บท 273: Family Reunion
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After leaving the institute, Edward returned to the Floating City as Morgana had notified him that the others had woken up and used Merlin's potion to heal themselves.
"Are you guys alright?"
"We're fine," replied Hermione. "*sigh*. This was truly a once in a lifetime experience."
Snape nodded in agreement with her. After all, how many people can brag about fighting the Almighty Christian God, not only surviving, and even injuring him? This was truly a unique experience.
"When is the next voyage?" he asked.
"Depends on the success of Project Akashic Record and after dealing with the Intergalactic Federation. So, it won't be that long."
Snape nodded his head, while Edward looked at Lily.
"Are you sure you're okay? You seem distracted?"
"No, it's just that everything seemed surreal; that's all." She was lying, at least, not telling the full truth. Her return made her realize that she needed to decide on her love life.
To be precise, she had made a decision and needed to have a real conversation with a few people. However, she was not looking forward to dealing with the troubles that will come afterward.
If it was up to her, Lily would prefer to continue her research. But things have to be done.
Edward could guess what she was thinking, and all he could say was that he did everything to be the perfect wingman for Snape. Everything else is out of his control.
So, he looked at Hermione and said: "Let's go home. I have already contacted Rowena and Luna, they should have returned by now. Did you call your parents?"
With a wry smile on her face, she said: "They said that they were busy."
Edward had to smile in embarrassment when thinking about Hermione's parents as they had a complicated relationship. For one, they do not approve of his polygamous lifestyle.
To them, their daughter deserved a man who loved her and only her. However, over the years, they have slowly accepted this fact. Despite this, they also rarely appeared at family dinners or gatherings.
They will have dinner with Edward's parents, but when all the family members gather together, they refused to participate. Oddly though, they do not mind when only Edward and Hermione come to visit and have family time together.
During those times, they are quite nice to him. Of course, they will always try to hint at him to make Hermione the Empress. According to the law, there is no official Empress in the Empire, all of them have the status of Queen or Royal Concubines.
However, unofficially, Rowena is the Empress and usually served as the face of that position. This position was decided not only because she is the oldest, but also because she is the most powerful.
When it was time to decide this thing, Edward was wise enough not to intervene and let them decide for themselves.
After shaking his head, the two teleported to the Imperial Palace. As soon as Edward arrived, his mother Joana jumped in his arm to embrace him.
"It's only been three years," he said as he hugged her back.
"Three years too long."
Meanwhile, his father only tapped him on his shoulder before everyone arrived and had dinner. It was quite lively as Hermione and Edward explained everything that occurred to them from when they first landed and met Frank and Lilith, to the Mummy events, to the travel in parallel dimensions and the final battle with Yahweh.
"It seems that you guys had quite the adventure," commented Amelia.
"That was too dangerous," added Joana. "You should be more careful in the future."
"What I want to know is which woman did you bring back this time?" asked Rowena as she glared at him.
"No one."
"I don't believe you," said Fleur and Bellatrix at the same time.
"I swear. Ask Hermione, I was on my best behavior throughout the entire time."
All his eyes were then laid on her. "Although hard to believe, he's telling the truth this time."
Throughout the entire journey, Edward was only truly attractive to one person: Zi Yuan. Unfortunately, she was dedicated to her husband so he did not even have a single chance.
As for Chloe, they only had a student and teacher relationship. Although Edward is an immoral man who does not care about relationships with unbalanced power dynamic, he still knows when to control himself.
Well, that was a slight lie; they slept together once, but they both agreed that it was purely physical and would only happen once.
"What a great magical miracle," commented Luna.
"You guys need to give me more credit," said Edward, who then looked at his aunt. "You will have to settle all the population I brought. Their memories have already been modified."
"There is no problem. Our population has recently drastically increased, so we are already quite good at allocating large groups of people."
"Oh, did something happen?"
"Yes. It seems that the Milky Way is in turmoil and many places have started to sell slaves in large quantities to lessen their burdens. We have bought a large number of them through Dumbledore."
"Is everything going well?"
"Some council members wanted to give these people a second-class citizen status like the Fer race but I vetoed them. All of them were granted their freedom and full rights.
"However, it is taking them some time to change their previous mindset and ways of thinking to fit better with the Empire. So, they are temporarily in isolation until they finished their education through Skynet."
"You did the right thing," said Edward. The only reason that the Fer race was granted the status of second-class citizen was to wash away their animosity and more important, to make an example out of them.
In the future, only races that have very deep animosity toward the Empire will be treated as such.
"I have a question that I truly want to know," suddenly said Olivier. "You said that you came close to death, how did that make you feel?"
"Why this sudden random question?"
"Just answer it."
Edward paused for a moment. "To be honest, after thinking about it, I realized that I only felt indifference."
"Indifference?"
"Cousin, that's very concerning," said Susan.
"She's right, son," said his father.
"No, it's not like that. I have always thought that I was a person who feared death just like Voldemort, hence the reason I have so many ways to revive myself in case of an accident.
"However, now, I realized that if it is truly impossible to avoid death no matter what, I would be indifferent to the final outcome and just accept it. I would never willingly chase after death, but if it is inevitable, if comes a time where all my effort to avoid became useless then I'll just accept it."
"It's good that you're mentally fine," said Amelia. "Always remember that you have people who love and count on you. And honestly, without you, this Empire would crumble faster than anyone can say 'Oh, Merlin.'."
The people at the table nodded their heads, however, Olivier seemed not satisfied.
"I'm still concerned. Why do you feel like this? Is there a reason?"
"Reason? Probably because I've died before."
"Excuse me?"
"Oh, I did not tell you guys about Primordial Earth? I guess that there is no point in hiding it now since you will be involved in this trouble sooner or later. Better be prepared now."
Then, Edward proceeded to tell them about his death and reincarnation, old man Merlin and Solomon, Primordial Earth, and the possible war.
"This is too much information for a single dinner," said Amelia as she massaged her temples.
"Wait, so what you're saying is that we are nothing but characters from a book?" slightly yelled Susan. "And the writer, that J.K. Rowling is essentially a God who not only created us but also dictate our fate?"
"Don't mind the small detail," replied Edward.
"That's not a small detail. I'm beginning to question my entire existence."
"Things are not as simple as you state," said Edward after seeing that his cousin might have a mental breakdown.
"Many of the stories from Primordial Earth were not created by these authors, but universes that already existed, but some people there can gain access to these stories through dreams or imaginations.
"As for whether our universe is created or an already existing one, I do not know exactly. Plus, even if it was created, the author only has power over the Main Timeline and cannot affect this one."
Susan sighed in relief, however, she was still not happy.
"If you're so worried, then try to reach Tier 12 then I can take you to Primordial Earth. By then, you will not only have control over your fate but you can even meet the author and have a chat with her."
"Is that possible? You're not lying to me, are you?" asked Susan.
"This is what Merlin told me. The minimum requirement to return to Primordial Earth is Tier 12."
"No problem. Isn't it only Tier 12?"
The other people did not say anything despite knowing that things were not as simple as Edward said–especially when it comes to the issue of other variants of themselves when reaching Tier 11.
However, they did not damper the enthusiasm of the little girl; it's always good to be motivated.
"What about your parents back there, are they alright?" asked Joana; she did not care about Edward's reincarnation. From what she knows, if not for him, she, her husband, and their sons were destined to die during the First Wizarding War.
"I've asked Merlin to send a clone of my original body to take care of them. With a little knowledge from the Empire, it should not be a problem to live a healthy life without worry about food or money."
"That's good."
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Next Chapter Title: Seer's Power
บท 274: Seer's Power
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"Something finally made sense to me now," said Luna.
"What?"
"Why is it that you could see and show the future of the entire world during your battle with Dumbledore, and yet, you can only use the most basic divination spell.
"I always thought you were using Time Magic, but you were just relying on knowing the "plot"."
"You're right. He did the same thing in our voyage too," said Hermione. "I also thought that his divination had improved or he was using time magic to look into the future."
"In my universe, he also displayed the ability to know the future," said Oliver with a sneer. "In the end, you were just cheating."
"How is that cheating? Plus, this can be considered an innate ability of all people from Primordial Earth."
"No, it's definitely cheating," said Fleur. "It's like you were born with knowing the answer to a test."
Many people nodded with this sentiment.
"Fine, I am a cheater, what can you guys do about it? Stop hiding your jealousy, it's ugly," said Edward with a smirk.
"Rogue."
"Playboy."
"Cheater."
"Narcissist."
"God complex."
Each of his wives called him a different name, almost driving him crazy. He coughed slightly before looking at Rowena and Luna; he did not want to sit through a dinner where his flaws were constantly being called out.
"So, how was your voyage in the multiverse? I can see that both of you are very close to Tier 6, so it should have been quite the adventure, maybe not less exciting than us?"
"What a shoddy method at changing the subject," commented Rowena, making everyone laugh. Amelia looked at everyone laughing and secretly said to herself:
'It's good that these guys know how to ease the mood and transition away from more sensitive topics.'
"You won't believe this," said Luna. "But I did meet an evil version of myself. She was the new Dark Lord."
"Really? What happened?" Everyone was intrigued.
"Well, in that timeline, my mother did not die young but when I, well, when she was in the 6th year, making her death even more devastating. Then, Voldemort took advantage of her weakness and lure her into becoming a Death Eater with the promise of reviving her parents."
"Parents? As in plural?"
"Oh right, my father also passed away not long after as well, trying to pursue my mother into the afterlife. Because of losing both parents, she was very fragile and easily influenced."
"So, how did you, I mean, she become the Dark Lord?" asked Edward.
"Well, after serving Voldemort for a few years without him fulfilling his promise, Dark Luna betrayed him and killed him, took over the Death Eaters, and began to use her powers to find a way to revive her parents.
"No matter who stood in her way was killed. I even saw her kill Harry, Ron, and Hermione."
"How interesting. Did you guys intervene?"
"I wanted to but Rowena did not give me the opportunity. I could only talk to her from the distance."
"That's because I could feel that someone was secretly manipulating her, most likely Herpo in that timeline," said Rowena.
"Any other interesting stories?" asked Hermione. In their voyage, they did briefly travel throughout the multiverse, but they did not encounter themselves there.
"We met a Tier 6 Voldemort," said Rowena.
"Seriously?"
"Yes. Apparently, in that timeline, Voldemort was the final winner in the Battle of Hogwarts. After that, he enslaved the entire planet–mostly the muggles–and killed anyone who did not serve him."
After saying that, she paused for a moment before looking at Bellatrix; "I finally understood how crazy and disgusting you can be."
"That's not me," she replied in embarrassment. She understood that with the problem of her bloodline because of inbreeding, she was truly a psycho. Luckily, in this timeline, her problem was solved.
Even the false memories that Edward once planted inside her mind to have her worship was removed and she knew the truth. It was during this time that they got to know one another and fell in love.
"After terrorizing the entire planet," continued Rowena, "Voldemort discovered that the Horcrux could not grant him true immortality, so he wanted a real method. After countless dark magic experiments with no success, he placed his eyes on the universe.
"After searching the planet, he found a spaceship of the Lumerian Civilization and repaired it before traveling the stars. However, a few dozens of years later, he returned injured, but also with Tier 6."
"Tier 6 in only a few dozen years?" asked Edward.
"We were also interested in this, so we confronted him. After killing him and searching the memories in his soul, we discovered that it was a magic system that sacrificed life span for a rapid increase in mana or Tier.
"So, although he was Tier 6, he could only live for about 400 years. Plus, he was very weak, at least I defeated him alone. In the end, he thought that by destroying the entire planet, he could deal with us, but we hid in the World Gate."
"That magic system sound interesting, let me check it out later. So, how was the mission I sent you on?"
"According to my Divination, we are heading in the right direction but it will take some time," said Luna.
"In my voyage, we discovered a race called the Novad that has very advanced parallel dimensions travel technology. After studying it, you guys should find what we're looking for."
Edward then used the watch on his wrist to send the information about the Novad to the two of them while Rowena sent the magic system to Edward. Luna also wanted to check the information but she suddenly stopped.
Her eyes turned all white along with her eye. The power of destiny seemed to manifest deep in her eyes. A few minutes later, she returned to normal.
"What is it? Is danger coming?" hurriedly asked Edward.
"No, I have discovered another Lynchpin of the Empire. And one of the highest level."
"Really?" asked Edward with excitement. There are many reasons that Seers are respected in the universe. One is that they are the perfect vessel for many Gods; so, which made them very desirable.
And the second is the fact that they are vital to the prosperity of any race, species, faction, or civilization. Seers can predict dangers in advance to prevent calamity or destruction.
More importantly, they can discover Lynchpins, individuals who can fundamentally change any civilization for the better. It could that these people are destined to become powerful and protect said civilization or create an invention that can rapidly advance civilization.
For example, one of the reasons that the Arcane Empire can develop so fast is because Luna has discovered a few lynchpins that created knowledge or technology that are greatly beneficial to the Empire.
And many of these lynchpins are usually ordinary people who appeared ordinary; people that are usually easily overlooked. And sometimes, these lynchpins were on the verge of death when they were discovered, meaning that they would have died before they could achieve their destiny of greatness.
According to Luna's research, Lynchpins are also divided into levels, and so far, none of the highest calibers has ever been discovered in the Empire.
"Who is it?" asked Edward, unable to contain his excitement. Luna waved her hand and an image was drawn with her mana.
"His name is Havika Kainalu."
"Morgana, show us this person's data.."
"As you wish, boss."
Immediately afterward, a hologram with a young Hawaiian boy appeared in front of everyone:
"Havika Kainalu. Age: 15. Family: contain 4 people ( 2 parents and 1 sibling.) School: Kanaloa School of Magic, 4th year. Tier 0 Arcanist, Level 1 Talent."
"Just like most lynchpins, he appeared ordinary and even mediocre," commented Edward.
"Since Luna detected him now, that means that his talent has recently manifested. Any recent changes to his life?" asked Rowena.
"Yes," replied Morgana, "He has recently become interested in Rune Mathematics, and this kid is truly talented in that area."
After saying that, she displayed some of the works that he published online and the learning materials that he also bought online.
'Rune mathematics, huh?'
Muggles believed that mathematics was the language of the universe, meanwhile, arcanists believed that runes were the language of the universe. However, recently, with the creation of the Arcane Rune Magic System and the knowledge of Gate Alchemy, this new field was created.
Rune mathematics is not only used to study the secrets of the universe but is also used in creating or constructing spells: magic circles to be exact. Some arcanists do not have the natural ability to understand runes and their correlation with each other, so it is very difficult for them to create, improve, or modify runes.
However, with rune mathematics, things became different. As the name suggests, arcanists can use calculus, geometry, and advanced form of mathematics to systematically understand the purpose and function of every rune.
That way, they can use math formulas to create and test spells. And that's just one of the many uses of this new field.
"Do you want to get in contact with him?" asked Amelia.
"No need. I will send a few members of the Ghost Squads to secretly protect him," replied Edward. "Additionally, Morgana, create a rune mathematic competition in his school. Once he wins, grand him access to some of your calculating power along with access to some secret knowledge of the library.
"Make sure that they only pertain to his research."
"As you wish. What about once he succeeds in creating whatever it is that will fundamentally change the Empire?"
"I'll probably make him a Tower Master. By then, this kid will have all the resources needed to change his life."
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