"The time after next, we'll merge into the Source Universe!"
Some Guardians of the Universe looked shocked and grim.
Some Guardians of the Universe did not know about the Source Universe, believing only that all universes would continue merging like this until they became a single universe.
Given New Krypton's overwhelming scale, it was very possible that it could become the final universe. Those Guardians of the Universe who knew nothing of the Source Universe hoped that the New Krypton Empire would ultimately emerge victorious.
But in truth, no matter how much weight a Parallel Universe carried, it would eventually merge into the Source Universe.
Even with Lucifer and The Spectre in the New Krypton Universe, giving it immense weight, they could not stop this great tide.
Because the New Krypton Universe was merely a Parallel Universe split off from one of the fifty-two Source Universes.
To the Source Universe, a Parallel Universe was like a copied version born from a certain pivot point. It copied one fork among the countless choices of the Source Universe, and that fork became a Parallel Universe.
Sometimes, a single thought taking a different direction in a living being could create a Parallel Universe.
You could call Parallel Universes false, illusory, unreal, yet they were also real.
But that reality would ultimately be gathered back into the Source Universe.
This was the fate of countless Parallel Universes, the foundational logic supporting their existence.
So no matter what, Parallel Universes had to return to the Source Universe. Even if the New Krypton Universe contained beings like Lucifer and The Spectre, whose existence exceeded the specifications of the Source Universe, that could not be changed.
The fifty-two Source Universes were one whole. Unless they wished to break the balance of the fifty-two Source Universes, Lucifer and