Chapter 491: Baby Making, But What is This?
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Void represented not only darkness or shadow but the lack of reality as a whole. So actions such as teleportation and spatial travel could be even more sped up. Neji already had an insane level of control over Void from mastering his class, but now it was even stronger.
To test out just how better he was, he sped up Kimi's teleportation bubble to a degree that it reappeared back inside the Dreamweaver's Fortress in under an instant. They had taken a couple of minutes to get to the battlefield earlier, as the distance was hyperverses far, so even Kimi's unbelievably powerful spells could not do it in an instant.
However, now Neji could.
After he had gained his Celestialsapien powers, his growth rate was unmatched indeed. With the 3786 levels he gained just earlier, he stood at Level 54319.
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[ —Status Page— ]
Name: Neji Hado
Age: 19
Level: 54319
Class: [Choose]
Sub-Class: [Choose]
Title: Celestialsapien, The Cosmic Enigma
Race: Celestialdraconicsapien
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HP: 1470980/1470980
SP: 1476380/1476380
MP: 14993800/14993800
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STR: 147778
END: 147098
DEX: 147638
INT: 149938
WIS: 144138
CHA: 145183
LUC: ###### (Temporarily Overloaded)
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HP REG: 588392/m
SP REG: 590552/m
MP REG: 5765520/m
Stat Points: 286,290
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He was so rich in stats that he could let 286,290 stat points lay around. He also had to choose two new Classes, but he hadn't found ones worth it yet.
Oh, and his Luck was still overloaded.
Neji wondered just how much of his achievements these past two years were because of that.
Whatever the case, he was back in the base. The mission was a success.
"Can't believe we did it so easily!" Lady Life cheered, throwing a fist in the air. Her earlier expression of uncertainty and regret when Neji killed Oblivion hadn't been missed by him, so he was happy seeing her cheer up from it this quickly.
"It was a sight, indeed," Kimi nodded. "I felt it in the air last time when you killed Maestro Myth, but it's something else to actually see it." She walked closer to him and put her arms around his neck, pressing her chest against his. "But do you feel any different? Mentally, I mean. Or anything negative in general?"
"I'm touched that you're worried, but I am fine," he held her waist.
She smiled, "You can't be 'touched' just by this, wait will we reach the bedroom~"
"Oh come on, not now, we have other plans to execute," he squeezed her waist while she let out a soft moan, letting him enjoy the sound of it.
"Right," she said. "Contessa Fate now, right? We've had a few encounters in the past, and in combat, she's pretty weak. So I don't doubt I'll need assistance to capture and enslave her. I'll leave right away, it might take me a few days or weeks to return, this isn't a simple kill mission after all."
"Hey, do you know what this reminds me of?" he asked her. "Back in the Hero world, we captured Toga and you tortured her into submission in my stead. Remember?"
"No way you remember it," she gave him a grin as if it was more surprising that he knew incidents that only happened a couple of years ago for him, while for her it had been eons. "I remember them too, it was fun. I doubt I can make Fate as loyal as Toga though, that'll be up to your charisma after I bring her here."
The plan was to bring Contessa Fate here and make her cooperate. Someone with the ability to look into threads of fate was required in their ranks to seamlessly execute their plans, and who's better at that job if not the Personification of Destiny herself?
Kill would capture her, and take other procedures that'd be enough to make her cooperate with them. The other reason for her presence was to fulfill the future where Fate would be in love with the First Gamer; as long as she'd work with them, it's only a matter of time before Neji would get into her pants, after all.
"Well then," Kimi pressed her lips against his; although he was much taller than what he used to be, she still didn't need to tip-toe for that, she too was taller than her 6"1 self that he remembered in the past. She smiled, "Don't miss me too much."
She stepped back and snapped her fingers, her finger-bones acting as a wand, as a spell was cast in an instant and she slipped into a wave of light.
"You look really happy when you're around her," Lady Life said with a smile, making him pull her closer to him. "Don't worry, I am not jealous. I'm happy too."
"I'm glad," he pulled her head to his chest. "Hey, Life.... while we wait for her and Godmother to return, wanna make a baby?"
"…."
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Neji and Lady Life were sitting on the couch a few days later. Life rested her head on his lap, as he rubbed her tummy with a complicated look on his face.
"We now know for certain it's possible." Neji said, "But I wish… you didn't end up pregnant just yet."
He wasn't sure how to deal with a kid in this situation. He'd rather have waited.
On top of that, he didn't want to actually impregnate her for another, more important reason. This wasn't good.
"It's alright," she nudged her face close to his abdomen with a giggle. "I'll only give birth when it's safe. The baby can rest for now. I'm happy."
Indeed, her wish had come true. Abstracts could not bear children, Lady Life despite being the embodiment of life and birth wasn't any exception from that rule. Yet, that rule had just been broken by Neji and her shared will to work together. She was pregnant.
As the representation of Life, she didn't have any reason to wait nine months. But at the same time considering their situation with the war and their status as omniversal criminals, she didn't have any reason to give birth right now either.
Neji wondered how this child's existence would work out with the Life Golem he met in the future. During the conceiving period, Neji created the core of a God Tree and used all of its energy to make the baby, so that it ended up with the same powers and appearance as the Life Golem. It should work just like that. However, he was still unsure how it'd work in the end when the fateful 'overlap' between two possibilities would happen.
Neji also had a brooding feeling that the kid wouldn't be… 'normal'. For whatever reason, he felt there would be something amiss about the child's existence. Perhaps he was just being paranoid knowing the Life Golem, but he couldn't help but worry.
Whatever the case, even though Neji had mixed feelings about this, he was happy to become a father as well.
When the two of them were being lovey-dovey on the couch, one of their allies returned from the outside world. Godmother of all Demons and her daughter, Anodi, teleported inside the living room in a flash of blinding light.
[Godmother of All Demons – Half Human Half Anodite – Class 0]
[Anodi the 27th – Anodite – High Class 1]
Godmother had regained her previous class level, and even Anodi was stronger than before. Anodi had gained more powers after Neji merged her body with the copies of many Anodites, but she hadn't become Class 1 just then. Now she was, must be something Godmother did to her.
The two of them appeared in the room, facing Neji and Life, and the Godmother immediately frowned. Her eyes focused on Life's tummy, while Anodi whistled.
As beings made out of pure energy, could they sense the baby inside Life?
Godmother shot him a look, "This wasn't a good idea. You're not in any position to have children."
"Well…" he lacked words.
"Congratulations, for killing Oblivion and having a kid!" On the other hand, Anodi lacked her mother's disapproval and waved at him.
"Well, whatever," Godmother sighed. "It does not bother me if you and your people end up dead."
"What happened has happened," he shook his head at her. It's not as if abortion was an option. "Let's change the topic. It seems you have succeeded in your mission, half an Anodite is not bad."
"...Yes," she nodded after a short silence. "When is the girl returning?"
By the girl, she meant Kimi.
Before Neji could reply, to all of their surprise, the room lit up. Another streak of light and two more people appeared in the room.
One was Kimi, in her witch dress with her blonde hair dancing in the air, while the other was a red-haired young woman tied and bound by different chains. The latter glared around at all of them, her mouth taped and making her unable to talk, while the former blinked at us.
"Huh?" She looked at Life. "There is no way, you're pregnant?!" Then she shot Neji a look. "Young master, really?!"
"Uh…" Neji was fearing this. That she'd be mad that he impregnated someone else before her. "Don't be mad that you weren't the first, it just happened in the heat of the moment. I swear you'll be the second-"
"What do you mean, I'm happy!" Kimi's yell interrupted him, as both he and Life blinked in surprise. Life didn't show, but she was a little worried too that Kimi would be mad. Kimi ran to Life and crouched down before her tummy. She was smiling at it. "It's a little embryo, no way."
Neji smiled. "I'm glad you don't mind it."
"It's fine, of course, why would I mind it? Besides, you got it wrong, I'm the 2nd," she said and he blinked.
"What do you mean?"
"Hm? You forgot? I am not the second," she looked up at him and said. "As Lucille, I told you that we have a baby, right?"
"...."
"I wasn't lying. I'm never the 2nd."
'What?' Neji stared at her in silence as his mind spun. So he had a kid already? Was he/she safe? Did the Prime Gods back in the future know about it?
What did she do to it anyway?
He had a lot of questions to ask.
Thankfully this Kimi wasn't programmed to hold back any information from him, so she spoke.
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Chapter 492: Marathon Begins
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The Kimi Doll had informed him that she had taken the form of Lucille because there was already a Kimi in the timeline, and there couldn't be two of them without her taking the form of someone else.
All this time, Neji thought she just meant she impersonated Lucille, who was a real person of her own rights.
However, that turns out to not be true.
Lucille, always, had been Kimi. From the first day he remembered meeting her in his first life, apparently, she was Kimi.
Her "gangster father" and all that was a random setting she chose.
"But, uh, I didn't plan the incident that'd happen with my false dad and your mother, and later on how your mother pushed you down the yacht. What she did was weird. She's a variable." Kimi explained slowly, "I guess it's just the Omniverse acting on its own to correct itself? That's the running theory for me. If she didn't push you, you wouldn't be born as Neji, after all, and if you weren't born and didn't meet me, I would never gain powers to time travel. It's basically the grandfather's paradox. Still, to be sure, I looked deeper into it to look for what was up with her, but I never found anything about it. It's really weird."
"I see," Neji answered with a frown and motioned her to continue. They were back inside Kimi's room, with just the two of them, and catching up on this incident.
After that were the events that he already knew from the doll. Due to the difference in time between Prime and Cube, in just a few months or Prime time, Neji already lived 16 years of life and reached the Babylon incident.
Then, Kimi, as well as Neji's rich sugar mommy Yasmin teamed up to take his soul within Eurynome Celestine's trap to make a simulation world for him to fight and kill monsters to level up just enough to get rid of his restrictions.
"Wait, hold on a second," Neji stopped her as he found another weird point. "Yasmin is a supernatural entity…?"
"Uh," Kimi smiled awkwardly. "She is… actually Nawab. It's a long story."
"...."
Anyhow, the story after that was simple. After trying to perform the ritual for 4 years on Neji and failing, Kimi left behind a doll and returned back to the past. That's when Neji, who had just dealt with SBOP, also was sent to connect the two dots.
"Ignoring most of the questions I have, I only want to ask this," he said. "So when you were in your Lucille days, we got into it so deep that you got pregnant? And in the end you didn't abort the kid and gave birth to it?! Why the fuck did you never tell me?!"
"...." She looked unsure how to answer.
He called himself seeing her expression and gently pulled her to his chest, "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell. Was it a son or…?"
"It's a son," she replied slowly. "I didn't tell you because I was ashamed. Back then I was so mad and frustrated after you died to a stupid shark. Without knowing what to do, I just took the kid from my womb and threw him away in some alleyway." Which sounded insane, but who knew how her mind worked after she waited for him for eons, meeting him after an extremely long ritual, only for him to die to a stupid shark. "He should be in the streets, and I checked his fate and manipulated it a bit to grant him a good life. After all of this ends… you can find him."
"You mean 'we', right?" He asked and she let out a sigh, hiding her face in shame.
"I'll be ashamed to show my face to him," she said. "I… you know the reason I threw him out is because I was sure he'd remind me of you too much, as he's your blood, and I might end up doing something stupid with him. I'm such a weirdo, I'm sorry."
"...." He wasn't even surprised, rather he suddenly understood her actions. She's too loyal to not be a little weird in the head.
Neji kissed her head and hugged her a bit more comfortably. She relaxed into his arms and apologized several times, but it wasn't necessary since he could never hate her for it.
Still, this meant he had two sons now. As well as Kurai, of course, he would never forget to include her. Suddenly Neji felt a little weirdly happy.
However, even now, he was a little unsure how the child inside Lady Life would turn out.
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When Lady Life told Neji for the first time about her desire to have children, she used human mothers as an example. So in the end, they decided to let the child see the light of the world after nine months, the human time of pregnancy.
With the children issue put aside for now, they focused on other important matters.
Contessa Fate.
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She was granted her own room, which was secured with Neji and Godmother's omnipotent willpower, enchanted runes, and magic formations. It was all to keep her from fleeing. Her ankle was chained against a stronghold inside the room, and the chain itself was suppressing her in many ways to keep her imprisoned.
A few days have passed since she was captured, and she had given up all hope of being found or rescued by her people. If it was possible, they'd have found her a long time ago.
Today, Neji, Kimi, Godmother, and Anodi gathered in her room. They stood in front of her and Kimi nudged her to work her power to form a hologram in the air.
"According to my predictions," Contessa Fate said as she begrudgingly pointed at the routes of fate in the hologram. "These are the incoming events in the next couple of years." She said, "But keep in mind that nothing is solidified here since Class Zero beings, more than one, against whom my powers fall short, are an active force in this war times."
"We know," Kimi said with a frown. "Just continue explaining, don't waste our time with amateur expla-"
"Hey, Kimi, shut up," Neji interrupted her by hitting her side. "Don't treat her like that, she's helping us. And if you forgot, I don't understand these things on paper, I appreciate the explanations."
Kimi frowned but said nothing.
Naturally, it was an act. Why would he tell his sweetheart to shut up because of a random bitch? They were playing the good cop and bad cop roles, to induce Fate with the Stockholm Syndrome over time.
Of course, right now she didn't yet look at him with grateful eyes, she gave him a look of incompetence instead, for being so strong yet not knowing anything, but that'd change over time. It wasn't a fast mission.
"And according to this prediction," Fate continued, waving her hand in the air to highlight a few dots in the hologram. "...I believe these are the best opportunities for him to 'Level Up'."
Neji looked into the dots she pointed at, a small smile forming on his lips.
He was extremely strong right now, but he was sure he wouldn't win against the big bad yet. Kimi was Class 0 in the future too, yet she lost to the Primordial. After all, he was titled the "Killer of Paradoxes", so Neji had no need to challenge that guy just yet.
Since the First Gamer was mentioned a few times to have "reached such heights of power in only a hundred years", Neji was aiming to live that long too. He was sure the war between omniverses wouldn't end before that… so only at the end of this century would Neji initiate the final attack.
Until then, he would level up.
Through a marathon of slaughtering.
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