Chapter 269: Final ‘week’
"Where did you send Grandpa’s aunt to?"
"Oh, that? I just tossed her into a different dimension. Knowing her she probably got out after a few days. Too bad I was dead by then so I have no idea where she went to."
The man shrugged his shoulders as he spoke, cracking his neck lightly before continuing.
"Worry not...she’s definitely alive.
After all, She’s not someone who’s weak."
"You were stronger but you still died..."
"...My case was different. I was targeted by two of the top dogs of one of the Great Powers of the Cosmos, no way I could have survived that!"
"Great powers of the cosmos?"
Arthur gave a small explanation on the Eternals, Aggressors and Progenitors to his mother before asking Diablo about a certain cosmic artifact in his possession.
"The Akashic Records? what about it?"
"Is there like a Multiversal version of it?"
The Akashic Record was a cosmic artifact that held almost all information about the hell universe from its inception till date, including details about the place where it was originally before Lucifer changed its location.
"Like hell there’d be something that convenient!...is what I want to say but it exists. Just that no one has it, or rather, no one wants to have it."
"What...why?"
In response to Diablo’s question, Lucifer sighed and pointed at the Akashic Record and asked.
"Who do you think created that thing?"
"..."
"You didn’t really think that the Akashic Records are naturally occurring Cosmic Artifacts, did you? They were all created...by a certain ’Old Brat’ people like to call ’Oh Ye who governs Wisdom and Knowledge’."
Lucifer’s words made all those present instantly infer the identity of the being who was responsible for the Akashic records’ creation.
"Or rather, he created the system cycle that generates an Akashic Record each time a universe Is born.
He also has a similar artifact for the multiverse, however, being the wielder of that one is basically placing yourself under his control.
And no being powerful enough to wield that version of the Akashic Record, would want to be in that situation.
Thus, the reason no one wants it."
He finished his explanation with a yawn, clapping his hands and saying."
"All right kids, story time is over."
Turning to Arthur, he continued.
"Time for bed...’tomorrow’ you’d be getting the heck outta here so go to bed early so you can wake up early."
"Wait...what?! I’m leaving here?"
"Did I stutter?"
"Clearly not, but why so suddenly?"
In response to Arthur’s question, Lucifer’s vestige pointed a finger at his body before speaking.
"Did you forget the requirements I gave you when you first came here? You’ve achieved past 5% comprehension in all the laws you currently wield.
Plus, your realm of existence has increased, and you’re now stably in the Intermediate Stage of the Epic realm.
That’s enough for you to hold Lostvayne without dying...you wouldn’t be able to use its special abilities though."
He placed a hand on his chin and sunk into his thoughts for a few moments before shaking his head and saying.
"Scratch that...you’d need a few days to get adjusted to both Lostvayne and Null. So, you’d be here for a while longer.
Also, you still haven’t convinced your mother to let you use the Cosmic Teleporter so that’s one thing you need to deal with."
Lucifer’s mention of the cosmic Artifact on Arthur’s wrist caused Cattleya to narrow her eyes into a glare that was locked on Arthur.
’How in hell am I supposed to achieve the feat of convincing my mother to let me go out of this universe?’
While the boy was wracking his head on how to achieve this seemingly nigh impossible feat, Diablo had entered an important discussion with Lucifer.
"You want me to give you ’Null’?
Sorry kid but your Annihilation is fundamentally different. Null would not be as useful to you as it’d be with Arthur.
Arthur’s ’Returning to Nothing’ is way different from your ’Erasing from Existence’."
"So, you mean to say that ’Null’ is completely incompatible with me?"
"Indeed.
Besides...I only have one energy core with Null inside left. And the plan was to give it to Arthur along with Lostvayne and the other junk in the treasury.
Your presences here were unexpected occurrences."
Being told that the power he had been after for years was incompatible with him was enough to make even someone like Diablo pissed off.
Even so, he quickly calmed himself with force of will and decided to discuss other things with the Vestige, either way, he was definitely not going to leave this Domain without at least one power-up.
On another side note, he indeed did not leave without a power-up, as his ’Annihilation’ was empowered with the combined efforts of Lucifer and Inglis.
Back to the current time, Arthur was going through what could be called his schedule for his last ’week’ in the Domain of Lucifer’s vestige.
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The next ’day’, Lucifer started off by summoning Arthur to the Training hall to begin the process of transferring his own version of ’Null’ to Arthur.
Of course, this was done under the watchful eyes of Cattleya, with Creusery also present to keep her from overreacting if necessary.
The Vestige started off by whipping out a fist-sized orb from his ’pocket’, one that contained a swirling purple energy that Arthur was very familiar with.
It was the end result he always achieved whenever he mixed the law energies of time and destruction together to achieve his extreme nothingness technique.
Except that the one in this orb was far more concentrated than anything he had ever formed.
But for some reason, there was a frown on Lucifer’s face as he stared at Arthur’s body, using some sort of analysis technique that caused multiple magic circles to manifest in front of his left eye.
"This...is quite troublesome."
He spoke as he tossed the orb in his hands around, heaving a small sigh before continuing.
"I planned to directly implant the null circuits in your body, which would be the same as giving you an extra energy core."
"Another energy core?! Arthur’s body is already overloaded with more energy than he can handle, no way I’m letting you add more!"
Cattleya’s expected objection came before Lucifer could even complete his statement, with the Devil King’s Vestige nodding in affirmation as he spoke.
"Yeah....I can obviously see that."
He turned his gaze towards the worried mother and scanned her with his analysis technique, going on to do the same to Creusery with realisation flashing through his eyes.
’My actions made it nigh impossible for beings in this universe to be born in high existence realms like the Epic, legendary, or Sovereign realms.
However, it seemed that they gained the trait of possessing higher energy reserves than normal.’
The man studied Cattleya’s energy and noted that despite the fact that she was a Superior stage high-tier deity, her total energy reserves were comparable to normal inferior-stage monarch realms.
It was also the same thing with Creusery, and the same with Inglis too.
He looked at Diablo with his analysis technique and sighed in defeat, turning away and deciding not to think about his son’s case.
Lucifer chose to casually ignore his son having energy that would make early Primogenial realm existences jealous despite merely being a Monarch realm.
