Edward's eyes gazed at the past, and he saw the truth. Before Kaecilius pursued Kamar Taj and mysticism to save his wife, she did the same before him once their child was on the verge of dying. In fact, he had the idea once he was dealing with her belongings after her passing.
One of Adria's attempts was a ceremony that connected her to Mephisto. From that day on, she and that child's soul secretly belong to the Hell Lord, who has been planning how to descend into the material world. In fact, based on what Edward saw, Mephisto almost succeeded by tricking Adria, but she caught on and stopped at the last minute.
Afterward, Mephisto started to lurk to find his opportunity, which arrived when Edward summoned these souls from the afterlife.
"There was no such thing in the information we had before, meaning our information was incomplete or —"
"This timeline has been radically changed," Morgana finished.
"What other things are different than expected?" Edward asked. His clone should have done this kind of work.
"Nothing unexpected yet, but we have confirmed that Defenders and the SHIELD people, like Sky, Jemma, and Leo, do not exist in this timeline."
"These are all talented people, and it would help us plenty if they were here," Edward commented. These people would have shone in the world had they had access to his training and knowledge.
"We need to move up the plan," Morgana suggested.
"Indeed," Edward nodded, preparing to move.
"Wait, we have another bad news."
"What is it?"
"The twins are gone?"
"What?" He immediately checked, and as expected, Wanda and her brother were gone from the family he placed them in.
"Mephisto should have made a move."
"She's the Scarlet Witch. Of course, he would be interested," Morgana explained. "So, what now?"
"We'll do what we usually do: prepare for all possibilities, especially the worst-case scenario. Firstly, let's distract Mephisto, so he doesn't have much time to deal with us."
With a single thought, he scanned the entire planet, finding all the people in this place with the highest sins or negative karma. He cursed those people to die rapidly over the course of the next five years before focusing on the ones who were about to die immediately.
[Soul Corruption]
Edward then places nasty corruption in their souls and even Soul Flame. As he watched these people die, he focused on the rest of the universe and did the same.
"Good move. Even these Hell Lords should have a headache dealing with all these corrupted souls," Morgana nodded. Once all these sinful and corrupted souls enter Hell, it will momentarily cause chaos, thus distracting Mephisto and the other Hell Lords.
"You should send a message that this was a gift to Mephisto, make the other Hell Lords know this trouble is because of him," she suggested. "I doubt this is enough to create in-fighting, but who knows? Maybe someone may use this as an excuse to cause trouble for Mephisto."
"That's a great idea," Edward nodded before leaving a message in these people's souls saying: "Hope you like this gift, Mephisto." Edward wanted to peep at the chaos in Hell right now, but with how powerful these entities are, it's not wise to peep at them currently.
Edward teleported to a secret facility under SHIELD's. This facility was so secret that even Fury, the director, did not know its existence. In fact, besides Edward, only three other people knew it existed — including the president — and he allowed them to know because he wanted this organization to be a governmental sanction to give them legitimacy. In fact, these three people did not even know exactly what this place was and did, and the information was protected in their minds and souls.
Edward pondered about conquering Earth and establishing a new Arcane Empire. However, this world was weird and rejected tyrants or any form of absolute ruler. In all the possibilities he saw, he had to spend years quelling rebellions as people kept rejecting his reign. Even if he tried using means of mind or soul control, some entity would interfere and lead to chaos in the Empire, which he has to quell. As such, after much analysis, he realized the best approach is to use the existing system while also doing things more from the shadows.
Edward entered a room full of people in glass tubes and green liquid. "Activate them." Under Morgana's control, the glasses opened, nanites turned into clothes for these people, and they flew into direct places, immediately getting into positions. The facility that was barely running was now completely operational.
"Welcome to the Time Protection Force," Morgana said with a childish smile, and Edward rolled his eyes. After knowing the convergence was approaching, he recreated his world's version of the Time Auror to overlook and protect this timeline from time travelers and detect any breach of this timeline.
He even built Rick Sanchez's Citadel and used it as the Time Force's headquarters, not to place a wall around this timeline but for better monitoring. Edward did not know what terrible effect would happen if a timeline tried to fuse with his own, but the thing hit the Dimensional Wall instead.
Of course, he still left the citadel's protection ability, which, in an emergency, would link to Kamar Taj's defense.
"Where is Ra?" Edward asked.
"Still in incubation."
Edward teleported to a special room where there was still a person in a tank. Morgana immediately displayed the data to Edward, and he frowned. "Even after so much modification, his weakness to magic is still this high?"
"We have eliminated his weakness to Kryptonite, but this is the best we can do for magic."
The Time Force needed people he could trust, and they needed to be powerful very fast. So, Edward used the Kryptonian DNA he acquired to build the Time Agents before providing them with enough sun energy to increase their strength. Because he modified their Life Code severely– especially to remove their magic weakness— most of these agents were between Tier 4 and 6. As such, he decided to create a more pure and powerful Kryptonite as their leader and boss: Ra.
Ra was a semi-success as he achieved Tier 10 after absorbing countless suns, but he was still weak to magic. Of course, it was not any magic, but if he met an opponent like Edward or the Ancient One, this would be a problem.
"If we could get the Life Code of these Superman clones like Omni-Man and combine with it Kryptonian DNA, we might have perfected Ra," Edward commented. "However, this is good enough for now."
"Do you want to build an Anti-Magic Armor for him?" Morgana asked.
"You know my mind," Edward nodded before activating Ra.
"My Lord," said the newly elected leader of the Time Force.
"You know your job?"
"Yes. I have all the memories necessary to serve you."
"Good. You're dismissed."
After Ra left, Edward condensed another clone and tasked him to build the armor for the Kryptonian.
"Where next?" Morgana asked.
"Now that this thing is operational, let's test its ability."
"Don't you want to deal with Nick Fury? He should be going insane with losing so many bases and agents."
"Let the clone deal with him."
After taking an hour to prepare, Edward opened a portal to another timeline. He went to get Albion.