บท 255: Set and Nick
Edward's next course of action was to go see Nick, the protagonist of the Mummy 4. Although it was still three years before the beginning of the plot, he wanted to be prepared.
During this time, Nick was in the military and was deployed in Iraq. After Morgana acquired this guy's location, he teleported to the barracks where he was located.
The moment he saw Nick, Edward felt that something was wrong with him. His body had a strange vibe or aura surrounding it. If it was not for Edward's keen senses, he might not have noticed it.
As he looked at Nick in his invisible state, he decided not to immediately contact the latter; his instinct was telling him this was the best move. Recently, after he began to purify his mana, he has further developed the pre-cognitive ability that he received from modifying his bloodline to that of the Thunder Bird,
Adding to that his Cosmic Awareness Talent, he knew to trust in his "feelings" or "intuition".
So, he decided to use other methods. He turned into a commander of the division that Nick was a part of and organized a health inspection or check. All the soldiers were inspected including their bodies and blood.
During the process, he was able to secretly study Nick's body and his discovery somewhat surprised him. From Solomon, he learned of the plot of the Mummy reboot, so he knew that at the end of the movie, Nick's body was occupied by the Egyptian God of Death, Set.
However, he managed to subdue Set's will or consciousness while retaining his power. Edward thought it was because of Nick's powerful will and his love for the female protagonist that allowed him to achieve such a feat.
After all, emotions like love are some of the most powerful forces in existence.
Unfortunately, he was wrong.
Nick's body itself is unique. The best way to describe is that he is the perfect anti-divinity vessel or the perfect divine sealing vessel. As long as any gods take over his body, their powers will be drastically reduced.
And as long as his will is enough, it is easy for him to even suppress the soul of the god, completely inheriting their powers.
"There is no way that his physique is natural," muttered Edward as he watched the result. He knew that only a person with a great deal of knowledge or understanding of divinity could create such a masterpiece.
He knew that he could not.
'Could it be Yahweh?'
Edward immediately thought about Anubis. His plan at resurrection was foiled by mortals just Set, and even the Gods behind the Dragon Emperor had the same fate.
Edward thought that it was infighting between the same pantheon with Anubis and his father Osiris, but now, there is a chance that Yahweh is being all of these things, secretly planning the downfall of all the gods that survived the War of Heaven.
Immediately afterward, Edward began to investigate Nick's background to see if there was something abnormal. But nothing was found. So, he went further to trace his bloodline back to ancient times using Time Magic.
And he did discover something. During Solomon's reign, there was a group of people under his command referred to as Demon Sealing Priests. During the war, demons and other gods would send powerful beings into the mortal world to cause chaos.
The Demon Sealing Priests were created to seal these entities in their bodies and prevent them from wreaking havoc in the world. Nick was a descendant of one of these priests.
Edward immediately knew that something was wrong. Why would these priests seal these demons and not kill them? He did not believe that Yahweh did not have a way to kill them.
Additionally, why did he seal them inside their bodies instead of magical artifacts or some special place?
"Could it be he has been planning all of this for so long?" muttered Edward. "If that's the case, that means he might be very adept at using time magic or prophecy."
Edward had long suspected this since Dolus told him that Yahweh's goal was to become omnipotent and omnipresent.
In general, Gods are limited by their Authority or Divinity. For example, a God of Fire can most use fire-related ability and control things related to it. They cannot use the power of the other elements or powers related to other authorities.
Of course, the gods have many innate abilities that are guaranteed the moment they become gods. For example, high magic immunity, basic teleportation, and a few others,
That's how Godhood worked in the Harry Potter universe from what Edward knows. As for this world, he hypothesized that it might be similar.
"This Nick is more valuable than even Set," muttered Edward. Bu studying him, he could create a powerful Anti-Divinity Weapon to use against the gods in his world. And even develop Anti-Magic Weapons to deal with some powerful magic races.
This kind of weapon would be quite advantageous to the future conquest of the Empire of the entire universe, and also to deal with Godly beings from other universes in the future.
Thinking about the endless benefit that this guy can bring him, he was excited for a moment before calming down. He immediately organized the army to set up a new required vaccination.
And in the process, slip something into Nick's body to wait for the right occasion to activate.
There were still three years until the plot began, Edward had to wait and not interact too much with the people involved in case something went wrong. In the meantime, he worked on something else while purifying his mana,
Back in Earth-234, he had a new idea for nanorobots and began to develop them, however, he soon realized that it would be best to wait until he returned to the Floating City to make them as the material and laboratory needed for the process were not attainable on that Earth.
So, once he finished with Nick, he returned to finish them. Three months later, he took the city to return to Earth-234. To be precise, he used his spell there while the others use the city to follow him.
As Edward walked in the streets of London, everything was empty. The buildings, the cars, the parks, the forests: there were no living people or animals. The only exception to this was the ocean that he did not touch.
"Morgana, you can begin," said Edward.
Not long after he said these words, a shadow suddenly covered the bright sky. If anyone were present to see this, they would have thought of a kind of mosquito plague attacking London.
These were nanorobots that were even smaller than mosquitoes. Not long after appearing, they quickly surrounded a building that was more than 300 meters tall.
A few seconds later, that entire building was gone; it appeared to the naked as if it suddenly disappeared. Right after that, this black plague that looked like a mass of shadow headed to another building. And just like the first one, this one also disappeared after a few seconds.
Then, the plague separated into many groups. Oddly though, their numbers did not decrease.
Each group would attack either a building, a car, or anything technology machine in sight; it could something as insignificant or small as a microwave or remote control, to a particle accelerator.
Everything was attacked and mysteriously disappeared.
Meanwhile, a screen appeared in front of Edward. As he looked at it, he nodded in satisfaction. These things did not disappear. The nanobots deconstructed all these things to their basic components using Transmutation before teleporting them to a pocket dimension for storage.
For example, after a car is eaten, all the metals that were used to make them were transformed to their original shape before being processed and then sent to the pocket dimension. That goes for the rubber used for the tires, or the leather used for the seats.
This was a way Edward developed to better gather resources.
An hour later, the entire earth was essentially devoured by him. There was nothing except forests or mountains. All technology products were deconstructed and taken away as material.
Then, Edward began the next phase of this plan. The nanorobots had an enchantment that allowed them to absorb metal energy from the things that they swallowed, then used that energy to split themselves.
Under Edward's command, the nanorobots rapidly split before beginning to deconstruct the entire planet, layer by layer, crust by crust to the inner core.
In just a month, the entire planet was deconstructed or decomposed into basic materials, leaving nothing in sight, not a single matter.
"A month is a lot longer than anticipated," he muttered while thinking of better ways to either improve this new technology or create a better one. And he had an idea.
บท 256: Good and Evil
Edward's current idea is to create a planet-size Transmutation Circle that does the same thing as the nanorobots. The process will take less time and would be cheaper.
Although the design for the transmutation circle would be quite complex as it required sending the deconstructed matter to another dimension along with many other things, it was still possible to create after a little time.
Of course, this did not mean that these nanorobots were now useless; they could still be used as weapons against technological civilization.
"Morgana, send more plague nanorobots to the other planets and asteroids of the solar system to gather more data; after a while, we should be able to optimize their efficiency."
After doing this, Edward began to travel in the multiverse, visiting different Earths. Everywhere he went, he would first check the population to see if there were any repeats with the other Earths or the one from his universe.
And every time, the answer was negative. So, Edward did not hesitate to plunder the population before plundering the entire solar system. Unfortunately, after doing this 20 times, he also felt a warning that if he continued, he would suffer a great catastrophe.
Nevertheless, he was still satisfied. After plundering 21 Earths, the Empire's population will increase by about 170 billion. Plus, he still had another additional 10 billion coming from Earth-125.
With such a large population, the Empire will flourish and rapidly develop.
After his plundering day ended, Edward and the others did not stop his navigation of the multiverse. One of his main objectives of this trip was to test and optimize the technology of the Novad that he installed in the Floating City.
That way, it will be much easier to navigate, study, and understand the multiverse in his universe. So, Edward begin to design ways to separate parallel dimensions based on their current time period: the past, present, or future with the years 2000-2020 considered as the present.
His experiment did yield some success as he managed to discover a few Earths that were in the year 2100 to 2400. After stealing these worlds' technology and a few talented scientists, engineers, and people who have the potential to become powerful Arcanists, he moved on.
Unfortunately, he had to stop his experiment. Time in the Blank Realm or even parallel dimensions worked differently. However, Edward had synchronized the passage of time of Earth-125 to him and the Floating City.
So, after three years passed, he knew that he had to return to deal with Nick and Set.
In an office, Edward was reading a long paper with deep focus, meanwhile, a middle-aged man dressed in a black suit stood in front of him, trembling a little as if he was afraid.
"Amazing, Dr. Jekyll," praised Edward after reading the last chapter. "You have used science to break into the field of mystery, the field of magic."
This mad or unorthodox scientist managed to find a way to split the soul into different components or parts: good and evil. And he only used science to do so, nothing related to the supernatural.
After reading this man's research, Edward had so many ideas on to best use this kind of research. Just studying the process of creating these two components of the soul would allow him to gain a deeper understanding of the essence of the soul, the essence of life itself.
Additionally, magic has a great correlation with emotions. Negative emotions or the ones related to evil often fuel black magic or boost them up, meanwhile, positive emotions or good ones are the sources of white magic.
Then there is the negative energy that he discovered in this world that is the source of necromancy magic. Is there any correlation between the evil side of the soul and negative energy? This is worth exploring.
Additionally, there is dark magic, not black magic, but the darkness which is the opposite of light. Not a lot of knowledge is known in the Empire regarding this type of magic–albeit many experiments and theories are being developed every day regarding dark magic. Edward even hypothesized that Necromancy could be a sub-category of dark magic.
The same thing can also be said for Light Magic. Some basic light attack spells have been developed, some of which are quite powerful. Nevertheless, Light magic is not truly developed in terms of treating it like one of the elements of nature; being able to mold like fire magic for destructive property, or using it to heal, remove curses, punish the wicked, etc.
So, maybe studying the relationship between the good side of the soul and the light element might further boost the development of light magic in the Empire.
And there are even more possibilities for this discovery. Good and evil are concepts related to Karma or Causality, maybe something can be studied from here. Edward already had a plan to develop a Detecting Alignment Spell which could tell if a person was [Lawful Neutral], [Lawful Good or Evil], [Chaotic Neutra], and so on.
"Well, Dr. Jekyll, you will have a bright future in the Empire," said Edward who already planned to give this man the status of Tower Master to further his research once he reached a certain Tier.
After saying that, he waved his hand and a white circle entered Jekyll's head. Immediately, the latter could feel that the evil side of him was suppressed. The doctor felt like a heavy burden was lifted from his should as he exhaled out loud.
However, after he reigned in his emotions, he discovered that he was alone in his office. So, after sighing out loud, he pretended that nothing happened.
Edward teleported back to the city in a room where everyone was watching a screen.
"How is it?"
"Things have already started," replied Hermione. "Nick has opened the tomb and chosen to be Set's Vessel."
After nodding, the four of them began to watch the plot unfold. After discovering and taking Ahmanet's sarcophagus, Nick's plane crashed down because of a flock of birds and landed in London.
He died and was resurrected by Ahmanet. Then, she was captured by the secret organization that Dr. Jekyll created to combat evil in this world. Nick learned that the female protagonist, Jenny Halsey, was also part of this organization.
Ahmanet managed to escape and acquire the last piece of the puzzle necessary for the sacrifice ritual to revive Set into Nick's body, a red jewel that was buried with a crusader knight.
Jenny dies, and Nick confronted Ahmanet and stole the dagger in which the jewel was implanted at the hill. He wanted to destroy it to ensure that the ceremony failed, however, Ahmanet told him if he did that, he would ruin his only chance at reviving Jenny.
However, if he proceeded with it, with Set's power, he would have dominion over life and death. In the end, Nick stabbed himself and Set's power and soul descended on his body.
After a little struggle and with his newfound love for Jenny, he managed to suppress Set's consciousness with his weird physique. Finally, he used that power to revive Jenny from the dead, however, after that, he ran away to ensure her safety as he was not sure whether he could retain his consciousness for long.
"Let's begin," said Edward once everything was finished.
A portal suddenly appeared and swallowed Nick who was in the Sahara Desert. And not long after, five massive pillars of light flew from different countries on Earth.
These pillars of lights then turned into enormous magic circles that surrounded the entire planet. And after they were erected, people all over the world began to disappear at an alarming rate; governments all over the globe did not even have the time to react.
Of all the Earths that he has raided, Edward was more concerned about this one since he has been secretly cultivating many people with magical talents for decades.
An untold amount of resources was used in the process, so he did not want something to go wrong. Unfortunately for him, something did go wrong; something out of his expectations and calculations.
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