"First of all, this is a piece of underlying logical data about the real 'Servant'," Ian looked at the expectant Susan, and tapped Void with his fingertips, and a faint blue information flow quietly took shape.
Susan was stunned for a moment, and a trace of doubt flashed in his clear eyes. "Servant? I thought the destination of your previous expedition was the universe called 'Hokage'."
Regarding Ian's cross-dimensional expedition, the core members of the Imperial Family usually have the right to know and are familiar with the basic background of those other worlds. Therefore, Susan was surprised by this word that obviously has other mythological colors.
"You want to ask whether the dead who were forcibly brought back to the present world from Pure Land through 'Edo Tensei' can be defined as Servant?" Ian saw through his cousin's doubts at a glance.
He paused for a moment, and a glimmer of academic deduction flashed through his deep eyes. "Strictly speaking, no. Edo Tensei is just a crude puppet forcibly spliced together using the soul and DNA of the deceased. It lacks the Divinity that is tempered by 'faith' and 'legend' like Servant Sublimation. However, there are indeed extremely subtle commonalities between the two, which is a subject worthy of further exploration. I have arranged for someone to compare the differences between the two soul forms, but until we can actually give birth to Servant that belongs to the Empire, this comparative study can only be put on hold for the time being."
"Then the data you just mentioned is..." Susan asked.
"I can't explain it in one or two sentences. You can see for yourself." Ian didn't waste any words. He stretched out his slender fingers and lightly touched Susan's forehead. In an instant, a large number of precious memories about Soul Coding, faith extraction and rule imprints poured into Susan's Sea of Consciousness like a flood that broke a dam.
Digesting this vast knowledge, Susan couldn't help but let out an exclamation sigh, "Every time you go on an expedition, the things you bring back seem to completely subvert the existing common sense of magic... Wait!"
She seemed to suddenly capture a certain blind spot, and her eyes instantly burst into extremely bright light. "Since you can bring these back, does that mean... that the universe of 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' also exists?"
"Well, it does exist." Ian nodded slightly.
"Can I go?" Susan's voice was full of unconcealable desire. She couldn't wait to witness the scene of those card monsters galloping in the native world.
Ian's instinctive reaction is to refuse directly. Void's voyage in the alien plane is full of too many unpredictable death crises. Even Ninth Tier's strong ones are at risk of falling.
But when he saw the renewed thirst for knowledge in Susan's eyes, his reason told him that this was the key opportunity for Susan to break his inner demons and realize Self's transformation. He could not keep her under his wings forever.
"If you are worried about safety issues, you can take me with you!" Susan saw his hesitation and immediately added.
"No, there is no need for that. I can't be your Umbrella forever," Ian sighed and said earnestly, "When this war affecting Milky Way is completely over and Empire's territory and defense lines are completely stabilized, we More Floating City will be put into service. At that time, you can form your own fleet and go to that universe alone. However, the ugly word is ahead, you must use your own research results to exchange coordinates in 'Akashic Records', and you must strictly abide by all the safety regulations of the expeditionary force."
"It's a deal!" Susan didn't hesitate at all. As a Arcanist with Bones family's blood flowing, she knows the horror of Void better than anyone else. As long as her research can produce results, earning enough Arcane Merit is not a problem at all.
"Very good," Ian nodded with satisfaction and brought the topic back on track, "In addition to the data of Servant, I have two power systems here that can be seamlessly integrated into your card research. The first one is 'Word Soul Magic'."
"Word Soul Magic..." Susan quickly searched for this concept in his mind, "This is a rare magic that can directly rewrite the laws of reality at low latitudes through language as a medium. If this law can be imprinted on the rune circuit of the card, then the 'effect' of the card can be perfectly activated in reality!"
"Your intuition is very keen," Ian praised, "Finally, it is the top Authority that I just mastered during the recent expedition--"
Ian waved his hand again, and an extremely complex Yin-Yang Pisces pattern slowly rotated in Void, exuding a chilling Creation aura.
"This is the Shinobi World secret technique called 'Yin–Yang Release·Creation of All Things'. It can inject pure spiritual fantasy into form, and then give it entity with life energy. This is a technique that truly touches the field of 'Creation Master' Weili. However, the current underlying logic of this set of spells is not compatible with our Aether magic power. You must first convert it into Chakra System to drive it. Moreover, its current upper limit of output is stuck at the Sixth Tier position."
"That is to say... as long as I can master this power, I can directly 'create' the fantasy monsters in the cards, together with their panel attributes, into the real world?" Susan was so excited that his whole body trembled, and his voice changed a bit.
"Don't be too happy too early. As I said, before we can completely analyze and translate it into the magic code of the Arcane Empire, this power has great limitations." Ian poured cold water on it at the right time.
"It doesn't matter! I already have a way to make up for these shortcomings!" Susan's mind was spinning rapidly.
"Oh? Tell me."
"If I can first use Spirit Realm to breed the 'soul bodies' of these monsters, and then use these soul bodies as the medium for the arrival of 'Yin–Yang Release', the resistance to transforming fantasy into reality will be exponentially reduced!"
"Excellent idea," Ian was not stingy with his praise, his eyes were full of joy. This was the genius girl he was familiar with. "In order to reward you for this genius deduction, I decided to privately sponsor you a part of the extremely precious 'World Source Force', so as to greatly shorten your early trial and error time."
"Deal!" Susan called the Snap excitedly, "Big funder, do you have any other suggestions?"
"You can try to introduce the path of 'dream energy' and find cooperation with Chloe. Let the card creature first be embodied in Dream Dimension, and then pull it into reality. This may become a safer passage to descend."
"First enter the dream and then descend? This is indeed a research direction with great potential." Susan nodded thoughtfully, and then stared at Ian with a look full of expectation.
"Don't look at me, you've drained all my inventory," Ian spread his hands helplessly, "Besides, this is your main topic, you have to walk your own way."
"Yes, these dry information are enough for me to digest for several years." Susan put away the drawings with satisfaction.
After a few brief explanations, Ian cut off the communication, flashed back to his core laboratory.
"Morgana, call up my next schedule."
The purple House-elf instantly projected a dense data stream in mid-air. "Your Majesty, the current war situation is stable and there is no urgent military affairs. However, you should probably take the time to meet with the Magic Knights leaders of the <Black Clover> universe."
"Oh? What happened to them?"
"It's not that there was any trouble. It's just that when faced with the huge and complex civilization system of the Empire, the group of former indigenous strongmen encountered some psychological and cognitive obstacles in the integration process."
"Understood. Arrange the interview for tomorrow," Ian pinched his eyebrows, "Now, start the 'Illusory Realm Tempering' program."
"As ordered." Morgana's voice became a little serious.
Ian Slowly walked into a meditation room that was wrapped in countless high-level seals and isolation barriers. There was no expectation in his steps, and even a deep disgust. He extremely Abomination this kind of "phantom training" "Self torture, but as the highest Overlord of the Empire, in order to prevent himself from getting lost in the endless power and thirst for knowledge, he must force himself to perform this kind of soul torture on a regular basis.
The door to the meditation room slammed shut. Ian sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes.
A few minutes later.
"Boom--!"
A terrifying coercion that was enough to turn the galaxy upside down erupted from Ian's body without any warning! Even with the suppression of numerous Divine Grade barriers, the space in the entire meditation room was still squeezed by this force, making a heart-breaking cracking sound.
Ian opened his eyes suddenly, and those originally deep pupils had turned into a sea of scarlet blood. The strong murderous intention and crazy violent aura rolled around him like a substantial black mist. If he were in the outside world, even Arcanist at Sixth Tier's position would instantly collapse under this pressure!
In the illusion just now, he once again personally experienced the deepest despair - watching the destruction of the Empire, watching Hermione, Olivia and other close relatives being destroyed by powerful enemies, but there was nothing he could do.
"Damn... This feeling, no matter how many times you experience it, makes you almost crazy." Ian gritted his teeth, forcibly suppressing the rampant magic power in his body. With trembling fingers, he took out a bottle of "Soothing Spirits Potions" from the space ring with trembling fingers, raised his neck and drank it in one gulp.
Potions turned into a cool trickle, slowly soothing his soul that was on the verge of going berserk. The pain of losing his loved ones was his backbone, but this irreparable feeling of powerlessness was also the strongest anchor that always spurred him to maintain extreme sanity and never take it lightly.
"The peak value of your soul fluctuation has just exceeded the dangerous threshold," Morgana's voice sounded in the quiet room. "It is recommended that you take a five-minute deep meditation rest before proceeding to the next round of deduction."
Ian nodded numbly like a precision-operated but exhausted machine.
"Buzz--!"
Just when Ian was about to close his eyes, an extremely obscure, but absolutely unignorable Shockwave wave penetrated the absolute defense of the meditation room and gently swept through his soul.
Ian's bloody pupils suddenly condensed, and the sense of decadence was instantly swept away, replaced by an emperor-like sharpness. "What happened?"
The barrier of this meditation room is enough to withstand the frontal bombardment of the strong Tenth Tier, and there should never be any external fluctuations that can penetrate it.
"The source of the fluctuation... comes from Earth Prime!" Morgana completed the rapid search of the entire galaxy in one thousandth of a second, with an unprecedented hint of nervousness in his tone.
"Earth Prime? Enemy attack?"
Ian didn't hesitate for a moment, and his body transformed into a bolt of lightning that tore apart dimensions, forcibly breaking through the confinement of the meditation room. The next second, his invisible body was already suspended outside the Earth's atmosphere.
"Find the source immediately!" Ian shouted angrily in Sea of Consciousness, and at the same time quickly dialed the emergency line of Ministry of Internal Affairs's highest officer, his aunt Amelia (Amelia).
The holographic screen popped up instantly, and the face of Amelia, who always had a calm look, appeared on the screen.
"What happened?" Ian got straight to the point.
"What do you mean?" Amelia was confused by this sudden question.
"I just captured an energy vibration that is enough to affect the bottom layer of the entire earth's operation. Although it is extremely obscure, it absolutely exists. Is your Ministry of Internal Affairs monitoring network a decoration?" Ian's voice was as cold as the cold wind of Siberia.
Amelia's expression suddenly changed. She didn't talk nonsense, her fingers turned into an afterimage on the console, and she frantically mobilized Empire's highest level defense network data.
After a few seconds, she raised her head, her eyes full of disbelief and panic. "Impossible...Planetary Defense System and all energy probes have no alarm feedback, everything shows normal."
Empire's monitoring of the home planet is the most stringent in the universe. After all, any Arcanist that breaks through the Sixth Tier position can erase the entire planet from the star map with just a twitch of the brain and a forbidden spell. For any unknown or large-scale energy fluctuations, the defense network should kill them before they take shape.
However, now, Empire's top Overlord told her that a force broke out under their noses, and the sensors they were so proud of were as unaware as a blind man!
"Have you called the latest batch of 'Arcane Eye'?" Ian immediately thought of his recent scientific research results. It was a new generation of orbital monitoring satellites built after the Naruto World expedition, using the clairvoyance and chakra insight mechanism of 'Byakugan', combined with the Empire Alchemy.
"That batch of satellites is still in the final debugging stage and has not yet been officially incorporated into the Skynet sequence." Cold sweat broke out on Amelia's forehead.
"Skip the debugging and force the deployment immediately! At the same time, contact Luna immediately and ask her to use the highest-level Divination to conduct causal investigation!" Ian's orders were issued like a barrage of cannons.
Amelia demonstrated extremely high execution capabilities. In less than five minutes, hundreds of "Arcane Eye" emitting cold white light launched an array in the earth's low-Earth orbit, and the dazzling scanning rays began to carry out a carpet-like deep perspective on the earth.
"... The result is still negative, without any abnormal readings." Amelia looked at the final summary report, his face pale.
Immediately afterwards, another communication window popped up. Luna's ethereal face appeared on the screen, but at this moment, her eyes no longer had the emptiness of the past, but she shook her head solemnly. "The thread of fate has not been stirred, and my Divination... saw nothing. That area is completely blank on Law of Causality."
Hearing this, Ian and Amelia's hearts sank to the bottom at the same time. Even the "Byakugan satellite" that specifically targets the hidden and Divination that involves cause and effect has failed, which means that the threats lurking inside the earth have far exceeded conventional evaluation standards. At this juncture, no one dares to question Ian's energy perception that is comparable to that of a god.
"Morgana, do you have any clues over there?" Ian took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
"Sorry, Master. The fluctuations are too concealed and I cannot generate precise geographical coordinates." The purple House-elf virtual projection was also going crazy Blink, "But I successfully analyzed the essential properties of that fluctuation - it was not a regular element or Mental Magic, but an extremely high-frequency 'Space Law fluctuation'."
"Space energy? Huh, if that's the case, then things will become simpler."
Ian sneered. Under this starry sky, when it comes to controlling space, apart from the mysterious God of Space, he is the absolute Overlord.
He slowly closed his eyes, no longer relying on the scanning of mechanical instruments, but directly connecting his will to the "Space-Time Law" depth of this world Fusion.
In the macroscopic view of Ian, the earth is no longer a blue sphere, but has become a complex yarn ball made up of countless folds and dimensions.
Following the lingering trace of shock that he just captured in his memory, he was conducting an extremely rough investigation among the thousands of Subspace that were nurtured by nature or developed artificially around the earth, just like peeling off a cocoon.
A few seconds later.
"I caught you, mouse." Ian opened his eyes, with a cruel arc at the corner of his mouth, and then shared a space coordinate with Amelia and Luna. "Check, who is the owner of this demiplane attached to the mezzanine of Earth's space?"
The database of Morgana instantly gave the matching result. "According to the household registration of the Empire and the filing record of Mage Tower, the ownership of this demiplane belongs to a man named James · Carter's Empire citizen. Its strength is assessed as...Seventh Tier Arcanist."
"A Arcanist from Seventh Tier?" Luna frowned slightly, his face full of disbelief, "Is he crazy? Dare to openly defy <Imperial Space Management Law> within the defense network of the home planet and create such a space shock that can tear apart the planet's crust? What does he want?"
Although the strong men in the Arcane Empire and Seventh Tier have the power to destroy the world, but faced with the unfathomable heritage of Ian and the sky full of Floating City, this behavior is tantamount to seeking death.
"I think... I probably know why he dared to do this." Amelia had already called up a top-secret file that was classified as confidential. She dragged the file to the shared screen, with a solemn look in her eyes before the storm came.