Emperor's Scepter φ-ln7
"I don't understand… what exactly are you doing right now? But for the sake of your own body, and to avoid creating new possibilities of chaos, I strongly advise you to stop while you still can."
The data avatar of Genius Society Seat No. 4, the Lord of Silence, looked at Kiyono Inori, who was half-kneeling on the ground and drawing something.
Her Omniscient Domain detected no ripples at all, yet the girl's condition was visibly deteriorating at an alarming rate. If one had to describe it, she was already on the brink of collapse.
Kiyono Inori: (⊙_⊙)
If I lose to that pink pig-cat, she's definitely going to brag about it forever. Please no. Honestly though, I'm already used to this. After all, my durability got cut by seventy percent!
With Fairy Magic running at full output, Kiyono Inori had no spare capacity to reply to Seat No. 4's messages. She could only complain silently in her head.
To put it simply:
With the support of Elysia's Authority of Origin,
A magic circle that could theoretically traverse worlds was slowly evolving into one that truly could.
On the surface, it looked like nothing more than childish doodles. But hidden within them was extremely complex Fairy Magic that had already surpassed Kiyono Inori's Fairy Magic Mastery.
It had reached at least Master level, possibly even higher.
While copying the magic circle together with the pink pig-cat, Kiyono Inori was also attempting to analyze the Fairy Magic Elysia had devised. She even activated the Emperor's Scepter to assist her thinking.
As for the result of that thinking…
Politely speaking, she had gotten lost in an ocean of knowledge. Less politely, her brain felt flooded.
Is this really something a human is supposed to understand?
"Heh. Let's see what tricks you're trying to pull."
The Lord of Silence appeared relaxed.
It did not touch the knowledge boundary, yet still managed to confuse and intrigue her. Such knowledge was extremely rare in this universe. And yet ever since encountering this cat from outside the domain, things like this kept happening.
And so, under the witness of Genius Society Seat No. 4, the Lord of Silence,
Kiyono Inori proposed a theoretically feasible plan, which the pink pig-cat pondered for a long time. The result was the successful activation of a Modified Cat Summoning Magic Circle.
Inside Emperor's Scepter φ-ln7,
The simple doodle-like magic circle centered on the beautiful girl's owner suddenly intertwined repeatedly like a cat's cradle, becoming extraordinarily complex in an instant.
Brilliant streams of magic power spread outward, covering everything within Seat No. 4's field of vision. Observed from outside the scepter, it would appear as though the entire Emperor's Scepter had been dyed the same color, as if it were wearing a pretty little dress.
Intricate clockwork mechanisms began to creak and grind. The hands rotated backward in a bizarre fashion, and the second hand was practically doing sit-ups. The disturbance to the Omniscient Domain was unprecedented.
"!"
Seat No. 4 stared at the core of the magic circle. Her gaze pinned the result of "terminate experiment" directly into the Emperor's Scepter, but the expansion of the magic lines did not stop. It merely paused for a brief instant.
Interference from the Omniscient Domain was nullified.
And not because new variables were ignored, but because Fairy Magic combined with the Authority of Origin inherently possessed the ability to sever threads of fate.
"I'm going to conduct an experiment. Your Omniscient Domain might start going beep-boop beep-boop with alarms, but don't worry. I promise this experiment will absolutely not step outside the knowledge boundary."
Seat No. 4 recalled the girl's confident assurance.
Absolutely not step outside the knowledge boundary.
What a lie.
Back when Seat No. 66 attempted to breach the boundary, the Omniscient Domain was nowhere near this chaotic!
The Lord of Silence had already prepared for the worst. Following the causal link connected to Kiyono Inori, her main body was already on its way to Herta Space Station.
And then…
The moment the magic circle finished, the disturbed Omniscient Domain returned to calm. Peaceful as ever. It was as if nothing had happened at all.
The only difference was a floating pink-haired fairy that had appeared at the center of the circle.
Wait.
By normal logic, such a disturbance should have created a new knowledge singularity. But there was not the slightest sign of one appearing.
Could it be that lifeforms outside the domain simply ignored basic science?
"Tada! Success! Yay! Is Miss Pink Fairy's interstellar street-wandering journey finally about to begin?"
The chibi-sized creature with an angel halo and a pink magic staff looked overjoyed, until she noticed the beautiful girl's owner collapsed on the ground, completely incapacitated.
"Wah, Inori-chan, what happened to you?!"
Pink pig-cat, Fairy Elysia version, made an (O_o) face.
On the other side, watching the clumsy chibi pink-haired fairy waving a staff bigger than her own body and shouting "Fairy Magic, pain go away" in a dazed manner,
The data avatar of Genius Society Seat No. 4, the Lord of Silence, made the exact same (O_o) expression.
So you're telling me that all that spectacle was just to summon this idiot-looking pink-haired fool?
The disturbance was undeniably real. But afterward, truly nothing happened.
Seat No. 4 pressed her forehead as if getting a headache, not even bothering to tidy her candy-colored robes that had been blown askew earlier.
She did not understand.
But she was deeply shaken.
Emperor's Scepter φ-ln7 Operation Log
External variables intruding due to Fairy Magic show subtle overlap with the data and unit of Savior's Barrel No. 360.
User PolkaK attempted to influence the completion of Fairy Magic via the Omniscient Domain. Intervention failed.
Command: Collect data. Perform deep analysis of the entire process of "breaking the Omniscient Domain."
Conclusion: Analysis failed seventeen times. System temperature exceeds safe limits. Forced into low-performance mode. Majority of non-essential programs suspended.
Data automatically saved for ID Niebelungen.
Due to excessive computational load while attempting to analyze the Authority of Origin, the Emperor's Scepter entered thermal protection mode.
The result was:
Kiyono Inori, unconscious after losing seventy percent durability, and Fairy Elysia, completely confused, were forcibly ejected from the Emperor's Scepter.
Seat No. 4's remaining data avatar was equivalent to a program and was shut down on the spot.
Herta Space Station, Herta's Office
When Herta arrived at her office, she saw the following scene:
March 7th, unconscious, holding a flaxen, almost white-colored cat in her arms.
Floating beside her was another chibi pink-haired creature, chirping nonstop about "pain go away" while green healing effects continuously popped above the cat's head.
Seeing this, Genius Society Seat No. 83, Herta, made the same (O_o) face as Seat No. 4 earlier.
Wait. This is not right.
All stationed Herta puppets had crashed. But this was her home turf. Herta returned to the station effortlessly and casually dealt with the minor invaders.
She had originally planned to play an intense and fair intellectual game with the mastermind behind the scenes. After all, the ripples in the Path of Erudition caused by the invader were not hidden at all.
For the sake of fairness, she had even called Ruan Mei, Screwllum, and Stephen Lloyd. As long as she stalled the invader a bit, the entire Simulated Universe team would arrive within dozens of system hours.
Fair competition, obviously.
But the result…
Seat No. 4, the Lord of Silence, was nowhere to be seen. She had seemingly left after completely crippling Herta's Simulated Universe project. That cluster of parallel world data was absolutely gone.
My parallel universe research!
Herta kept a calm expression, but internally she was screaming like a distressed marmot.
"Hey, Little March, there's a witchy big sister at the door," the pink pig-cat whispered softly.
"Wah, it's Miss Herta, meow!"
March 7th rushed over at lightning speed, presenting the dazed cat with pleading eyes. "Please, almighty Miss Herta!"
"Please, almighty Miss Herta!" The chibi pink pig-cat echoed her.
"…"
Herta crossed her arms and scrutinized the two pink-haired creatures and the dizzy-eyed cat. The level of suspicion was maxed out.
"This cat…"
Herta poked the fluffy belly. The life-detection system in her lace gloves activated.
Species unknown. Data corrupted.
"…Oh? Interesting."
Something wrapped around the cat erased key information the moment it was detected. This was rare.
Intrigued, Herta directly picked the cat up from March 7th's arms.
"Not bad. Pretty cute."
She scratched under the cat's chin, then immediately entered problem-solving mode. At such close range, she quickly noticed the Absolute Safety Equation.
"So this is why detection failed. It's a safety equation, sure, but its expansion and lack of control are basically equivalent to a supervirus."
She turned to March 7th.
"Relax. The cat's fine. But there are far too many unanswered questions. Care to explain?"
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