Those time travelers that year

Nick Fury's face darkened even more...

"As for the Tesseract... Hey! Tony, do you remember what I said?"

"What!?"

“I need to study this. I can return the Cosmic Cube to you, but only after I’ve studied it,” Charles said, patting the suitcase containing the Cosmic Cube.

Nick Fury: "But..."

"Don't worry, I won't cause any trouble!" Charles shook his head and said, "I really don't know what your research team is doing? Sending signals all over the universe, are you afraid people won't know Earth's coordinates? You're just asking for trouble!"

226. Post-war Negotiations (Part 2)

Hearing Charles's words, Nick Fury's expression darkened further, but he still wanted to try, even though it was bound to be ineffective. "Mr. Gretel, you mean you want to study the Cosmic Cube? But how can we know if you might have the power of the Cosmic Cube and cause some problems... Sorry, after all, we've just experienced a war, and Earth can't afford a second sudden attack."

"Oh, don't worry, don't worry, I'm not like you guys. I won't be stupid enough to keep releasing the power of the Cosmic Cube, sending signals and coordinates throughout the universe." Charles waved his hand and said, "I just want to confirm something, or rather, something... Anyway, I won't keep the Cosmic Cube forever, so you can rest assured about that!"

"Besides, rather than leaving it to cause you even greater trouble, it would be better to return the Dragon Jewel to Asgard!"

Thor nodded at Shire's words and said to Nick Fury, "The wizard is right. After experiencing this war, don't you understand? The Tesseract is not the future of Earth, but a dangerous fuse."

“I agree with using the hammer…” Tony said in agreement while munching on his hamburger. “When it comes to energy, my Arc Reactor is enough. Don’t even mention that you guys still can’t make my first-generation Arc Reactor. That thing is basically everywhere.”

“Sir, I thought so too.” Captain America, who had been standing in the background, suddenly spoke up. “This thing caused two wars. Seventy years ago, because of the Tesseract, I lost many comrades. Now, because of this thing that should never have appeared, all of New York has become a battlefield. Let’s end all of this!”

……

Nick Fury sighed. After all, even the Avengers didn't support his plan to reclaim the Tesseract, which spoke volumes. Those guys on the World Security Council were still naively convinced the world should operate according to their wishes. But perhaps it was for the best; the Tesseract had caused so much chaos that, frankly, it wasn't safe for it to remain in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s hands. Moreover, in the past few decades, their research into the Tesseract had yielded nothing; instead, they'd been caught in a cosmic war, pushed back by a bunch of cannon fodder, and nearly had their city nuked.

So the Cosmic Cube issue was dropped. As for how to explain it to the World Security Council, Nick Fury felt that anyone in those groups with a brain should know what to do.

"Then Loki's scepter, if possible..."

"No!" Ciel said decisively. "That's not yours, nor is it something you can touch. Don't forget, you almost turned against each other because of this scepter. Are you sure Loki can't use this scepter to pull off another prison break?"

"Then are you able to remain unaffected by the power of the scepter?"

"What a joke! I can solve everything with a black hole," Charles said dismissively. "I won't be affected! At least when it comes to mental barriers, I'm stronger than anyone here. I don't believe anyone can breach my mental defenses, not even Professor X, the big boss among mutants!"

"...Alright, but for safety's sake, we must have someone keep an eye on things while we're studying the Cosmic Cube."

"It doesn't matter, I don't need any equipment anyway, so you won't be able to get the data..."

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Nick Fury left to report the outcome of the negotiations to the UN Security Council. Anyway, he'd be lectured again when he got back, and he was used to dealing with these idiots who were clearly incompetent but insisted on acting like big shots.

Meanwhile, the Avengers team stayed behind to monitor Shire's research on the Tesseract. Thor, Tony, and even Bruce were all quite curious about how Shire planned to study the Tesseract. However, Captain America, Black Widow, and Hawkeye weren't concerned about that; they were more worried that Shire might cause some accidents while studying the Tesseract. They had just ended an alien invasion; who knew what would happen if another one occurred?

"What is he doing?" Tony asked Thor curiously. "Is he performing some kind of ritual?"

“I don’t know, I’m not good at using magic,” Thor replied. “Maybe you’re meditating!”

Surrounded by the Avengers, Ciel calmly opened the box containing the Tesseract. Gazing at the mysterious Tesseract, radiating a deep blue light, Ciel suppressed his nervousness, excitement, and deep longing. He'd had this feeling ever since arriving in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, an unseen force urging him to approach the Infinity Stones.

As one of Marvel's ultimate power-ups, the Infinity Stones are, in Ciel's eyes, equivalent to the GM's authority in this world. This is why Thanos, a near-Celestial level being, became incredibly powerful after collecting all the Infinity Stones and wielding the Infinity Gauntlet. Although he doesn't know why the Infinity Stones, which are useless outside the Marvel universe, might still be useful to him, it doesn't stop Ciel from trying it out for himself now.

However, preparations need to be made beforehand.

To avoid having no time to deal with any unexpected events that might happen and end up ruining your own life.

After opening the box, Charles placed it on the ground along with the Cosmic Cube. He then sat down cross-legged. At the same time, without the Avengers noticing, he cast several defensive and alert spells. He then carefully placed his hands on the Cosmic Cube, closed his eyes, and focused his mind on exploring the Cosmic Cube.

……

What is space? What is dimension? These are questions that human scientists have been exploring.

Scientists propose that space is an objective form of matter existing in relation to time, characterized by length, width, height, and size. It typically refers to the four cardinal directions and up and down. Similarly, space can also be cosmic space, cyberspace, thought space, digital space, physical space, and so on. Theoretically, space is infinite; it is composed of different lines, which form different shapes, and the space within these lines is space itself.

However, within the Cosmic Cube, Ciel saw a different world. Yes, a world. When he probed the Cosmic Cube with his spiritual power, a world resembling countless interlocking rings, seemingly endless, appeared before him. Upon seeing this chain of rings, Ciel immediately understood what they were: the Marvel Multiverse.

Each ring represents a universe, and each ring represents another possible universe, but all of these universes belong to the Marvel universe.

This felt strangely familiar to Ciel, much like the pocket watch in his hand. Under the watch's power, the starry sky he saw was a world in itself, a crystal wall. However, the world visible through the Tesseract belonged only to the Marvel Multiverse. But unlike the pocket watch, besides allowing Ciel to see the infinite Marvel Multiverse, it also allowed him to directly draw energy from countless different dimensions within the Marvel Multiverse and directly manipulate the structure and changes of space.

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227. Helpful Bubble

However, so far, Charles hasn't perceived any benefit or influence from the Cosmic Cube. This puzzled him, but he quickly put it aside. The Cosmic Cube had indeed brought him benefits, such as his first direct observation of spatial changes and structures... Similarly, the endless energy within the Cosmic Cube was something he needed.

With this in mind, Charles directly began to use his mental power to contact the energy within the Cosmic Cube, and then attempted to extract it. Although it was only a tiny wisp of energy, its purity was very high, or rather, it was pure energy itself. Then, Charles chose to absorb this wisp of energy while simultaneously searching his memory for knowledge of the Third Law. Using the energy extracted from the Cosmic Cube, Charles began the process of using the Third Law.

Soon, a continuous stream of energy was drawn from the Cosmic Cube by Ciel. This pure energy was directly transformed into runes for the Third Magic. Then, Ciel's own soul began to transform under the influence of the constantly appearing runes. Soul and body began to merge tightly, and spirit and soul began to materialize. Originally, this kind of magic, which required a vast amount of magical power, in the Type-Moon universe, required going to the Root to possess enough powerful energy to complete the Third Magic.

The materialization of the soul, the art of immortality—that is the definition of the Third Law. Although the Third Law has become largely meaningless to Ciel at this point, obtaining a form of immortality is still a good thing, even if it's not as absurd as the immortality of that certain red-suited psychopath.

With the help of the Cosmic Cube, which possesses endless energy, the progress of the Third Magic was as if it had been accelerated. All the runes required for the Third Magic were completed completely in a short period of time.

From this moment forward, Ciel can be said to have completely transcended the boundaries that humans can define. With the completion of the Third Law and the influence of the materialization of the soul, from now on, no matter how many years pass, Ciel's physical condition will always be at its peak.

Now that the third method has been completed, the infinite energy of the Tesseract is completely useless to Ciel. In addition, Ciel doesn't care about the ability to manipulate space, since it will be completely useless once he leaves the Marvel multiverse.

Thinking this, as Ciel was about to disconnect from the Cosmic Cube, an unexpected thing happened. Ciel suddenly realized something was wrong. Why? He wanted to disconnect from the Cosmic Cube, but he couldn't break out of his meditative state.

'Wait, what's going on?'

'Why? Why can't I break free? Why is my connection to the Cosmic Cube still there?'

'Also, didn't I stop drawing energy from the Cosmic Cube? But why...'

……

In the darkness, Charles's consciousness stirred with doubt, as if something within this darkness was drawing him in, or rather, something awaited him there. Strangely, faced with this sudden situation, unable to extricate himself from this dark world, Charles felt no discomfort whatsoever.

After an unknown amount of time, when even Ciel's self-awareness was beginning to fade, some new changes finally appeared in the dark world.

A starry sky appeared before Ciel.

It was a strange cluster of stars, billions of them shining brightly in the darkness. These stars were very close together, and at first glance, they looked like countless luminous spheres gathered together.

Time and space...

The thought immediately crossed Xia Er's mind: that cluster of billions of stars was essentially an aggregation of time and space. It was the past, the present, and the future; it was forward, backward, left, right, up, down… It was both time and space itself, and also independent of time and space. One is all, and all is one.

At that moment, another color appeared in the dark space—fire, firelight. The firelight illuminated the darkness, though it couldn't compare to the billions of stars. But subtly, this firelight firmly gathered its own brilliance, refusing to be overshadowed by the stars.

At that moment, a strange female voice began to sing a folk song:

Life begins with death, and order originates from chaos.

Flames illuminate the darkness, souls ignite the fuel.

The spiraling blade represents countless cycles of reincarnation, and at the end of each cycle, everything will come to a close.

Valiant warriors fall before glory, and wise scholars are lost in the pursuit of knowledge.

The king sat enthroned, stepping over the corpses of others.

Therefore, every king is a dead man. So, don't bow your head, or your crown will fall; don't be soft-hearted, or you will perish.

Perhaps you can join us.

Abandon your crown

Leave your throne

Go to pursue

Go find

Seek out things that interest you, seek out order or chaos.

Kindness is meaningless, evil never exists.

When all living beings are plunged into disaster

We come to save, we come to destroy.

We gave them everything they wanted.

We watched them perish while we drank our fill.

We keep our contracts, and we never lie.

We simply went to have fun and do what we wanted.

You say we have no principles

No, we have

Our principle is ourselves.

……

Who...who are you?

In the midst of a chaotic state of consciousness, Charles managed to convey a thought with great difficulty.

Before him stretched a seemingly eternal starry sky, and in the center of it all appeared a tall, beautiful young woman with long silver hair, dressed in a garment resembling a cheongsam. Most striking of all was the illogical tuft of hair sticking up on her head…

Wait, why would I be paying attention to a single ahoge (cowlick)? Even though that's incredibly illogical...

A thought popped into Charles's head, and then he noticed that the cluster of stars was rapidly closing the distance between them, followed by a sudden surge of 'knowledge'. Simultaneously, another emotionless, serene voice began to echo:

'I am omniscient and omnipotent, at least within the scope of omniscience and omnipotence. Time and space are part of me. Okay, you wouldn't understand anyway, but that's how it is. The lines have to be finished. This was something that the brain-dead boss came up with during one of his crazy moments. So, I am the King of the Endless Void, the Star Shifter, the Solid Foundation, the Master of Earthquakes, the Conqueror of Terror, the Creator of Pain, the Destroyer, the Victor of Glory, the Child of Void and Chaos, the Guardian of the Abyss, the God of Primordial Darkness, the Lord of Dimensions, the Enigmatic Sage, the Guardian of Secrets, the Lord of Labyrinths, the Master of Angles, the God of Night Hawks, the Final Tip, the Lord of Gates, the Pathfinder, the Primordial Omnipotent and Immortal Lord!'

'But then again, who wants to look at all those name cards made up of people? Okay, actually, there are people who do want to look at them, I know, and I know in which world and which idiots will be reading them.'

'Anyway, you're here now, whether by accident or intentional. Okay, I know you came by accident, so I can give you whatever knowledge you want or don't want. It's free, so why not take it?'

'Anyway, you won't go crazy, you won't become mentally ill. Even if you do go crazy, even if you become mentally ill, it's none of my business.'

'Well, what can I do? I'm a helpful bubble!'

……

"Who the hell is this bastard again?"

These were Ciel's last thoughts. Then, everything disappeared, and Ciel opened his eyes again.

Then, all memories fade away.