Chapter 612: Great Expansion
The four-dimensional state of the Wizard Multiverse was no longer the extremely miniscule particle of the past, barely larger than a sub-plane, but a complex-structured particle cluster.
If analogized with a three-dimensional state, it was like an atom in the microscopic world, and the sub-planes were like microscopic electrons, protons, or neutrons.
Bayen suddenly had a bizarre feeling: perhaps their incomparably macroscopic and great world was merely a microscopic particle of some even more majestic world?
This thought flashed by and disappeared. Bayen steadied his mind; creating a sub-plane was no joke and permitted no mistakes.
After anchoring with the four-dimensional particle cluster of the Level 3 Wizard Multiverse world, Bayen chose a position on its exterior—that is, the position corresponding to the outer side of the world—and began creating his own four-dimensional micro-particle. Divine Power Essence was injected. This was a process of first three dimensions, then four dimensions.
From the height of the fourth dimension, energy was injected into a certain position in three dimensions, and matter was drawn, subsequently transforming into his own demi-plane.
On the outer side of the Wizard World, in the Sea of the Real and Ethereal, over five hundred alternate dimensions appeared one after another and rapidly expanded into demi-planes. The demi-planes expanded rapidly again. After their external volume reached a certain extent, they stopped expanding and instead began internal spatial expansion.
This expansion was not rapid. The Great Source of Dreams of the Wizard World began to diffuse dream-like Source Power, gurgling to nourish and help these five hundred-plus demi-planes.
This process lasted for nearly half a month. Bayen completely stabilized his demi-plane, having used only one-tenth of the injected energy.
“The orbit has been fixed, and the brand of the Great Source is also present. The next step is dimensional ascension, which is four-dimensional folding. This process requires extreme caution. Folding is actually a high degree of twisting of space-time curvature, but unlike a black hole, our twisting has a limit.”
Boom!
On the three-dimensional level, the Great Source roared, and the more than one hundred stellar systems on the inner side of the world also trembled along with it.
Ace’s True God projection appeared on the Prime Material Plane, looking at the place and letting out a sigh.
“The Prime Material Plane is too weak. The current strength of the Prime Material Plane is fundamentally insufficient to support so many four-dimensional particles orbiting it. To be able to support them, to have sufficient ‘gravity’ in four dimensions, the core matter and energy must be made much greater.
“It seems it can only come from me.”
Hovering and roaming on the outer side of the world, the Dream Realm—which hadn’t been captured by the gravity of the Wizard Multiverse at all—revealed its power at this moment.
The galactic universe composed of two million stars possessed two million stellar systems; it was extremely majestic and powerful, and could even be said to have surpassed ordinary limits.
Ace did not hesitate, simultaneously pouring in one-tenth of His stars, which was nearly two hundred thousand stars. The Prime Material Plane continuously expanded, and stellar systems appeared one by one. The thirty billion magical population, all the population undergoing metropolis planet transformation, entered the Prime Material Plane of the Wizard World.
Ace continued to pour in energy, constructing a galactic center at the center of the Prime Material Plane. The other stars were distributed in four spiral arms, just like a scaled-down version of Ace’s galactic universe.
“Such a boundless universe and starry sky is the world in my mind. The deployment of the Magic Net needs to be hurried, to draw as much high-dimensional energy as possible and feed it back to the Prime Material Plane of the Wizard World, making the number of stars here surpass my Dream Realm.
“After all, the nature of the Wizard World is of a higher level than my sub-plane; it is actually similar to a quasi-plane of a Level 6 existence.
“Observing its changes might allow us to better understand the mysteries of Level 6.”
Ace drifted deep into the galactic center, placing the core of the Magic Net and the Stele of Fate—which bore the pseudo-laws of the three thousand Dream Gods—together here. After thinking it over again, Ace also placed the Magic Sanctuary and the High-Dimensional Door here.
“This is my world, the Great Source is my Great Source of Dreams, and I am the World Controller. Placing these things here is perhaps more reassuring than placing them in my sub-plane.”
After speaking, Ace simultaneously stimulated the core of the Magic Net and the Stele of Fate to the maximum. The power of the Great Source of Dreams diffused, actually pulling both into His rule layer, the absolute core of the world.
The corners of Ace’s mouth curled up, and He said softly: “Worthy of being my world, the treatment is completely different. To actually place both of these in the most secretive and core place of the world. However, the Magic Sanctuary and the High-Dimensional Door don’t need to be moved; leaving them here is fine.
“The Supreme Council can imitate the Pantheon of Kaya. Every Legendary Immortal Wizard will leave a projection in the Magic Sanctuary, making it convenient to discuss and make decisions at any time, and endowing the Magic Sanctuary with greater status and authority.
“Mythical Wizards and Legendary Wizards can also pass the trial of the Magic Sanctuary and enter the High-Dimensional Door to experience the mysterious feeling of dimensional ascension in advance.”
The Great Source of Dreams seemed extremely intelligent and understood Ace’s meaning. The Source Power wrapping the Magic Sanctuary merged directly into it, greatly elevating the status of the Magic Sanctuary. In just two short seconds, it obtained a status second only to Ace, the World Controller—equivalent to a God King.
“A sanctuary equivalent to a God King? That’s truly interesting. The ultra-limit status of a World Controller is too powerful. Any world with a World Controller, as long as the Controller doesn’t actively court death, is almost certain to grow up.
“I wonder what the True Name World is exactly like.”
A hint of cold light flashed in Ace’s eyes. His anticipation for the True Name World grew stronger.
This world continuously plundered lower-layer worlds; it must certainly be plump enough. Perhaps He could have a full meal.
In the four-dimensional state, Bayen felt as if he had entered a box, continuously folding. This feeling was very similar to creating the Fruit of Immortality, and also very hard to describe. It was like drawing six identical squares on a two-dimensional surface and then assembling them into a three-dimensional cube.
The meaning was that, but describing it was extremely difficult. The dimensionally ascended Bayen used up more than half of his Divine Power Essence and finally successfully created the four-dimensional particle.
“The attraction of the Wizard World to my particle seems to have increased a lot. Even without using much effort, it can easily anchor, or it can even be said it’s hard to escape the curvature of its space-time twisting. Did Lord Ace do something? Otherwise, it couldn’t have twisted the space-time curvature so easily.
“Regardless, since the four-dimensional particle has been successfully created, let’s unfold it in reverse into three dimensions and create an infinite three-dimensional universe.”
Bayen already had a deep understanding of dimensions. The manifestation of a sub-plane in three dimensions is actually just the intersection of a four-dimensional particle in three dimensions. That’s why the situation of having a limited external volume but an infinite internal space occurs.
As the veteran Legendary Immortal Wizard whose strength was closest to the Tenth Ring, He also had a unique method when creating the internal space of the sub-plane.
“A singularity is naturally the best, but one can actually also approximate a singularity. For example, create a black hole, then continuously feed it, making this micro black hole ultimately completely full. The interior of the black hole, which cannot be observed within the Event Horizon, will instantly produce an opposite change—that is, the ideal model in General Relativity: a white hole!
“Using this to replace the zero-dimensional singularity that both exists and does not exist is the optimal creation method.”
Bayen gurgled the remaining energy in. A miniature black hole—a faint halo on the outside, pitch-black on the inside, space-time curvature extremely twisted, even light unable to escape—was formed just like that.
Bayen continuously injected energy and matter. Ultimately, the black hole suddenly burst with brilliant light, violently spewing out various matter and energy in all directions in an extremely short period of time. Similar to the Big Bang model hypothesized by General Relativity, a brand-new, small-scale universe located within the sub-plane was formed.
This universe only had some nebular dust; not even stars could condense yet. Bayen down-dimensioned Himself, arriving in His own small universe, and activated Legendary Immortal magic. One, two, three… a total of fourteen high-dimensional rifts were opened by Him. High-dimensional energy surged down. Following Ace’s experience, Bayen ignited His Heart Fire and began refining the high-dimensional energy, transforming them into usable Divine Power Essence.
“However, compared to Divine Power Essence, I prefer using the term ‘Super-Dimensional Mana.’ Perhaps I can suggest this to Lord Ace. After all, we are wizards; this is more magical.”
Muttering a few sentences, Bayen quickly sank into meditation.
The Legendary Immortal Wizards successfully created sub-planes belonging to Them one after another. On the outer side of the world, like bubbles bulging out of thin air, the overall situation of the Wizard World was: a Prime Material Plane with the most massive volume located right in the center, dozens of naturally generated sub-planes orbiting it, and the over five hundred newly generated sub-planes of the Legendary Immortal Wizards also revolving around it, like a brilliant galaxy.
This was a world purely of wizards. There were no native deities, no demons or devils, not even a native Creator God. Ace was the secondary creator of the world. Through the husk of this former Blue Blood World, He created the new Wizard World.
And the Dream Star was located above the Celestial Realm, remaining completely still, sharing the guarding of the other sub-planes with the Prime Material Plane.
The smile on Ace’s lips grew wider. He appeared outside the world. The artificial sub-plane Mobile Fortress was orbiting outside the world, its mega-structures scouting all directions. Ace landed on it, placed His hand on this twenty-third-generation Eye of the World, and “saw” the opponent rapidly approaching the Wizard World.
“Sub-light-speed navigation? It has already reached forty percent of the speed of light. Even for us wizards, the navigation speed of sub-planes can only reach thirty percent of the speed of light. You indeed have some uniqueness. It’s just that you cannot perform curvature jumps; this is a technological generational gap that’s hard to bridge.”
A month later, according to the observation of the Eye of the World, the other party would arrive in a month and a half. The opponent had a total of thirty-four sub-planes. To counter this, the Wizard World deployed twenty sub-planes, including the Mobile Fortress, to meet the enemy outside the world.
These thirty sub-planes concealed a total of forty newly advanced Legendary Immortal Wizards and three thousand Mythical Wizards. Ace even hid Himself inside the artificial sub-plane Mobile Fortress to guard against accidents.
Even if the other party concealed a Sovereign-level powerhouse, Ace was confident He could counter them. This wasn’t arrogance. Based on Ace’s observations and actual combat in the Giant Tree World and the Kaya World, an ordinary Main God—that is, a Sovereign-level powerhouse—even if They had a lifespan of millions or even tens of millions of years in the Level 4 Astral Plane layer, the energy They possessed was no more than one-tenth of His own.
In other words, just two hundred thousand stars.
The Law of the Magic Net Ace obtained was a Sovereign-level energy channel law. Coupled with a magicalized understanding of four-dimensional space-time, Ace’s energy extraction was thousands of times stronger than an equivalent existence. No Sovereign could simultaneously open tens of thousands of high-dimensional rifts. Yet Ace, with His deepening understanding of the Law of the Magic Net, could already open nearly a hundred thousand high-dimensional rifts; this was an unimaginable number.
“Although it might further accelerate the collapse of high-dimensional space-time, I can’t care about that. Just like the environmentally destructive mining and the greenhouse effect in my past life, even knowing it will cause adverse consequences in the future, we cannot abandon present development.
“Only by developing now will we have the opportunity to make amends in the future. Otherwise, we might not even have a future.”
This was easy to understand. The development of civilization itself is a kind of destruction of natural ecology. Starting from fire, nature has been continuously destroyed. But this destruction isn’t always catastrophic. With the development of civilization, civilization and nature gradually form a new equilibrium.
Ace stopped thinking about this problem. He began to sink into the world’s rule layer. The Great Source of Dreams billowed with mist here. As the Stele of Fate crashed down, bringing the Sovereign-level Law of Dreams and three thousand pseudo-laws, the entire world became different.
“It seems to be more fulfilling?”
Ace said, somewhat uncertainly.
“These laws that were originally impossible to complete seem to have had their upper limits unlocked, possessing the possibility of becoming complete laws. In other words, it is possible to obtain three thousand complete laws and deities. But, is it necessary for my world to give birth to deities? Even if they are Law Gods, or rather, is it necessary to give birth to personified deities like in the Kaya World?”
Ace began to ponder deeply. He thought of the artificial sub-plane Mobile Fortress, and thought of the canned True God inside it, Alpha One.
“Since the Great Source can be replaced by a dream computer, then the three thousand divine positions can also be replaced by Artificial True Gods. Three thousand instrumental, non-personified Artificial True Gods possessing complete laws seem to better fit my practical needs.”
The technology for Artificial Gods wasn’t simple; it could even be said to be extremely complex, and the failure rate was quite high.
Ace postponed this plan in His heart. This plan was of course very important, but not the most urgent at the current stage.
He shifted His attention to the core of the Magic Net. That was a cluster of threads tangled like a ball of yarn, with countless loose ends swaying. Ace slowly approached and touched one of the threads with His hand. The authority of the World Controller and the brand-new Magic Net core resonated.
The threads spread, rapidly replacing the old Magic Net. After about three days, the brand-new Magic Net had covered the entire Wizard Multiverse.
From the inner side of the world to the outer side of the world, then to the outer surface layer of the world’s crystal wall, and then spreading to every sub-plane, demi-plane, and alternate dimension floating in the Sea of the Reality and Illusion—all energy here was transported by the Magic Net. Ace felt the light and prestige of the Law of the Magic Net in His mental imagery world shock violently.
“Not far from a Supreme Law. Or rather, as long as the Wizard Multiverse ascends again, my Law of the Magic Net will naturally advance to a Sovereign Law. If the pseudo-laws represented by the three thousand Dream Gods are turned into reality, it’s estimated that the Law of Dreams will also become a true Supreme Law when the world ascends.
“In this way, the problem of domain laws can be solved just by the world ascending.”
Ace returned from the world’s rule layer to the galaxy of the Prime Material Plane, landing near the galactic center. The Legendary Immortal Wizards had arrived at the Prime Material Plane one after another. They looked at everything before Them in surprise. Ace smiled and led Them into the Magic Sanctuary, having each of Them leave a clone behind. The strength didn’t need to be high; it was just for staying put and communicating.
Subsequently, Ace’s true body also returned to His sub-plane. His projection faced a group of Legendary Immortal clones and said loudly: “I have already reshaped the Prime Material Plane. This place is now a brand-new universe slightly smaller than my galactic universe, fully conforming to General Relativity.
“The other worlds also conform to General Relativity, but don’t have so many characteristic celestial bodies. You can research freely. And in the Sea of Consciousness within the Magic Sanctuary, there is an Ascension Door. Wizards who have the Legendary Immortal magic ‘Open Ascension Door’ might not need it, but other wizards will still need it.
“As for Mythical Wizards and Legendary Wizards, according to convention, you will bring them in. Each Legendary Immortal Wizard can bring a maximum of ten people through the Ascension Door into the fourth dimension.
“Please choose your spells carefully. The sixteen Ninth Ring Legendary spells we provide have synergy. You can try combining them in combat and simulate it outside the world. The outstanding ones will be responsible for meeting the invading enemies this time!”
In the time after this, Ace fully opened high-dimensional rifts. Nearly a hundred thousand high-dimensional rifts were activated simultaneously. Everywhere in the Dream Realm galactic universe was filled with super-purity energy generated from high-dimensional disintegration.
Ace frowned slightly and canceled these high-dimensional rifts.
“They must be deployed at the core of the Magic Net to absorb to the maximum extent. Moreover, the benefits of me absorbing this energy aren’t great. It’s better to convert it to the Wizard Multiverse to increase the world’s foundation.”
Ace’s figure disappeared from His sub-plane and appeared in His own world. He slowly sank into the core of the Magic Net, bathing in the Magic Net threads. High-dimensional rifts appeared one after another—hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, a hundred thousand. Thick primitive Magic Net threads probed into them, rapidly absorbing and sequencing the violent energy generated by high-dimensional disintegration, inputting it into the world’s Great Source of Dreams.
The Great Source of Dreams was continuously nourished. Guided by Ace, the Source Power prioritized expanding the boundless starry sky on the inner side of the world. Stars were born from the void one by one, and the entire galaxy grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Is it my illusion? Why does it feel like the stars have become more numerous?”
“It’s not an illusion. The stars are indeed increasing exceptionally rapidly. The entire galaxy is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.”
“What is going on?”
Three Legendary Wizards who were observing the gravitational characteristics of the galaxy couldn’t help but voice their doubts. They were all inside an extremely high-tech-looking flying instrument. This instrument was entirely streamlined, its surface matte-smooth, flat in shape, looking very beautiful under the starry sky.
“The mana fluctuations are also intensifying. Test the mana concentration and calculate the total amount.”
“Okay.”
The three worked in a flurry. Finally, one shouted: “The mana concentration has increased by nearly three hundred percent and is still rising! The total amount has expanded by nearly fifty percent! It’s too bizarre, as if someone injected a massive amount of energy from the outside, and we just happen to be at the wind’s eye.”
“Let’s go back and ask the teacher. Perhaps someone really is injecting energy.”
“That’s all we can do.”
(Chapter finished)
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