555 Epilogueception 9 300 Years East-West War Part 4 (2/2)

= Tong and Hannibal =

”Do you mind if I play in your universe?”

That was a mysterious voice message that Tong heard in his head after Pu Jing swore allegiance to him. It was many years before Severus even prepared his forces to invade Han Dynasty.

”Who are you? What do you want?”

”I'm a peer of your creator. I have a proposal for you.”

”… Don't you want to introduce yourself first?”

”You can call me [Player One]. I'm just a tourist who wants to experience life in your universe. Unfortunately, I need your permission, who is the current administrator of this dimension.”

”Oh? Then, what is it that you want, and what is your offer?”

”As I stated before, I want to play a game in your universe. I'll be reincarnated as someone with the same name in the west, and I'll enjoy my life there.”

”Tell me what you'll be giving me, and I'll decide. I don't trust strangers, so my game will be pricy.”

”Fifty billion years of lifespan, a million barrels of purified 20-wing entity's holy water for karmic river cleansing, and the news from your home universe. Aren't you curious why you aren't summoned back home?”

”You seem to know a lot. Do I know you?”

”You've already learned about what I did in a history book, you see. My name is Hannibal Barca. I'm also an administrator from another universe.”

After the conversation, a few decades later, Hannibal Barca appeared in this world despite the timeline error.

Hannibal forbade Tong from using system authority or his relatives to directly harm Hannibal and his allies, but Tong could bestow a few support skills to his subordinates if he needed to. Tong also couldn't participate in the upcoming war either since his power was cheating, and Hannibal found it boring to fight a cheater.

Hannibal promised that he wouldn't use his 16-wing power and his otherworldly knowledge against Tong, but he would fight using the local weaponry and the technologies that had already existed or developed in Tong's world.

The game began with Tong's universe as a gaming server host for the first time. Hannibal became the [Player 1] and enjoyed the East-West War thoroughly.

The war changed Tong's perspective of native people, souls, and the nature of this universe. Aside from his wives and his subordinates, he distanced himself from the local population.

Millions of souls circulated through the river of karma as Tong maintained its stability in secret. He found out that the more people died, the more stable the river became.

He felt nothing when Zhang He and his men died. Tong felt like they were NPC game characters, who would respawn at some point.

Still, the policeman-self pulled him back from the apathy syndrome. He took the hobbies of impregnating his favorite wives and collecting cursed children in Lilim's dimension to maintain his sanity. He even released Liu Ping out of misery, but he forgot to sever the karma.

The East-West War ended after Lu Bu killed Severus. Hannibal visited Tong personally and revealed his 16 black feather wings, which was the opposite of what Sun Shangxiang had.

Hannibal gave Tong what he had promised and commented that Tong's support system skills were interesting, and he would create them in his universe. He complained, though, that the Romans in this age lacked talented generals, good strategists, and hot weapons. Or else, he could have defeated Tong's minions.

Hannibal [logged out] from this universe, but he returned in his true form a few hundred years later.

This time, Hannibal came to give the festival invitation to Tong and his subordinates.

As Tong had enlightened from the recent war and the truth of the universes from Hannibal, Tong denied his subordinates' entry and sent everyone to Zhang Jiao's dimension so that they wouldn't lose their sanity and humanity mindset like him.

He went to the [Higher Dimension] with his trusted family members.

Unfortunately, the creator challenged Medusa and got Tong involved in their affair.

Tong wanted to breakthrough during the fight, but the karma knots he had with Ping hindered his growth. Even after Tong severed the ties with his retainers and immortal subordinates, he couldn't get his 11th wing.

In the end, Tong suicide-bombed the creator. He even saw Liu Ping's smirking face before his consciousness faded away.

When he reincarnated as Xian Tong, he was a bit upset that resting in the karmic river was more peaceful than struggling in the world of the living.

Hannibal even visited Tong when he was still a baby. He came here under Medusa's supervision.

Hannibal invited Tong to play in the future festival when he grew up. He wanted to challenge Tong in another war game again, but he would bring his top generals and strategists to fight against Tong's best officers.

Tong refused at first, but he eventually snuck out when Medusa and others went to another festival. As Xian Tong, he ended up evolving into another dragon among the higher dimension by training in Hannibal's game universe.

The two became friends without anyone realizing it. When Tong migrated his former retainers and his wives to the [Old Heaven], aka Morning Star and the creator's old universe, he took the role as an admin once more.

He stayed out of the festival and enjoyed his freestyle ”Sim Universe” afterward. Medusa dumped him along the way, which depressed him for a millennium.

But he returned to a new conflict once more when he discovered Morning Star in a new reincarnated body and Lilith's little game. Surprisingly, he found Medusa and Hannibal at the new festival.

Tong found out that Lilith had brought up the reincarnation of Morning Star as her representative. Meanwhile, Medusa allied with the reincarnation of the creator. As for Hannibal, he brought his best officers as promised. The latter even challenged Tong for an all-out war between universes.

Xian Tong and Hannibal's brought their elite generals and strategists soldiers into another war. Amid their conflict, another war between Lilith and the reincarnated creator took place while a new actor, the reincarnation of Lucifer, emerged as the new rising star.

”Wanna play a game?”

*Nom-Nom Mew!* (I'm hungry! Get me food, banana Mia!)