Chapter 893 At the Scale of the Multiverse (1/2)

”I'll handle that problem.”

Joshua appeared to be prepared, and he shook his head before saying, ”The thought acceleration system has been tested and proven in the closed beta phase of Continental War. Although there could be blurred memories when used for learning, partial memories would be kept regarding the things that the user remember under the accelerated process, even when their minds are operating under normal capacity. Through assessment, a batch of crew who had grasp basic knowledge could be swiftly formed.”

Continental War applies simulated thought acceleration which was fine in game since it was a simplified version of reality. However, limits of technology prevented the game from simulating Void warships at a hundred percent capacity, with the taught knowledge easily forgotten or lacking due to thought acceleration.

Be that as it may, the hastened education in both reality and simulation would easily build a crew who has the minimum requirements. It was certainly not the best option and nor does it help with Mycroft's lacking population, but it at least solves the pressing issue.

”Compared to that, Your Holiness, I'm more interested in the ability of those otherworld champions.”

Joshua turned to the old pontiff who was ruminating, staring doubtfully at his palm—where he had grasped the dimensional rift. ”How powerful do you believe them to be?” He asked slowly.

Jerked out of his rumination, Igor groaned for a moment before answering. ”Probably… like us. The one who severed the dimensional rift is very powerful, and I had the feeling that their deft holds the mass of a world—no less inferior than your true form.”

And that was very powerful.

At present, Joshua would have been a top-level champion even in the Glorious era next to the Sage, and slightly inferior to the full-powered form of certain major deities. The pontiff himself was of the same level, albeit lacking in ability for mass destruction.

However, Joshua frowned when he heard those words, asking balefully, ”No less inferior than us? That's it?”

Was that all?

”What?”

In response, Igor looked up in shock, glaring at the warrior and said with a perplexed tone, ”Is that not enough? You still want stronger foes?”

”I don't want to scold you, Joshua—I know you want powerful opponents since it's your nature, but this is a problem for civilization. It is good as long as the beings of unknown allegiance are weaker, and we would be in trouble if all our enemies are as powerful as the Evil God of Death.”

”No, Your Holiness. This actually is a bad thing.”

Joshua shook his head, disagreeing with Igor's opinion.

The warrior looked around at the Superconductive Arcane Silver world, an unusual realm which hosts no life apart from Thunder Elementals and traces of Superconductive Arcane Silver in every mineral vein. After that he turned, and continued his conversation with Igor solemnly, ”Time had dilated over dozens of thousand years. So many galaxies and innumerable civilizations were flourishing, competing, warring and slaughtering each other… and yet, such a grand battlefield and stage with its infinite tales and epics could only birth champions similar to us, or could indeed be inferior.”

”Is that really good? Not at all.”

Though it was hard to understand, that was indeed the truth—it might be good for Mycroft's civilization now, but as time goes on and their horizons broadened up to the scale of the Multiverse, it was simply not good at all.

”The Evil Gods are ever powerful. If the Evil God of Death that had yet to assume actually attacked us, we would be instantly destroyed—if that's the case, how powerful was the being that created Evil Gods and lurked behind the curtains of Chaos?”

Joshua could not hold back from laughing at that. While he had pointed out that it was bad, he was not nervous… nor was he fearful of powerful foes that might exist.

Meanwhile, the warrior simply continued speaking his mind, ”Actually, there ware flaws to this argument, since we had discovered the appearance of Shadow recently. If we are not mistaken, beings of the Sage's level could be born in other galaxies within the last dozens of millennia—but is there a class that stands between one such as the Sage and us?”

At that, Igor slowly understood what Joshua was getting at, and so nodded thoughtfully in agreement for Joshua to continue.

”If they indeed exist, why did they not observe us at once? The more powerful they were, the more curious they would be—I would never believe that they would act against an unknown galaxy, and if they did not, it meant that the theoretical class does not exist. For them to first observe beings similar to our level makes it clear that the foreign champions are almost on our level… which is why I believe it to be a bad thing.”

At those words, Joshua sighed and concluded his argument.

”…I generally understand what you mean.”

At that, Igor understood Joshua's meaning.

His idea was actually simple: Joshua and himself had presently reached a bottleneck since their Legendary forms had obtained True Gods level of combat power. They had to give up on certain things if they wanted to continue forward and become even stronger, or make a reluctant choice.

If Joshua wanted to improve, he would have to solve the problem of a world's standard—while a world could grow endlessly, the World Barrier would strengthen without boundary as well. Should the day come that his World Barrier becomes so strong that the warrior himself could not crack it, what difference was there for him to turn into a black hole and be sealed within his own event horizon?

Just like the supermassive singular world in Project Rebirth, its existence would be near eternal, and yet it was nothing more than a mere tortoise that had shrunk within its own shell.

For his part, if Igor wanted to become stronger, he probably could only choose the path of 'partial eternity' for divine beings, broadening his limited lightspeed domain to the threshold boundless light. Still, that was merely living as a main deity, and a class below the Sage.