Ian looked at the imprisoned man inside through the energy barrier. This guy was wearing an old-fashioned wizard robe similar to Dumbledore, but on his right eye was a contraption similar to the Saiyan combat power detector in <Dragon Ball>. He also wore a strange watch on his wrist that had both a sense of future technology and a retro industrial style.
However, this weird outfit is not the most outrageous thing about him. The most disturbing thing is that this guy has a face that is exactly the same as Ian!
"Who are you?" Ian asked coldly.
"I am Ian·F-234." The man replied confidently, "You should understand what this code name means, right?"
"It seems that you mutants have already created a [Council]." Ian understood instantly.
"Exactly." F-234 nodded, "I came here across dimensions today just to formally invite you to join our 'Bones Council'."
Ian rubbed his eyebrows and let out a helpless groan. In his previous life, he was also a senior animation and American TV series fan, like the "Council of Reeds" formed by Mister Fantastic in <Fantastic Four>,< He is extremely familiar with the "Council of Kangs" created by Kang the Conqueror in Marvel>, and the famous "Citadel of Ricks" in <Rick and Morty>.
Therefore, he had already guessed that among the endless Multiverse, there would definitely be some idle Ian variants that would follow this old path. In fact, his own original plan was to wait until the time came for free. He went back and forth to build a Council like this so that he could monitor all the variants of other parallel universes. But he never expected that these guys would move so fast and accurately touch his timeline.
"What number did you assign to this dimension of mine?" Ian asked casually.
"You are G-003." F-234 replied.
"I bet, when you group of lunatics formed a group, you must have fought fiercely to compete for the two numbers 'C-137' and '616', right?" Ian mocked with a half-smile.
A blush of embarrassment flashed across F-234's face for an instant, but he quickly covered it up. Anyone who understands time travel will know that "C-137" is the exclusive number of "Grandpa", the strongest protagonist in the drama <Rick and Morty>, and "616" is the sacred code of Marvel Comics Prime Universe.
There is no doubt that when this group of arrogant Ian variants came together, a fierce battle broke out in order to snatch these popular numbers that symbolized "orthodoxy" and "the strongest". Obviously, F-234 was also one of the losers.
"When will the first Council general meeting be held?" Ian cut to the chase.
F-234 looked down at the strange watch on his wrist and tapped it a few times. "According to the time flow rate of your timeline, it will be about a month later."
"How do I get there?"
"Have you... not developed the cross-dimensional [Multiverse Traversal Technology] yet?" F-234 did not answer directly, but asked in a subtle tone.
"Why are you asking this?" Ian narrowed his eyes slightly, keenly capturing the other person's thoughts.
"If you haven't mastered this technology yet, Council can send someone to pick you up for the meeting." Although F-234's tone was calm, there was a condescending tone between the lines.
Ian took a deep look at him, and then let out a cold and mocking sneer, "I understand. It seems that in this so-called Council, 'strength' and 'technological crushing generation gap' are the only criteria for determining their respective seats and right to speak."
F-234's heart skipped a beat. Although he tried his best to control his facial expression without revealing any flaws, unfortunately, the dense arcane enchantment array in this interrogation room was monitoring the tiny fluctuations of every atom in his body around the clock. Even if his heartbeat accelerated by a tenth of a second, he could not escape the eyes of Ian.
"I won't bother you with the pick-up and drop-off issues. I will take care of it myself." Ian refused coldly.
"That's the best." F-234 didn't bother to pretend anymore. He took out a metal card that exuded strange energy fluctuations from his arms and handed it over through the barrier. "This is your Council ticket. It also contains the Multiverse coordinates of the meeting location."
Ian waved his hand and used Space Magic to put the card directly through the energy barrier into his hand. He did not touch it to read it immediately, but looked at the thing up and down with his deep silver eyes.
"What? Give me the coordinates, and also do a compliance test?" Ian sneered. The coordinate data on the card has obviously been encrypted.
Less than three minutes later, under Ian's terrifying calculation power and law deduction, the encryption lock on the card collapsed directly, and a complex Multiverse holographic star map marked with countless plane anchor points instantly unfolded in front of Ian.
Looking at this scene, F-234's face that had been pretending to be calm finally collapsed! He had done so many field trips in Multiverse and had seen countless Ian variants. He had never seen any variant that could break the top-level encrypted coordinates of Council with his bare hands in such a light manner without even using magic instruments!
"Tell them that I will be there on time in one month." Ian nodded casually.
"It is definitely an honor for the entire Council to have an unfathomable strong person like you join us." F-234's tone instantly became respectful, even with a hint of flattery. He awkwardly pointed to the energy barrier that trapped him, "Well... now that everything has been explained, do you think you can let me go?"
What he experienced in this timeline can simply be described as "extremely frustrating"!
He had just completed the inter-dimensional jump and his feet had just touched the ground. He didn't even see what the world looked like. He was instantly surrounded and forcibly knocked down by a group of perverts who were proficient in space and Time Magic! What made him feel the most was The thing about Shocker is that these guys actually have mature [Spatial Anchor technology] in their hands, and they directly locked his shuttle, leaving him no chance to even activate the emergency escape procedure and roll back to other timelines!
And now, after facing the "Prime Universe variant" of this universe, he was horrified to find that the detector he was so proud of could not see through the depth of the Ian in front of him! His well-honed crisis intuition was frantically alerting him: This man in front of him is extremely dangerous!
Ian waved his hand towards the darkness, and the energy barrier holding the F-234 dissipated instantly.
The freed F-234 didn't even dare to say any nonsense. He frantically entered a series of complex spatial coordinates into the shuttle on his wrist with the speed of a man who had been single for twenty years.
"Buzz--!"
A layer of dazzling orange-red energy shield instantly enveloped his whole body.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by a deafening burst of space, the orange-red sphere wrapped around F-234, with a brutal and terrifying initial speed that could even be described as rough, forcibly broke the space-time continuity barrier between parallel dimensions! The interrogation room was instantly filled with dense, spider-web-like black space cracks, and the figure of F-234 had completely disappeared into the turbulence of time and space.
It took several minutes for these violent space cracks to slowly heal under the Self repair of the law of the universe, and the interrogation room returned to calm.
"This method of forcibly smashing Dimensional Barrier's shuttle is as rough as barbarians smashing rocks." Ian looked at the remaining spatial fluctuations and commented critically, "However, their navigation system that locates different timelines is indeed somewhat unique, and it is worth learning from the Empire Research Department."
He lowered his head and glanced at the cracked Council card in his hand.
The core theory of Multiverse Traversal Technology currently mastered by the Arcane Empire is based on the legacy technology of the "Novad" race in the <Raiders of the Lost Ark> universe.
Although safe and stable, there are indeed some shortcomings in cross-dimensional precise positioning. If the navigation system of "Bones Council" can be thoroughly reverse engineered, the efficiency of the Empire's cross-dimensional expedition can definitely be greatly improved.
"Bring me that thing." Ian ordered.
Soon, a hooded ghost agent quietly appeared in the room and respectfully presented Crystal, a pure memory with a shimmering light, in front of Ian.
Ian released his huge soul perception without hesitation, and forcibly read the contents recorded in this Crystal - this is exactly the [memory copy] that Empire's Legilimency masters secretly copied from F-234's brain just now during their detention!
Although F-234, as a variant that can wander around Multiverse, has definitely worked hard on brain defense, and his Occlumency attainments are extremely profound. However, today, In front of the Arcane Empire, who has thoroughly studied [Soulfire] and the underlying structure of the soul, his ridiculous defense methods are like a layer of window paper that can be broken with just one poke.
By looking through this memory, Ian saw the completely different but tragic life of the F-234.
In the initial stage of his life, the trajectory was similar to that of Ian's Prime Universe. But he encountered a fatal turning point - in an accident, he tragically lost all his family members, including his aunt Amelia who had been protecting him!
Stimulated by tremendous grief and despair, F-234 fell into extreme madness. He began to delve into those profound and taboo magics day and night, almost masochistically. His only obsession with living was to find a way to perfectly Resurrection his dead family members!
But he made a fatal mistake - in order to obtain more magic resources, he did not tolerate development and hide his amazing talent like Prime Universe's Ian, but instead showed it around in a high-profile manner.
This flamboyant style naturally attracted great attention from Dark Lord Voldemort, who was in full swing at the time. When F-234 was eleven years old, Voldemort personally stepped down and tried to coerce and induce him to join Death Eaters's camp with generous terms and become the sharpest knife under his command.
After being sternly rejected by F-234, the angry Voldemort completely broke his skin. When F-234 was in the second grade at Hogwarts, that is, on the eve of Voldemort's supposed "give away" to Potter family, Dark Lord ruthlessly launched a fatal raid on this young genius!
In that decisive battle of disparity in strength, although F-234 was seriously injured and almost beaten to death, he miraculously survived and successfully escaped the pursuit of Voldemort. Since then, he has become completely anonymous and disappeared in this Wizarding World, as if he has evaporated from the world.
However, for the narrow-minded Voldemort, letting such a monster with incredible potential and hatred for himself escape was like a thorn in his back! This became a fatal heart problem for Dark Lord.
In order to dig out F-234, Voldemort even became a little nervous. He spent all his energy and Death Eaters, frantically searching for the boy's whereabouts. Because of this, he accidentally gave up his original plan to attack Potter family, thus miraculously escaping the death disaster that caused his physical death!
As time went by, the fear in Voldemort's heart became deeper and deeper. He was all too aware of F-234's perverted magical talent. He simply could not imagine how terrifying it would be to wait for the day he returns if the boy was given enough time to grow!
Under the extreme anxiety of death, Voldemort fell into more complete madness. In order to increase his strength to cope with the reckoning that was destined to come in the future, he began to touch various dangerous taboos Dark Magic and ancient rituals by any means, even without any bottom line.
In the end, this decades-long fateful entanglement came to an end with the return of F-234's Haki and a doomsday battle that affected the entire earth. The F-234 killed Voldemort without any suspense and won the final victory. However, that devastating battle also cost Muggles and wizards throughout the world a painful price in blood.
However, for F-234, who was completely red-eyed, he didn't care about the life or death of this world! His only purpose of winning the war was to see his family again.
Sadly, in this doomsday melee that spreads around the world, those rooms deep in the Ministry of Magic Department of Mysteries hide great secrets - that is, the far Ancient Gods Ming Yi The remaining [Godhead fragments] storage areas were almost all bombed into ruins. The only one that survived was the Time Room that stored [Time-Turner].
In desperation, F-234 could only devote all his efforts to the research of Time Magic, trying to save his family by forcibly reversing time. However, after countless failures and crazy law deductions, he did not successfully develop Time Machine, which reverses cause and effect. Instead, he accidentally clicked on the technology tree of [Multiverse Traversal Technology] in an extremely high space dimension!
F-234 was not frustrated by this result. Since he could not change the past of this universe, he would go to other parallel universes, find a peaceful timeline where his family is still alive, and then directly replace it!
After experiencing a long and boring inter-dimensional wandering, he finally found such a perfect world as he wished, and Coldblood secretly killed himself in that universe, perfectly taking over that warm life.
Just when he thought he could spend the rest of his life in peace, another powerful variant came to his door and sent him a formal invitation to join the newly established "Bones Council".
Ian Through memory Crystal, I watched indifferently from the perspective of God how the F-234 carefully integrated into the evil Council, and how they were beaten to death by other variants in the internal strife for the pretentious code name of "C-137". In the end, they had no choice but to go through the random lottery process and received the random number of "F-234".
After that, F-234 became a senior worker for Council. He was treated like a field agent, running errands all over the universe, looking for and inviting all kinds of weird variants to join Council.
'What should I do with these bastards who are running around in my face?' Ian rubbed his sore temples and felt a strong irritation. He already had enough messes in his hands, and now such a restless interdimensional organization has appeared out of nowhere!
'The most primitive impulse in my heart is to go directly to that damn venue in a month's time, and then use the highest dimensional obliteration method to eliminate all these variants that may turn into time bombs at any time!' Ian's silver eyes looked like Blink showed an extremely dangerous killing intent, 'But this is completely meaningless. With the endless base of Multiverse, even if I kill them all today, it won't be long before a version 2.0 variant Council will appear.'
'It's better to block than to open up. If I can use the most efficient tactics to control and utilize this group of madmen with genius brains, I can definitely use their huge cross-dimensional resources and scientific research sharing to greatly shorten the time for me to be promoted to the Eleventh Tier position!'
Countless strategic deductions full of intrigues and cruelties collided crazily in Ian's brain.
'Judging from the current memory of the F-234, the atmosphere inside this Council is actually quite 'harmonious and friendly'? Haha, this is simply a big joke! That's purely because this group of frogs in the well still don't know the ultimate secret of being promoted to the Eleventh Tier position and the strict uniqueness requirements!
Once they smell the bloody smell of the ultimate Transcendence, this group of seemingly harmonious mutants will definitely tear off their hypocritical masks in an instant and start to calculate and kill each other crazily and without any bottom line!'
'And I absolutely cannot rule out that in that Council, there are already certain ancient and powerful variants that have already understood this secret! The reason why they established this Council is very likely to be exactly the same as my current plan - that is, to treat all variants as leeks and top-quality experimental materials that can be harvested at any time!'
Ian snorted coldly: 'In this case, the most perfect tactic before me is to forcefully attack this Council, crush them with absolute strength, and directly seize the core dominance position! Then, completely divide and control these guys from the inside, and let them become the stepping stones for the Arcane Empire's promotion!'
'But before that... I must go back to the Empire laboratory immediately and plant the top [Anti-Interdimensional Spatial Anchoring System] on the outside of the earth and even the entire Milky Way Galaxy! I will never allow these bastards who have mastered space travel to treat my timeline as the back garden of their home and come and go as they please!'
Ian let out a long sigh and disappeared into the interrogation room in a twist. He knew better than anyone else that in the next few years, he would face unprecedented terrifying pressure and mountains of high-dimensional problems, which made him feel irritated and unhappy.