In the border region between the two Multi-Universal Empires that’d been chosen to bear the brunt of the coming wrath of an Eternal, Jamie created a massive, universe-sized dinsion that was essentially a replica of the alternate dinsional space where Adam had stored Angela’s body.
He’d then had his and Akari’s subordinates surround the dinsion’s entry portal, scanning the surrounding area as if they were searching for sothing specific.
Jamie sealed the portal using the power of his strongest Dictum so that no one below the Ultimate Realm could enter it, then left for the Dark Multiverse ruled by the Aggressors to retrieve sothing before returning to his own Multiverse.
After that, he headed back to the trap dinsion’s region and entered one of the flagships from Akari’s Empire, where the Shrine Priestess herself was present.
Jamie had inford her that Angela was awake and was planning to transform her sister into an Immortal, an action that’d alert the Eternals of Life and Death and would inevitably draw the Eternal of Death to that location, with the resulting battle being what’d cause the collateral damage to the two nearby Multi-Universal Empires and erase all those from foreign territories who ca to spy on whatever he and Akari were planning around the area.
Still, Jamie felt that simply knowing about his and Akari’s actions in that area wouldn’t be enough to draw out the targets they wanted, so he decided to add sothing else to the plan.
"Let them think that we’re searching for a relic of the Previous Era."
"That’s a very dangerous lure to use, Westley," was Akari’s response to his statent.
She was worried that they might end up drawing in more fish than they could handle, specifically existences at the Ultimate Realm.
Items from the Previous Era all possessed absurd levels of power.
To begin with, every one of those items had been strong enough to survive the void before the Cosmos was birthed anew following the destruction of the last iteration of the Cosmos.
One example was Jamie’s Sword of Dinsional Severance, the Galaxy Sword.
It didn’t matter how higher-dinsional the target was, since it could strike all of the target across however many dinsions it occupied, including dinsions Jamie couldn’t orient his existence in or couldn’t perceive at all.
Every slash was practically a guaranteed hit, no matter how powerful the target might be.
Even non-Rule Breaker items from the Previous Era all possessed absurd powers, one example being the item that beca the core of the original Destruction Supre’s Annihilation Catalyst.
Jamie had said before that the improper disposal of an item from the Previous Era was what allowed the Destruction Supre to create the Annihilation Catalyst, and was likely the reason it could even sprout a new consciousness from the vestige left behind and beco a complete ’existence’ on its own.
The one who’d improperly disposed of that item was the sa Progenitor Jamie and Angela had gone to et in Continuum H-0, Adam.
Sothing the man had considered useless and discarded at random just happened to synergise well with the Destruction Supre’s Dictum, and it was what they’d used to create the Annihilation Catalyst that was now the Neo-Extinction Legion’s leader.
So if word got out that another similar item had been discovered, they might end up drawing in far more than just their intended targets.
Jamie understood that danger, but he still went ahead with the plan because it was one that would guarantee their targets showed up.
Not rely Supres and Grand Supres, but Integration Realms and Zenith Havens like themselves.
Those kinds had lived for so long and valued their lives so highly that the majority rarely moved unless it concerned sothing of great importance or imnse value like this.
Akari handled most of the information dissemination. Her spies within enemy territories let this detail slip into the right channels, the ones that would ensure the information reached the ruling powers of these vast domains, starting with the two flanking the trap dinsion.
Those two in particular sent out their powerhouses to the region as quickly as possible, to gather as much information on Jamie and Akari’s fleets surrounding the dinsion gate as they could and report back to their capitals.
Their plan worked, and soon, many existences began to gather in the region, with several beings on their level hiding within the folds of space to observe from a distance.
Jamie and Akari acted as if they hadn’t noticed and continued waiting for the seal on the entrance portal that Jamie had created to slowly crack open.
"Look at them, all like moths to a fla because of rumours about an item that isn’t even there," Akari said, shaking her head silently.
But as she spoke, Jamie replied with sothing that made her snap her gaze toward him in shock.
"Who said there isn’t an item from the Previous Era inside there?"
|...you goddamn lunatic!!|
Akari’s loud voice echoed throughout the entire ship, prompting several of her subordinates to rush in imdiately with weapons drawn, thinking sothing serious had happened.
They weren’t wrong, but what had happened wasn’t sothing they needed to know, so Akari expelled them all from the control room with a wave of her hand.
Having known Jamie for millions of years and dealt with his antics more tis than she cared to count, Akari was absolutely certain that if Jamie said sothing like that, there was definitely sothing dangerous inside that trap dinsion.
Right at that mont, the seal Jamie had placed on the trap dinsion cracked open, and an imnse wave of cosmic energy poured out, crashing into the gathered fleets like a tsunami, crushing the shields of the ships at the front and nearly destroying so entire squads if their commanders hadn’t acted to protect them.
A long tear, several hundred light-years in length, split across space, widening to twice its length, and from it gushed a cosmic aura so ferocious that even the least observant eye could imdiately tell that sothing extraordinary was inside.
Akari turned her stunned gaze toward Jamie as she sensed this, and the man just smiled before raising his hand to his watch and setting a countdown tir.
"The beacon is active," Jamie said, lowering his hand and looking at her. "We have less than 12 standard hours. No ti to dawdle."
He then proceeded to telepathically order all the Zanerth-affiliated ships in the region to move into the rift, and at this, Akari just sighed before commanding her fleet to advance as well, her flagship’s superior shields cutting a path through the ferocious cosmic energy waves.
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The operatives lured from other Multi-Universal Empires also noticed the trap dinsion’s portal bursting open, and they sensed the intense cosmic energy it radiated, clear signs that sothing extrely dangerous was inside.
Because of this, many who had been hiding revealed themselves, and after discussions that nearly erupted into argunts several tis, they managed to reach an agreent with the goal of preventing their common enemies from obtaining whatever was inside the dinsion.
If possible, they intended to destroy it so no one could claim it.
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The interior of the trap dinsion was modelled after the alternate space in Continuum H-0, with static stars, planets, and galaxies, blending Continuum H-0’s galactic configuration with Zanerth’s.
Jamie and Akari left their fleets behind and moved ahead, heading straight for the only planetoid in the entire dinsion that contained a living being, the one Angela had created for her personal use.
Akari had never t Angela before, and part of the reason she had agreed to be physically present was the opportunity to et the fad ’Witch of Chaos.’
Upon seeing Akari, Angela only raised an eyebrow before asking,
"Why would you willingly bind your existence to Roland’s?"
"Desperate tis call for desperate asures," Akari replied with a shrug, and hearing this, Angela silently shook her head.
Turning to Jamie, she asked, "The fools who ca here are the ones you intended to lure?"
When Jamie nodded, Angela extended her left palm, and a reinforced tal box appeared above it. She grabbed the box by the handle before it could fall, her expression turning into a slight frown as she asked,
"Now then, explain this."
Jamie just chuckled, snapping his fingers to teleport the box into his hands as he said, "It’s the bait for the fish. The ’rumours’ about an item from the Previous Era being here weren’t lying after all."
Akari glanced at the black, one-square-tre box, multiple belt buckles surrounding it, her hair standing on end at the re thought of analysing it.
’Just thinking about scanning it is already threatening? What on earth did Westley put in that box?’
Her curiosity spiked instantly, and while she wrestled with those thoughts, Angela snapped back at Jamie’s answer to her question.
"I don’t care what Era it’s from. I’m asking why you brought that thing here."
From her words, it was clear she knew sothing about either the contents or the source, and neither was sothing she could afford to ignore, especially as she was about to perform the critical process of removing Daniella’s rcury Gem and turning her into a Deathless Immortal.
Jamie also understood why she was cautious. He sighed, placing the box on the ground and sitting on it as he spoke.
"Alright, Angela. We both know Julio is sharp. We also know she would never let her guard down against you, especially with involved as well.
This box is a beacon, here to call up so assistance for you. A little sothing to give you an opening to ’work your magic’."
Jamie didn’t elaborate further, standing and grabbing the box by its handle as he turned around.
"I have no desire to get in your way. Your success is mine as well. So focus on your sister while I handle my part."
With that, he waved once and teleported away, heading back to his fleet to make preparations to evacuate them once the battle got bloody.
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