Chapter 215: The Wishing Star
Chapter 215: The Wishing Star
Five seconds later.
[Probability Generator Production Complete]
Unlike the previous devices, the Probability Generator was extremely small.
Once printing finished and the structure folded inward, it became a metal sphere no larger than a fist.
Yet this small sphere represented the highest limit of technology in the universe.
It could manipulate every probability in existence.
As long as the possibility of an event was not absolutely zero, the Probability Generator could make that event certain to occur.
The reverse was also true.
Even if something was guaranteed to happen, the Probability Generator could reduce its probability to infinitely close to zero.
That was effectively the same as making it impossible.
To possess this device was to command the absolute truth of the universe.
In other words, its effect was equivalent to a Star of the Infinite.
More importantly, Probability Generators could be mass produced.
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The countdown continued.
The instant Caelum reached out and touched the Probability Generator, the entire universe stopped.
All matter ceased moving.
Only Caelum remained unaffected.
The Probability Generator required no external power source.
It was directly connected to the boundless sea of energy within the universe.
As long as vacuum energy did not run dry, the device would never cease functioning.
Caelum concealed the enormous quantum printer before him within subspace.
The surrounding space began to distort.
The scenery around him shifted without pause.
In an instant, he crossed the endless stars.
Galaxies swept past him one after another.
Distance within the universe no longer held any meaning for Caelum.
With a single thought, he could reach any place.
Empowered by the Probability Generator, he became all knowing.
And all powerful.
In the blink of an eye, Caelum arrived upon a highly advanced planet.
A colossal blue quantum device towered over the land.
This was the homeworld of the observer civilization.
The observer civilization was not fundamentally different from Aquora’s civilization.
They were also human.
They were also a civilization built entirely upon science and technology.
The only difference was that their quantum technology was more advanced.
The device standing upon the land was known as the Observer.
From the perspective of quantum mechanics, before something was truly observed, every outcome remained possible.
All results existed together in an entangled state.
That was the purpose of the Observer.
It could selectively collapse any event into a chosen outcome.
For example, it could determine that a civilization had never existed.
Or that it had already perished.
Every civilization that attempted to enter the domain of the String Force Field had been erased in this manner.
Only one civilization had noticed the truth.
It left a warning within the dimension of thought.
Inside the Observer device, its operators were attempting to erase Aquora’s civilization.
But at this moment, the entire universe had stopped.
Their movements were frozen.
It was time to end everything.
Death and destruction were also forms of conquest.
Caelum willed it.
The entire universe began collapsing.
Everything was destroyed and vanished.
No civilization escaped.
At last, the whole universe contracted into a single point of infinite smallness.
Within the void, a speck of light appeared.
It rapidly condensed into a clear and flawless gemstone.
[Final Victory]
[Reward Obtained: Wishing Star]
[Wishing Star: A miraculous star capable of granting any wish within the scale of a universe]
With that, Caelum claimed the final reward of War and Conquest.
At the same time, millions of players were expelled from the game world.
The ultimate victor had been decided.
War and Conquest permanently shut down.
Countless players returned to the real world in confusion.
They had no idea what had happened.
When they attempted to enter War and Conquest again, they discovered that the game icon had turned gray.
They could no longer access it.
"The game shut down?"
The Wishing Star fell into Caelum’s hand.
A white vortex appeared and swallowed him.
Caelum returned to the real world.
The complete Hyperdimensional System hidden within subspace returned with him.
The quantum computer contained all the data from the entire technology tree.
As long as Caelum wished, he could use the quantum printer to create any equipment at any time.
That included the Probability Generator.
There was a major difference between the Probability Generator and the Wishing Star.
Like the Star of the Infinite, the Probability Generator could only alter the degree of probability.
It could not truly turn the impossible into the possible.
In other words, if the probability of an event was absolutely zero, neither the Probability Generator nor the Star of the Infinite could make it happen.
No matter how zero was adjusted, it remained zero.
The Wishing Star was different.
It could truly make an impossible wish come true.
Its only limitation was that the wish had to remain within the scale of a single universe.
That limitation meant almost nothing to Caelum.
As long as he gained the ability to transform the impossible into the possible, he could use his own immense Transcendence to force that ability beyond the limits of a single universe and raise it to a higher Realm.
He already possessed the power to amplify one into one thousand.
What he lacked was the miraculous power to turn zero into one.
The Wishing Star would fill that weakness.
The method was simple.
After returning to the real world, Caelum entered the depths of space and took out the Wishing Star.
Without hesitation, he made the wish he had already prepared before entering the game.
"By my will, gather every possibility within me. At the same moment, I shall possess infinite possibilities and become the embodiment of them all."
The wish was complete.
A deep hum spread through space.
The Wishing Star erupted with brilliant light and engulfed Caelum.
A long time later, the Wishing Star vanished along with the light.
Caelum appeared once more.
His figure flickered without pause.
He vanished and reappeared as though caught in a broken signal.
His form changed again and again.
First, he became a Void Beast.
Then he transformed into a Star of the Infinite.
After that, blazing energy rose around his entire body.
A long time passed before Caelum finally stabilized every possibility within himself.
He returned to his original appearance.
A seemingly ordinary young man dressed in casual clothing.
As he sensed his new state, joy filled him.
From that moment onward, he possessed the power to break through every impossibility.
At the same moment, he would forever exist as the overlapping state of countless possibilities.
Caelum had already surpassed every concept in existence.
Time.
Space.
Life.
Death.
And all things beyond them.
That idea might be difficult to understand.
Put simply, in the past, Caelum could only exist in one definite place at a particular moment.
Now, at the same moment, he could exist everywhere.
Countless possibilities overlapped within him.
He no longer needed to reveal each possibility one by one.
He could manifest every possibility at the same time.
He might be here.
He might also be there.
Therefore, he was both here and there.