Chapter 2410: The End.

Supreme Harem God System

As the feast continued and everyone celebrated, Ilyra distanced herself from the group. Then suddenly, she paused.

"Why are you following me?"

She questioned without turning around.

"I am sneaking around. Hehe~"

The little girl giggled.

Ilyra turned around and laughed out loud as she picked her up in her arms.

"It’s not sneaking around if you aren’t hiding yourself, Mira."

"What’s the point? It’s not like I can hide from you."

Mira shrugged as she let herself be picked up and Ilyra laughed again as she looked at her.

Mira was naturally curious, so when Ilyra arrived and Skyla told her how she knew everything there was to know about the Multiverse, Mira quickly became close to Ilyra and began following her around.

Other children were still a little wary around Ilyra since she was new, but Mira didn’t care.

She went ahead and made friends, something Ilyra gratefully accepted, the Omniscient woman actually liked being around Mira.

"That is true as well."

Ilyra smiled.

"Why aren’t you playing with your siblings?"

She asked.

"Because I saw you come here alone."

"Hmm?"

"You seemed lonely, so I came here."

"Aww~ Don’t make me love you more than I already do."

"Hehe~"

Mira giggled.

Ilyra smiled as she ruffled her hair, then suddenly—

"She didn’t come here because she was lonely, Mira."

Another voice was heard.

A voice Mira instantly recognised.

"Father!"

She instantly freed herself from Ilyra’s hands and jumped into Nux’s. The sight made Ilyra look at Nux with jealousy for a moment, but she quickly hid it.

Nux looked at her, then he smiled and looked back at his daughter, who had now made herself comfortable in his arm.

"Then why did Mother Ilyra come here?"

Mira questioned curiously as she looked at Nux, then at Ilyra, then back at Nux.

Nux smiled at that question as he looked at Ilyra and—

"She is looking at the Multiverse."

"Again?"

Mira frowned.

"Well...

The Multiverse has become... interesting."

Nux chuckled.

"And whose fault do you think that is?"

Ilyra spoke with a deadpan look on her face.

Because of Nux’s actions, the Multiverse was a mess, because of Nux’s actions, some Universes were now... wrong.

"I tried to limit the damage, okay?"

Nux tried to defend himself.

And he wasn’t wrong.

He did try to limit the damage, he only devoured a few Worlds from every Universe, and when he devoured the worlds, he didn’t leave all the Souls alone, making them all return to their respective Universes but...

That wasn’t nearly enough.

Because Nux’s actions had far worse consequences than one could imagine.

In the Multiverse, past, present and future weren’t separate, they all existed together inside a single branch and Nux ruined the cause and effect of these branches, ruining the causal foundation of countless Universes.

Basically—

A Universe exists because, somewhere in its parent Universe, a Time event happened that created its Branch.

Now inside the Parent Universe’s Timeline, that event may happen ’in the future.’

But for the Multiverse—

Both things already exist.

The parent Universe.

The future Time event.

The Branch born from it.

And the new Universe that grew from that Branch.

So when Nux entered a Universe at some point in Time and devoured a world, he messed with its timeline, which caused the Time Event that gave birth to a Child Universe in the Future to never happen in the first place.

So his actions basically ended another Universe’s beginning.

But...

That wasn’t it.

He didn’t just stop that Universe from being born, because in the Multiverse, that Universe already exists.

What he did was much worse.

He removed the Universe’s reason for being born, creating a Universe with no valid Origin, a Universe whose Branch exists, but whose branching event no longer does.

A living contradiction.

A... Rootless Universe.

The worst part?

The Multiverse couldn’t just erase these Rootless Universes to solve the problem. After all, these Universes weren’t isolated mistakes that could be corrected, these were fully fledged Universes that had produced their own branches, their own Universes, and those Universes had produced even more Universes.

And after countless layers, one Rootless Universe may now support trillions of trillions of descendant Universes.

Even the Multiverse couldn’t remove that many Universes, just because their parent Universe no longer had a foundation.

The Multiverse was trapped.

It could not accept the Rootless Universe as normal since its very cause was erased, it could not erase it either.

"You know that wasn’t enough."

Ilyra spoke with a solemn look on her face.

Nux could only nod.

Yes, his ’measures’ weren’t enough.

"The Multiverse is a mess because of you."

Nux stared at the damaged branches of the Multiverse and—

"That is unfortunate."

He nodded.

"Unfortunate?

Just unfortunate?"

Ilyra looked at him with a frown. Nux looked back and shook his head.

"There is nothing I can do or say about it, Ilyra.

I did what I had to do to survive.

I will not deny, I did indulge because I craved power but even if I had not, the Multiverse would still be facing the same problem."

"That... is quite a casual remark."

Ilyra pointed out and Nux...

"I know."

He just agreed.

"You do know what is going to happen now, correct?"

She asked.

And Nux—

He looked back into the Sky, into the Multiverse and—

"I do."

He nodded.

The Multiverse could not erase the wounds from Nux’s attack, so it... tried to repair them.

It tried to create new causes, shifting some events here and there, small moments that would eventually lead to the desired future.

Of course, it wasn’t a perfect solution, it was only the beginning and the Multiverse was still moving, still looking for more solutions.

Where one cause was not enough, the Multiverse spread the burden, thousands of small events, millions of tiny changes, countless... weak reasons were gathered together to support one impossible existence.

The result was... ugly to say the least.

But it was the only thing that was possible.

And then—

Then came the most dangerous repair.

Even after the Multiverse’s countless, desperate attempts, there were some contradictions that... could not be corrected.

It erased those it could, those which wouldn’t do too much damage but for those that couldn’t be erased either—

The Multiverse allowed them to exist.

And because of that—

Things that should not have happened, happened.

Lives that did not fit their worlds began to appear, Laws formed in places where they had no reason to form, some worlds developed powers too early, some civilisations found paths they should never have discovered, some beings carried a strange pressure around them, as if reality itself was unsure whether to reject them or watch them.

"Anomalies."

Nux muttered as he looked at these contradictions.

Things that should not exist, now, they did exist.

"They are not exactly true Anomalies yet."

Ilyra corrected.

"Well, they are still... Possible Anomalies."

Nux smiled.

Of course, these were not True Anomalies.

With how the Multiverse worked, it would make it so most of them die before they understood what they were, some entities would lose themselves, some would be corrected by the very Universes that gave birth to them.

A mistake in reality, a broken birth or a strange fate was not enough, to become an Anomaly, one needed more—

Will.

Discipline.

Pain.

Obsession.

The refusal to kneel.

The madness to continue even when existence itself tries to remove them.

"A possible anomaly is born when reality makes a mistake.

A true Anomaly is born when that mistake refuses to be corrected."

Nux grinned as he looked at the Multiverse, at the mess it had become.

"Yes."

Ilyra nodded.

For a while, neither of them spoke.

The damaged branches continued to tremble before them, the Multiverse continued to repair itself. Both Nux and Ilyra continued to watch it quietly.

Mira tilted her head, watching the two curiously.

Then suddenly—

"Have you been looking?"

Nux questioned out loud.

"I have."

Ilyra nodded.

"It scares you that much, huh?"

Ilyra looked at Nux and spoke with an obvious look on her face.

"These are beings who might rival you in the future, Nux.

Yes, it scares me that much."

Nux however, only laughed at those words.

"They were born because I made it possible.

I doubt they would—"

Nux however, did not complete that sentence because... even he knew that wasn’t right.

After all, even his own existence didn’t just happen because of his hard work, it was a strange combination of strange occurrences, luck and more than a few coincidences.

"Does anyone in particular stand out?"

He questioned curiously.

"A few do."

Ilyra nodded.

"Who?"

Nux questioned curiously.

Ilyra pointed at a particular branch, at a particular world in that branch.

Nux looked.

"I want to watch too!!"

Mira exclaimed.

Nux laughed at that, then, he created a screen to share his vision and in that screen, a world appeared.

It was a modern world, tall buildings, cars, it was somewhat similar to Nux’s original world, but this one had... hidden supernatural forces moving under ordinary life.

Nux narrowed his eyes and the screen zoomed in, inside a Training Hall where a young man with black hair and strange violet eyes was standing in front of a woman.

His body was tense, deeply exhausted and didn’t seem like it was under his complete control, he was... only keeping it together through his sheer will.

Nux looked at the young man, then he looked at Ilyra—

"Him?"

"Look at his past."

Nux nodded.

Then he looked at his past, at his persistent self, at a body that couldn’t grow no matter what he did.

That made Nux frown, he looked into it and then—

He realised the issue.

Or...

Was it a blessing?

"He is fortunate."

Nux grinned.

"I wouldn’t call it fortunate."

Ilyra shook her head.

"Well..."

Nux didn’t know what to say.

He looked at the boy again, this time, he looked at his future.

He couldn’t watch it.

The boy was a Possible Anomaly, his Future had countless branches, watching it all was pointless.

But...

As he looked at the boy, as he looked at his past, as he looked at how he trained while fighting an entirely different battle in his mind—

"It would be interesting to see what he becomes."

Nux grinned.

"It will be!!"

Mira raised her hand as well.

But Nux—

He placed his hand on her eyes.

"No, you won’t be watching."

"What!? Why!?"

Mira questioned back but Nux...

He didn’t say anything.

What could he even say? That he would never want to be in the same position Lord Azriel was in when he dealt with him?

"You won’t because I said you won’t.

That’s it."

Nux spoke with a strict look on his face and then—

The screen in front of him disappeared.

"Alright, let’s go back and enjoy the feast."

—The End—