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Chapter 278: Genuine

The surviving Flamechasers each had their focus.

Mobius focused on humanity’s potential to become higher. Su focused on looking for a world without honkai. Mei regressed through countless “parallel worlds” to discover Finality’s secrets.

The same went to Vill-V. It was just that her attention became displaced towards a single person—Aleph.

Their first encounter was nothing unusual. It was as normal as it could get.

“Partner?”

“Isn’t that the no...

Chapter 277: Yandere

Fifty thousand years.

What could someone do in fifty thousand years?

It differs from person to person. Some might become satisfied with the status quo like Hua. Stagnation is completely fine when it comes to an ageless person.

The others, however, struggle. The death of comrades did not deter them. Su, Mobius, and Mei found their ways to the higher level. Kevin went beyond that and turned himself into the current guardian of humanity.

As for Vill-V…

Even Mobius...

Chapter 276: Thunder's Ubiquity

What would infinite regression and a rational monster do when combined together?

“Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine loops. Did you arrive at an answer?”

Aleph asked her. The latter just so happened to finish drinking the coffee in her hand.

“Gods are unimaginable.”

That sentence encapsulated everything she discovered during her loops. Mei had to undergo a hundred loops to call forth the power to summon her ‘parallel self’. Upon reaching the thousan...

Chapter 275: Regressor

“There’s a lot of things to do.”

The ELF version of Aleph muttered. He is multitasking between the fusion of the three authorities and the influence he exerts on parallel Earth.

Understandably, the latter takes less effort. It did not affect his operations at all.

“Limited to one, no, two authorities. Error is way too buggy.”

He anticipated what [Lord of the Mysteries] could bring. It is, after all, the authority of a Great Old One. It also belonged to one of...

Chapter 274: Fool

The final authority missing to complete the [Lord of the Mysteries] authority: [Fool].

‘Is it telling me how dumb I was..?’

Aleph sighed as he claimed the reward.

‘To think of [Infinity] as a separate thing…’

All this time, he was subconsciously separating himself from [Infinity]. Be it from the previous cases of other Aeons and the fact that he could properly exert his power, he did not think much of it.

Facing his failure to this parallel Earth, he re...

Chapter 273: Jackpot

The second one to notice an abnormality was Su.

“Her theory… was it the right one all along?”

Inside the Second Divine Key—within the Seed of Sumeru—he saw the shooting stars streak across the sky. To his eyes, they held a different meaning.

“Finality… No. It’s different from the Cocoon of that day.” He let down his shoulders in acceptance. “To think he could achieve something like this… It’s not in you to let anyone down.”

Fire MOTH’s great...

Chapter 272: Enlightenment

Acting as an Aeon for a year and a half is completely different from humans. The speed of their thoughts are exaggerated. Everything a human could see in one day, they could see in a glimpse. It does not even end there for Aeons’ glance.

One look was all it takes to process thousands of years of history.

As such, Aleph had seen through far more than what others did. Time acted relative to him. He might have crossed the billionth-mark when it comes to reading through worlds’ h...

Chapter 271: Memories Adrift

Aleph told everyone his future knowledge after the fifth major eruption. That included the future he knew of.

Mobius and Vill-V used up the idea of MOTH’s final project at that time—one that involved the fragment of Finality.

In the original, they managed to steal a portion of it. Kevin was chosen as its wielder, thereby becoming strong enough to cover humanity's development. His strength could easily kill Judgement-class Honkai Beasts.

His final form of Deliverance prov...

Chapter 270: Cunning Eyes

Recently, Aleph had been hearing voices inside his head.

They can be classified into three types:

“Aleph.”

“Ain.”

“Eternity.”

The first two belonged to voices he was familiar with.

“Earth…”

Just then, one of these voices rang inside his head.

“Aleph will…”

It was a familiar high-pitched voice laced with venom.

“Mobius.” He muttered. “It is confirmed now. These are the ...

Chapter 269: Cataclysm

Language is the carrier of information. Everything can be transmitted through it. Aeons’ presence is no exception.

Propagation spawned “memes” whenever someone tried to communicate with an Aeon.

Their presence is enough to alter the language.

‘World.’

Aleph had a hunch this was the next level. The gap between Aeons and Terminus lied on this. Even Han Xiao’s peculiarity came from it.

It was a shocking discovery, to say the least.

{Notice...

Chapter 268: World

“...”

Aleph opened his eyes to the sight of Hua dozing off. When he confirmed he was back, he softly sighed.

‘The same fleeting gaze.’

It was a kind of acknowledgement. The moment he destroyed Finality’s influence on him, he did not experience any other hindrances, as if it was intended to be discovered in the first place.

‘A test. They aren’t lying about that part.’

All the complicated thoughts were reduced the moment he came back onto himself. H...

Chapter 267: Outplayed

“Aleph…”

“Aleph.”

“...Aleph.”

The very moment Aleph’s consciousness woke up, he was bombarded by all sorts of murmurs. They all called out his name. Like the stars in the starry sky, a connection was made.

‘This. It’s not my Pathway.’

Aleph was used to the calls he heard from his Pathstriders. He could choose to block out the noise, only leaving the general ‘idea’ as to why it occurred. It becomes less of a hassle that way.

‘Infi...

Chapter 266: Time Moves Still

Fifty thousand years is enough to last several civilizations. It was the span of time used by the fourth Divine Key to lower honkai energy levels in the surface. Once it is habitable, the pre-programed fifth Divine Key will wake everyone up.

That was how things went in the world without Aleph.

Consequently, there are things that did not go to plan.

“...There’s no use. She already released it.”

Bam-!

The door leading outside the command center was blasted op...

Chapter 265: Sleep

“Ugh…”

Seeing Aleph’s ELF body stretch was enough to make Kiana confused. The latter is currently undergoing her dreadful studying session.

“Aren’t you doing nothing?”

“Well? Teaching you is exhausting enough.”

“Huh? Aren’t I doing better now?”

“Objectively, yes. You are doing one percent better compared to before.”

Error did not suffice with Kiana’s abysmal learning ability. There was a reason why she flunked her Valkyrie exam...

Chapter 264: She Who Shut Her Eyes

The first vision was related to Fu Xuan.

“...to accept my eye is to bear endless pain. Your nature as a long-lived species makes it a tool of torture, rather than a tool to seek the truth.”

“Knowledge exchanged in pain. With it, I would not make the same mistake in the future.”

The bestowal of Nous’ eye. It firmly rested in the middle of her forehead. It took on the form of an amethyst-colored gemstone.

The moment it opens is the time when everything becomes ...

Chapter 263: Defusion

It was Aleph’s first practical test with Error. From the moment he received it, he knew the things he could do with it. Each authority of his, in fact, is capable of being ‘game-breaking’. It just so happened that [Error] is the best when it comes to breaking rules—even if it was a god’s authority.

The things he could not do before, he could do now.

The eightfold synergy allowed him to temporarily raise his power—his existence—to another level. The concepts he touche...

Chapter 262: Glutton and a Loophole

Aleph’s first outside visit occurred when he met Nous face-to-face. He managed to get knowledge from the Aeon of Erudition themselves. He managed to create a portal straight to Nous’ “real body”, thus allowing him to conduct that transaction.

The second time…

“How bold.”

Endless sparse darkness surrounded him. It made him feel that the entire world itself is an enemy. Its endless attempts to ‘devour’ parts of Aleph made it extremely repulsive.

“I ju...

Chapter 261: Five-on-One

Aleph stared at the blank space in front of him. It was devoid of anything. It is similar to IX’s influence, but not quite.

One other Aeon fitted the bill. Though, this answer made him scratch his head.

“Just how did you come here?”

The Aeon of Voracity, Ouroboros. Someone who was supposed to be outside Qlipoth’s sealed amber walls happened to appear right in front of Aleph—rather, a part of its projection.

{Notice. The target subject lies beyond the physical...

Chapter 260: Surprise Visits

Eight authorities.

Infinity.

True Dragon.

World.

Spirit King.

Null.

Finality.

Door.

Error.

Aleph was far from incomparable to his previous self. The sheer amount of intersecting authorities enhanced his power to another level.

An example of that was the four-way synergy between Infinity, Finality, Door, and Error. The latter three had authorities corresponding to...

Chapter 259: Between Complex and Simple

‘How unexpected. I imposed several thresholds for her, yet she managed to arrive here.’

Aleph greeted the woman’s gaze with a smile.

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Genius Society Number 81, Ruan Mei.

Unlike Herta, or rather, like most reclusive geniuses, she does not appear much in the public’s eye. Her origins were known exclusively to the members of the Genius Society.

Born from a planet devoid of normalcy (in Earth’s perspective), she learned how to pursue the true mean...

Chapter 258: Power Systems

It took an entire hour to temporarily convince Kiana. Even that was due to her stomach rumbling.

The box of rice balls looked extremely tantalizing in her eyes.

‘As expected of a glutton who would eat a honkai beast.’

Honkai beasts are non-carbon life forms. They are built with silicon. Meaning, she was fine eating seasoned plastic blocks.

The two remained silent since then. Five minutes later, Aleph looked at the back seat. The box of rice balls they bought before...

Chapter 257: Core Memories

A total of one year and ten months had passed since Aleph interacted with the Aeon of Elation. Nobody else has come to his doorsteps since then. The invitation cards he eagerly waited for did not arrive.

It was as if the other Aeons tacitly agreed to ignore his existence. That, or they are still scoping him out.

Nevertheless, this gave Aleph leisure time to do various things.

“Ah?!”

His sudden embrace caught Senti off guard.

“Y-you..!”

Her way of ex...

Chapter 256: Three Achievements

If there was something constant in the world, it was the honkai.

For thousands of years, humanity was at war with the honkai. Civilizations rose and fell due to it. Its traces were all around the world.

Five hundred years ago, an organization rose into power:

Schicksal.

Based on Europe, it integrated the power of wealthy and influential families, with the strongest three on the forefront: Kaslana, Apocalypse, and Schariac.

Siegfried came from the Kaslana Family.<...

Chapter 255: Current Era

Fire MOTH built a lot of underground shelters in the early days. It then evolved into secret bases and safe houses when Honkai hasn’t broken out in full.

Once the third eruption occurred, most of these places were opened as public shelters. The rest of the safe houses were converted into base of operations.

‘They didn’t fall off during the tenth eruption…’

Aleph recalled the ‘general knowledge’ he gained from this parallel Earth.

The ‘Tragedy of Binding...

Chapter 254: Successful Infiltration

A/N: There are some changes in the last chapters. I removed the time ratio aspect of it and moved the explanation in this chapter. Also, in CH250, 2008 was changed to 2009. I noticed how constricting a huge time skip is to the current flow. To keep it smooth, I won’t make too much of a drastic time skip (Maybe two years max).

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It all took a second to occur.

The human brain processes a thought in less than a fourth of a second. Humans enhanced with ICHORs could do thi...

Chapter 253: Gap

Aleph saw this day a long time ago.

His first interaction as an Aeon—the meeting with Nous—proved he wasn’t an Aeon who unilaterally sought destruction. A “civil” conversation is possible.

Unfortunately for him, the first Aeon who reached out to him was Elation.

Out of all the Aeons he could meet, he encountered the very being who represented the concept of chaos and randomness—Elation.

True to their name, Elation is an Aeon that could do anything in pursui...

Chapter 252: Elation

Another world, Sanctum’s domain.

Buzz-!

As soon as Aleph walked forward, dozens of other Alephs diverged from his real body. They emitted a humming sound before proceeding to the Sanctum’s data centers.

There are a total of six Sanctums—one for each major field. The knowledge stored throughout thousands of eons was enough to crush even the brightest geniuses to death.

Fortunately, this problem was easily remedied by Aleph.

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Chapter 251: Daily Life

Carrying the sleeping Senti to the second floor bedroom has become a daily routine for Aleph. She would usually spend her time on the dojo, teach the new “recruits”, play around, then go home.

If it weren’t for Hua’s supervision, she might have gone and allowed her scamming tendencies to thrive in Xianzhou. All that was missing was a pair of circular glasses.

“You might want to check on her during noon. You’re going to have a very interesting reaction.”

“Hm?�...

Chapter 250: Parallel Earth

Turns out, the ELF Aleph was doomed from the start.

Swoosh-!

“How annoying.”

His chibi face showed a hint of displeasure upon seeing one airship flying past his head after another. A momentary look was enough to see the ships’ affiliations—Schickshal.

It was one of the biggest organizations in the Current Era. Built upon the ruins and inheritances from the Previous Era, they managed to become a global force that flights against the honkai.

“Oh,...

Chapter 249: Their Own Things

As the surroundings shifted to normal, Aleph saw a conspicuous achievement in his sight.

[Achievement Obtained: Negotiations Successful]

[Achievement Obtained: Winning Without a Bloodshed]

‘Oh. Was this considered my first fight that succeeded negotiations? Come to think of it…’

Throughout his career, Aleph did not choose the negotiation option much. Be they the corrupt councilors or the stubborn Herrscher Personas not giving up their control, he finished them us...