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After the meeting with his aunt, Edward headed over to the World Gate outside of this universe' Source Wall where he placed the two Dragon Kings to prevent tracking from their race.
After entering one of the rooms, he saw the yellow behemoth lying with closed eyes on a pile of gold and jewels. Albion seemed to have detected someone who intruded on his lair and opened one eye.
After seeing that it was Edward, he ignored the latter before closing it again. However, a few seconds later, he opened both of them; he even moved his head to stare at him, his serpentine pupils full of shock and wonder.
"You're already Tier 6? How is that possible."
"Huh, you can detect this?" He was perfectly controlling and hiding his mana, so he did not expect the dragon to discover.
"No, no, this should be possible–especially with all the life span you have. Even if you used the Elixir of Life to replenish it, there would still be signs."
"I would never use the shoddy magic systems that sacrificed life spans for higher Tiers," replied Edward calmly.
Meanwhile, Albion seemed to be having an existential crisis. There are not many races in the universe with the potential to reach higher Tiers with their mana–especially since the Divine Path is easier in the universe in terms of use.
And amongst all the races with that talent, the Dragon race is considered one of the best if not the best. However, even he–as a noble dragon with the most powerful bloodline–could not reach Tier 6 in such a short time.
"This does not make any sense," muttered the Dragon King out loud. "Unless…Unless you did it."
"Did what?"
"You found a way to travel to other universes like you originally said you wanted to do."
In the early days, their relationship was decent so Albion knew that this wizard was trying to find a way to break through the Source Wall and find another universe.
However, he sneered at him because that was something that no God has even succeeded in. Even their Dragon Races have concluded that this might be an impossible thing.
The last time that they met, Albion thought this wizard found a way to travel through the Astral Realm and maybe even discovered another plane. However, even Plane Conquest cannot allow someone to reach Tier 6 in such a short time.
Not to mention the grave danger and luck requires for this kind of endeavor.
"You're wrong. I'm just naturally talented," replied Edward. This dragon could not be trusted yet, and this kind of secret had great ramifications if discovered by other civilizations.
"Maybe you're right," replied Albion. "So, to what do I owe the visit this time?"
"I want to ask you a question."
"And what I do I get in return."
I'll provide you with enough mana to reach Tier 6."
"Fine, ask away."
"Is there any Tier 11 Gods or other individuals in our universe? And if so, who are they?"
"From what I know, there has never been a Tier 11 individual since the Magus Race."
"The Magus Race? What's that?"
"I have answered your question."
"Common on, you and I both know that your information is not worth the price I'm going to pay."
Albion paused for a moment, "I cannot say anything about the Magus Race."
"Cannot, or will not?"
"Cannot," replied the dragon with a serious look on his face. "However, I can add something else as payment."
"What is it?"
"Intermediate and Advance Dragon Chant knowledge. I'll even add my understanding of countless years."
Edward frowned after hearing this. "Why are you suddenly so giving?"
"You can think of it as an investment."
At its peak, Albion was a Tier 10 Dragon King, however, he died during a great battle involving the Dragon Temple and had to use his bloodline to reincarnate.
However, he also dreams of reaching higher tiers, and if that wizard managed to leave the Source Wall, this might be his chance.
The dragon pointed his massive claw and a crystal was condensed before handing it to Edward, who then proceeded to acquire enough mana for the dragon to absorb.
As soon as Albion was brought to the room full of the energy he needed, he said a few words, and powerful enchantments surrounded the room to protect him. Then, he closed his eyes, entering a deep sleep.
Meanwhile, in another room, Edward was observing the entire process of the dragon's evolution. The first thing he noticed was that Albion broke the magic core inside his body and controlled all the mana to his heart.
"Is this the Mana Heart?" muttered. The dragons in the Empire seemed to have adapted to the environment and created a magic core. However, based on information previously gathered from Albion, he knew that the magical system of the dragons focused on their Dragon Hearts or Mana Heart and did not have cores.
Edward focuses on observing and recording the entire process to see if he could learn something from it, and he did.
"Fascinating," he muttered. The Mana Heart involved the DNA and cells in the body. The DNA of a single cell is about 2 meters long, and the human body has about 37.2 trillion. As such, all the DNA in a single human body would be more than twice the diameter of the solar system.
And the dragon race used this fact as part of their magic system. Their hearts have at least 100 times more cells than the human body, and by storing mana inside their DNA, they can quickly reach higher tiers.
Moreover, the mana is not only stored in their hearts but also in their bodies; this is one of the reasons that they are massive in size.
'This might be the way for me to quickly reach Tier 10,' thought Edward. However, there was some issue to deal with before this method was used. One, the human heart is completely different from dragons, plus, a powerful body would be required to bear such a powerful heart.
Another way to fix this problem is to increase the size of the human body to be as large as stars or the solar system.
'This is not a problem as the dragons even have shrinking spells, so it would be no major problem.'
Despite coming to this conclusion, Edward did not like this method as he felt that there might be better ways.
The last issue with this method is the requirement for the soul and control over mana.
'Wait, I overlooked something. Albion's soul should be more powerful than displayed. Plus, even with enough mana, without a soul strong enough to control it, there is no way to reach higher tiers.'
So, he immediately checked the latter's Soul Dimensions and he discovered a large amount of soul energy coming from somewhere to increase the strength of Albion's soul.
Additionally, that soul energy is also slowly eradicating the Soul Enslavement that Edward placed on both his soul and bloodline.
'How sneaky,' he thought as he observe the entire process to better understand.
'The soul energy did not come out of anywhere; it's more likely that it already existed but only release a certain amount based on Albion's requirement and desires.'
Edward's eyes flash ruthlessly as he observed everything.
'The best way to deal with this situation is to use the Floating City and the Death Staff to reinforce the Soul Enslavement.'
He did not immediately do so as it could interrupt Albion's advancement, so he decided to wait. Based on his calculation, it will still take at least 57 years before the spell can be broken by the soul energy.
Plus, even if Albion managed to free himself, he was currently in the Void. Without Edward's help, the only outcome for him is to be wiped out by void energy.
As for controlling the World Gate and using its power? That's not possible as this thing was programmed to self-destruct at the slightest sign of someone else other than Edward trying to interfere with its main operating system.
After making a decision, Edward proceeded to deal with the Ice Dragon Queen. Just like Albion, she was trying to break free from his spell. In fact, the reason that she never woke up after being born was to concentrate on freeing herself.
As such, she was outraged when the spell was reinforced to a Tier 9 level Spell.
"Alright, let's go talk with Dumbledore to understand why the Milky Way is so turbulent."
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As you all know, I have been setting up the Akashic Records for quite some time now. My original purpose of this plot was to ensure that Edward has a way to choose the worlds/universes that he can go to instead of relying on luck.
However, I realized that things would become complicated if he got access to it. After all, I have described it as a place with limitless knowledge. Even if I placed some restrictions on how to acquire this knowledge, it does change how OP that place is.
For example, Edward could just acquire the knowledge of a particular world from the Record instead of going there to get it.
However, that would make the story very bland or create a significant plot hole. After all, he could literally get the knowledge he wanted to deal with any situation.
Any ideas on how to fix that?
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Next Chapter Title: Trouble Brewing
Making it an issue of price with be easiest solution, both short term and long term.
The price for knowledge is more knowledge, no? So, since universe travel is considered something so difficult, it would make sense that simply getting the destination for a particular universe would already cost a ridiculous amount of knowledge. Trying to trade for specific information from said universe (which often would require info from the very foundations to the peak to be of any use) would just not be cost efficient in the short term.
In the long term, it would save you the bother of making him universe hop for every little thing. As his empire grows, he could steadily trade knowledge for knowledge, while only making his trips to the really powerful (thus expensive) universes.
After all, you can't really keep up the pace of a single universe giving him one rank up, since the scaling is shown to be progressively more difficult.
After all, even Truth, with him growing alchemists like wheat, wasn't even close to affording the information he wanted.
Make it so that you can find, but not acces knowledge from other universes. So it points you towards the universe where you can gather the knowledge you want, or redeem it in the akashic over there. But it's cheaper to get it manually from the locals and only lost knowledge is worth redeeming
Hmm
From what I know the Akashic Records is supposed to have all the knowledge that could ever exist in the past, present, or future. So no point in trading knowledge for knowledge as it already knows whatever you were going to trade in the first place.
But, if we do some creativity liberty and say that in this novel the Records are an ever increasing library of information where knowledge is traded. Now, chances are since there have been many folks like Edward before any knowledge he has isn't NEW to the records, besides a couple insights he has made.
However, even if the Records has all this knowledge it cannot, by itself, DO anything, assuming it behaves like a hive mind. You could have it so that Edward has to agree to fulfill some quest for the Records in exchange for knowledge of how to get to a particular world, with a huge penalty if he refuses (tier reduction, etc). Now what would the quest be? Maybe to retrieve some specific knowledge from the universe it doesn't have yet (Ex: Figuring out the source of Devil Fruits in One Piece), to stop people who are destroying or falsifying knowledge, or maybe work as a deliverer of knowledge to worlds that need assistance (with the hope that they'll soon start creating their own knowledge to give).
Just thinking of ideas, hope this helps.
Thank you. Your comments have inspired me on making the record play a more significant role in the story.
I know that the Akashic records isn't like a place, or material, but the obvious reply would be to shatter it. Imagine a glass sphere, then grind it to dust. Each small part represents a part of that knowledge. Still extremally wide, but only a tiny tiny fraction of the potential. You could explain it like, the akashic system isn't perfect, and with each new alternative universe created, it nees to strech to cover it too.
Our worlds theory about alternate universes says that each time a decission, change, or even just some particle move to the right instead of left, a new univers is created. Now imagine the acashic records to basicly infinitly streach out, each Zeptosecond, another gigantic set of universes is created. Or maybe that is the limiting factor? Maybe the reason you don't have unlimited versions of earth is that akashich records needs some time to streach and "accept" a new universe? Idk.
Give AR tier restrictions and requirements. Knowledge is categorized by tiers and it is extremely expensive to buy higher tier knowledge with lower tier knowledge. You can also cap the knowledge accessible to one or two tiers higher than you are. This makes it so he will be able to get lots of low tier knowledge more easily, not needing to visit every low level multiverse, but still needing to personally go to dc, marvel, nasuverse, etc.
If you are not the universe, the price for knowledge goes way up.
If you do not belong to the universe, the price goes even higher (compounding)
TFTC
I honestly didn't think of the problem because the way I understood it was that each Universe was its own separate entity that is not touching or interacting with anything other than the void, which is why it is so hard to jump to another Universe. If this is true then there would have to be an Akashic record for each Universe instead of one that is a Multiverse Akashic Record or you could instead of a Multiverse version say that there is a version in each universe and then one that is for the void itself, (this is the one he would need to gain access too) since the only thing that would be in the void itself is the connections that the void has to the individual Universes and each Akashic record other than the void one only has the information for their respective Universe which Edward then can use to find the connection to the void record which will allow him to traverse the void from one Universe to another. So I would have him find the one in his current Universe then make him give up something for the info on how to reach the void record then he has to trade knowledge/pay for the info to get to a specific universe and this is the only info that the void Akashic records has since the void is defined as nothing and the only thing that can survive in the void is the connections to the universes themselves.
lol i think you need to look at your title again, real closely
Thanks for the chapter.
Akashic Records could be information trading platform made by Strongest begins. Pruporse and use can be similar to what Edward do to trade info in empire.