Chapter 154 - Multiversal Progress
The Mist Space had changed since Raven's last visit. The hazy structures were gaining definition, growing clearer with each universe traversed.
Above the realm, six origin light spheres from different realities hung suspended.
The Super God Universe, the Three-Body Universe, the Eternal Universe, the Marvel Universe, the Ultraman Diga Universe, and the D&D Universe, each connected to the Mist Space by threads of energy.
A seventh sphere drew Raven's attention, one representing the Warhammer Universe itself.
He looked at it with surprise.
From the beginning, he had known the Warhammer Universe was among those he must traverse and alter. Each time he changed the destiny of a Primarch or other significant figure, he gained origin power.
Yet despite all his efforts, the Mist Space had never manifested a sphere for his home reality.
Until now.
Raven extended his consciousness into the Warhammer sphere, perceiving the changes rippling through time.
The Custodes had not quietly eliminated the Thunder Warriors; instead, they achieved the deaths they deserved.
The Adeptus Mechanicus had never become Terra's ally; instead, Raven himself had partnered with the Emperor. The fates of the Primarchs had been rewritten entirely.
Angron bore no Butcher's Nails. Mortarion harboured no resentment toward his gene-father. Lorgar had abandoned his worship of divine powers. Perturabo's heart remained unburdened by the bitterness that had once consumed him.
All the Primarchs had been guided through different realities, their perspectives broadened.
The most profound transformation came from the alien technologies and wisdom the Emperor had brought back from other universes. Such advances had shattered the Warhammer Universe's course, ushering in change.
The magic weave and arcane knowledge from the D&D realm had particularly impacted the Empire's Psionic Academy.
"A welcome development," Raven mused. "The sphere makes monitoring the Empire's progress more convenient."
He focused deeper into the Warhammer sphere, observing humanity's expansion across the galaxy.
The Human Empire's development far exceeded the original timeline's pace. With the Astronomican perfected, over a thousand expeditionary fleets now carried out conquest operations throughout the galaxy. Daily, new worlds submitted to Imperial rule, some through force, others through surrender.
The Solar System had become a showcase of multiversal technology.
Every diplomatic envoy who visited Terra left impressed by Imperial might, understanding that submission offered their only path forward. Combined with Malcador's terms for compliant worlds, joining the Empire clearly outweighed resistance.
The Great Crusade progressed with speed. Where the original timeline took over two centuries before the Horus Heresy ended it, current projections suggested galactic unification within a decade.
The Empire's internal institutions operated efficiently.
The Psionic Academy recruited psykers from across the galaxy, screening them according to ability and stability. Qualified candidates became students, learning ancient knowledge alongside magic and arcane arts from the D&D Universe. Those who could not control their powers received restraint collars and remained as supervised academy servants under the watchful eyes of blanks.
The Night Watch had established cells throughout Imperial space. Demon hunting units moved constantly through the galaxy, tracking down Warp entities bold enough to manifest within Imperial territory, along with any cult forces collaborating with Chaos.
Kor Phaeron and Erebus, those twin catalysts of corruption, found themselves ironically busy questioning their very existence.
As former Chaos worshippers now forced to serve as demon hunter accomplices, they were required to offer prayers over every executed daemon. The entities of the Warp had grown familiar with both fallen acolytes through these repeated encounters.
The Empire's grand projects proceeded on schedule: the Microcosm, temporal anchor nodes, stellar-class computational arrays, and celestial-grade warships would soon facilitate humanity's complete transformation.
Even C'tan shards remained imprisoned within the Microcosm, their essence serving as energy batteries to maintain the time anchor systems.
After observing the Warhammer Universe's progress, Raven turned his attention to other realities.
Three-Body Universe
The knowledge left by the Emperor had accelerated the Sci-Fi Heavenly Court project. Warships rolled from orbital shipyards while breakthroughs in genetic enhancement, power armor, and augmentation serums advanced their capabilities.
Without Warp interference and corruption, their artificial intelligence development proceeded unimpeded, robots now handled most menial tasks while humans served as supervisors.
The dispatched expeditionary fleet had reached the Trisolaran home system. Despite repeated pleas for mercy and attempted negotiations, the aliens received only rejection.
The fleet launched devastating strikes against Trisolaran civilization.
In their final moments, the Trisolaran leaders broadcast Earth's coordinates to the universe, a last act of revenge. Their civilisation perished, with only scattered ships escaping the destruction. Earth now faced the consequences of the Dark Forest theory.
Cheng Xin and other ETO collaborators had been shipped to the Trisolaran system aboard a transport vessel, where they would witness firsthand the ruins of the civilisation they had spent their lives supporting.
Super Gene Universe
Han Sen continued expanding the Humanity's Empire alongside his companions, preparing for the conflicts ahead.
At the universe's edge, they had discovered a locked dark-matter space containing ancient ruins, including a cube constructed from neutron star material bearing inscriptions in unknown characters, possibly left by the Pangu Civilisation.
Han Sen had deployed stellar-class computers to analyse the artifact, confident they would soon decode its secrets.
Eternal Universe
The Eternal universe can be said, to be the most promising and established Empire of Humanity.
Under Time Bureau leadership, humanity's expansion proceeded rapidly. No other species in that galaxy could match their technological superiority; only population limited their growth rate.
To address this bottleneck, they had initiated massive breeding programs encouraging marriage, Sex, and Love, starting a new age of culture in modern utopia, and when they found it to be slow,, they began using machines to optimise genetic sequences, attempting to occupy the galaxy through accelerated reproduction.
Marvel Universe
The Multiversal War raged on. The Avengers, aided by Raven's guidance, travelled through parallel timelines, recruiting more powerful variants to form the Multiversal Avengers alliance. Loki had transformed, ascending to become the God of Time itself.
Gorr the God Butcher, wielding his black death sword enhanced by the Emperor's blessing, continued his campaign against corrupted deities. Their corpses served as fertilizer for his garden, where potato and tomato seedlings flourished.
However, a troubling development had emerged. The Master of Change's fragments thrived within Marvel's ever-shifting conflicts and chaos.
Many sorcerers had fallen under its influence, becoming its servants. Somehow, it had forged alliances with various evil entities, working to perform rituals that would summon the other three Chaos Gods' past incarnations into this reality.
"This is becoming problematic," Raven muttered. "If this continues, that fragment might actually establish a foothold here."
If Tzeenh was present here in front of him, he would probably say, "Stranded in an alien universe, what better opportunity to make a name for myself? OAA, that lazy God doesn't underestimate the power of an ambitious Chaos God."
Raven pondered whether he should guide the Multiversal Avengers against this emerging threat while shifting his attention to the Ultraman sphere.
Ultraman Diga Universe
Before departing, the Emperor had left substantial resources for Masaki Keigo and his allies. Keigo had successfully propelled humanity into the space age, but they now faced a new existential threat.
Gransphere, a dark planet transformed into a malevolent deity, approached the Solar System with destructive capability. It could annihilate worlds in mere seconds and devour everything; even the Giants of Light proved insufficient against it.
The entity had created synthetic kaiju to harass Earth while demonic energy beings and various alien species launched frequent raids against the system.
Despite protection from multiple Giants of Light, human civilisation's survival remained uncertain.
D&D Universe
Gale has lived up to expectations, even surpassed some; the Human Empire under his leadership led planetary warfare with efficiency.
The Empire's mobilisation capabilities, magical technology, and countless arcane warships, war guardians, and magical golems swept through dimensional battlefields unopposed.
Alien gods faced simple choices: submission or extinction.
Worship of the fictional God of French Fries and Ketchup had spread throughout conquered territories. Since this deity existed only as a conceptual construct, accumulated faith power flowed to Imperial-appointed gods, steadily increasing their might and influence.
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