The finale

Although Thor felt it was a shame that the Transmigration Artifact had nothing to do with Tengen Toppa.

He was still thrilled to have arrived in the world of the Dark History's Turn A Gundam, the most powerful Gundam world before [Elsooq] appeared.

After all, he had been barred from going there before, but now there was no problem at all.

And he had even arrived during the safe period before either [Turn A Gundam] or [Turn X] had been unearthed.

So Thor made the moon his first stop. He searched its craters and soon found [Turn X], which had turned into a stone statue.

When he first began assimilating it, Thor noticed some struggling and resistance, but that soon stopped. As if resigned to its fate, it became very cooperative and accepted the assimilation.

It was clearly an intelligent entity.

So during the assimilation, Thor preserved [Turn X]'s remarkably obedient artificial intelligence.

After completely devouring and assimilating it with his cells, he discovered records hidden deep within its black box.

The records showed that, with its Moonlight Butterfly System activated, its battle against [Turn A Gundam], which had also activated its Moonlight Butterfly System, had grown increasingly intense.

After destroying their original UC World, they had broken through the barrier between worlds and reached Gundam worlds in other parallel timelines.

Then, as their battle continued, they destroyed one Gundam world after another, using nanomachines to scour each world's surface civilization clean.

Even the Gundam OO World, after Setsuna and the ELS had left, suffered the same fate.

And finally, after they reached the Arian World that Setsuna and the ELS collective had just created.

Their journey came to an end.

Not only did their nanomachines fail to do any damage to that world, but they were devoured instead.

And Setsuna, piloting his now more powerful [Gundam], had easily knocked them back into their original UC World with just a few punches and kicks.

Then, because they were so badly damaged, they had no choice but to turn into stone and go dormant on Earth and the moon respectively.

"So Setsuna beat you so badly you were scared stiff, huh? No wonder you didn't dare resist when I assimilated you."

He looked at [Turn X], which had lowered its head in embarrassment.

He felt that if he hadn't used his cells to frighten it into staying still and assimilated its entire form, he would never have discovered those records or learned that it possessed a highly intelligent, autonomous AI.

And because it was intelligent, its fear had also made it instinctively ignore that stretch of information.

Next, Thor made a trip to Earth and devoured and assimilated [Turn A Gundam] as well. However, after fully copying its data, he did not take it with him.

The main reason was that it and [Turn X] were sworn enemies, and the two artificial intelligences refused to work together.

Moreover, [Turn A] had a bit of a temper, and assimilating it had not gone nearly as smoothly as assimilating [Turn X]. If he hadn't assimilated [Turn X] first and gained an understanding of their structure, a major battle might have broken out.

So he restored [Turn A Gundam] and left it dormant where it was, at least giving Earth a fighting chance against an invasion from the moon.

But then he also buried a replica in the lunar crater where he had excavated [Turn X]. He had to give it a little trouble, at least.

After completing these preparations.

Now that he had the Moonlight Butterfly System, he was strong enough to break through the barrier between worlds.

So he followed his heart and set forth without hesitation.

Thor climbed aboard the enhanced [Turn X] and activated the Moonlight Butterfly System deep in space, unfurling enormous butterfly wings behind it.

Beating those butterfly wings, he soared toward the barrier between worlds.

He entered the void once more.

As he looked at the enormous bubble worlds all around him, Thor couldn't help marveling, "No matter how many times I see it, it's still spectacular!"

After marveling for a while, he continued exploring his surroundings.

Before long, however, he discovered an unconscious soul floating nearby.

After using the Soul Gem to search through his memories, he discovered that the man was a fellow native of his own world.

Just as Thor was about to put him away, another idea suddenly struck him.

"What would happen if I put him into the SEED World once it finished evolving?"

As he thought it over, Thor began wondering whether he himself had been brought here in the same way.

But after shaking his head, he stopped dwelling on questions he couldn't answer for now.

"But my world hasn't finished evolving yet, and there's still some time before the story starts. Sorry, my friend, but you'll have to spend a little while locked in a dark room."

As he spoke, Thor used the records remaining in the Transmigration Artifact to craft a similar artifact by hand, then tossed his fellow native's soul inside.

Then he set out on a new journey...

The end~!

My dear readers, I'm sorry. This is the best ending I could manage without letting the book fall apart.

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