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665. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Fatima Fatesh's Strategic Battle

After the potion, Fatima did not immediately start her attack. Instead, she took even more time to prepare. Arcanists are famous throughout the Astral Realm for a few reasons. They inherited a unique Mana Frequency from their predecessors, the Magus Race, granting them magic versatility unlike anything the world has seen. They lived in a highly controlled society dedicated to developing and sharing knowledge. They have secret access to knowledge from other universes.

But one of their gr...

664. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Fatima Fatesh's New Discovery

“Madam, we have discovered a sign of life,” Khadija said.

“Show me,” Fatima said as she closed the book [Divinity and the Soul] and put it away. The holographic screen manifested before her, showing a creature that resembled a panther, except it had scales, protruding spikes on its back, and red-gold eyes. The beast seemed to have just hunted another and was enjoying its meal.

“What’s its energy level?” Fatima asked.

“Tier 6.”

“Any other information...

663. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Fatima Fatesh's Hope

Fatima looked at the data. By using the [Holy Matter] discovered on this planet, she managed to nourish Rana’s soul flame and alleviate her symptoms. ‘The data is comparable to a month ago, but that is still good news.’ Her daughter’s case was almost hopeless, so an increase of a month of lifespan is excellent news for her

Fatima sighed before finishing for the day. She showered, changed into pajamas, and took a few minutes to answer emails. After answering the last email, Fatim...

662. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Fatima Fatesh's Motivation

Mars, Ares Detention Center:

“I have rights,” Dr. Foster yelled as she banged on the energy shield of her cells. Normally, she could punch through a planet with enough effort, but in this place, she was weaker than a normal person in the Old Era.

“I have the right to representation and the right to contact my family,” she continued. “Give me my phone call.” Dr. Foster continued this temper tantrum for a good minute before a guard slowly approached. The guard types a co...

661. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Fatima Fatesh's Spiritualism

Fatima sat at her desk, checking on patients while doing her administrative duty as the head of the Soul Department. However, it was evident she was distracted as she kept refreshing one particular screen, and her mood shifted every time there was no update.

Fatima realized she was slowly spiraling, so she closed all the holographic screens and rested on her chair. However, not even a second passed before someone knocked on her door.

“Dr. Clarence?” Fatima asked as she looked ...

660. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Fatima Fatesh's Brilliant Operation

“You’re the main assistant?” Fatima asked the doctor who just spoke. She was a petite woman of European descent with brown hair.

“I’m Doctor Ivette Carlson, and yes, I’m your assistant.”

“Good. Dr. Carlson, you will be in charge of cutting off the soul piece that will be fed to the flame,” Fatima said.

“No problem.”

Fatima nodded before continuing to address the team: “Once the flame is dealt with, we will move on to the next step: decomposing t...

659. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Fatima Fatesh, The Soul Healer

Fatimah finished her papers, and with one wave of her hand, her clothes changed to her pure white magic robe that resembled a doctor's gown. She conjured a mirror to ensure her hijab was perfectly wrapped before opening the door.

“Doctor Fatesh, we need you.”

Fatima calmly looked at the doctor before him; it was a short man with brown hair and eyes, with perspiration all over his forehead. That alone was an indication the man’s stress had reached such a level that his supern...

658. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Jean Claude's First High Level Plane

Karak and Virek suddenly screamed in agony, and before they could react, their flesh and blood disintegrated, leaving two massive, illusory dragon souls. The dragon souls flew upward and entered Serashi’s body, drastically increasing her mana and soul.

‘This is not enough,’ she thought with gritted teeth. Her powerful soul warned her that this improvement was not nearly enough to deal with Jean Claude. Unfortunately, there was nothing she could do now, or so she thought. An unknow...

657. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Jean Claude Battles The Three Sovereigns

“How do you know all of this?” Karak asked, not hiding his skepticism.

“The Dragonfists are distant descendants of the Dragonslayer Royal Clan,” the General calmly replied.

“What?”

“The Dragonslayer, in their hubris, hunted the dragons and giants to extinction. For many generations, they had to rely on the passing of their bloodline to ensure they had powerful souls, but as you can imagine, their blood power started thinning with each generation.

“One o...

656. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Jean Claude's Rapid Conquest

“If you become an official Arcanist, you will have the right to save 1 million of your people, ensuring the Styrex race does not become extinct,”  Jean-Claude continued calmly. However, his words made Kroll’s eyes trembled due to the countless implications.

“And since I’m on the more lawful side, I’m willing to sell back the rights of this plane back to you once you have the means to exchange for it with something of equal value.”

“You are?” Kroll asked.

655. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Jean Claude's First Guest

The room became eerily quiet as everyone processed this madman’s words. Was he a hero or a traitor? After treating so many injustices in magical academia, anyone could have become bitter after being proven correct after hundreds of years, especially after being proven correct in a circumstance with such dire consequences. Yet, Kroll still chose to help.

Simultaneously, he was also surrendering to the enemy and thus could be considered a traitor to his homeworld. Everyone had mixed fee...

654. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Jean Claude's First Surrender

“We can call it the Arcane Body,” Claude said with a smile. Everyone knows the Emperor likes to use the word [Arcane] for everything, so it has become a joke amongst the people to put the name [Arcane] in as many inventions as possible. As such, there were even laws that granted artificial intelligence the ability to reject such namings when it was not appropriate.

“Alright, let’s end this war as soon as possible,” Claude declared. He was prepared for a more prolonged confront...

653. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Jean Claude's Hope

Claude’s battle tactic was pretty standard: the spell casters first cast buff magic on the others before the archers started their arrow volleys. Lieutenant General Kossir ordered something, and a group of blue-skinned humans with staff started chanting, which created a shield around this legion. Afterward, the blue-skinned also used their archers.

The two teams fired at each other while marching, resulting in casualties on both sides. Then, when they were less than a hundred meters a...

652. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Jean Claude's First Confrontation

Claude looked at the screen before him and spoke out loud: “First Observation: Humanoid Creature, blue skins, average height similar to humans, clothes, and weapons showed signs of a developed civilization.”

The Sorceress and the others in the room recorded his words: “What are the preliminary environmental data?”

“Temperature: 46F, Humidity: 62%, Gravity: 5 times that of Earth. Energy Detected: Mana.”

“Hmm?” Claude focused on the last two data. Such a harsh ...

651. The Empire's Age of Exploration: Jean Claude's Planar Expedition

Jean Augustus Claude opened his eyes, feeling out of place. “The same dream again,” he complained as a potion appeared in his hand, and he swallowed it. It has been more than a thousand years for him, but he still remembers those years.

The wizards had just made themselves public, and before the world could adapt, the Dementors invaded. Claude was living in the now Haitian Region, trying to survive a country whose resources had been plundered by the US a few years ago. The people he...

650. Unexpected Trouble

(Please read the author’s note after the chapter.)

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“What happened?” Edward asked.

“Someone just forcefully broke through the protective barrier we have around our timeline,” Ra reported.

“Who? Is it Tony again?” Edward asked, not hiding the fury in his eyes.

“No, it’s not him — it’s the Celestials.”

“Arishem?”

“Not just him, but a bunch of them,” Ra said, making Edward grunt.

“What are they doing that they...

649. Catch The Tail

‘For now? Nothing,’ Edward replied. ‘However, if Lady Death revisits us and puts more pressure on us, we may be able to utilize it to get her to back off or get some benefits.’

‘You don’t want to study the possibility of the so-called [Flaw of the World] and what kind of being it can give birth to?’ Morgana asked.

‘Of course, I do, but we’re already swamped with projects and things to do,’ Edward replied. ‘Plus, our timeline doesn’t have Deadpools, Wolverin...

648. The Problem of Immortality

Morgana had some trouble adapting to this new version of her boss. She’s used to the highly paranoid one who will calculate every outcome before deciding or taking action. Such behavior was so extreme that one could call it cowardly. However, she also understood that he needed to change or evolve, or his future would be bleak.

During a terrifying war that can affect beings on Merlin’s level, there is no way to calculate or predict every outcome. On the contrary, the amount of inform...

647. Lady Death's Favor

“Do you know what you look like in my eyes?”

Edward frowned after hearing these words.

“So much death,” Lady Death said with a hint of fascination in her voice. 

‘Death? I haven’t killed many people since I came to this place. Can she detect how many people I’ve killed? Although that’s a lot for someone who is the embodiment of Death, I’m sure she’s witnessed countless more deaths than that,’ Edward thought before he thought of something. If not fo...

646. Unexpected Visitor

‘What do you think?” Edward asked.

‘We can train him in the ways of an Arcane Summoner,’ Morgana said. ‘However, I think we should create a new path for him.’

‘Oh? What are you thinking?’

‘We turn his Soul Dimension into a Beast World,’ Morgana said. ‘He can store his contracted beasts, and they can share a symbiotic relationship.’

‘We’ve successfully stored magical artifacts in the Soul Dimension but never living creatures,’ Edward said. ...

645. Avengers' Training: Sam Wilson [End]

Edward calmly watched Maria’s final test. She was controlling a fleet of 500,000 ships along with her own psychic power. That’s how powerful her soul and mind have become. However, this was not the primary concern of this test. In this battle, she faced an army four times her size. In other words, a fleet of 2 million ships.

The fight was intense, but Maria was steady. She divided her fleet into two, one side focused on attack while the other focused on defense by intercepting the e...

644. Avengers' Training: SHIELD II

c“Unless that is unacceptable to you,” Edward added. Project Phoenix involves a prominent philosophical debate on Earth regarding the use of teleportation. According to science fiction, one form of teleportation is disassembling the person on a molecule level and rebuilding it somewhere else. However, the newly rebuilt body is only a copy — albeit a perfect copy on an atomic level, it’s still a copy.

The debate involved whether this newly transported person was dead or alive and...

643. Avengers' Training: SHIELD

Tony would not easily entrust something as crucial as saving his parents to someone else — especially after acquiring the knowledge to do so. As such, he decided to do it himself, but he would take Edward’s advice on how to go about it.

Tony’s training soon finished since Edward chose a more hands-off approach with him. Once everything ended, he called the three members of SHIELD: Fury, Coulson, and Maria Hill. As soon as they arrived, they looked around at this white room.

...

What's Going On?

I'm not in the best mental state this month, resulting in losing motivation to write this story. So, I'm taking the month off.

Next month, I'll try to release consistently. If that doesn't happen, I'll end this series. I don't want you to keep wasting your money.

I'll then release 5 or fewer chapters detailing everything I had planned for this story, including the ending. That should give you guys some closure.

642. Avengers' Training: Iron Man

Hulk left the training room as a Tier 7 Gamma Monster and was pretty satisfied with the result. He then opened a portal to Earth to transmit his voice:

“Stark, it’s your turn.”

“What an invasion of privacy,” Tony complained. “Give me a moment.” A few minutes later, Stark walked through the portal into the white room. He looked around: “So, this is the Potential Room the others were discussing.” He observed and discovered there was nothing but an orb at the center...

641. Avengers' Training: Hulk

Edward looked at the old Peggy and asked, “Are you sure about this?”

“I am,” she nodded her head slowly. Edward did not say anything more. In this timeline, it’s not feasible for Steve to travel back in time to retroactively become her husband. Meanwhile, Peggy had another husband, but they divorced after a few years, probably because she could not forgive her first love.

Edward released a white light from his palm into her body, changing his Life Code on a genetic level...

Release Tomorrow

I'll release 2 chapters tomorrow. I'll try to keep a consistent schedule, at least 3 chapters a week. Sadly, it seems this fic is about to die before completion.

640. Avengers' Training: Captain America

“What’s on your mind?” Edward asked as he led Steve into the Potential Testing Room.

“Where can I start?” Steve sighed. “I just woke up from the ice, realizing everything I knew and loved was dead or different. I took solace in the fact the world was a better place and was trying to adapt to modern life. Then, Fury contacted.

“At first, I thought this was an opportunity to help people. Everything in modern life was different, but I figured helping people would be the...

639. Avengers' Training: Black Widow III

“So, what exactly happened to your home?” Natasha asked. According to the story Edward gave, he was from a parallel Earth and had to leave and inhabit this place because he was facing some trouble.

“With how things are going, aren’t you worried about how the Convergence will affect it?”

“My home is isolated from the multiverse, well, this multiverse, so I don’t have to worry,” Edward replied. “My worry should be after the convergence.”

“For whatever thi...

638. Avengers' Training: Black Widow II

“What idea do you have?” Morgana asked.

“Turning the Soul Dimension into a universe — not just any universe, but a perfect one with its laws, rules, and authority.”

“What you’re saying is the final evolution of an Arcanist is for their mind to be its own internal universe that condensed laws based on their understanding or type of magic,” Morgana summarized.

“Exactly.”

“This actually makes sense,” Morgana pondered. “So far, we have only encoun...