Academic gathering with a lich-Chapter 902 - 839: Time Reversal

This world will witness greatness. All efforts will be recognized, all sacrifices rewarded. No need for public display, no need for sycophancy; the world itself is the judge and witness. For those who achieve greatness, the world will bestow rewards, confer [concepts].

A newly born satellite is, of course, great. Regardless of its creator, irrespective of its purpose. Whether artificial or natural, whether righteous or evil. When the third moon appears in the night sky, the world will exclaim at its presence.

The Pale Moon is the [Night] moon, its presence extracts [Night] from [Darkness], distinguishing day from night, shaping the habits of creatures that emerge in day and retreat at night.

The Crimson Moon is the [Aberration] moon, its presence can intensify magic power, distinguishing [Aberration] from [Ordinary], the undead and bloodthirsty demons retreat from the sun, lurking under the red moonlit night.

The two moons have no order of precedence; the history of magic power and day-night appearance is undiscoverable. However, early observers arbitrarily named the Crimson Moon the eldest, as the Red Moon, closely tied to magic power, seemed mightier than the illuminating White Moon. Other scholars adhering to the strong-reign-supreme principle quickly embraced the idea of the Crimson Firstborn.

If the Advanced Magic Research Society does not guide the newborn celestial body, it might become the third moon, and then its [concept] might impact the world anew, for better or worse, perhaps reshuffling the order of the Lightless Sons.

The power of Advanced Magic Research flows through the celestial bodies. Since they continued to take over, the world acknowledged their ownership, generously rewarding them, inadvertently hinting at the Liches’ plans without their knowledge.

[Mars Hunt]

This truth has been certified, yet only you know it. The ultimate goal of the Advanced Magic Research Society is that nearby Earth, similarly sized planet. Carving a piece out of Earth to create a weapon to attack its neighbor, what they covet is the neighbor’s smeared nosebleed on their fist.

Calling it material exchange or friendly interaction, the alien geological materials are evidently a hot commodity among scholars. Amidst the planetary chaos, the Advanced Magic Research Society will not forgo this justified opportunity for grand warfare. Completing the celestial level "swing a punch," "retract a punch," these are the upcoming tasks.

Explaining it is quite effortless. The energy required and the calculations involved are enough to exhaust the Liches, and the outcome is an unknown probability. Reality will not wait; the newly constructed satellite has already been caught by Earth’s gravity and begun falling, its calculated trajectory dropping into the next territory, accurately appearing on the alignment with Mars.

The clouds parted into a vast hole, the air ignited revealing a black-and-red celestial sphere. He laughed heartily, returning his companions’ masterpiece with an exultant laugh. Death Star II gazed at the gigantic celestial body filling its field of vision, with a dark center and a flaming ring border, an exquisitely beautiful scene that could ignite one’s soul.

"My companions!!!"

"You guys... are indeed... number one in the world!!!!"

"It’s on fire!!!"

"I will go all out for you, with total effort even if I have to break into pieces!!"

The dark matter hand crushed the bottle, the substance inside borrowed from Boss Apocalypse was antimatter. In less than a second, the explosive energy shredded the hand, blinding light engulfed the body of Death Star, the frenzy laughter climaxed amidst disintegration.

[Advanced Magic Research - Super Destruction Death Ray]

"Our star, Hunt War God! (Mars Fall)"

Transforming itself into a fallen star, Death Star II endured the collapse, emitting a fierce gamma-ray burst, bombarding the celestial body. Energies rampaged, softening earth and stone beneath like mud, the light column shot out in a blink, a struggling green-black barrier crumbling after a few seconds. The enormous sphere in the sky vanished, the magnificent energy of the gamma-ray burst propelled this firing pin, attacking its target.

Death Star II no longer cared about these matters, its body had already become a black hole, continuing to fall toward the depths of the earth’s crust unabated. The black-hole-formed body absorbed the scattered body tissues, leaving only the skull and left hand at the boundary, the spirit was stretched into a line, the Lich feeling its own thoughts were delayed. By relying on madness, determination, and trust, Death Star II entrusted everything to its companions, launching the final spell.

[Concept Extraction - Even Light Cannot Escape]

The energy of the gamma-ray burst was weakening, leaving only a thread-sized connection to Death Star’s remaining hand, yet this last millimeter-thin light refused to dissipate as if the Lich had grabbed light’s tail. The energy dissipated, a beam of light shot from the planet remaining to the end, extending to the vast space.

The falling sensation vanished, green light flickered on the surface of the Black Hole Man, stasis particles appeared all over the Lich’s body, Mr. Stasis stood in the deep pit, raising a hand to pinching Death Star’s skull like carrying a dead fish.

[Advanced Magic Research - Time Stasis]

Mr. Stasis successfully saved the day, successfully freezing Death Star’s time, pausing Black Hole Man’s death. Conceptually, materially, energetically, temporally, everything about Death Star II stopped. This casting depleted most of Mr. Stasis’s power, but he continued to exert effort, continually generating stasis particles, fully releasing his talent.

"[Stasis], sacrificing the remaining time of a hundred thousand Mantis Monsters."

Mysteriously, Mr. Stasis received a response.

[My proxy, now, hold the power of paradox.]

Someone once said that what humans see with their eyes is the past. Because light propagation takes time, when it enters the retina, the scene presented in the mind is from the previous time. Time is perfect, maintaining the theorems of the three-dimensional world in a delicate way. Time within the universe is an unpredictable fraudster, distorting the common sense under special relativity.

Now, the fraudster meets the bandit.

Stasis froze Death Star’s time while the rest of time continued moving forward. According to relativity, Death Star remains in the past. The black-hole-transformed Death Star II extracted the concept binding the gamma-ray burst’s light, suspending the past of the gamma-ray burst in Death Star’s hand, with its future propelling the celestial body to attack Mars, past and future cannot exist simultaneously, yet all this simultaneously exists under the interference of Stasis.

Death Star II time reverses, gamma-ray burst past and future coexist, time is stirred into a tangled mess.

A paradox emerges. Basic logic collapses, reality disintegrates under the influence of the paradox, chaotic fissures appear and expand, logic steps into death. [Concept] feels terror, exclaims at [Stasis] and [Paradox]’s irresponsibility, the universe’s will intervenes, correcting the Lich’s reckless actions.

Reversing everything, time will be corrected to before the collapse.

Indecipherable changes are occurring, Stasis breaths a sigh of relief, not relaxing his grip on Black Hole Man.

This is the effect of Stasis’s spell.

[Advanced Magic Research - Paradox Simulation - Time Reversal]

Reversing everything destroyed back to the moment of destruction’s commencement.

The gamma-ray burst, deemed as one with the black-hole-collapsed Death Star II, is undergoing time reversal; its future will retrogress to the past, the energy that struck Mars causing great destruction regathers, pulling the debris it propelled back to Earth.

The paradox is perceived solely as Death Star and its bound gamma-ray burst; the celestial bodies fragmented due to its influence are to be repositioned, naturally starting their journey home, whereas Mars’ damage and Martian soil taken away do not fall within the jurisdiction of time reversal.

Advanced Magic Research Society members reconvene. Mr. Apocalypse appraises his companions, Stasis is adjusting Black Hole Man, he needs to progressively seal Death Star II’s activated black hole singularity, a process akin to defusing a bomb, just with more explosive results.

"Where’s Horror Man?" Apocalypse inquired.

Electromagnetism recounted everything seen.

"His meme triggered, now without a host, likely refreshed to his new residence, an iron box with dimensions of 1.2m × 0.6m × 1.6m, I see no matching location around. Perhaps Horror has returned to Andrey’s spare box." Electromagnetism grinned, surveying the surrounding black mud environment.

Apocalypse nodded, no longer paying attention to Horror.

"Was the plan successful?"

"My part was very successful."

"President Apocalypse, from here on, it’s up to you, I have a premonition of perfect execution of the plan." Mr. Gravity looked at the dice in his hand, presenting an unusual expression.

"Yes."

According to the calculations of Advanced Magic Research Society, if the plan succeeds, the society will receive its results.

A meteor shower from Mars.

They even prepared excuses to convince their side.

The planet’s will, Triton, unable to play along, sought external assistance.