Chapter 1306: The Birth of Earth's UO
Surface.
The entire world had plunged into an endless sea of flames.
All living beings—whether those flying in the sky, running on the ground, or swimming in the water—had already gone extinct. The entire planet had fallen into complete silence, as if it had returned to the moment of its birth.
Eiji floated alone in the sky. Through the magical energy he had spread across the globe, he understood the current state of Earth. As expected, aside from himself, not a single living creature remained on the entire planet.
He had become the sole and strongest life form on this planet.
"There's a feeling of being called..."
Eiji could sense that the planet was calling out to him.
It was summoning him intensely to a certain place. Even the Counter Force was rejoicing and celebrating, heralding the imminent birth of Earth's UO.
Eiji looked down at the land.
His gaze pierced through the flame-covered surface, passing through the mantle and crust, until it settled deep within the Earth.
Eiji took a step forward.
In the blink of an eye, both the surface and the crust were left behind.
He arrived at Earth's land of eternal spring, commonly known as Avalon—the Inner Sea of the Planet.
As always, this place was perpetually spring-like, with pink petals drifting everywhere. The mountains, rivers, and valleys were still filled with a warm and gentle atmosphere, almost identical to what he had seen in the British Lostbelt, only much more expansive.
Originally, this place should have been inhabited by many Phantasmal Species and fairies, but at this moment, these beings had also gone extinct from Earth.
Following the source of the summoning sensation, Eiji arrived at the center of the Inner Sea of the Planet.
"Is this the Earth's core?"
Eiji saw a pillar reaching toward the heavens, dazzlingly brilliant as if made of diamond, exceptionally transparent and seemingly free of any impurities.
He stepped inside the pillar, and the two merged together as seamlessly as milk blending with water.
In an instant, Eiji felt as though he had become Earth itself.
The birth 4.6 billion years ago, the changes over 4.6 billion years, countless ice ages, and various life forms—all flashed through his mind one by one.
In that brief moment, he had already grasped the memories of Earth's 4.6 billion years.
"Bzzz—!!"
The entire planet seemed to tremble with joy at this moment. Countless rays of light rose and converged from all over the world, eventually surging deep into the Earth and merging into Eiji, who stood within the pillar of light.
These lights, each of different colors and origins, began to transform his body the moment they flowed into him.
Eiji frowned, his caution making him instinctively evade.
But he immediately stopped, allowing the lights to surge in and gradually alter his body.
The Counter Force actively conveyed its will.
Those lights were the residual essences of all life that had existed on Earth over the past 4.6 billion years. All of this would ultimately be inherited by Earth's UO, allowing the UO to become the ultimate life form possessing the strengths of all Earth's organisms!
A UO is a life form fundamentally different from any other being!
It is the strongest and only "one" on a planet, possessing all the advantages of other organisms, making it an all-powerful existence on its planet!
As all these lights surged into his body, Eiji would transform into the Earth's one and only, strongest, omnipotent, and invincible supreme life form—utterly distinct from True Ancestors, deities, fairies, and the like!
"Hmm? You want to bind with me too?"
Eiji gladly accepted Earth's gift but suddenly furrowed his brow.
Apart from being the most powerful life form of a planet, a planetary UO possessed another irrefutable trait: as long as the planet remained undestroyed, the UO would never die.
This was because the planetary UO was bound to the planet itself, with the planet serving as its steadfast anchor, ensuring no vessel would lose its way.
But what if the planet was destroyed?
Eiji silently took out the Ring of Kingship, put it on, and drew the Holy Annihilation Sword.
"This binding agreement doesn't include a clause where I perish if Earth is destroyed, does it?"
He very amiably countered the Counter Force.
The Counter Force remained silent for a long while.
Only then did it respond with a "No."
"Good, let's bind then!"
Satisfied, Eiji sheathed the Holy Annihilation Sword and accepted Earth's binding.
After all, with the Ring of Kingship in his possession, Eiji could effortlessly mold Earth into any shape he desired while wielding the Holy Annihilation Sword!
Mooncell's computational power was just that unreasonable!
In other words, as far as Eiji was concerned, he could achieve the perfect life form on his own. What Earth was doing now was merely icing on the cake.
With such meager benefits, did it really think it could tie his life to its own?
What a joke!
Of course, binding with the planet had its advantages.
At the very least, when he ventured recklessly across the cosmos in the future, he wouldn't get lost on his way home!
The lights grew increasingly abundant.
Until, at a certain moment, all the light surged into Eiji's body.
Thus, the flawless life form was born!
He bore no causality of life nor concept of death. All time and space could not interfere with him. His very existence stood independent of every system on the planet—a natural transcendent, Earth's ultimate life form!
"Complete."
Eiji stepped out of the pillar of light.
He could feel that he was now bound to Earth itself. Everything Earth could see and hear, he could see and hear as well.
Even in the cosmos, the "voices" of the Moon and Mars reached his ears.
His perspective had transcended time and space, allowing him to glimpse into the past and future.
With a single step, Eiji returned from the Inner Sea of the Planet to the planet's surface.
Everything on the surface had dried up and withered.
To give birth to him as its UO, the planet had offered up everything except itself.
"Mooncell, restore everything!"
Eiji raised the Holy Annihilation Sword.
A crimson light shot into the sky, transforming into a massive wave that enveloped the entire Earth in mere seconds!
With Mooncell's assistance, Eiji began the process of reshaping Earth.
First, the flames receded rapidly from the planet.
Then, mountains and oceans regained their vitality.
Once again, life returned to the land—birds began to sing, and fish swam in the waters.
Buildings, roads, trees, electronic devices... everything returned to Earth as if time had reversed.
Of course, this wasn't actual time reversal.
For a planetary-scale time reversal, even with Mooncell's assistance, Eiji could hardly guarantee that the entropy of the solar system wouldn't be compromised.
Thus, this was actually "imaginary number reconstruction" – primarily executed by Mooncell, with support from Eiji's Holy Annihilation Holy Sword!
All events of the past three days were processed as "imaginary number phenomena"!
Imaginary numbers represent non-existent values, and imaginary number phenomena equate to non-existent realities.
Similar to how Eiji reverts everything to before events occurred by processing reality as dreams through dream cancellation, Mooncell processed reality as imaginary number phenomena, restoring everything to its state prior to the incidents!
However, Eiji himself did not fall from the UO throne.
Not to mention that Beasts already possess the Independent Manifestation skill that nullifies spacetime paradox attacks – as a UO, Eiji exists independently beyond spacetime, making him immune to any temporal interference.