In the next few days, Ian spent time with his family and did not announce his return to the public. He was still secretly observing the development of this huge war. Three days later, he summoned Havika Kainaru to the palace for his epoch-making invention.
Havika is no longer the young boy he once was. Fifteen years ago, he was just a Zero Tier Arcanist with extremely mediocre qualifications.
Although his family is extremely proud of him because he is the only one in the family with magical talent, Havika himself is under tremendous psychological pressure because he knows his poor talent level better than anyone else.
Every day, he dreams of becoming outstanding and making his family proud of him. However, his mediocre ability has become a shackle that tightly locks his destiny. Until one day, everything comes to a turning point - a teacher strongly encourages him to participate in a "Rune Mathematics Competition".
Although he was hesitant at first, with the teacher's repeated insistence, he felt that there was nothing to lose by giving it a try anyway. What he never expected was that by winning that competition, he discovered his amazing talent in this field.
Since then, everything has changed so fast that to this day, Havika still feels like it is a dream. He was exceptionally arranged to enter an advanced course that could graduate early. The Empire government even generously gave him a bottle of extremely precious "Dragon Potion" to forcibly improve his magic qualifications.
All of his research projects were given extremely high-level intelligence access qualifications. Subsequently, Havika used Rune Mathematics to make many breakthrough discoveries that shocked the world, allowing Empire's Arcanists to have a fundamental understanding of the underlying logic of the entire universe.
In addition, the formula he deduced allows those partial geniuses who have no talent in spellcasting but are extremely monstrous in mathematics to achieve the terrifying level of instantaneous spellcasting.
Some Arcanist no longer rely on so-called talent, imagination and illusory intuition, but use pure mathematical calculations to cast spells through "Arcane Rune System", thereby greatly increasing their power and status in the Empire.
With these heaven-defying formulas, Havika achieved one of the highest statuses any Arcanist among the Empire could hope for: he officially became a powerful tower master.
With his newly acquired power and astonishing wealth, Havika purchased Dragon Potion for his family so that they could also embark on the sacred path of magic. And he himself had reached Fifth Tier and was ready to step into the door of Sixth Tier at any time.
Then, he focused all his energy on his most important discovery. Havika stood in front of a towering golden door. He took a deep breath, forced down his inner excitement to calm down, and then took a step forward - the door opened automatically.
When he walked into the palace, he saw two people waiting for him. He recognized these two supreme beings at a glance: Arcane Archon, and the consul's wife-Pheobe and Hermione.
"Your Highness," he bowed impeccably and in an extremely standard manner. Havika was slightly surprised in his heart, because this consul had almost never shown his face in public in the past few years.
Although Empire also delivered several national speeches, among those high-level Arcanists with hands and eyes as wide as the sky, everyone knew that the person who spoke out was most likely just a clone. The real Archon had most likely disappeared into some unknown dimension to explore as before.
However, the moment he saw the man in front of him, Havika's extremely keen intuition told him that this was him.
"No need to be polite," Ian walked up to him with a smile and patted his shoulder casually, "The last time I saw you, you were only 16 years old."
"Your Majesty the Grand Consul, have you known me before?"
"There is nothing to hide from you. In fact, we were aware of your existence long before you discovered your talent."
"It's because of that competition..."
"That's right. Our Divination Department has keenly captured the trajectory of your destiny and foresees that you will change the entire world, so we must protect you secretly and ensure that your potential is fully developed."
"Thank you for your cultivation and care of me all the time," Havika replied gratefully.
"Okay, show me your discovery. From now on, you don't need to think of me as a high-ranking governor, just think of me as a seeker who is as fanatical as you are in searching for Truth."
"Yes," Havika perked up, and then activated the magic terminal on his wrist, projecting an extremely precise 3D holographic image.
"Using Rune Mathematics, I successfully constructed a complete universe model. I perfectly calculated its scale, mass, volume, density and other parameters. However, these are only the most insignificant basic parts of this model.
"I took all the dimensions that make up the universe - no matter how big or small - and the countless parallel timelines into a unified consideration. As you can see, with this model, we can accurately calculate the specific coordinates of all hidden dimensions and parallel universes!"
When Havika explained his model, Blink had unconcealable enthusiasm in his eyes. He was not exaggerating at all, because his model truly gave Empire the incredible ability to discover all dimensions and conduct precise navigation in Infinity's parallel universe.
"But this is still not the limit. After further expanding the calculation range of the model, I even discovered other planes of existence!"
When Ian heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly remembered those weird Demons that Hermione used his talent to summon. That Demons once personally admitted that it came from the so-called "Abyssal Plane".
"Please imagine if we could go beyond the boundaries of our universe. There, floating in absolute nothingness, is the vast place I call 'Astral Realm'."
'Another word that I have come into contact with before,' Ian thought secretly in his heart. He remembered that Albion also mentioned this grand concept to him after visiting the <Fullmetal Alchemist> universe.
"And inside the Astral Realm, there are countless planes; some planes are as huge as our universe, and may even be wider. Each plane breeds completely different civilizations, races, cultures, power systems, and many differences beyond imagination.
"Through my model, I have successfully calculated the exact coordinates of two of the planes. Unfortunately, I currently have neither the authority nor enough resources to organize a cross-plane exploration."
"Empire is currently extremely short of manpower, so the exploration plan may have to keep you waiting for a while," Ian stared at the model in front of him and showed a heartfelt smile of appreciation: This is indeed a shocking breakthrough that will forever change the destiny of the Empire and affect the foundation of the world.
"Your discovery is great. Your name will always be immortally engraved on the historical monument of the Empire."
Hearing this high praise, Havika scratched his head shyly. "Other consul wives have praised me like this before, but I always feel that they are a bit exaggerated."
"They are definitely not exaggerating," Hermione replied in a serious tone. "Put aside the far-reaching impact of your discovery, just focus on short-term gains. After this Cataclysm sweeps the galaxy, Empire is very likely to completely control the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
"But at the same time, the Tenth Tier gods who are above us in the universe are now firmly targeting us, so we have to adopt extremely strict Self measures of closure and isolation for defense.
"Milky Way Galaxy The existing resources are simply not enough to support us to continue to maintain such an abnormally high-speed development. But now, with your model, we can make a large-scale march to explore other planes, so as to perfectly solve this dead end of resource exhaustion!"
"I have never thought about this," Havika muttered to himself. In the academic circle where he belongs, some people have long predicted with certainty that Empire will definitely Cleansweep and conquer the entire Milky Way Galaxy after this disaster.
However, no one expected that in order to resist the covetousness of other terrorist entities, Empire would eventually be forced to go into isolation. And isolation often means the rapid bottoming out of resources - especially with the development speed of the Empire, which is like a gold-swallowing beast.
"We once again express our most sincere thanks to you for your great discovery," Ian said solemnly. "This is my honor."
Then, Ian spent the next hour interrogating him in great detail about all the in-depth details of his model, and finally asked Havika to step aside.
"What do you think?" After only his family was left in the room, Rowena teleported in and asked impatiently. "It's simply a miracle. How many planes have we discovered so far?"
"In addition to the two discovered by Havika, there are two more. We used the 'Lich King' you brought back from the last expedition to successfully Divination the specific coordinates of Abyssal Plane.
"Then, your apprentice Chloe used the deep legal connection between her and the 'Dream Dimension' she discovered, and followed the clues to find the coordinates of 'Nightmare Plane'."
"Is there any necessary connection between these?" Ian asked with a frown. "Yes. She speculated that there are some unknown terrorist entities trying to use Dream Dimension as a springboard to forcibly invade our plane."
"It's just as I expected," Ian said, rubbing his twitching temples. "Let me guess; does the plane we are in hide any secrets that can drive the gods crazy?"
"You guessed it right again. Our plane was once called 'Wizard Plane', but now, it is called 'Cosmic Faith Plane' outside. Moreover, it is the only plane in the Astral Realm that has a multiverse structure; it is also the only one that allows individuals to break through to the highest plane of Eleventh Tier!"
"This explains a lot of things," Ian suddenly realized. Before, he had always had a few dead ends that he couldn't solve logically.
The Tenth Tier gods need to harvest the faith of the entire universe to reach that incredible height. However, throughout history, no one has been able to completely conquer the entire universe, but there are countless Tenth Tier True God in the world. So, which crack in the stone did they pop out from?
The real answer is that they succeeded in being promoted to the Tenth Tier position by conquering other planes. This top-secret information also means that the power gap between them is a world of difference between gods who are also Tenth Tier positions.
For example, the combat power of those old monsters who conquered ten planes and crazily harvested faith is definitely incomparable to those gods who only conquered one plane.
Another mystery solved by Ian is: why Kronai (Cosmic Will) obviously hates those gods who play with faith, but still tolerates them again and again; this is obviously not only because she is restricted by the law and cannot actively intervene and clean them up.
The deeper reason is that these gods act as thugs to a certain extent, protecting this plane and resisting those alien invaders who try to rush in and attack the Eleventh Tier position. Ian can fully imagine how many hungry and thirsty Tenth Tier horrors there are outside, trying to break into this "Cosmic Faith Plane" with green eyes.
"Where did you get this extremely dangerous top-secret information?" "We searched it from the ruins of Interstellar Federation. We even found out that Star-Skin Tribe was actually an alien stowaway from another dimension."
"It's interesting," he replied, and then turned his attention to Hermione. "If your talent can directly forcibly summon living creatures from other planes, maybe we can use this causal connection to reversely track and locate those unknown planes."
"I've thought of this a long time ago."
Ian nodded, and then focused his attention on the holographic model again. 'The real strategic value of this thing is definitely far beyond Havika's own imagination.'
Then, he began to conduct more in-depth deductions and crazy expansions based on this model. He added "Origin Wall" that surrounded the entire Astral Realm. Then, he completely broke through the limit of Astral Universe in the calculation range of the mathematical formula and extended it directly to the absolute nothingness of "Void".
He retrieved the coordinates of the three worlds he had traveled through and embedded them into the model with extreme precision. The final, perfected version was so grand that it was breathtaking: Astral Universe contains countless planes - including the plane where the Harry Potter world is located, Abyssal Plane, and many other planes.
The interior of "Cosmic Faith Plane" includes a massive number of dimensions: that is, the tiny folded space within the large universe; it also contains endless parallel universes - where every tiny choice made by anyone will split and create a complete parallel universe.
Outside Astral Universe, there is the vast "Omniverse". There, all the animations, movies, games, etc. he saw on Primordial Earth are all real and independent universes, each with its own set of underlying laws and regulations.
Looking at the final model after the deduction, Ian sighed deeply.
'With this heaven-defying model, I can calculate the exact coordinates of other universes by myself. I no longer have to rely on Akashic Records to obtain spatial coordinates like a beggar being given alms!'