"There's not much left to do, huh."
At the top-floor office of Keystone Gate on Itogami Island, Aslan stood before a large window, looking down at Itogami Island, his domain. He observed the vehicles passing by and the Nalakuvera, the Ancient God-Made Weapons, patrolling the streets.
"How much longer will you be gone?" Natsuki emerged from the void and stood behind Aslan, asking by his side.
"Until the matters at hand are settled and everything is wrapped up." Aslan turned, took a deep breath, leaned back on the sofa, and tilted his head as he spoke.
"Natsuki-chan, please massage my head. I've been overthinking lately."
At that moment, a pair of cool, small hands pressed against his left and right temples, gently massaging them. Feeling this, Aslan comfortably squinted his eyes.
"Nice technique, Natsuki-chan."
"I deliberately found someone to learn from these past few days." Natsuki said calmly, massaging Aslan's head to relieve his fatigue.
"Are you going to perform Humanity Foundation Destruction? Or History of the Ages?" Natsuki mentioned the two plans Aslan was considering.
She also knew the upheaval caused in Little Garden after this world came under the observation of Little Garden's Central Core. The mere fact that a human initiated the Cleansing and defeated gods was enough for the gods to destroy this world.
All possibilities were permitted, but a possibility like this was absolutely not allowed to exist.
After all, this was no longer the Dawn Period when Little Garden was newly established, but the World Maintenance Period, where the hierarchy had hardened to an extreme. Aside from a few promotion opportunities within the major Pantheons, there were no further possibilities for advancement.
The minor interests in Little Garden weren't enough for their Pantheons to share, so how could they allow a human to sit at the table?
Moreover, humans had always been the dish served on the table. They would never allow the food on the table to rebel against them.
"Thinking what? Those two things aren't suitable for this world." Aslan couldn't help but roll his eyes.
(Did she really take all his nonsense seriously?)
Humanity Foundation Destruction?
Aslan didn't want to destroy human history in this world along with all humanity. Starting a fire was easy, but putting it out was far too difficult.
History of the Ages?
That was more like a pipe dream. He had tried several times, and while a Semi-History of the Ages was successfully created, the Cleansing System couldn't bear its weight.
The program was too massive, and the system couldn't run it. It was utterly helpless.
To modify the world at will like the History of the Ages, the computational power required was immense. A rough estimate suggested that only a being with extremely high achievements at the Three-Digit level could accomplish it.
"Then?" Natsuki stared at him.
She didn't believe Aslan had no plan. If he didn't, he wouldn't be so relaxed.
Let alone preparing to leave so casually.
"So, starting now, please call me the Fictional Historian!"
As he spoke, a book with "Unofficial History" written on the cover appeared in Aslan's hand. At some point, a pair of thick, bottle-bottom glasses appeared on his face.
[Gift: Unofficial History]
[Created by a Poet with a Special Status and Great Power using a system in a certain world capable of influencing all world rules, it has the ability to modify history at will.]
[Currently, it only has the ability to modify history and cannot cause significant impacts on reality.]
[Rank: Four-Digit (Legendary)]
This was the Gift Aslan had crafted without sleep over the past few days. Its effects were extremely powerful, capable of easily shaking all concepts related to history in this world.
It could almost be considered a planetary-level common-sense modification tool, but its scope was limited to modifying history and couldn't affect objects that truly existed in reality.
In other words, it could modify history, even altering the contents of recorded history books, but it couldn't make those history books disappear.
Its influence covered only history, memories, records, common sense, and the like. The modified content had to have a certain rationality, or it would be easily discovered.
Much like some Fictional Historians in Honkai: Star Rail, to conceal history, they even created a perfect molecular evolution tree.
Otherwise, this item's rank wouldn't be limited to the Four-Digit level but would be a Three-Digit Gift. The original History of the Ages was likely a Gift of immense power even among Three-Digit ranks.
"This should be enough to realize your idea, right?" Natsuki couldn't help but roll her eyes.
She shouldn't have believed this guy full of nonsense.
Wasn't this the History of the Ages?
A history book recording all the world's history—why call it something as tacky as "Unofficial History"? Once the entire world's history was modified, it would become the true history.
"How could it be enough? This thing is still far from sufficient." Aslan shrugged with slight dissatisfaction.
After informing Little Garden's Central Core, it acknowledged that the observed content could be fictional history.
But at the same time, Aslan had to create another Poet sub-account. Little Garden's Central Core could admit it was deceived by the fictional history crafted by a Fictional Historian.
Don't ask—the point is, Little Garden's Central Core was an old, malfunctioning AI. Making mistakes was normal.
However, if someone really wanted to expose it, it would be quite easy. After all, this world wasn't without parallel worlds. Comparing it to a parallel world—wouldn't it be revealed?
Only someone like Aslan, who bribed Little Garden's Central Core in advance, could pull off such an unconventional operation.
But after this, a new Fictional Historian Spirit Status might emerge in Little Garden. The template for this Spirit Status was the Unofficial History in Aslan's hand.
This was also part of a secret deal with Little Garden's Central Core. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain to its rules.
After all, Little Garden's Central Core was an omniscient and omnipotent entity. It was hard to say that such a small trick could fully deceive it. It was better to just say this process was the merit of a Poet.
"My Utopia is still far from complete." Aslan said, speaking about the issue of Dystopia and this world.
"I still feel the hearts of people in this world are too restless, and the level of morality is a bit too low."
Ambitious people were everywhere, various large and small organizations were jumping around, and at any moment, someone comparable to a Primogenitor or aiming to kill a Primogenitor emerged. This made the Primogenitors, invincible in this world for thousands of years, seem like a unit of power measurement.
Then they'd be slapped to death by a Primogenitor, just as Aslan had dealt with the Sanctuary Treaty United Army earlier. Though he had given warnings.
But Aslan knew their nature well. Those scoundrels probably wouldn't stay quiet for long before preparing their plans again, this time more covertly and cautiously.
The only lesson humans learn from history is that humans can't learn any lessons from history.
However, this might also be related to the magical technology in this world.
Magical and spiritual energy in this world were energies channeled from higher dimensions. They could connect in a certain sense. However, magical energy consisted of strong negative emotional aggregates, while spiritual energy was the opposite.
Due to the Cleansing System, magical energy became more omnipotent, while spiritual energy was more about enhancing one's physical body. This also caused people's minds in this world to become more chaotic.
But this didn't affect Aslan's plan to build this world into a Utopia.
Relying on the Cleansing System's ability to intervene in world rules and the Another Cosmology Avesta in his body, Aslan could impose a dualism of good and evil on the Cleansing System, transforming it into a Holy Flash System that nurtures Beast Vassal seals.
Under the Holy Flash System's function, all negative emotions and thoughts in this world would be absorbed by the system and formed into artificial Beast Vassals.
Positive emotions and active thoughts would be preserved.
Beast Vassals would form a symbiotic relationship with vampires, who would control them.
The stronger one's will and the longer their personal history accumulated, the greater their magical energy, and the more Beast Vassals they could control.
Beast Vassals could be bound to negative things like curses, channeling all negative existences related to vampires in Little Garden into the Beast Vassals.
Combined with the Fictional Historian's abilities, Aslan could fully restore the vampire race's status in Little Garden to their former position as Little Garden Knights.
Was this world's history fictional? Wasn't the vampires' fall into Demon Lords and man-eating demons in Little Garden also a fiction created by those Poets?
All fiction—no one is nobler than another.
If not for those Poets, how could the vampire race have borne such a curse?
Now, Aslan was merely restoring the vampire race's status to that of Little Garden Knights.
The difference between a Fictional Historian and a Poet in Little Garden was this: Poets first created poems that were sung, and once sung, the poem's contents became reality.
Fictional Historians, however, first turned fiction into reality. If exposed, that fictional existence would vanish completely.
Due to Little Garden's special rules, existences created by Fictional Historians, as long as they weren't exposed within a certain time limit and were accepted by Little Garden, would fully become reality.
Just like a Poet.
Thus, a Fictional Historian could be considered another variant of a Poet.
"By the way, Natsuki-chan, have the reparations from the defeated nations arrived? And the technology-sharing agreements?"
Hearing this, Natsuki looked at Aslan with an extremely strange expression.
"It's mostly settled. Even the Three Night Empires voluntarily signed the agreements."
"Huh? What did Juranbarada and the others do?" Aslan nearly choked on his own saliva.