2504 – The Complete Universe
Medium Sector 110—
"No…"
Helmor left his planet, in fact he left his entire galaxy, and surged into space, surrounded by a gray aura of destruction that helped him destroy the Energy Waves.
But even so, he did not emerge completely unscathed. "Agh!" Even as he tried to hold himself together and looked around, his body was collapsing right and left, up and down. For even if he could protect himself from the random Energy trapped for millions of years, he could not protect himself from the disturbance of the Spacetime Fabric.
But he did not seem to care much, as he continued advancing and striking through space until he reached the Buffer Zone between Sectors 110 and 111.
…Or what used to be one.
The scene had changed entirely. There was no longer solid space that heralded the end of the sector and created small isolated universes within the universe.
Helmor saw a sea of wonders in this moment…
The violent disturbances and fractures had calmed entirely, and what came after was a calm wave of primordial Energy and cosmic dust.
"No…" Helmor muttered again.
That primordial Energy would return to spread among the planets to nourish them and raise the level of natural energy within them, and this would increase the numbers of the planets' distinguished children, active natural phenomena, and many events that would raise the capability of all the planet's inhabitants as a whole.
As for that cosmic dust, it was what resulted as destruction from the compression of 90% of the universe's area inside a prison of the Void. Of course, not all planets, stars, and celestial bodies survived — an immense number of them were destroyed, and naturally the inhabitants of all those planets died and turned into cosmic dust as well.
That dust would rain down upon the current planets and celestial bodies over the coming years to transform them into something of higher station than they were meant to be.
Every handful of that cosmic dust that was compressed for seventy million years from celestial bodies and living beings would transform into rare materials the moment it descended upon planets, whether as particles or meteors, or perhaps some of it would gather and form super planets and many galaxy seeds during the coming period.
Speaking of super planets and galaxy seeds…
Helmor opened his eyes to their fullest.
Regardless of the primordial Energy and the cosmic dust that had begun to spread, there was another scene behind them…
After the walls of the Void were shattered and the compression was released, the severed area of the universe returned — 90% in full began to appear.
Helmor could see the Spacetime Fabric merging with the new colossal pieces presented to him, expanding naturally.
He could, of course, feel the terrifying momentum of Transcendence forcing the Spacetime Fabric to behave rationally and complete the merge in this perfect manner instead of colliding and causing Explosions.
And between those vast new expanses… there were celestial bodies.
There were suns and planets, there were entire visible galaxies.
Perhaps many of them were destroyed during the process of compression and Sealing, but each one of these Buffer Zones is nine times the size of a Sector. If a Sector had 5 galaxies, then in a single Buffer Zone there are more than forty… even if twenty of them were destroyed, the rest still remain.
Those galaxies and celestial bodies that had been buried between primordial Energy and cosmic dust all those years, without a human hand digging for their riches or the fangs of The Plague gnawing at them… every single one of these planets could easily be called Transcendent.
The number of rare galaxy seeds previously must have been in the tens, now!!
"No no no…" Helmor advanced slowly, his eyes moving in incomprehension.
From all the information he had gathered about the Transcendents and their followers, he had never heard of an Executioner's punishment being forcibly lifted.
This was simply something that did not happen.
"…?!" Then Helmor looked in a certain direction, below him, and there his eyes began to move with terror, "Is it possible?!"
Robin Burton had not merely destroyed the Buffer Zones in the middle region—he had completely removed this punishment from the universe's holographic model.
Even the Buffer Zones in the Young Belt were witnessing a similar event at this very moment.
"No, no, no!!!" Helmor raised his voice.
Today was a catastrophe in every sense of the word.
Robin Burton had not only defied the universe's people against them, but he had raised the universe's power overall, lifted one of the worst restrictions that limited everyone. Now it was only a matter of time before the universe truly became Level B in power, after having fallen for so long to near unclassified.
And all of this happened under their eyes, right under their noses, in full view of everyone!
Here, in the universe that witnessed the most external interventions and possessed enlightened individuals, all of this was happening?!
What would The Patrons do to them if they found out?
"Robin… Burton!!" Helmor clenched his teeth hard.
The ten-year grace period—had he taken it to prepare himself and strike them a blow like this?
Now, even if he took a step back and announced that he would not fight for the universe, their mission had become dozens of times harder.
Now, even if he tried to escape and evade the pressure being imposed on him, he had used an absurd pretext like his children's doubt in him to destroy the foundation they had been building for millions of years and to plant doubt in everyone's hearts.
It was…
Their mission was ruined, and their happy days were ruined.
Hmm.
Helmor tapped his finger toward the east calmly to create a turbulent communication channel using the destruction.
His face immediately contorted when he noticed how easy it had become after the Buffer Zone ended.
Then he opened his mouth and spoke, "…Intiras, I realize I was wrong as you told me. That reprieve was a trap and useless. What do we do now?" Then an ugly thought crossed his mind, "…Intiras… you are still inside the universe, right?"
[…] It took a few moments before the reply came, […Wait, the broadcast hasn't ended yet.]
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