When "World Gate" carried extremely violent space kinetic energy, and finally tore apart Dimensional Barrier arbitrarily and plunged into the vast starry sky of Milky Way Galaxy, Ian was keenly aware of an extremely strange and strong legal resistance. This resistance was like some extremely high-level defensive barrier., trying to forcibly shut out the outsider like him. It wasn't until Floating City's Void Engine forcibly broke through this blockade that everything finally calmed down. Ian did not make any stop at the edge of the galaxy, directly locked the coordinates of the earth, and rushed straight towards the base camp of the Empire.
However, the moment he just stepped into the territory of Solar System, the cold and rapid mechanical sound of Morgana, the intelligence brain, suddenly sounded in his Sea of Consciousness: "Warning! Body, we have been locked! Although we are currently in the highest level of 'stealth mode', the other party's detection network can still see through our disguise!"
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling red alert flashed crazily on the holographic projection screen, and countless light spots representing deadly threats lit up in every corner of the solar system. Morgana Hui reported, "There are currently tens of thousands of heavy-duty star-killing weapons and defense matrices aimed at us, and they may open fire at any time!"
"Take over control immediately!" Ian's eyes flashed. Fortunately, as the supreme founder of the Arcane Empire, Morgana has the absolute highest authority as the mastermind of the Empire. At the critical moment, she used Law of Thunder to forcibly intervene in Solar System's defense network, instantly appeasing and shutting down all detection systems and weapon matrices that were on the verge of going berserk, thus avoiding the tragedy of a flood that washed away the Dragon King Temple..
"It seems that Empire must have experienced some earth-shaking changes during the period of my absence. Otherwise, our home galaxy would never be in such a state of high combat readiness with all the wind and chaos and everyone on the ground." Ian murmured in a low voice with a solemn face, then accelerated his speed, turning into a stream of light and landing directly towards his magnificent palace castle.
The moment Ian stepped out of Floating City and his feet stepped on the solid ground of his hometown, a turbulent wave suddenly arose in the depths of his soul. He felt very clearly that at this moment, he could easily mobilize a vast and terrifying magic power that was so huge that even he himself felt trembling!
The source of this power comes from a supreme title given to him by "Akashic Records". This heaven-defying title allows him, with the permission of the rules, to extract an extremely small, almost negligible trace of magic power from the body of every legal citizen of the Arcane Empire to bless himself. In the past, although this gathered power was huge, there were still traces to follow.
But now, when these billions of trickles gathered into the sea, Ian was shocked to find that even if he did not use any trump cards, the sum of this passively blessed magic power alone already possesses the supreme power that is enough to challenge the "Eighth Tier position"!
"Damn it... In the past ten short years, our Empire total population base has expanded to such an appalling and exaggerated level?!" Ian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. This is definitely a Astronomy number.
Shortly after he arrived at the throne room of the palace, a rush of footsteps came. Empire The supreme commander Olivia strode into the palace to meet the lover she had longed for.
This queen, who had always been known for her iron-bloodedness and coldness, had taken off all disguises at this moment. A gentle smile of relief bloomed on her beautiful face, and she walked up to Ian with extremely calm steps but could not hide her excitement, and then threw herself into his arms without hesitation and hugged him tightly.
Ian hugged her with his backhand, feeling the long-lost warmth. However, before the joy of reunion could last more than a few seconds, Ian's eyes suddenly froze. He could clearly see Olivia's originally fair and slender neck, with clusters of ferocious veins like twisted worms, emitting a strange green light.
"Kailos's Poison?!" Ian's pupils suddenly shrank, and his voice was filled with incredible shock.
"Yes, you read that right." Olivia let go of his arms and sighed with a wry smile, "Shortly after you left, the world-destroying war that swept through the entire Milky Way Galaxy broke out without warning. In order to deal with the desperate battle situation and make up for the huge gap in the Empire's high-end combat power, as the supreme commander, I had to order many high-level Arcanist opened the use rights of 'Time Acceleration Chamber of Secrets'. I tried to let them use the time difference to force a breakthrough to Seventh Tier in the shortest possible time. However, the price was painful. Everyone who entered Chamber of Secrets was eventually infected with this unsolvable Kailos's Poison."
Ian's face was so gloomy that he was about to drip with water. He was very aware of the horror of this toxin. As early as that year, he opened Time Acceleration Chamber of Secrets to everyone and helped them quickly reach the goal. Before becoming Sixth Tier, he had conducted extreme experiments on countless clones, and thus discovered the ultimate curse that was born from excessive interference with Law of Time - Kailos's Poison.
The symptoms of this toxin are extremely strange and fatal: the poisoned person's body organs or certain parts will rapidly accelerate aging forward or backward in the course of time without warning, or undergo reverse degeneration.
In the worst and most extreme case of deterioration, the infected person may even die of old age due to the passage of time in an instant, or may turn back time and directly degenerate into an embryo without the ability to resist or even into nothingness.
In order to suppress this fatal curse, Ian did leave behind a set of secret methods to relieve the symptoms before leaving. However, although this set of temporary and not permanent cures can barely save life, it will cause a series of extremely serious side effects. For example: a cliff-like drop in physical strength, a significant overdraft of vitality and vitality, irreversible tearing trauma to the soul's origin, and what makes the caster most desperate - a catastrophic decline in the control accuracy of one's own magic power.
Ian frowned tightly. To be honest, even before he left Empire, he had not found the perfect antidote that could completely cure Kailos's Poison.
However, the three days apart should be treated with admiration. Today's Ian, after experiencing the baptism of life and death in high-dimensional worlds such as <Black Clover> and <KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!>, his understanding of the laws has long been different from what it used to be.
Without any nonsense, he directly raised his right hand. In an instant, a top-level Time Magic that was plundered and deduced from time Demons and Lucius burst out, instantly condensing around Olivia into a "Time Bubble" that exuded a faint blue light.
In this absolutely still time domain, Ian's terrifying willpower that reaches Seventh Scale is like the most precise scalpel, which penetrates Olivia's body extremely domineeringly, forcibly peeling off and extracting the "abnormal time energy" entrenched in the depths of her flesh and soul bit by bit.
As the toxins were removed over time, the shocking green veins on Olivia's neck began to shrivel and shrink visibly to the naked eye, but unfortunately, they were not completely eradicated, and very shallow traces were still left.
"Although it cannot be eradicated immediately by magic alone, I am now absolutely sure that I can immediately brew a perfect antidote containing pure time attributes for you, completely solving your hidden dangers." Ian retracted his hand, with unquestionable confidence in his tone.
"I know that as soon as you come back, this dead situation that has troubled us for so many years will definitely not be a big problem to you." A cold and weak voice came from outside the hall.
I saw Rowena, whose face was as pale as paper and looked morbidly weak, slowly walked into the throne hall with the support of Luna and Bellatrix. Their bodies, without exception, bore traces of the ravages of Kailos's Poison.
Looking at these lovers who worked hard for the Empire, a trace of heartache flashed in Ian's eyes. He strode forward and kissed them deeply on their pale lips. Then he followed the same pattern and used Time Magic to forcibly suppress and remove the most deadly toxins from their bodies, allowing them to breathe freely.
"When did you come back from that top-secret infiltration mission?" Ian asked while casting a spell.
"The second year after you left Empire, we have returned to the base camp." Luna replied in that ethereal but slightly tired voice.
"There was no accident, right?" Ian asked with concern.
"Don't worry, everything is according to plan, and our mission has achieved an extremely complete success." Rowena's eyes flashed with a hint of pride.
"Really? Did you really succeed in getting that 'pocket watch'?!" Ian's eyes instantly burst into great ecstasy.
"That's right. We used Empire's background to successfully break through the barrier of the parallel timeline that was absolutely isolated, and sneaked in without anyone noticing. Then, we customized a perfect clone for you in that world, and used Law of Causality and Law of Fate, weaved an extremely covert legal identity for him that would never arouse any World Will suspicion. Under our careful manipulation and behind-the-scenes layout, your clone finally got the mysterious pocket watch in its hands!" Rowena explained the process of the task..
"What a great job!" Ian couldn't help but clasp his hands and laugh. If this top-secret infiltration mission can finally be realized, it means that from now on, he will completely get rid of the constraints and restrictions of "Akashic Records" on his cross-dimensional navigation! He will have true absolute freedom to travel through the heavens and worlds at will!
After a brief moment of ecstasy, Ian did not forget the immediate priority. He immediately took the girls to the royal alchemy laboratory deep in the palace, which has the highest-standard equipment in the universe. He had to race against time to brew the detoxifying Potions for them as quickly as possible.
Ian now has a good idea of how to detoxify. During the long years of his campaign in the <Black Clover> dimension, he greedily studied and plundered the various and extremely complicated magic systems in that world - which naturally included the extremely rare poison magic.
There, he even carefully studied the inheritance of Gordon Agrippa, a member of Black Bulls and the master of poison magic. You must know that Agrippa Family is an old monster family that has been studying various deadly poisons and antidotes for generations and for countless centuries.
In addition, Ian had just devoured time Demons Astaroth, and had a profound insight into the nature of Time Magic that can be called a high dimension. With the combination of the two, Ian is 100% sure that he can create a miracle Potions in this laboratory that is enough to crush Kailos's Poison..
While Ian was skillfully handling various rare Potions materials exuding violent law fluctuations, Olivia on the side was not idle either. She began to report to Ian in detail the shocking changes that had taken place in Milky Way Galaxy in the past ten years.
"Not long after you left, a world-destroying Cataclysm called 'Darkfall' suddenly broke out. The Bleach named Guznader came to without any warning Milky Way Galaxy. In his first battle, he completely destroyed the supreme headquarters of Interstellar Federation, one of the overlords of the universe, and slaughtered all their top experts in an instant!" Olivia's voice was filled with deep fear..
"After that, Guznader completely fell into a crazy killing mode. He launched an indiscriminate and devastating attack on all the peak civilizations in Milky Way Galaxy that had reached the Eighth Tier level. Elven Kingdom Because there is a 'Z' tree inherited from ancient times Sacred Tree' struggled to hold on, barely keeping the fire, but they also paid an extremely heavy price in casualties. Star-Skin Tribe only managed to escape because their queen used an extremely weird and unpredictable trump card weapon, but the vitality of the entire race also suffered a devastating blow."
"As for the Machinist Tribe who followed the purely technological route, they were almost considered to have been completely annihilated and completely exterminated under the attack of Bleach. However, the strange thing is that in the recent period, they They miraculously reappeared on the battlefield and showed impressive combat power. We still haven't figured out what means they used to hide from the enemy and survive the scythe of Bleach."
Hearing this, Ian, who was concentrating on stirring the crucible, couldn't help but frowned tightly. However, he did not interrupt Olivia's report, but continued to steadily control the heat and reaction progress of Potions.
"As for us Arcane Empire..." Olivia's eyes flashed with sorrow and fear, "If it weren't for the foresight you left in the base camp before you left the 'Death Staff' that contains the ultimate law, and the 'Aether Core' prepared for the construction of the second Floating City, we might have been in this Cataclysm was wiped out in ashes. But even if we used all our trump cards to barely block the true form of Bleach, in that local defense battle like Purgatory... In the entire Solar System, there are still a full 2.7 billion Empire people who died tragically in the indiscriminate natural disaster of Bleach and turned into dust in the universe!"
Olivia has an unforgettable memory of that extremely tragic defensive battle. At that time, she, Bellatrix, Dumbledore, Grindelwald and Flamel were only Sixth Tier. The powerful Arcanist actually had to bite the bullet and confront the superior Ninth Tier and True God Guznader! She never wanted to experience that feeling of despair that would be doomed if she was not careful..
Although they finally relied on the Empire's abnormal formation and Divine Artifact's blessing, they successfully forced Bleach back and saved Empire's fire, but the price of billions of lives was still the heaviest blood debt in the history of the Empire.
"Since we have Time Magic and Bleach Authority in our hands, haven't you tried to reverse time and space afterwards and bring these dead people Resurrection over?" Ian asked in a deep voice.
"Of course we tried, and almost exhausted all the resources of the treasury! But in the end... we only succeeded in bringing back less than a quarter of the victims." Olivia shook his head bitterly, "When Guznader launched the attack, it used the most original 'Authority of Death'! It is an ultimate power that can bestow 'True Death' on all things. Law! The souls of those civilians who were directly hit were completely crushed in an instant, and Annihilation not even a trace of residue could enter the long river of fate! Faced with this kind of erasure from the concept, even we are powerless. In the end, we can only lower the flags at half-mast across the entire Empire, and use the most solemn state funeral to remember the blood they shed for the Empire."
Ian was silent. He nodded slowly. As a top Arcanist who has touched the high-dimensional laws, he knows better than anyone else that in this vast and extremely cruel multiverse, some erased traces are iron laws that absolutely cannot be reversed or changed.
"After that tragic defense battle, the entire Empire completely entered the highest level of 'total war mobilization state.'" Olivia took a deep breath and continued to report on the Empire's strategic deployment, "The first highest order I issued after taking office was to spare no effort at all costs. No matter the cost, we frantically gathered all the materials we could find, and went all out to supervise the construction of the second Floating City! Since the entire Milky Way Galaxy had completely fallen into disorderly war and chaos at that time, and other advanced civilizations had no time to take care of themselves, the process of us taking advantage of the situation and collecting resources went much smoother than expected."
"But I know very well that according to the normal progress, the time required to build a Floating City with the power of Star Destroyer from scratch is calculated in centuries. But under the threat of Bleach, what we lack most is time! Therefore, I had to take some extremely extreme unconventional measures. I issued a death order and forced The bank requires all the core backbones of the Alchemy Engineering Department to enter the 'Time Acceleration Chamber of Secrets' for extreme R&D and construction. In order to fight against the deadly Kailos's Poison, I came up with a compromise plan: I asked them to create special clones and enter Chamber of Secrets instead of the main body."
"The alchemists responsible for building Floating City forcibly descended their main consciousness on those specially made clones through soul transfer technology. Then these clones worked day and night to assemble and debug Floating City in Chamber of Secrets, where the time flow rate was stretched by Infinity."
Upon hearing this almost crazy squeezing method, Ian just made an extremely objective comment. "From a legal perspective, this method of taking advantage of loopholes is unworkable. Time poison spreads along the soul's causal line, and clones cannot isolate this high-dimensional curse at all."
"What you said is absolutely correct. Facts have proved that I was still too naive." Olivia reluctantly admitted the strategic mistake, "Although under the abnormal growth rate of Time Acceleration, we completed the construction of the second Floating City at an incredible speed, solving the problem of the Empire It is an urgent need. But the price is that all the alchemist masters who participated in this project and invested their consciousness in Chamber of Secrets, without exception, were all seriously infected with Kailos's Poison. In the process of the poison, many talented alchemists who should have had a promising future just died wailing in pain before their eyes."
Having said this, Olivia let out a long sigh. There was a hint of sadness in her eyes that could not be concealed, and she felt deeply sorry for those outstanding talents who died and dedicated everything to the Empire.
But even so, if she were asked to choose again, she would still issue this cruel order without hesitation. Because she knows better than anyone else that kindness and weakness are the greatest original sins when facing a battle for the survival of the race. War is a meat grinder, and someone will inevitably need to fill their lives and make sacrifices.
In this universe where the jungle prevails, even a super civilization like Arcane Empire, which possesses technology and magic that can make the gods tremble, is still unable to completely conquer the ultimate proposition of "death".
"Don't blame yourself too much. Extremis was isolated and helpless at that time. You have done the best that a commander can do. This is the most perfect answer." Ian looked at Olivia who was sinking into self-blame. 's eyes were full of pampering and relief. He stretched out his fingers and gently smoothed her frown. With his lover's approval, Olivia finally had a smile on his lips again, and then continued to report..
"With the emergence of the second Floating City, and the fact that Rowena and Luna happened to complete the latent mission at that critical node and returned smoothly, our shortcomings in high-end combat power were finally made up for. With the absolute firepower suppression of the dual Floating City, we They completely stabilized the battle situation on the front line. And the old monster Guznader seemed to have been completely restrained due to some unknown high-dimensional factors. In the following ten years, he never came to the battlefield in person again. He only dispatched some death clones whose strength was far inferior to the main body to carry out limited harassment and tug-of-war among the major galaxies."
"Now that Bleach is stuck, I will naturally not miss this golden opportunity for expansion. I launched 'Annexation Plan' without hesitation, and took advantage of the vacuum of this troubled world to dispatch expeditionary forces to forcibly annex those galaxies that had no owners or were on the verge of collapse. After ten years of crazy plunder, we Empire's territory has ushered in explosive growth! So far, we have completely controlled 167 habitable galaxies with complete ecology and huge populations, as well as 397 resource galaxies that are dead but contain massive magic mineral veins!" Olivia's tone revealed an absolute sense of guidance Haki.
"While we watch with cold eyes as the territories of other civilizations continue to shrink and perish under the iron heel of the undead, we Arcane Empire are stepping on their corpses and expanding crazily at an exponential rate that goes against the laws of the universe! Today, as long as we can use force and diplomacy to force the remaining Eighth Tier A civilization signed Submission Pact, then... in this Milky Way Galaxy, as long as we can concentrate our efforts to kill Bleach Guznader, the entire Milky Way Galaxy will be completely reduced to our Arcane Empire's private garden!"
"I see, this is really a grand and perfect chess game." Ian listened and raised the half-boiled Potions bottle in front of his eyes. He gently shook the liquid with strange bubbles rolling in the bottle, and looked through the glass bottle wall with his deep eyes, carefully observing the laws and reactions inside.
After a moment, he shook his head with some dissatisfaction, poured the bottle of semi-finished product directly into the waste tank, and then took out a large number of rarer and top-quality materials exuding ancient atmosphere from Void Pocket without any distress, and started a new round of refining.
"By the way, have you collected any valuable residual information about Interstellar Federation, who was the first to be killed by Guznader?" Ian asked casually.
"No more. With their last supreme leader tragically killed in battle two years ago, this once arrogant behemoth has been completely wiped off the chessboard of this cosmic chess game." Olivia coldly gave the conclusion.
"So, what about our biggest enemy - Bleach Guznader? Have you found out his real details?" Ian led the topic to the core threat.
"We have found some traces of Silk horses." At this time, the prophet Luna on the side spoke, her pure white eyes showing the trajectory of Blink's destiny, "According to the feedback from the river of destiny, Guznader's identity is extremely special. He has extremely inextricable and deep connections with the legendary Eleventh Tier supreme civilization that once ruled Milky Way Galaxy - Ancient Wizard Race!"
"Not only that," Luna's tone became extremely solemn, "I can conclude with great certainty that the fundamental reason why he blocked Milky Way Galaxy and attacked us Empire at all costs is to plunder the 'Primordial Divine Flame' in our hands, and... us Arcanist!"
"With your prophetic eyes that can penetrate time and space, can't you get deeper and more accurate intelligence on him Divination?" Ian stopped what he was doing and raised his eyebrows slightly.
"It can't be done. He is definitely wearing a super-standard Divine Artifact specially designed to shield Law of Causality and Divination. The status of that Divine Artifact is ridiculously high., in the past few years, I have tried to break through his law shield many times, but without exception, they were all repelled or even counterattacked by that Divine Artifact." Luna bit his lip unwillingly..
"Ancient Wizard Race, it's interesting..." Ian murmured this taboo word in a low voice, and then focused all his attention on the tumbling crucible in front of him again.
"It is indeed interesting. According to the few words we have unearthed from various ancient ruins, all the legacies left by Ancient Wizard Race, whether Divine Artifact or knowledge, are extremely precious in the multiverse, and can even be said to be priceless treasures." Rowena added on the side, with Blink's eyes showing the unique desire of scholars to explore.
"If they are really the only supreme civilization in this star field that has successfully reached the 'Eleventh Tier (Tier 11)' in history, then it makes complete sense that the things they left behind have such abnormal value." Bellatrix also expressed his own opinion.
After all the core information was exchanged, the hall fell into silence. Everyone held their breath, fearing that Ian would be disturbed by making any noise. Everyone was quietly waiting for the God of Magic to complete his miracle Potions that could change one's fate.
After several hours of long cooking.
As an extremely pure blue light exuding deep Law of Time fluctuations soared into the sky in the laboratory, Ian finally stopped casting the spell. He held a bottle of crystal clear blue Potions in his hand, which seemed to seal the entire blue starry sky, with an extremely satisfied smile on his face.
In order to ensure that this powerful medicine was foolproof, the extremely cautious Ian did not let his wives take it immediately. He first summoned a high-level clone that was also infected with Kailos's Poison, drank Potions, and conducted rigorous clinical in vivo tests.
The test results are perfect!
Just as Ian deduced, at the moment Potions entered the body, the violent and chaotic time energy in the clone was like a poisonous snake that encountered a natural enemy, and was completely expelled and crushed extremely domineeringly!
Not only that, the gentle vitality contained in Potions even began to repair the clone's riddled soul. After just a moment, the clone completely regained absolute control over the huge magic power in the body and returned to its peak state.
"Although this Potions is still not an absolute magic medicine that can cure the disease once and for all, there may be a trace of extremely weak sequelae left in your body that need to be treated slowly." Ian distributed Potions to everyone and warned seriously.
"But this is the limit of what can be done at present. As long as you drink it, and after about a month of rest and breath adjustment, I guarantee that you will definitely be able to return to your full strength, without even losing a hair."
The girls took Potions and drank it down without hesitation. Feeling the depleted vitality in their bodies reviving crazily like dead wood, Rowena's originally pale face finally regained a trace of alluring color.
She breathed a long sigh of relief, then raised her eyes full of wisdom and tenderness, and looked deeply at the man in front of her.
"Okay, now you have solved the troubles at home." Rowena raised a charming smile at the corner of his mouth, "Then, His Majesty the Consul, who has returned home with a full load, can you tell us... what wonderful stories have you experienced during this great voyage that lasted for fifty years and spanned endless dimensions?"