‘Thinking’
“Talking”
“Attack”
Chapter 2: The Erudition Pipeline
[Location: Yogami Star System – Ruan Mei’s Research Outpost]
[POV: Kiana Kaslana]
Night had fallen over the isolated star system.
I sat on the edge of the stiff bed inside my temporary quarters, staring up at the unfamiliar, cold metallic ceiling.
My mind raced as I recalled the options I had selected back during the Survey.
A sudden chill ran down my spine.
‘Thank God I chose Ciel.
Otherwise…
I would’ve ended up as the original Kiana Kaslana a complete idiot with a single digit IQ like a tuna’
Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath and began testing Ciel’s inherent capabilities within my mindscape.
[Skill Activated: Thought Acceleration]
[Skill Activated: Parallel Mind]
[Skill Activated: All of Creation]
Thump.
In an instant, the world around me slowed to an absolute crawl.
My processing speed exploded, expanding by trillions of times per microsecond.
Concepts, quantum formulas, and fundamental spatial laws danced before my eyes like clear water.
With [All of Creation], the underlying phenomena of the universe became an open book.
Paired with the absolute authority of the Herrscher of Finality, I wasn’t just powerful I was a walking, sentient deity.
Weapons, concepts, and magic systems from anime and games…
I could recreate every single one of them.
‘Power without mastery is just a glorified nuke,’ I thought, narrowing my eyes.
‘I need to master actual conceptual weaponry.’
First on the list: Gate of Babylon.
By fusing All of Creation, Formless Magic, and the Authority of Reason, I didn’t just copy the Gate I dissected its core conceptual framework down to the raw code.
I mapped out the blueprints of every Noble Phantasm in existence.
And then?
I upgraded it.
Not only could I summon every Noble Phantasm at peak efficiency, but I could also download the absolute combat mastery of their original owners in real time.
I threw in Divine Constructs for good measure.
‘There is no such thing as too much power.’
Armaments, modern weaponry, legendary relics, divine gems, rare ores, even top tier luxury food the treasury contained it all.
No wonder Gilgamesh was such an arrogant bastard.
I renamed it as Gate of Finality
[Some of the treasures of the Gate of Finality]
-> Ea (Sword of Rupture): The world ending construct of space time rupture.
-> Enkidu (Chains of Heaven): Absolute binding force against divine entities.
-> Enki (Sword of the End): The harbinger of total deluge.
-> Excalibur (Sword of Promised Victory): The holy blade of light.
-> Great Grail: Unlimited magic energy reservoir.
-> Rhongomyniad (Lance of the Ends of the Earth): The anchor of reality.
-> Avalon (The Everdistant Utopia): Absolute, impenetrable defense.
-> Moon Cell: A fully functional, reality warping supercomputer.
-> Black Barrel: The conceptual gun that imposes mortality on immortal beings, triggering a paradox that guarantees absolute death.
-> Ten Rings of Solomon: The legacy of the King of Magic, granting total dominion over the Arcane.
Next came the Divine Keys.
I dove deep into analyzing the Honkai Cores resting within me, deciphering how their authorities functioned at a conceptual level.
Authority of Reason: Upgraded to the Authority of Truth.
Authority of Origin: Still a work in progress.
It had no fixed authority, making it frustratingly elusive to map out.
Satisfied for now, I leaned back against the wall and turned my attention to the bigger picture.
‘I don’t have a legal identity in this universe.’
That was a massive problem.
To survive and thrive in this cosmos, I needed backing.
I needed a legitimate faction.
I weighed my options carefully:
‘The IPC?
Denied.
I refuse to become a corporate wage slave in another lifetime.
The Xianzhou Alliance?
Denied.
Getting dragged into an eternal war between the Hunt and the Abundance sounds exhausting.
The Stellaron Hunters?
Denied.
Joining them means becoming a universal wanted criminal overnight.
Besides, as both Finality and Terminus, my existence would cause a direct conflict of authority over the Aeon position.
Elio would probably suffer a cardiac arrest trying to script my destiny anyway.
The Family?
Denied.
Remnants of the Order, Gopher Wood, Sunday…
I’m not hopping on a sinking ship destined for selfdestruction.
That left three choices: The Nameless, The Genius Society, and The Intelligentsia Guild.
The Astral Express is out of reach.
With no way to contact them, the Nameless are off the table….
That leaves only the Erudition.’
My lips curled into a smirk.
‘If I’m going to walk the path of Erudition, why not make the entire universe hesitate to cross me?
Maximum freedom, maximum authority.’
I activated the Authority of Corruption.
In seconds, my consciousness bypassed the IPC’s top tier cybersecurity like it was made of wet paper.
I forged a bulletproof galactic identity and linked an infinite credit line directly from my Gate of Finality into my newly minted account.
Financial worries?
Erased forever.
Next step: Getting the attention of Nous the Erudition.
I began digging through memories of my past life, pulling out revolutionary concepts from games and anime that could shatter the current scientific consensus without poking into the dangerous, forbidden domain of Polka Kakamond, the Lord of Silence.
Act II: The Genius Pipeline
[Target Projects for Genius Society Admission]
-> Plasma Spark Tower (Ultraman): An artificial sun capable of powering entire star systems where real suns have died out.
Side effect: Mutative light evolution.
-> Tree-Sea Multiverse Model: A unified framework detailing the relationship between the Imaginary Tree and the Quantum Sea.
It will completely rewrite cosmic physics.
-> Soul Society: A structured afterlife system.
Currently, when people die in this universe, their souls decay into Nothingness.
This fixes that.
-> Soul Gems: High density magical constructs designed to amplify a Pathstrider’s energy and harvest fallen souls.
-> Project WARP: A pocket dimension sustained by emotional energy to house souls post mortem, governed by the Four Chaos Gods.
-> Voice of the World: Implementing the universal notification system from Tensura.
-> Another Cosmology: Constructing specialized star maps capable of manifesting a pantheon of Aeons.
(Note: Scrapped for now.
Too dangerous might trigger total cosmic chaos.)
-> Project Gundam Unicorn (Psycho Frame): A machine capable of turning human possibility into reality, manipulating the past and future.
I drafted a clear project roadmap:
[PHASE 1: SOCIETY ENTRY & GALACTIC DEBUT]
├── Tree-Sea Multiverse Model (Immediate completion using past memory + Xandar’s research)
└── Plasma Spark Tower (Prototype creation via Authority of Truth)
[PHASE 2: SOUL & AFTERLIFE SYSTEM]
├── Soul Gem Material Testing
├── Project Gundam (Bridge tech connecting souls, emotions, and reality)
└── WARP & Soul Society (Final deployment of the artificial afterlife dimension)
[PHASE 3: IMPOSSIBLE PROJECTS (LONG-TERM RESEARCH)]
├── Voice of the World
└── Another Cosmology
Phase 1 would be ready by tomorrow morning.
My grand debut to the Genius Society was about to begin.
Auther Note:
I have completely rewritten this chapter to clean up the pacing, grammar, and formatting for a better reading experience.