In the boundless Astral Realm Void, Ian·Bones carefully put the Crystal ball encapsulating the entire <Black Clover> world into his deepest portable Dimensional Space.
Seeing that the bright star bead in the palm of his hand, which was filled with billions of living beings and mountains, lakes and seas, was completely settled, Ian finally breathed a sigh of relief. In his original plan, the next stop should be to go to the universe of <Star Trek>, but he had just received The spiritual message from Queen Olivia across dimensions - the clone sent to the Star Trek world has been a great success, and has returned to the Empire base camp on "World Gate".
Since there was no need for him to clean up the mess in person, Ian decisively changed the course and directly targeted the plane of <KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!>.
"Morgana, it's time to test our new cross-border navigation system." Ian stood among the vast Void, with Blink's eyes filled with anticipation.. In the past few years, he not only successfully stole a complete world, but also completely completed the ultimate task left by Rowena that year about "using Void Annihilation Energy to navigate in Void".
"Yes, the main body. 'Void Core Engine' is being activated." The emotionless mechanical voice of Morgana, Ian's Sea of Consciousness, sounded. Then, a huge holographic projection screen emitting a faint blue light appeared in front of him out of thin air, with countless complex high-dimensional physical formulas and magic matrices flashing across it like a waterfall.
A few seconds later, Morgana reported, "At present, all parameters are normal and the energy output is stable. The space launch program has begun."
As the order was given, Void Energy in the core engine was instantly activated, turning into a supreme force capable of tearing apart all laws, coercing Ian towards the established dimensional coordinates!
Whoosh--!
Following an extremely slight space turbulence, "World Gate" that was originally standing in Void instantly disappeared without a trace. When it reappeared, it had already crossed a terrifying dimensional distance that mortals could not measure with numbers.
"Did we succeed?" Ian looked around at the unfamiliar starry sky and asked in a deep voice.
"Please wait a moment, I am checking the star map." Morgana said while typing quickly on the floating virtual keyboard, "Well... there is a slight deviation in our space calibration. According to the current coordinates and speed, we are still about three days away from the universe of <KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!>."
"Three days?" Ian raised his eyebrows, "If we don't use this new engine, how long will it take us according to the conventional sailing method?"
"If you drive 'Floating City' for a cross-border voyage, it will take a full three months; if you use the previous conventional version of 'World Gate', it will take five years." Morgana gave an accurate data comparison.
"Shortened from five years to three days, this is definitely a technological leap across the ages." Ian nodded with satisfaction, but as a top Arcanist, he was not completely satisfied with his rigor. "However, this technology still has a long way to go."
The ultimate navigation state he longs for most is: as long as a certain memory of having visited the world emerges in his mind, he can directly command Void Energy and arrive at the other shore in a flash. However, the current technical bottleneck is that not only does he need to obtain precise dimensional coordinates in advance, but the navigation process still takes time, and he cannot achieve a true "Teleportation".
"Have you found the erroneous data for this calibration deviation?" Ian asked.
"The problem has been identified. Before returning to the Empire base camp, I am absolutely sure that it will be completely repaired and perfected." Morgana answered confidently.
"Very well, I'll leave it to you. Now, let's land."
World Gate quietly switched to absolute stealth mode, just like a drop of water blending into the ocean, Dimensional Barrier penetrated this world without any ripples. As soon as it entered the atmosphere, Morgana captured the secret signal of "Floating City" stationed in this world with extreme accuracy, then directly locked the coordinates and teleported to the destination with Ian.
Ian found himself standing at the top of a majestic castle. After sensing the specific location of Floating City and his companions with Divine Power, he slowly landed.
Before he could stand completely, a delicate body exuding the most charming aura suddenly jumped into his arms like a swallow in the forest. Two groups of amazing softness pressed firmly against his face, and that suffocating touch could make any normal man surrender in an instant.
"Well... if I have to die, I will definitely be willing to die under this kind of 'punishment'." Ian's voice came out muffledly from the piece of warm and fragrant nephrite.
Pheobe chuckled and finally reluctantly let go of his hand.
"I miss you so much." Her autumn-like eyes were full of fiery love.
"I miss you too." Ian hugged her tightly with his backhand, and explored the magic power fluctuations in her body. A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, "Have you broken through to 'Seventh Tier'? It seems that your gains from this trip to another world are astonishing."
"It went smoothly." Pheobe raised a proud smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Where are the others?" Ian just asked.
Before he finished speaking, the heavy alloy door of the laboratory was pushed open, and Hermione and Lily walked out of it. Looking at the state of these two people, Ian's brows suddenly frowned.
"What happened to you two? Have you been sucked dry?" Ian asked, looking at their extremely haggard looks. I saw these two famous witches Empire, with sunken eye sockets and thick dark circles under their eyes, just like workaholics who had stayed up all night for several months without a wink.
You must know that with their current level of life and strength, even if they don't sleep for decades, let alone a few days, there will be no problems with their body functions. The only explanation for why they are in such a state of extreme fatigue and decline is that they have endured unimaginable high-intensity pressure on the mental and soul levels!
"They brought it all upon themselves." Pheobe gloated mercilessly from the sidelines.
"What happened?" Ian asked.
"Lily, that workaholic, suddenly wanted to win and lost, and vowed to completely conquer her project before you came back. It is said that the cause was that she and Professor Snape had a big fight, and the two were competing." Pheobe shrugged, "As for Hermione... she really stumbled and plunged into a horrific research project that was far beyond the limits of her current abilities and exhausted herself."
Hearing this ridicule, Lily and Hermione gave Pheobe a hard look at the same time, as if they wanted to kill someone, but Pheobe spread his hands indifferently.
Hermione was not in the mood to quarrel. She walked tiredly to Ian, crawled into his arms like a kitten looking for shelter, and treated him as a huge and comfortable human-shaped pillow, leaning against him to rest peacefully.
"Okay, don't stand at the door. Go into the room and speak slowly." Ian patted Hermione on the back lovingly and led everyone into the lounge.
After everyone sat down, they began to exchange experiences over the years with each other.
Ian has experienced so many ups and downs in the world of <Black Clover>. The fifty-year time span alone makes his story seem magnificent and long. In comparison, the people who stayed in this world only spent ten years, and their experiences seemed much shorter.
"After listening to your description, my intuition tells me that your experience this time is definitely abnormal." Even though Hermione was tired, his extremely sharp brain was still running at high speed. "The settings of that 'god' and Cosmic Will are too weird."
"You guessed it right. That old guy Merlin most likely deliberately chose that extremely difficult timeline as a test for me. Unfortunately, I seemed to be very disappointed with him in the final score." Ian smiled bitterly.
"You didn't suffer any irreparable injuries, did you?" Hermione raised his head worriedly.
"I'm fine, but I must keep his warning in mind. The situation Empire is currently facing may be more severe than we imagined. We must make comprehensive preparations for the worst case scenario in advance." Ian's eyes became solemn.
"I understand." Hermione nodded solemnly.
"By the way, where is that old naughty boy Filius? He's not with you?" Ian glanced around and didn't see that familiar figure.
"After easily defeating the 'Devil King' of this world, he went to work as a bard for a period of time. Later, we teleported him directly to several other parallel dimensions controlled by the Heaven Realm gods." Pheobe replied.
"Oh? What do those dimensions look like?" Ian became interested.
"Essentially, those dimensions are all the so-called 'different worlds' you used to talk about on Primordial Earth." Pheobe explained.
"So, this universe is actually a huge collection of countless 'different worlds'? And the gods here are Mastermind who are responsible for selecting souls from the earth and putting them into these dimensions as 'braves' or 'reincarnated ones'?" Ian instantly clarified the underlying logic of the worldview.
"That's basically what happened." Pheobe nodded.
Ian pondered for a moment, then turned to look at Lily and Hermione, who were too sleepy to open their eyes. "The information exchange ends here. You two, go to bed now, immediately, immediately."
"Indeed... my mind can no longer move." Lily muttered vaguely, and then left the lounge with Snape, who was also tired.
Ian personally carried Hermione back to the room and carefully covered her with a quilt. Then, he returned to his master bedroom and finally had the long-lost "family time."
It has to be said that the succubus bloodline in Pheobe ushered in an extremely terrifying evolution after being promoted to Seventh Tier! The brand-new ability to directly extract pleasure from the depths of the soul and even weave dreams of desire made Ian, who has experienced many battles, experience what it means to be truly "elegant", as if his soul was pushed up into the clouds.
A few days later, Hermione, who had completely regained his energy, joined the carnival without hesitation. Over the next whole week, the long-separated couple completely took root in the master bedroom and never left the door.
The time of ecstasy is always short-lived. A week later, Ian finally dressed up and walked into Hermione's exclusive laboratory, preparing to accept her research results that almost drove her crazy.
Hermione handed a thick stack of core data to Ian, and while rubbing his slightly sore waist, he explained:
"In the past few years, I have completely deciphered and perfectly reproduced the 'gamification' magic system in <KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!>! Whether it is the manufacturing principle of Adventurer Card, the career system bound to a specific bloodline, or the underlying logic of defeating monsters to gain experience, and the consumption of 'skill points' to instantly master skills, I can perfectly reproduce them all in the laboratory!"
Ian listened and quickly flipped through the data. The data showed that Hermione used Space Magic to create a completely independent "pocket dimension" and forcibly tampered with the physical laws inside to make it exactly the same as the current world. Afterwards, she put a large number of clones into that dimension for testing. These clones successfully achieved employment, defeated monsters, and successfully upgraded their levels!
'Even the core mechanism that relies on Causality Empowerment to upgrade has been conquered by her?' Ian was secretly surprised.
"Since everything is going so smoothly, where are you stuck?" Ian asked in confusion.
Hermione scratched his originally smooth long hair irritably. "The problem came after I discovered other dimensions of other worlds! I was shocked to find that the upper limit of the power of the system I copied was locked at the 'Third Tier th position'! No matter how I optimize the algorithm or stack resources, I can't break this ceiling and give the system the ability to create higher-level powerful people!"
"Could it be that other dimensions controlled by the gods have higher power limits than here?" Ian keenly grasped the blind spot.
"That's right! I discovered a dimension where the upper limit of power is as high as 'Sixth Tier'! And they also use a system based on Causality Energy, which is the 'Deep Blue System' or 'monster-killing upgrade panel' you often see in those other world web articles!" Hermione said through gritted teeth.
"So, you tried to replicate the system with a higher limit in our pocket dimension, but failed?" Ian guessed.
"That's basically it. This is driving me crazy! Obviously I have succeeded in this low-end version of the world!" Hermione looked very crazy.
"To be fair, the system in Aqua's world is simply a shoddy and defective product." Pheobe, who was sitting aside drinking tea, couldn't help but interject, "They don't even have a 'status attribute panel' that can be manifested out of thin air. They still have to rely on that broken Adventurer Card to view data. It's too low."
Hermione glared at Pheobe fiercely and decided to ignore this woman who could stand and talk without pain in her back.
"I initially thought it was because the energy level of my pocket dimension was not enough. So, I frantically expanded the area of the dimension and injected a massive amount of original magic power into it, but it was of no use!" Hermione pointed to the failure record on the holographic projection. "Later, I thought it was because the system lacked enough 'karma' as fuel. So I set up a super barrier that enveloped the earth, and forcibly extracted the causal energy generated by humans on earth and poured it into the dimension."
"This plan did make the system show signs of loosening, but in the end it fell short. Until now, I can't find the core problem." Hermione sighed dejectedly.
"Have you compared the systematic differences between this world and other higher-order dimensions? Except for the upper limit of power." Ian's brain began to work at high speed.
"There are many differences. The most fatal point is that those high-order dimensional systems do not require any 'special bloodline' as a threshold for employment! As long as a person's attributes meet the standards, his level is sufficient, or he just completes a specific employment task, he can change jobs at any time!"
Hermione gets more and more excited as he talks. "What's even more exaggerated is that in some dimensions, even the concept of 'profession' does not exist! As long as you have enough skill points, you can learn any heaven-defying magic and Divine Grade combat skills in an instant!"
"What do you think? Do you have any ideas to break the situation?" Hermione stared at Ian expectantly.
There is an almost fanatical obsession with Causality Energy and Hermione. What a heaven-defying and omnipotent power! It not only allows people to crazily improve their physical attributes without any side effects, but also instills obscure magical knowledge directly into the brain, making people instantly proficient like Reflection with instinct.
If this "system" can be perfectly introduced into the Arcane Empire and applied to ordinary civilians and low-level soldiers, the overall combat power of the Empire will experience explosive exponential growth in a very short period of time! As one of the controllers of the Empire, she is too eager to promote this great cause.
Ian did not give an immediate reply. He sat quietly in front of the console, staring at the intricate data flows on the screen. In fact, in the world of <Black Clover>, he had also conducted in-depth research on Law of Causality, and he had the absolute right to speak in this regard.
A few minutes later, the corner of Ian's mouth curled up with a hint of confidence.
"The reason for your failure is very simple. You are missing one of the core components: 'Causality Authority'!" Ian pointed out the core of the problem.
"Authority?" Hermione was stunned.
"That's right. Only by mastering the highest Authority of Law of Causality can you truly 'define' the underlying rules of this dimension just like controlling the laws of the world. For example: How many points of cause and effect (experience points) can a person get by killing a monster? How much experience needs to be deducted to advance to the next level? To what extent can skill points be exchanged for law-level knowledge? And... what is the highest level allowed to exist in this system!" Ian talked eloquently..
"In order to solve this problem, I specially brought you a big gift from the previous world - I captured a large number of Demons and angels! They are simply natural humanoid Law of Causality batteries that can continuously produce positive (good) and negative (evil) causal energy. With them as the core of the server to consolidate your pocket dimension, the entire system will operate flawlessly!"
"Demons and angels?!" Hermione's eyes suddenly lit up, and her extremely smart mind figured out all the underlying logic in an instant, "This is equivalent to the role played by the aloof Heaven Realm gods and Hell devils in this world! They are the 'servers' and 'administrators' of the system!"
"Exactly." Ian typed the Snap.
But after a brief period of ecstasy, Hermione deflated like a deflated rubber ball. "Your idea is perfect, but it is a dead end. My soul willpower cannot reach the threshold of using 'Conceptual Magic' at all. I can't even touch the 'Authority' you mentioned. How should I modify the rules of the system?"
"Did you really burn out your brain by staying up late?" Pheobe on the side finally couldn't help but turn over Byakugan, and mocked unceremoniously, "You can't use Conceptual Magic yourself, don't you know how to do it? Just like Ian built 'Time Staff' and 'Death Staff', is it necessary to forge a super-standard Divine Artifact that can carry this kind of Authority?"
Snap!
Hermione slapped himself on the forehead suddenly, and suddenly realized. "Damn it! How could I forget Alchemy? Pheobe is right, doing scientific research in a state of extreme sleep deprivation will indeed turn people into idiots!"
She was instantly rejuvenated, and while frantically inputting new forging blueprints on the console, she said to herself, "Great, let's start the design and modeling of Divine Artifact right away! Let's tentatively call it 'Causality Staff'! Although it sounds a bit crude, but whatever, let's build it first!"
Looking at Hermione who had completely fallen into a scientific research frenzy and completely ignored others, Ian smiled helplessly. But fortunately, before Hermione started to explode, she finally forcibly set a "forced sleep time" for herself in the schedule. She didn't want to become the same indifferent person as before.
"So, what about you? Didn't you say that this world is a blessed place for your research?" Ian turned to look at Pheobe who was trimming her nails gracefully, "How is the progress of your project?"
Pheobe stopped what he was doing and raised his head. There was a fanatical light in Blink's seductive eyes that was enough to shock the entire Empire senior management.
"It's perfect to the extreme. Even... I may have found the final puzzle piece that completely completes 'Dragon God Project'!"