Proto-Universe Inside the Volcano

Susan began to regret why she had gone to such lengths to cover it up.

Clearly, perhaps no one noticed her little secret at first.

"Doctor, which set of parts is Katy compatible with?"

She began to pretend she hadn't heard Katy.

Because her true form is the Present Body, she can touch the Three Lives Body, and she directly pulled Katy's Past Body to her side.

Katy's lips pressed into a thin line.

The Da Shen, uninterested in the convoluted affairs between the two, scrutinized Katy's [Past Body]. "A wondrous past without a car spirit, where external power could exist independently, could never exist in this form."

"What a surprise! What a huge surprise!"

He immediately went from nonchalant to serious, his eyes shining with the same surprise as when he first encountered the Anti-Destiny Force.

"It is nothingness, yet it is not the opposite of the nature of the Destiny Force."

"Instead, it doesn't need soil to exist on its own."

"It's as if it came from a real other world."

"Let me think about what parts would be suitable," he began to spin in place, "A system that doesn't exist independently. Ah—I've got it! How could I not have thought of that!"

"What is it?" Katy had no time to care about Susan.

The Da Shen's performance had already raised her expectations for her parts to the max.

"[Avalon]," said the Dr. Ogami.

His hand plunged into the air and then pulled out, revealing a car body entirely of gold inlaid with blue enamel as decoration.

"[Island of Immortal Apples][Island of Heavenly Blessing][Land of Fairies][Island of the Dead] It has many names in mythology."

"But without exception, they all share a common characteristic: the islands are isolated from the world, protected by fairies and elves, and inaccessible to ordinary people. Time and age do not exist on the islands, and nothing ever ages."

"It is also a product of the Second Universe Project."

"A byproduct of my efforts to create a sanctuary for humanity, isolated from fate."

"It can, to some extent, repel the omnipresent fate and create a vacuum within it in an absolute sense."

"If the car spirit can carry it, the driver can ignore all physical interference and spatiotemporal interference, achieving a certain degree of absolute defense."

"I think your Past Body should be able to carry it in and integrate it."

Katy's Past Body stepped forward and eagerly took it.

The blue-gold car body couldn't wait to disintegrate, and a huge cube shimmering with blue light enveloped her.

Then it disappeared into the air.

Magneto, Ron, and Susan felt incredibly conflicted. She was right in front of them, but no matter how they tried to sense her, all they could see was emptiness. Their intuition also told them that Katy didn't exist.

Susan was particularly surprised.

Her power field, enhanced by Illusion Technique, forms a barrier that covers reality. Essentially, it isolates her from the outside world, allowing her to exist independently and achieve non-existence, becoming invisible.

Now she can even ascend to a higher dimension and leave the dimension where reality exists.

But even she wasn't as thorough as Katy right now.

Even as her consciousness rose to a higher level and merged with the river of time, Katy before her was still nothingness.

Is this the true value of ignoring spatiotemporal interference?

Katy had no idea what Susan was thinking.

Right now, she, and her Past Body, are both shrouded in [Avalon].

The enormous blue cube may have disappeared, but she could feel it still enveloping her.

But what puzzled her most was that the chains of fate around her seemed to be consciously avoiding her, dodging as she moved.

Just like Erik, who possesses the Anti-Destiny Force.

And Susan and the others didn't seem to notice this phenomenon.

She seems to have turned into a ghost?

Is she like Susan now?

The memory of Susan secretly ambushing Li Lin from behind when they were together flashed into her mind.

The next second, Katy's Past Body, in normal human size, reached out and pinched Susan's cheek.

Her smooth skin was stretched long and then snapped back.

The victim, however, did not react at all.

No, not entirely.

"Huh? Why am I drooling?" Susan asked, puzzled.

Katy frowned.

She discovered that most of her Soul of the Car Power had mysteriously disappeared.

"This shouldn't be happening, there shouldn't be any problems." The Dr. Ogami could see Katy couldn't help but get nervous.

"I'm fine," Katy said. "I'm just wondering why most of my Soul of the Car Power has been lost, after the prank." She glanced at Susan.

"Doctor, are you talking to Katy?" Susan narrowed her eyes.

She thought of the drool that had inexplicably started flowing from her mouth.

(Inside the club.)

("Sweetheart." Madison narrowed her eyes. "Have you ever done this to us?")

("Entering us while we read, eat, and go about our daily lives, when we know nothing.")

("I know you can do that.")

("Much more perfect than that bitch Katy," she wiped her mouth, "Who knows, my face might actually be covered in sticky salad dressing right now.")

("Why would I do that? I can do it openly and honestly without sneaking around." Basil was speechless; he felt that Madison was actually encouraging and implying that he should do it.)

(He also has his bottom line.)

(Basil, the messenger of justice, would never do such a thing.)

(Maybe?)

(Inside the club's lounge.)

(Madison's cheeks suddenly puffed out.)

Everything continues off the field.

"Yes." The Dr. Ogami nodded.

He had no intention of hiding anything from Katy.

"[Avalon] can conceal the traces you leave behind and prevent outside interference in you."

"But this is on the premise that you don't interfere with others."

"Especially interfering with Susan, who is also a detached person."

"Most of the Soul of the Car Power you consumed was used to conceal your interference in others."

"With an almost absolute defense against external interference, it would be strange if you didn't find it strenuous."

"Is that so?" Katy appeared in the air. "Then what's going on?"

With a wave of her hand, the Fairy Ship appeared in the air.

"My [Past Body] is complete, but the corresponding car spirit has not split off."

"Is the phenomenon of the car soul splitting only possible when one simultaneously possesses the past, present, and future avatars?"

"You don't have a car spirit, your [Past Body]," the Dr. Ogami said. "This is your most unique characteristic. Your manifested power exists independently. I remember saying this at least twice."

"Ron is a good example."

Beside him, Ron, whose face was flushed and who wanted to scream as the car's spirit split, but found himself not in any pain, turned Ron head and asked, "What?"

Katy looked at the car next to the Green Spider. It was a bright orange color, completely devoid of any spider elements, and had a emblem on the front—two black "C"s and a speeding cannonball.

(The members of the Chadley's Artillery Team were incredibly excited, "This is our team's emblem!")

"What a flashy car."

Katy couldn't help but feel relieved that the car spirit corresponding to her [Past Body] had not been born.

After all, she's not someone who lives in the past.

The style of the corresponding car would probably be just as jarring to her eyes as this car, which looks like it's made of orange peel.

"Wow, that's cool!" Ron was quite pleased with the car's appearance. "We'll call you 'Chadley'!"

Especially the coat of arms of the Chadley's Artillery Team above.

Due to his bias, the overlapping [Green Spider] and [Chadley] began to appear as [Chadley].

This action did not surprise anyone else.

The Three Lives Body and their corresponding vehicle spirits are real.

In most cases where it is not visible, it cannot be observed by drivers who have not mastered the secret technique of "Three Lives Body".

But if it becomes visible, it looks just like a normal body.

In fact, Ron can even appear simply as his [Future Body].

Magneto can also transform back into himself when he looks like Carrow.

Like Katy now, she is not the palm-sized original form.

This is not Transformation Technique, but rather choosing what form one should take.

Normally, drivers who possess a Dharma body will conceal their Dharma body because it is more concealable.

As long as either the Dharma Body or the physical body remains intact, even if one is destroyed, it can quickly return from nothingness without consuming the Soul of the Car Power.

Compared to a normal resurrection after complete annihilation, it is faster and consumes no energy.

"Which parts should I choose?" Susan asked.

She achieved both her Past Body and her Present Body.

Only the [Past Body] can additionally fuse with [Rule Component].

[Present Body] simply makes her physical body stronger, allowing her to directly interfere with the unmanifested Dharma body.

The connection between the past and the future ensures that the Soul of the Car Power never diminishes and remains at its peak.

The Present Body, combined with the Past Body, grants a greater degree of immortality than a normal Beyonder being with a single avatar.

In addition, she was not an ordinary Beyonder, but also possessed the identity of Eternity being.

She suspected that her immortality was approaching that of Magneto possessed three complete avatars: the past, the present, and the future.

However, the most important thing now is to make the [Past Body] completely complete.

Let its corresponding vehicle spirit split off from the [Moon God].

[Rule Component] are a great supplement.

"Let me see." The Dr. Ogami looked at Susan's Past Body, which was blurred below the neck. After discovering that she hadn't experienced the same miracle as Katy, he said somewhat listlessly, "Very ordinary. But..."

His tone rose slightly, "Your structure and usage of the outward power, which is similar to [Avalon], are beginning to develop in the direction of the Soul of the Car Technique."

"[Avalon] would also suit you well."

"However, I think [The Clotho's Eye] suits you better."

"In Greek Mythology, there are three goddesses who control the fate of all things."

"Clotho, the youngest sister who governs the future and weaves the thread of life."

"Lachesis, the second sister who determines the length of the lifeline."

"The eldest Atropos, who governs death and is responsible for severing the thread of life."

"Even if one hand could lift up the Dadi and the sea, Zeus, the Skyfather of all the gods, could not defy their arrangement."

"[The Clotho's Eye] possesses the power to determine the future. By Soul of the Car Power, it can permanently modify reality, making it a kind of [Reality Modifier]."

As he spoke, Dr. Ogami pulled a pair of enormous guide wheels from the pocket of his seemingly bottomless white coat.

The guide wheel is as thin as a cicada's wing, resembling a disc woven from pure white silk threads.

When laid flat on the table and looked down upon, it resembles a pair of pale eyes.

Ron narrowed his eyes. "I'm finally sure of it. Doctor, you seem to be deliberately controlling the number of [Rule Component] we have implanted."

"We can clearly have a set of our Dharma bodies implanted, but you deliberately only let me implant one."

Is there any historical basis for this?

"Because you are all special," the Dr. Ogami said. "Even you, who are relatively the most ordinary, are the same."

"Top-tier [Rule Component] are exclusive."

"Furthermore, when designing parts, I generally avoid using bulky designs like the [Hurricane Sonic], where the entire body is treated as a single part, unless absolutely necessary."

"A bulky design?" Ron asked, puzzled.

"[Hurricane Sonic] When moving forward, the entire body generates downhill force like wings, thereby increasing its acceleration in a straight line," said Dr. Ogami. "But the drawback is also obvious: if even a corner of the body shell is damaged, the body will become unstable."

"Therefore, I don't like one-piece designs."

"Of course, this is no longer a problem in the era of car spirit."

"It's just that I've already developed this habit."

"Alright."

"As for the remaining parts, apart from the [Galaxy] I gave you before, you can go directly to my parts room to choose the rest."

He waved his hand somewhat irritably.

"The tricks you learned from Hoshikage Kō don't need to consider adaptability."

"As long as the parts are strong enough and the internal rules are complete enough, being powerful is enough."

"Just pick from the top shelf at the very back."

"Go! Go! Go."

He waved like he was herding chicks and ducklings.

"I need to get back to work."

A door suddenly appeared in the corridor near the crater.

The heat of the magma wafted over.

The Dr. Ogami jumped straight down.

"Even if you're annoyed by us, you don't have to kill yourself." Ron, who was secretly shocked by the way the Dr. Ogami chased them away, and who looked like a mother herding chickens in a chicken coop, complained, "Besides, after transplanting [the Milky Way], where am I going to get anything left?"

Magneto stood there, stunned. "It's an unfinished Proto-Universe."

"I sensed it."

"When the Dr. Ogami entered the magma layer, the surface was destroyed, and I sensed it the instant it splashed up."

Some of them are hunched over, as if the Future Body of an old person has already appeared.

"It is calling to me," the aged voice said.

"So, Dr. Ogami is busy working on that part." Ron suddenly realized, but then he frowned and said, "But, has he forgotten to tell us how to become a car maker?"

"No normal person would tell you that, would they?" Katy quipped, "After seeing how eager you are to become a car maker."

"Only if we make it into the top ten in the upcoming challenge."

"That's why we need to learn that secret technique."

"I see." Ron, having figured everything out, finally noticed Magneto's [Future Body]. "Erik, why do you look so old? You should learn from me in this respect; you need to keep a youthful mindset."