busy and had no time for this now. So, after tasking Morgana to study this map and come up with an explanation, he returned to the task at hand.
Once the continents were connected together, it was Edward's turn to take action. He landed on a deserted place.
Then, a massive Gate of Truth appeared floating on top of the continent; the gate had countless runes engraved on it. This was the Gate that all the current Gate Alchemists used to create their Gate of Truth inside their Soul Dimension.
Furthermore, the people of the Empire who want to have their own Gate of Truth will have to use it as well.
Once the gate materialized, Edward closed his eyes as he began to feel the earth underneath his feet. He first felt all the different energy underneath.
He could feel the planet breathe through all the trees, releasing oxygen for people to live. As he sunk deeper, he could feel some form of consciousness.
This consciousness was vast compared to him, but did not seem to have much intelligence: This was the Planet's Will.
One thing that fascinated Edward from the Full Metal Universe was the fact that the entire world was a living being with thoughts and consciousness. The planet itself even had a Gate of Truth that Father opened up during the Promised Day.
So, he studied this phenomenon in-depth. Now, the result of that study will come in handy in this situation.
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(AN: So, according to the setting of the story, after using the perfect Philosopher's Stone, new talent will be granted to the user like Edward's Cosmic Awareness. Because of this, I've been trying to come up with a few ideas for what power the other members of his harem along with the Illuminati Members have.
I already have one for Rowena and Hermione that I'm pretty satisfied with. However, when it came to the others, I'm a little stuck. I have one for Bellatrix, but I'm not too keen on keeping it.
So, if you guys have any ideas, leave them in the comment sections and I will use them.
The rules are that the power has to be unique or special, not too powerful but can grow over time with the story.
If anyone is an avid reader of comics, you can talk about some powers you know about as I used them as a reference for Edward's ability.
If possible, be as detailed as possible with your chosen ability, that way I can use it directly or draw inspiration from it.)
บท 191: Project Pangea (III)
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After coming into contact with Planet Earth's Consciousness, Edward could feel it trying to say something, or send some sort of message. However, it was too difficult to understand. So, he focused deeply before hearing:
"Than…Thank..y…you."
"Thank you?" After pondering for a moment, he understood the reason. Before the Empire was established, the planet was slowly heading to destruction.
Mass pollution, climate change, global warming, deforestation, and animal extinction were the shortlist of the things both muggles and wizards were doing to the planet.
However, after coming to power, he fixed a lot of these problems. With the use of Mana as clean energy, many problems such as air pollution were solved.
Magic was used to clean the already damaged environment, strict laws were passed for hunting both normal and magical animals. Trees were planted all over the world–especially with the recent Mana Tree.
With all these changes, the environment of the planet was reversed for the better. Although it is not perfect as there are still some problems, in general, things are looking better than they used to.
So, Edward smiled and replied: "You are welcome."
After saying that, he proceeded to tell Gaia–which is the obvious name he decided to give the planet's will–his intention. After she agreed, he linked her consciousness to the massive Gate of Truth in the sky.
Inside the gate was a large dimension. However, unlike Truth, Edward did not place knowledge inside that dimension. Instead, he placed another one of Morgana's main servers inside.
The purpose of doing so is that she can now use Gaia's power to monitor and control the tectonic energy, aquatic energy, Dragon Pulse, and even mana in the leyline nodes.
In the previous world, Edward has seen how dangerous alchemists can be with their experiments. In the future, every individual in the Empire can become a Gate Alchemist.
The alchemists in the Full Metal World had access to scientific knowledge during WW1 and WW2. In comparison, the people of the Empire have access to knowledge hundreds of years more advanced than them.
So, Edward could imagine what catastrophic things some people might create. So, he prepared in advance.
For example, Human Transmutation is only possible by the most elite of alchemists in the previous world. However, in the Empire, even a middle-schooler with enough knowledge about the human body and DNA could recreate a perfect human body.
As such, Edward could foresee how many people will try to bring their departed loved ones back to life. Creating a body is not difficult for most people. The only issue is the soul.
So far, Edward has realized that only the Resurrection Stone can successfully summon souls from the afterlife. Even if he creates the right spell to do so, it always fails, most likely because of Herpo.
So, he is not worried about that. What he's worried about is that Herpo used this opportunity to enchant people to do his bidding, to use their emotional distress and sorrow to turn them against the Empire–just like he did with so many Alchemists against Truth.
So, he created this server and Gate of Truth so that both Morgana and Gaia can monitor these secret alchemic experiments, and when needed, completely deprived these people of their energy source and thus their alchemy–just like Father did to the Amestris Alchemist
Once everything was done, Edward checked the server to ensure that everything was running smoothly. Then, he focused on the second aspect of Project Pangea.
After the continent of Pangea was recreated, one of the major issues that will plague the people living on it has to do with climate. People from different parts of the equators are used to different types of climate or weather.
Humans are easily adaptable, so with time, this will not be much of an issue. However, places like Antarctica are a problem.
"Have the temples been built?" asked Edward.
"Yes, your majesty."
"Then activate the enchantments."
Soon after saying these words, the planet shook slightly for a very brief moment. Then, myriad magic circles came from these temples and surrounded the entire planet.
Luckily, only Tier 4 Arcanists and above could see them, otherwise, people might start to panic.
After seeing the magic circles, Edward first checked to see if there were any problems with both the enchantments and the Philosopher's Stones powering them.
He was satisfied with the result.
To deal with the climate issue and the eventual destructive power of Tier 5 Arcanists, Edward took inspiration from Karma-Taj and the sanctums located across the world. Each sanctum served as a magic node to a powerful shield that surrounded the planet to protect it from otherworldly threats.
The temples that Edward built served similar purposes. One of them is to regulate the climate of each region before all the people adapt to the current situation.
However, this was just a secondary ability. The main purpose of these temples is a preventive measure against powerful arcanists. Once a massive surge of unidentified or unauthorized mana is detected, the enchantments will activate themselves and placed the person in a Magic Forbidden Zone.
That way, their mana will become unusable and they will not be able to cast spells. This is to prevent Tier 4 and higher Arcanists from creating large-scale destruction on regular people.
Of course, the enchantments can also be used as a weapon.
After everything was done, Edward led this group of people to do the same thing on the other planets. Although many people complained that these planets did not have that much population to warrant such extravagant use of resources, he ignored them.
The universe is vast, so there is no lack of resources. And even there was, he can still travel to other universes. So, he was never worried about resources. Plus, he could tell that some of these people did not want him to have such complete control over the solar system, and in turn, over the Empire.
The remodeling of the other planets went smoothie–with only a minor problem. The Consciousness of these planets was very weak especially compared to Earth.
After a quick study, Edward came to the conclusion it was because there were not that many people who have lived on them. For a planet to have its own will, it requires creatures with consciousness born on it.
Compare with Earth which had countless different races born and striving on it for millions of years, the other planets could not compare–especially after the Lumerian Civilization was destroyed 12,000 years ago.
These planets became inhabitable my most magical races–let alone humans. The only exception is Mars which has creatures living underground. Nevertheless, their population was also very small.
Anyway, it took Edward a week before everything was done. He returned to Earth to continue the next project of the Symposium.
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