Hope for the Star Horse Clan

"How long did it take us?" Ron asked.

"Three minutes." Magneto frowned. "We covered about 666 kilometers per minute."

"The entire course of the Spring Season is about 800,000 kilometers. That means even if we increase our speed tenfold, to nearly 6,666 kilometers per minute, without considering a vacuum environment, it would still take about 2 hours to complete the whole course."

He began to worry about whether the mission could be completed successfully.

Are the "Go for it!" and "Keep going!" phrases I learned online useful?

He even gave the physical embodiment of his Soul of the Car a name – Nick (Greek: Νκη, victory; Latin transliteration: Nike).

Naming your mini car is common in this world.

Rush God of War, Spider King, Primal Evolver, Triangle Arrow.

These are all car names.

When drivers use words to motivate their cars, it also lets the cars know that they are being encouraged.

"We still have an advantage; we can use all the Soul of the Car Power on the car," Katy said. "We don't need the Soul of the Car Power to distort reality when facing harsh environments."

Based on my time online and my recent personal experience...

She had a general understanding of the Soul of the Car Power, a power that exists because drivers strive to be the first to reach the finish line with their cars.

As long as the Soul of the Car Power is strong enough, the car and driver can still run perfectly well even in Stormfront, lightning, the Deep, and high altitudes, without even needing a track.

The car itself can unleash speeds hundreds, thousands, or even trillions of times greater than its own performance, while the driver can steadily follow behind.

However, Katy sees this as a distortion of reality.

If the Soul of the Car Power is equal.

The car's inherent performance, coupled with the driver's weaker running speed, means that reaching the same speed requires more Soul of the Car Power to distort reality, making the latter destined to lose.

And the four of them.

As drivers, they don't need the Soul of the Car Power to distort reality and adapt to the negative environment of the waterspout.

In this situation, they can channel more of their Soul of the Car Power into the car itself.

This in itself is an advantage.

In this world, this is known as the manifestation of the Soul of the Car Power.

To permanently transcend one's physical limitations and thus defeat opponents off the field, or to rid oneself of some or even all of the burdens of the body and concentrate more of the Soul of the Car Power on the car to Civil War.

"Oh right." Ron, who had been tense because of Magneto's words, breathed a sigh of relief. "I can transform into Susanoo and possess the car. That way, I can achieve oneness with the car."

When he talks about the unity of man and car, he actually means more about making the car use his superpowers, his magic.

Instead of simply using the Soul of the Car Power to distort reality.

For drivers in this world who awaken their racing spirit, superpowers are inherently rooted in their cars, allowing them to use these superpowers to fight and race on the track, making speed as easy as blinking an eye.

Instead, the superpowers applicable to the car are implanted into the body, achieving permanent transcendence.

What was easy for Ron was extremely difficult for the drivers of this world.

At first glance, it seems balanced, but over the past few days, Ron has discovered that he is the only one of the four Champion to have encountered this problem.

Magneto and his two companions are like outsiders whose Soul of the Car Power manifest, yet also like native drivers whose cars can use superpowers.

The only difference between Ron and the other three is that he's a brainwave-enhanced four-wheel drive vehicle from the Superhero World.

The three of them have achieved perfect harmony between man and vehicle, enabling the four-wheel drive vehicle to use superpowers.

But he's not ready yet.

Furthermore, replicating him in this world seems to be a hundred times, a thousand times more difficult than in the Superhero World.

Of course, Basil already knew this.

This is also a balancing adjustment for Harry's upcoming power-up.

Magneto and his two companions were like the innate vehicle body and embryo.

Ron, however, was merely a mortal.

However, Ron now seems to have found a shortcut to physical man-machine integration.

This gave Katy an idea. "Yes, I can completely blend in with my car!"

"I can do that too!" Magneto, whose body could disintegrate into magnetic fields, exclaimed with delight.

"I can create a barrier centered on the car and enter it!" Susan clenched her fist.

Ron, who thought he could overtake others by taking a shortcut:

("Sweetheart, your balance adjustment has failed," Madison joked.)

("Even physical integration with a car has its advantages and disadvantages," Basil said. "If a car is like a wand that amplifies one's supernatural abilities, then Katy and the others' car is like a wand carefully selected in Ollivander.")

("Ron's car was equivalent to a secondhand wand bought from a secondhand wand shop.")

There are still thirty minutes until the match officially begins.

Ron and his group arrived much earlier than expected.

After discovering the physical secret of man and vehicle becoming one, the four began to have the leisure to look around.

Soon, they discovered something strange.

Most of the athletes on the field have blue hair.

Moreover, they look very similar.

With this question in mind, the four of them walked toward the place where Chizuko and the uncle were, seemingly in a place that didn't exist, where no one cared and where everyone subconsciously avoided them.

"Are you asking about the Star Horse Clan?" The uncle was still young and gentle, but his eyes revealed an intense envy.

"You all remember what I said before about Gō Hao becoming a father unexpectedly, right?"

"In the very beginning, the cycle of the world included Chizuko and Gō growing up, and us growing old."

"Although we may wake up one day and become young again, Chizuko and Gō will become elementary school students again, the rest of us will still go through the normal cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death."

"This also includes Gō's children and his descendants."

"The descendants of Eternity characters are far more likely to attract fragments of the souls of the strong than others. Combined with the newly born Soul of the Car, almost every one of them is an unparalleled powerhouse, a true racer."

"They can even deceive the predetermined script."

"Why can't a driver who looks like Gō, has Gō in spirit, and drives a racing car from the Sprint series replace Gō in the World Cup?"

"The first Great Cataclysm, the disappearance of the World Cup, was caused by one of Gō's descendants."

"They are like bugs in this fixed world."

"The Star Horse Clan is like a race of hope that keeps a stagnant world running again."

"But unfortunately, we discovered it too late."

"Just as we discover that even though we have no future, we can have offspring and create a new future, the cycle of the world will end before Gō and the others come of age. They will forever remain elementary school students."

"It's as if the world has a self-correcting mechanism."

"When a vulnerability appears, it is often plugged before we discover it."

"Breaking one destiny script, but the total amount of Destiny Force remains the same, the difficulty of breaking other destiny scripts also increases."

"Now, even with so many members of the Star Horse Clan, we can't break through a trivial super downhill track race."

"Can you believe it? This race used to be a two-person race, with steep curves in the first half and super straightaways in the second half."

"Two drivers can only use the same chassis."

"In order to completely destroy the script, we even took advantage of the early setting that Gō was not good at cornering."

"First, a thousand members of the Star Horse Clan were sent out. In the end, one of them replaced Gō and won first place. Due to the instability of the Destiny Force, the script was modified."

"By eliminating the straight track, we also eliminated the mechanism that only one chassis could be used."

"But in the end."

"Even without the straightaways, Lie, who is good at corners, did not win first place; instead, Gō."

"We then realized that even the setting has to give way to the script."

"Our past successes were just lucky, because the script is becoming more and more stubborn, and we are still standing still."

Ron frowned. "Can't elementary school students do it?"

"This is for the world."

"Also, not all Eternity characters are elementary school students, for example, an older man can remarry and have a child."

"No," the man said gently. "I can't even have a good, cathartic cry. Do you think I can go against the script, Boki?"

"What if it's Informed One? He's willing to sacrifice himself to give the world hope." Ron coughed and straightened up.

"You are a man." The man's expression remained gentle, but his eyes seemed to twitch slightly.

"Aren't there women in the Eternity roles too?" Ron said. "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter tournaments, plus the World Cup, two years should be enough, right?"

Translation: If the male character can't play the Eternity role, then let the female character take over.

In the interstellar universe, Basil saved the universe by falling in love; Ron might as well find someone to have children with in order to save the universe.

("Ron Weasley!" If this were a comic book, Lavender's forehead would probably be covered in tic-tac-toe marks.)

"What makes you think women are different?" the uncle said. "Among the Eternity characters who can be considered free, Da Shen, Tsuchiya, me, the Dash, and Okada Tesshin are all men. Among the Chizuko and Chizuko are elementary school students."

"As drivers who compete in official races, Hijikata Rei and Joe are even more demanding than us; they cannot conceive even through artificial means."

"If it really works the way you say, why don't we just create clones?"

"This is far more suitable than bloodline descendants, and it is more compatible with the Soul Fragment of the corresponding powerful beings."

"Gō is able to have descendants because in the original script, his descendants were also part of the story."

"It's just that the new script abruptly ends in the elementary school era, and his descendants are no longer in it, which is what makes it a bug."

The man paused for a moment, then added, "Furthermore, only drivers who possess fragments of the Soul of a Strongman can become those in the Informed One."

"Only then can we discover the terrifying fact that everything in this world except for mini racing cars has been stagnant for billions of years."

"Otherwise, even if you talk to him about fate, Eternity roles, and everything related to them, it will automatically be rationalized in his mind."

"Although the Soul of the Car and the Fragment of the Enhancement Soul have the same origin, they cannot be considered equivalent."

"Only by finding the discordant element of the Soul of the Car, Soul Fragment of a powerful being from the ancient era, and then mastering the immortal power within it, can one be considered to possess a fragment of the soul of a powerful being."

"Then what about us?" Ron asked, puzzled.

He knew perfectly well that he didn't possess any fragments of the so-called "soul of a strongman," so why wasn't the uncle surprised that they could receive these messages?

"You are the first generation— the Soul of the Car who have only undergone one reincarnation," the uncle said. "Only the first generation can know about the existence of the script of destiny and everything related to it without mastering the power of immortality."

"Before each Great Cataclysm, that is, before Tsuchiya and Da Shen are about to truly destroy a script again, they will deliberately destroy the cars in the racing graveyard, creating a large number of first-generation cars that know the plot and interfere with the Destiny Force."

"What is the Great Cataclysm?" Ron asked.

"A backlash caused by the disruption of destiny," the uncle said glossed over.

Even he seemed unwilling to mention [the Great Cataclysm].

The four of them kept this in mind, secretly guessing that it might help them complete their mission in this world.

"You should focus on the race instead," the uncle said, changing the subject. "In the original script, the race was a two-person race. Gō and Lie came in first, the Ying Yu brothers came in second, and the two ordinary drivers came in third."

"The competition is now a doubles event."

"Aside from the fixed first place for Gō and second place for Ryū, there are 4 places left."

"This is a very rare opportunity."

"Rankings?" Ron frowned. "What's the use of that?"

"Immortality," the uncle said. "To be precise, it's a two-year lifespan. Once you achieve a ranking, you become a limited character for this era. You will be reborn with the end and beginning of this era. That is, in the next era, your body will return to the state it was in two years ago."

"If you achieve a ranking in every era, it means immortality, an immortality that cannot be ended as long as you don't participate in the World Cup."

"This is precious for you young people who haven't lived enough yet."

"Especially since this competition has four rankings, and these rankings are unrelated to the World Cup."

"You don't need to worry about getting a ranking and thus qualifying for the World Cup. You'll truly face your fate and the end."

"The World Cup is irresistible? But didn't you say it was hard to get in, even for Chizuko, it was only this time?" Ron asked doubtfully. "And immortality?" His confusion deepened. "In my current physical condition, if I live normally, I can exist for at least a billion years. Immortality isn't far off, for them..."

He was referring to drivers whose eyes gleamed with fanaticism and who murmured words like "immortality" and "undying."

They were clearly in the Informed One, and each of them possessed incredibly powerful Soul of the Car Power.

Observing with his five-tomoe Sharingan, he could see that the manifestation of their Soul of the Car Power was also very good. Their bodies were all extraordinary, and their vitality was extremely strong. They could live for at least a thousand years.

Why are they so fanatical?

A two-year cycle is called an era.

There are plenty of opportunities.

"In this world, besides the Eternity characters, only the Soul of the Car can truly live on forever. Only a soul that truly masters the power of immortality can be reborn," the uncle said. "I said master, not possess."