Infinite Chimera Creation

Aside from these minor incidents and some captain changes that weren't even minor, these seventy years could be described as incredibly uneventful. Even Hueco Mundo, which was always keen on stirring up trouble, became peaceful because of Ikkyu.

Yuan Yuan had initially thought that today would be like the previous seventy years, spent in fruitless searches and potentially fruitful experiments. However, an urgent intelligence report piqued his interest, prompting him to leave the laboratory.

At the 387th monitoring point, unusual spatial vibrations and temporal fluctuations were detected. If it were merely spatial vibrations, this intelligence would certainly not have reached Yuan Yuan. This is because the spatial barriers of this world are unexpectedly fragile; even ordinary Void beings can instinctively open a passage to the mortal realm—the Black Cavity.

To put it bluntly, in this world, as long as you have some strength and master some special but not uncommon techniques, you can enjoy the feeling of traversing spatial passages at any time.

However, time fluctuations are different. Even though spatial power is commonplace in this world, the power of time remains mysterious. At least, in the nearly five hundred years that Yuan Yuan has lived in this world, he has never seen anyone who can control the power of time, not even a superficial understanding.

Although the researchers had never encountered the power of time, they could only roughly judge from the vibrations in space that the guest who clearly wanted to cross space, or even time, was about to appear at point 387. However, they could not determine the time of his appearance, or even whether this was the time fluctuation left behind by the guest's arrival.

The researchers may not have encountered the power of time, but Yuan Yuan has.

In the previous world, although the Ministry of Magic declared that time-twisters were highly dangerous items and all of them needed to be under the management of the Ministry of Magic, no one was allowed to manufacture, store, or use time-twisters privately.

However, it was clear that during the period when the Dark Lord's power was at its peak, the Ministry of Magic's regulations only applied to ordinary people and did not apply to Yuan Yuan, who was the eldest son of the great noble Stuart family.

Although Yuan Yuan obtained the time converter without much effort, he did not study its principles, hoping to use it to gain the power to travel through time.

Because the Harry Potter world at the time was only at the bottom of the "low-level magic" category, time travel could be achieved in a relatively simple way. This method would fail in worlds with slightly higher levels of mystery, so it's completely worthless to study.

Although he hadn't studied it, with the idea that "if I try it a few more times and remember the feeling of time fluctuations, I won't be killed by the enemy without realizing it if I face an enemy whose abilities are related to time," Yuan Yuan endured the irritation brought by time travel and used the time converter to travel through time countless times, forcibly memorizing the nauseating feeling of time travel.

Now, this feeling, which I remembered after countless vomiting sessions, is clearly coming in handy.

Standing at point 387, Yuan Yuan closed his eyes and sensed the fluctuations in time in front of him, trying to grasp some useful information.

P.S., just so you know, if you can't handle someone with a fragile ego, you don't have to read the following. And if you choose to read it, please don't complain afterwards that the author is too emotionally fragile. →_→

Today in the book review section, I saw a comment from someone named fatepoi: "I hate protagonists with mental disabilities the most." Upon seeing this review, I was immediately excited, ready to unleash a torrent of abuse. But after typing just two words, I suddenly stopped, and then, with a strange feeling, clicked on his profile picture, went to his homepage, and then… I burst out laughing.

This friend has posted four book reviews in total. Two of them are disgusting to the author, and one, as I just mentioned, is criticizing me. The other one is for Xianyun's "You Know Nothing About Power," and this friend said, "I hate gorilla protagonists the most."

Heh, that idiot named fatepoi, look at my lips, fuck you, motherfucker, oh friend, don't be angry, forgive me for not knowing how to swear, I can only use such a short and impolite word to express my respect for a normal person like you.

I have no idea what that mentally sound friend was thinking. If they didn't want to read it, they could have just dropped it. Why did they have to leave a comment to disgust the author? Friend, you're so mentally healthy!

Fuck!

Chapter Ninety-Two: Who Am I?

"This feeling is at least a month away from fully arriving,"

Frowning slightly, Yuan Yuan carefully sensed the passage of time, his expression revealing a hint of doubt.

"What is the reason that unknown being chose to descend upon this place?"

Yuan Yuan didn't believe that this stable point of time fluctuation was opened carelessly by someone in a panicked escape. Since the other party chose to descend here with a clear objective, it meant that there must be something here that could attract them.

Yuan Yuan was very curious about what this thing was.

The spiritual energy spread like flowing water, and in the blink of an eye, it covered the entire city where the 387 points were located, like a thin film.

Yuan Yuan's immense spiritual power fluctuated rhythmically, exploring everything alive in the city, trying to find something that could attract a being from another realm.

However, half an hour passed, and even after Yuan Yuan used his spiritual power to search the city no less than a hundred times, he found nothing noteworthy.

"Could it be that what that being is looking for isn't alive? But even if it isn't alive, it shouldn't be able to evade spiritual energy detection."

Yuan Yuan rubbed his temples in frustration, feeling somewhat helpless. The main theme of this world was spiritual energy. Due to the unique nature of the world's spiritual energy expansion, even ordinary stones in this world possessed a certain amount of spiritual energy.

Based on the premise that everything possesses spiritual power, there is essentially nothing in this world that cannot be detected by spiritual power.

Yuan Yuan paused, his hand that was rubbing his temples, as if he had remembered something. He stopped what he was doing, and his powerful spiritual energy spread out again, covering the city beneath his feet.

Unlike before, this time Yuan Yuan's spiritual power contained a portion of the spiritual power characteristics of the void opening the black cavity, which is a spatial channel.

With just one spiritual energy probe, Yuan Yuan opened his eyes in shock, and for a moment he even wondered if he had entered the wrong world.

Because he thought that the guest who came from another realm possessed the power of space and time, the thing he was looking for was very likely to also have the characteristics of these two powers. Therefore, Yuan Yuan added some characteristics of spatial power to the fluctuations of spiritual power and searched again.

The result shocked him greatly. In this city, which had no special features other than its size, there were actually more than a dozen souls with spatial and temporal characteristics.

When did the power of time become so worthless? Even if those souls possess very little time-related properties, and they are all in an inactive state, it's still time.

【and…】

Yuan Yuan lowered his head, looking at the house at his feet, a strange look appearing in his eyes.

One of the special souls is located directly below the point of time fluctuation.

"So what I've been looking for all along was right under my feet? This fact is truly embarrassing."

Rubbing his temples, Yuan Yuan didn't hesitate. He opened the white gap and told Karim and the others about the special soul locations except for the ones under their feet, instructing them to monitor all these special people.

These special souls were indeed precious, giving Yuan Yuan an urge to immediately bring them all to the laboratory. However, compared to them, Yuan Yuan was more interested in the being that had gathered them together.

In order not to alert the mastermind and let them escape, Yuan Yuan did not intend to make any rash moves to directly capture those special souls.

As for the possibility of being killed by that guy behind the scenes, Yuan Yuan never even considered it. He believed that there was no one in this world who could threaten him.

Those ordinary special souls could be let go, but Yuan Yuan had no intention of letting go of this special soul directly below the time point. Although his spiritual energy probe hadn't found anything different about him compared to other special souls, Yuan Yuan was still very interested in him simply because he could make a being who controlled the power of time descend directly upon him.

Upon landing in front of the house, Yuan Yuan covered himself with a layer of spiritual energy so that ordinary people could see him before pushing open the door and going inside.

The special spirit in the dwelling is not dead yet; it is still alive. In order to communicate with the living, maintaining visibility is the most basic requirement.

According to his spiritual senses, there were clearly people in the room, but even after Yuan Yuan deliberately made a lot of noise when he opened the door, no one came out to check the situation, as if there was no one in the house at all.

Ignoring the other party's obviously concealed actions and the stench of rotting corpses emanating from the depths of the room, Yuan Yuan smiled slightly and surveyed the seemingly unremarkable residence.

It's obvious that this is a family with children, and the parents are quite strict in disciplining them.

Because right at the entrance, there are several large charts posted. The first chart on the left is a schedule accurate to the second, with piano lessons, flower arranging, tea ceremony, tutoring classes, and various other activities taking up the entire day.

Hanging above is a report card written in bright red ink. Just looking at those blood-red characters, one can almost picture the parents slapping the card and loudly scolding their child who has just received the report card, regardless of whether the child has worked hard all night, simply demanding that the child do better.

The chart on the right records precise calorie intake. Without much thought, one can guess that the child in this family must have his/her food intake strictly limited at every meal. Judging from the chart, the child hasn't eaten desserts like ice cream for about two years.

The table below records the number of times the child was late. Judging from the table, the child in this family has clearly followed the schedule. Whether it is going to school, flower arranging, or tutoring classes, the child is rarely late.

The contents of the chart in the very center were enough to make anyone who saw it feel uneasy. It recorded the number of times someone talked back, and the blood-red font made it hard to imagine what kind of family would record something like this.

"This kind of education is really unpleasant."

With a slight smile, Yuan Yuan spoke softly, his tone still calm, but clearly conveying displeasure.

Having everything arranged for you by others, with clear rules about what you should and shouldn't do, what you can and can't do, is one of the lifestyles Yuan Yuan hates the most.

Looking at these forms, even before meeting them, Yuan Yuan felt a faint sense of disgust towards the parents of this family.

[My mood has already been ruined before we even met; this is really not a good start.]

Shaking his head helplessly, Yuan Yuan stopped looking at the unpleasant papers and walked into the room.

In the empty house, only Yuan Yuan's footsteps echoed continuously; apart from that, there was not a sound.

Just as Yuan Yuan walked through a sliding door, suddenly, a fire axe smashed through the door and swung towards Yuan Yuan's head. If an ordinary person were hit by such a strike, they would undoubtedly die a remarkably quick death.

Unsurprisingly, Yuan Yuan reached for the axe handle, glanced at the pink-haired figure behind the door, and a pleased smile appeared on his face.

"That's a very friendly greeting."

Chapter Ninety-Three: You All Guessed It

Looking at the girl's surprised expression, and then at the iron cage in the center of the room behind her, and the two struggling, already decomposing corpses inside, Yuan Yuan's smile widened.

"Instead of simply enduring the unfair treatment from his parents, he made his own protest? What an excellent child."

Seeing that the girl in front of him intended to release the axe and retreat, Yuan Yuan released a small amount of spiritual pressure, suppressing her soul and forcibly severing her soul's control over her body.

"While outstanding children should be encouraged and allowed to indulge in some of their little whims, such as throwing away a useless axe."

A cold, mocking gaze pierced the girl's empty eyes, forcing her, whose heart had been locked away, to feel emotions from the outside world.

"However, since there are some things that need to be verified and require the cooperation of good children, the reward time will be postponed slightly."

Yuan Yuan chuckled lightly, and without making any move, a white gap appeared beneath his and the girl's feet. Instantly, Yuan Yuan and the girl plummeted into hell.

However, before the girl could even take in the changed scenery, another white gap appeared beneath their feet. Without a moment's pause, the two passed through the pale passage again and reappeared in the real world.

The two returned to the real world and found themselves on a scenic hill. Although they didn't know where they were, the girl was certain that this was not a scenic spot in the city. She had never seen a bear in a scenic spot in the city.

Seeing the bear that was stunned and frozen in place because two people suddenly appeared in front of it, and then, instead of showing any of the ferocious behavior of a powerful carnivore, it cautiously lay down on the ground and dared not move, as if it had seen something terrifying, while the girl, whose mind had been locked up by the death of her adoptive parents, seemed somewhat dazed, couldn't help but blink.

Recalling how she had inexplicably lost her ability to move and how the white rift that suddenly appeared beneath her feet, instantly placing her outside the town, the girl's eyes regained some color, and she spoke for the first time since they met.

"what do you?"

Yuan Yuan was taken aback. He was about to ask the girl if she had maliciously omitted the word "person," but then he remembered that he could no longer be considered a person, so he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

With a smile that made normal people uncomfortable, yet gave certain outcasts a sense of belonging, Yuan Yuan spoke softly.

"What a sensitive child. I am Yuan Yuan. According to the species definition, I should be an underdeveloped soul-transformed mortal python. According to common sense, I am a monster."

Seeing the girl clearly surprised by her self-proclaimed monster, Yuan Yuan summoned a surge of white spiritual energy in his hand, which corroded the fire axe he was still holding into an unstable mass of spiritual energy, which he then allowed to spread in the air.

"Well then, good boy, won't you introduce yourself?"

“Ruri, Futaba Ruri”.

Without the slightest hesitation, as if she had introduced herself like this many times before, the girl softly uttered a name that sounded adorable.

"Well, Yuno Gasai, what a nice name. I always realize at times like this that even magic from the micro-magic world is sometimes more useful than muscles and knives from the mid-martial world."

Rubbing his temples, Yuan Yuan glanced at the girl's surprised expression and waved his hand dismissively.

"Legacy of Mind, one of the common spells that a certain sweet-toothed old bee likes to use. It is not difficult, can be activated covertly, and has a long duration of effect, making it a relatively practical spell."

Ignoring the girl's still bewildered expression, Yuan Yuan continued speaking nonchalantly, muttering to himself.

"Although using this magic makes many things less fun, so I don't use it often. But these are critical times. That guy whose appearance I don't even know is coming in a month. I don't have time to throw you into the torture department and use methods like personality destruction, mental rewriting, and physical modification to extract your memories."

Hearing those words that were clearly unfriendly, even though she was in a state of insensitivity to external stimuli, Yuno's face couldn't help but turn a little green.

"Let me see, Yuno Gasai, the adopted daughter of the Gasai family. She originally got along well with her adoptive parents and had a happy family. However, because her adoptive father's company went bankrupt, both of her adoptive parents placed their hopes on you and began to implement strict elite education on you. Hmm, a slightly cliché family relationship change."

Noticing that the girl's body had shown slight signs of inactivation due to prolonged spiritual pressure, Yuan Yuan withdrew the spiritual pressure that was still pressing down on Yuno Gasai.

"But not long after the elite education began, your foster mother developed a mental illness and would often abuse you. If she was in a bad mood, she would lock you in an iron cage for several days at a time. Sometimes she would even starve you, forcing you to eat the straw mat under the cage. Oh, this development is a bit unexpected. By the way, is that the iron cage I just saw?"

Even after regaining her mobility, Yuno didn't dare draw the knife hidden in her pocket to attack Yuan Yuan and stop him from reading her memories. Everything about Yuan Yuan was a mystery to Yuno; even his only self-introduction was a name she couldn't discern as genuine. This mystery left Yuno, without any emotional support and in her most vulnerable state, unable to muster any will to resist.

Seeing the girl's reaction, a satisfied look appeared on Yuan Yuan's face, but it quickly returned to that strange smile.