111 And the Universe Stopped... (2/2)
UGH YOU ARE A PAIN IN MY EXISTENCE, MAH DUDE.
Xander, hesitatingly, tried to send back a message.
”Um…hello Universe-25… how are you doing..?”
Immediately, messages began to come in.
YOU DIMWIT, FINALLY YOU CAN READ MY MESSAGES.
YOU SCREWED UP BIG TIME! EVEN IF YOU'RE FAVORED BY AMADEUS, YOU'RE JUST A PAIN AND ADDING TO MY WORKLOAD!
”Uh…who's Amadeus?”
… NEVERMIND THAT. WAIT, I'LL HAVE TO ADD YOU TO THE GROUP CHAT WITH WHITE AND BLACK.
The moment he received that message, the System immediately beeped, sending him a message.
”You now have access to the Almighty and the Fallen. You may now directly message or call them, or request from them.”
”You have been forcefully added to the connected communication channel of the Ordered Universe, the Almighty, and the Fallen.”
Under the tab, there were two additional sections that appeared.
Almighty-U25
Number of Calls: 3/infinity (Increases by 1 Every 30 days UTY)
Number of Requests: 3/99 (Increases by 1 Every 300 days UTY)
Number of Messages: 0/infinity (Increases by 1 every time you send/receive a message)
Fallen-U25
Number of Calls: 3/infinity (Increases by 1 Every 30 days UTY)
Number of Requests: 3/99 (Increases by 1 Every 300 days UTY)
Number of Messages: 0/infinity (Increases by 1 every time you send/receive a message)
Trinity Chat-U25
Number of Messages: 1...0/infinity (Increases by 1 every time you send/receive a message)
When I checked the logs, there was a long list of conversations happening between the trio, and I immediately skipped to the recent updates.
YO, U25. WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID THE SYSTEM FREEZE?
DON'T BLAME ME WHITE, BLAME ONE OF THE THINGS INSERTED BY OUR GREAT GOD AMADEUS.
UGH. TOTES NOT COOL. I WAS ABOUT TO WIN THE STARRING CONTEST. WHY DID THE TIME START AGAIN?
SHADDUP BLACK! ANYWAYS, I FORCEFULLY ADDED THE CULPRIT INTO THIS CHAT SO WE CAN AT LEAST 'ADVISE' HIM BEFOREHAND IF THE SITUATION HE IS HEADING TO IS DETRIMENTAL FOR THE UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE.
”Hello, seniors. Sorry for the trouble I have caused. ＿|￣|○” Xander responded, adding an emoji of him kneeling down to them. Hopefully, they got his intentions.
OH, YOU'RE THAT DUDE? YOU HACKED OUR MAINFRAMES FAM. THAT FEELING WAS SO INTRUSIVE. LIKE, I WAS STRIPPED NAKED. NOT THAT I DIDN'T LIKE IT…
NOT THE POINT TODAY, BLACK. THE POINT IS WHY DID AMADEUS EVEN GIVE HIM SUCH A COMPANION? ISN'T THOSE THINGS RARE IN THE GREAT VOID? HEY, U25, DO YOU KNOW WHY?
THE HECK? HOW WOULD I KNOW, WHITE, I'M NOT THAT IMPULSIVE.
ANYWAYS, YOU KNOW HIM ALREADY SO NO NEED FOR FURTHER INTRODUCTION.
MR. IDIOT, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT NEXT TIME YOU PLAN TO AFFECT THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, SEND US A MESSAGE SO WE CAN ACTUALLY CREATE A SANDBOX FOR YOU TO BE IN FOR A WHILE.
YOUR POWERS ARE GROWING EXPONENTIALLY, AND CURRENTLY A HASSLE FOR US.
”Ok. Will do. Sorry for the additional trouble. How do I address you, seniors?”
CALL ME ALMIGHTY, J, OR SOURCE.
CALL ME FALLEN, LUCY, OR STAR. BUT FOR YOU, YOU CAN CALL ME DADDY \u003c3
When Xander saw Lucy reply to him like that, he consciously shivered, yet he was also puzzled. He had a dad, why would he call another being his daddy?
CALL ME U25. STOP FLIRTING BLACK, GODDAMN IT. THE GUY'S JUST 7 YEARS OLD!
WELL, TECHNICALLY, HE'S MORE THAN TEN MILLION YEARS OLD WITH HIS SPACE-TIME HIJINKS THOUGH…
SHUT IT, WHITE, I'M BASING THIS ON THE CURRENT SANDBOX REALITY WHERE THE KID IS IN. HE IS JUST 7 YEARS OLD. NO PEDOPHILIA ALLOWED IN MY UNIVERSE!
…FINE, SHEESH. I WAS JUST TEASING THE KID. HOWEVER, BOY, MY OFFER STANDS IN THE FUTURE, OK? \u003c3
”…”
At that point, Xander closed the chat and returned back to the present situation. With his increase in comprehension of all origin elements, he could perceive the inner workings of the universe adjusting, fixing itself from the damage he had caused with his universe-wide time stop.
It was minute, but the fabric of space and time was readjusting itself into a set structure, indicating that even the UTY of the universe has something to base it on.
The other space-time magicians and half-step to Void Traveler rank, seeing that time and space were functioning normally now, realized with their current connection with the universe, the universe was adjusting on its own, fixing the disjointed time and space.
The space-time cultivators took this opportunity to meditate on its profound mysteries, to further improve their comprehension of this origin element. After all, this was a rare opportunity. In fact, if some of the sages half-step to God class would meditate on this situation, they might get the last bit of understanding they needed to establish their own universe.
Anyways, going back to Eteria, Xander was immersing himself in understanding how the U25, J, and Lucy were fixing the problem. Huh, it seemed interesting. If he was to describe how they were doing it, it is like manually updating the space and time settings in every section of the universe simultaneously. They weren't attempting to update the time as a whole because it would screw up some special structures inside the universe. So although it was simultaneously done, there was a lot of fine-tuning done per region.
In fact, the planets he landed on near Cerulean had their time speed return to normal, meaning the special trait he placed as a compensation method was removed.
Oh well, I should just focus on my own stuff, for now, Xander mumbled.
He then headed to the laboratory and saw that there were still a lot of other planets and galaxies being formed. Luckily, there weren't any black holes or wormholes developing, as these would be quite a hassle to remove.
He began to check on the Concept trees, checking if they had bloomed as well besides the Dream, Life and Creation trees.
Order, Dimension, Chaos, and Evolution trees were already forming flowers, but like usual, the Destruction Tree only has withered leaves on its branches.
With the two types of seeds that he bought, he transported 2 planets to the area, placing two of each seed per planet. He also had a laboratory set-up in these two planets, as well as a farm garden and mountain deposits and areas where elemental crystals are rapidly compressed and accumulated.
The planet with the Time seed was placed under accelerated time, allowing it to proceed with 1 second: 10,000 years.
The planet with the Emotion seed, on the other hand, had to be modified to have a higher concentration of emotion and mind elements in the area.
He didn't plan on adding these planets into the foundation of the Laboratory as they were not stable enough.
He began to delve into the mysteries of the Immortal quality elemental crystals and the wisp of Immortal flame for the next 360,000 years inside the laboratory, or 5 hours outside.
It was 200,000 years after that he finally had a breakthrough on how they were formed and produced naturally or artificially.
These are known to be Immortal quality elemental crystals because they actually began to contain nomological truths, albeit in small, nearly-undetectable amounts.
However, they were there, much higher than the lower quality elemental crystals, with the highest transcendental quality elemental crystal containing 0.0000000000000012% nomological truths that are barely comprehensible, and detrimental even, if one attempted to comprehend them. Once it reached the level of Immortal quality elemental crystals, however, it can contain as low as 0.000001% to 1.5% complete comprehension.
It's possible, of course, as the Eternal items, that the complete comprehension it contained, one already knows. Because of this, the formed immortal elemental crystals are never quite the same. They vary in small aspects, just like cultivators in their path to Godhood and beyond.
One of the purposes of an immortal-quality elemental crystal is that it can supply a Divine-rank or higher matrix spell of its own, the power of the spell depends on the number of elemental crystals in grams. Another benefit was that it can substitute a plant material of the same element, limited up to Class 11.
When Xander looked back into the past of the elemental crystal, the aspects of collection, accumulation, compression and expression of the element were observed. The last step, expression, was vital for an elemental crystal to be considered immortal quality. In fact, they needed to be near an Eternal item for them to form after hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years.
Xander also discovered how one can artificially produce them: Random bursts of elemental power in the targeted areas, these bursts representing different representations of the target element, before being compressed and allowed to accumulate. The speed of accumulation can be improved by adding the Eternal item/s of the specific element/s one desires in the vicinity.
He began to modify the areas in the different planets he was controlling, adding eternal items here and there of that specific element, mixing and matching certain types. He did plan to create some mixed immortal elemental crystals to give as gifts.
This brought up two interesting topics for Xander: Can magic crystals gain sentience though since they are structured similarly to how a sentient being progresses in the path of cultivation? At the same time, can he create ready to deploy spells, by etching them into the immortal crystals and activating them later on? Xander decided to place these two topics in the back burner for now, before resuming research on the wisp of Immortal flame.
For the next 160,000 years, that was his focus. From that wisp, he tested it in every possible test he could think of, even attempting to view how the flame was born.