章節 432: The Lost Timelines
Edward did not waste time. The following day, he boarded the ship and attacked the Automaton Race. And since this time, he was not doing a broadcast, so he was quick, ruthless, and efficient.
He used all the golem he had in his interdimensional ring, adding a total of 1 million. Although a small force, it was enough to conquer such a small civilization.
The automatons did not accept their fate and fought back rigorously. Among the top civilization of this universe, they had one major advantage: numbers. With enough resources, they can mass-produce robots and spaceships of different Tiers.
So, once they meet an enemy of a similar level, they can use a large number of cannon fodders to either overwhelm or consume their enemies. This advantage is one of the reasons the Otsutsuki could not easily wipe them out. Of course, the main reason for their survival is that they serve no real value to the Otsutsuki since they were not flesh and blood, thus could not be sacrificed to the God Tree to condense Chakra Fruit.
Unfortunately for the automaton, they met Edward–a paranoid ruler. The golems used the Anti-Technology Spell the Empire developed to fight Intelligens or other pure technology-based civilizations.
They also used numerous viruses that targeted their central control server, cutting off their communication and access to the web. The viruses also corrupted much Artificial intelligence and turned them against their kind.
Despite all of this, they put up a great fight. Edward also discovered another reason for this civilization's survival: a Tier 8 Weapon. He also guessed the others–like the Sage Clan and even Chakra Race–may have similar methods.
Edward then took action and took control of the weapon to study and incorporate into the Empire. Then, under his leadership, the mighty Automaton Civilization was almost destroyed in three days.
Luckily, the highest authority of the civilization realized fighting was useless and made the rational choice to ensure their survival: surrender and hand over the Source Code.
Edward looked at the representative of the Automaton; she was a blue humanoid robot; she looked quite beautiful, similar to the human aesthetic.
"So, even a lifeform like yours has the instinct to survive," he commented.
"It seemed your majesty has some prejudice against our race," said Silvia. "We are creatures with emotions and creativity; you can say we have a soul. The only difference between humans and us–besides flesh–is we choose to use logic and rationality in all actions and decisions."
"I am indeed biased against your race," replied Edward. "Unfortunately, this will not change anytime soon."
"That is a shame. Can I ask what will be our fate?" asked Silvia with great calmness; she did not look like someone whose entire civilization was just conquered.
"The advantage of your civilization is number. As long as you have enough resources, you can increase your population," commented Edward. "So, I will place this feature to good use. I need your race to mine resources for me."
"Mining? No problem."
"I will give you six months. I need you to mine all the resources of this universe, turning it into a desolate place."
Silvia frowned, "That will require a large population."
"You can use a small portion of the resources to increase your population."
"That's fine. Do you have any rules or restrictions?"
"No, I only need efficiency. Additionally, population is also part of the mining. As long as you find any place with life, bring them back."
"Limited to humans?"
"No, the race does not matter."
"As you wish," she replied before leaving to accomplish her order. Meanwhile, Edward relaxed. He used too many resources when creating the Tier 10 Floating City, so he's going to plunder without control to make up for it. This timeline is only the first.
'I should be able to plunder a few hundreds timeline before the Universe Will exiled me.'
After conquering the automaton, the other top civilizations were shocked by the power displayed by the Arcane Empire. They now understood the Emperor had the capacity to treat war with them like it was child's play. So, many people prepared to send an ambassador to Ninja Planet to see how the Empire operates.
Meanwhile, Edward targeted the Immortal God Civilization. Sadly, these people were experts at hiding and covering their tracks because of the persecution of the Otsutsuki Clan. According to the information he received from the clan, Edward knew the Immortal Gods were the favorite sacrifice of the Otsutsuki.
These Gods were immortal and would revive after the sacrifice. Furthermore, they created the best Chakra Fruits. So, they became experts at hiding to prevent the Otsutsuki from hunting them down.
After searching for a while with no result, Edward had to use Divination to find them. Although these Immortal Gods seemed to have high immunity to divination, he had a powerful medium to find one: Hidan–a member of the Akatsuki.
He worshipped the Immortal God, Jashin. Through him, Edward could find Jashin's location and capture him. On his return trip home, Edward did not do a preliminary analysis of this Immortal God.
"What a strange God," he commented, looking at the imprisoned Jashin before him.
"Indeed," commented Morgana. "His Immortality originated from his faith. As long as he has followers, he will never die. However, he does not have any divine energy."
Edward nodded as he reviewed the data he had gathered. The source of the Immortal God was their faith. They used [Faith] instead of divine energy like the Gods back home to cast spells or create miracles.
"Who knew [Faith] was so volatile and could be used as such," commented Edward. In his universe, the gods must convert faith into Divine Energy through their Divine Flame. But in this world, the gods directly use faith as a power source.
"They have a high immunity to the corruption of faith compared to the gods in our world or the one from the Konosuba Universe, but they are still all crazy," added Morgana, observing Jashin.
"We do not have as much data on our gods to make a conclusion," Edward shook his head. Most of the data about gods originated from Herpo the Foul and the False Gods the Empire created.
"Regardless, these Immortal Gods are a great specimen to study. We should capture all of them."
"You're right: Create a task force to search for them," he said. "Ask the other civilization for their help."
After returning home, Edward took some time to settle the previous research team of the Chakra System. Subsequently, he had another clone study the Immortal God. Orochimaru was interested in this god and asked to be part of this study.
Edward agreed as long as he finished his research first.
Then, he went on a press tour around the Shinobi World, increasing his prestige through a few interviews and appearances. He took advantage of the previous war and broadcast to further incorporate the people of this planet into the Empire.
Finally, he also returned to the lab for his plan to proceed. He created a magical artifact that looked like a grey soccer ball. He enchanted millions of magic runes on this artifact before succeeding; the process took him an entire month and half of the precious materials in his interdimensional ring.
"Success," he muttered as he exhaled.
"Great job, master," said the little elf.
"Thank you," he replied as he looked at the final product.
"What's wrong?"
"No, I'm thinking how this thing could create a protagonist if I drop it in any random universe," replied Edward. "They can use it to become super powerful, push the technology tree of their planet to a higher level, or even rule the world."
"True. And if it's a high-level universe, they could become Tier 12 and break the limit of the universe."
"Tier 11, maybe. However, Tier 12? The chances are minuscule," added Edward. "Of course, they would have to find the energy to activate it. Otherwise, it would be useless."
He no longer wasted time and injected his mana into the artifact. It lights up before projecting a picture of the starry sky. However, the images did not stay for even a second as they changed to another one. Sometimes, the pictures appeared to be the same, but the two knew they were not.
After a few hours, the artifact stopped spinning, and a few pictures remained before Edward.
"Found them," he muttered with bright eyes. "The Lost Timelines."
章節 433: Reincarnators
Edward did not waste time; he activated his device and disappeared from the research room. He found himself floating in emptiness. Looking down, he saw the Ninja Planet separated by a gray protective shield made of Void Energy.
"Is this what a stolen timeline looks like?" he muttered as he looked at the protected Shinobi Planet. He knew although it only looked like the Naruto World was the only place the Lord God stole, that was not the truth: it stole the entire universe.
"Morgana, I remember asking somebody to study the technology to steal a timeline. How is it going?" Luna and Rowena found stolen timelines back home, so Edward tasked some people to study the method used by Lord God; he wanted to reproduce the latter's technology.
"They determined it was too high of a task to steal an entire timeline: such a technology is not something we can currently create," replied the little elf.
"So, they just gave up?" asked Edward with a frown as he thought some people were lazy and using his funding for private purposes.
"No, they focused on the technology to isolate the Empire's timeline and prevent outside forces from coming in."
"That's good. I remember Rowena was the supervisor of this project. How is it going?"
"She is too busy with her own research, but she did provide them with enough data to have some accomplishments. Let me send you the result."
Edward closed his eyes to review the research. Meanwhile, his sphere artifact floated above the gray shield around the Ninja Planet and analyzed it. After about an hour, the sphere floated back to Edward.
"Fail?" he thought; the artifact concluded it was incapable of breaking through the Void Energy, meaning it was most likely the work of a powerful Lord God.
"Let's proceed to the next one," he ordered, and the artifact opened a portal to the following stolen timeline. They proceed as such for an entire week, searching timeline after timeline.
"Found it," muttered Edward with excitement. According to the artifact's analysis, the intensity of the Void Shield around this timeline was nothing compared to the others. More importantly, he could break through.
"Excellent," muttered Edward, who did not immediately enter. Instead, he returned to his timeline and prepared. He filled his interdimensional ring with more Golems and numerous legions from the conquered Automatons' Civilization.
His ring already had many weapons, so he ensured they were readied for battle or to respond to any unexpected situation. Finally, he even placed a few planets and stars inside to use as a bomb in case of an emergency.
Finally, he returned to that stolen timeline.
Edward took out a small metal sphere that contained Void Energy. Then, numerous tattoos appeared on his face as he entered Mana Sage Mode. Under this boosted state, he calmly removed the Void Energy inside.
"Truly a unique power," he commented. After years of studying, countless research and experiments, and with his elevated sensitivity of the Sage Mode, he finally found the core characteristics or power of Void Energy: Space-Time, Creation, and Destruction.
Rowena had long discovered the power of Space-Time. Then, they theorized the possibility of Destruction, given the terrifying ability to annihilate everything that Void Energy had. However, another theory was that the destructive capabilities resulted from chaotic space-time characteristics.
Finally, he discovered the Creation Characteristics after coming to this world.
'I wonder whether Void Energy is a naturally occurring energy or something someone created.' If it were the latter, it would be scary.
Removing these thoughts from his mind, he focused on the task at hand. He activated the Space-Time Characteristic of Void Energy to create a shield around him. Then, he forced his way into the stolen timeline.
Previously, Luna and Rowena had to force themselves in, encountering countless dangers in the process. Learning from their experiences, Edward created a safer way to enter.
As the two shields clashed, he suppressed the enemy's Destruction and Creation Characteristics with his own while combining the Space-Time Characteristics to teleport himself in.
This was more challenging to accomplish than it sounds. He only recently touched the level of Destruction Rules or Authority, so he could barely control the ones in his Void Energy to confront the Lord God. He knew little to nothing regarding the power of creation, so he had to use brute force and his Willpower to achieve it.
Finally, he was a master of Space-Time, so he had no trouble taking over the enemy Space-Time Characteristics and combined with his.
Boom!
Edward forcibly entered the stolen timeline with only a few injuries. However, these were nothing to the current him. He removed the Void Energy in his body, and his body naturally regenerated. Then, he used a spell to hide his breath and entered the Ninja World.
Ninja World, Fourth Shinobi World:
Two people were in the midst of an intense battle. However, these people were extremely odd.
A man with dark skin, and dreads, looked at a woman who seemed half European and Eastern Asian.
"Michelle, today, I will defeat you and deal a major blow to the Shinobi Alliance's side."
"Tobias, you've said this every time we fight," replied Michelle, moving her long black hair.
"It's different today."
"We will see," she said as three people manifested behind her: one wearing blue clothes, another red, and the other white.
Tobias frowned briefly before returning to normal," It seems your Innate Curse Technique has evolved."
"Isn't it normal?" replied Michelle, already on guard. Since the enemy was so confident, she needed to be ten times more careful; that was the only way to survive the Samsara Hall.
Tobias no longer talked and rushed toward his enemy. The blue-clothes person behind Michelle rushed to stop him. However, Tobias' arm suddenly was all black, like armor, and he punched the latter.
Bang!
The blue puppet created an Ice Shield, but Tobias' attack quickly broke the ice. The force from his attack pushed the puppet backward. However, he suddenly sensed something from behind and moved the size.
A fireball appeared in the position he was standing. Tobias suddenly jumped a few meters, and his foot stepped in the air, using it as a stepping tool to accelerate beyond his normal speed.
Tobias rushed to a place 5 meters from Michelle and punched the empty air. But suddenly, the white cloth puppet suddenly appeared with blood all over its body and many broken bones.
"Your Observation Haki," asked Michelle. "You can see in the future?"
"You're very sharp."
"Danm it," cursed Michelle, knowing the situation had changed. With Tobias's new strength, the balance of this war might shift to the Akatsuki's side. And if their sides lose this war, the Shinobi Alliance members will either die in battle or be forced to pay a lot of Samsara Points to the Lord God.
"Enough playing around," said Tobias.
Soru!
He rushed toward his opponent with great speed. Michelle reacted as she summoned her white puppet to stop the opponent. However, she knew it was useless and only wanted to sacrifice it to buy enough time.
As expected, Tobias destroyed the white puppet with one punch before continuing his path. Michelle used this opportunity to summon her blue and red puppet to use the Yin-Yang Blast.
However, a chill ran down her spine as she saw the smile on Tobias; it was as if the latter expected the situation. Tobias suddenly appeared behind the two puppets and attacked.
Rankyaku
He whipped his leg to create a sword slash that cut off the two puppets' heads. Then, he instantly appeared before Michelle and punched her. This attack should have killed her, but she condensed her Curse Energy to condense a shield before her.
"Not dead? Oh, you've mastered the Reverse Curse Technique."
Curse Energy originated from negative human emotions, making it impossible to be used to heal. However, extremely talented Jujutsu Sorcerers can reverse it into positive energy to heal.
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