Chapter 263 The "What If" Series, Strange the Supreme
[CW Universe Conquest: 100%!]
As the system prompt rang out, Lucas stepped into the void, looking down at the Worlds below that had been battered by the antimatter wave. Most of them were riddled with holes, and some were completely gone, such as Earth-2.
"Let’s emulate God creating the World!"
Russell raised his right hand, gently twisting his index finger and thumb, and several forces of laws emerged one after another, transforming into hundreds of millions of dazzling golden waterfalls, beginning to bring new vitality to the Universe.
Guided by his will, the originally fragmented and cheap CW Universe had its authority completely elevated for reconstruction.
Except for Team Flash, which retained its original memories and bonds, all other parallel Earths were completely overthrown and reshaped according to the grand pattern of classic comics.
In Wayne Manor in Gotham City, Thomas and Martha had never died in that dark alley, and Bruce still transformed into the Dark Knight, whose calculations were infallible and whose presence shook the long night.
But there was a bit less desperate paranoia in the depths of his eyes.
By the wheat fields of Metropolis, the couple Jonathan and Martha peacefully watched their adopted son Clark Kent spread his wings and patrol the skies. The light of the God of Earth was warm and flawless, and Aquaman Arthur grew up in a complete and happy family.
Diana of Paradise Island was sacred and inviolable.
Looking at the history of the entire DC Universe, deep bitterness and deep hatred were its distinct features, but tragedies were far too rampant.
Among the Big Seven of the Justice League, you couldn’t even piece together a few sets of living parents.
Lucas casually modified those clan-destroying major events to be much milder. Major events would still happen, and top villains from all sides would still be evenly matched and blooming in a hundred ways, but justice would ultimately have something to rely on, and heroes would no longer need to pave their path of growth with the dry bones of their dearest family.
...
The days after the reconstruction was completed were peaceful and cozy.
Lucas enjoyed several years of life in the large flat in Central City. Perhaps because of his own greed, the days were not very peaceful, and the few women quarreled until his head hurt.
But life itself was still as happy as an immortal.
After a period of comfort, the restless desire deep in his bones was still hard to calm down.
"System, let’s go!"
Lucas stood on the balcony, wondering whether to go to the Warhammer World; Homelander’s work needed to be arranged as soon as possible.
[Ding! Jump command received! Randomly capturing World bands...]
"Jump successful!"
Lucas’s brows twitched as he clearly saw that guy’s Universe retreating rapidly behind him, while he loaded into another World like a stream of light. This Brother System... really had a mind of its own!
...
The World was spinning.
When the vision before his eyes stabilized once again, the surroundings were an absolute dead silence and coldness.
There were no stars here, no sun and moon, and even basic time and space had completely collapsed.
The entire massive single Universe had actually shrunk and collapsed at this moment into a prismatic sphere with a diameter of only a few meters, exuding a blackish-purple magical light.
Inside the sphere, a man wearing a tattered Supreme Sorcerer robe, with a withered and haggard face, was dejectedly kneeling in a patch of nothingness, the whole person swallowed by endless despair and remorse.
Strange?
"Don’t tell me this is another What If!" Lucas seemed to recognize the other party, who was not the Strange from the MCU.
In this Universe, in order to defy the heavens and change fate, and to save his girlfriend Christine who died in a car accident, he devoured countless dimensional demon gods, absorbed ultra-ordinary pitch-black magic, and forcefully broke the absolute point in time.
Just like Barry.
However, what he got in exchange in the end was the entire Universe completely heading towards annihilation due to collapse, leaving only him imprisoned in this narrow remnant of reality, guarding a patch of dead silence.
Lucas stepped into the void, his perception sweeping across this dead zone like pouring mercury.
With the help of time regression, he saw through the deformity and absurdity of this Universe at a glance.
"What a pathetically thin World model."
Lucas shook his head.
In the orthodox multiverse framework, the causal cycle of the timeline shouldn’t be so fragile. Take Flash Barry from the DC World for example; the reason why his mother’s survival became an untouchable absolute point in time was because Barry himself was deeply bound to the Speed Force.
The Speed Force was the fundamental force sustaining the Universe.
Once Barry failed to be born smoothly and the Speed Force collapsed, the Universe would naturally head towards destruction, and there was a strict causal chain within this.
But what was Christine?
She was just an ordinary mortal female.
Her life or death at most would only affect whether Stephen Strange would get into a car accident and whether he would embark on the path of seeking the Dao in Kamar-Taj.
To take a step back.
Even if this World lacked Doctor Strange, at most Earth would be annexed by Dormammu or other outer-dimensional demon gods. How could it lead a Universe spanning hundreds of billions of light-years, with trillions of civilizations and galaxies, towards extinction?
According to his probing, the underlying time laws of this Universe were extremely single and closed, spawning a deformed cosmic bug.
Simply put, the person holding the pen didn’t use their brain; it was a casual piece of graffiti.
Step, step.
Lucas, as if penetrating a layer of thin paper, easily crossed that barrier and landed within the dark crystal.
Strange, kneeling on the ground, had a trance-like expression, his body shaking violently.
He instinctively thought that the bald guy had appeared, "Is that you? The Watcher? I beg you... You possess power that transcends the multiverse, save Christine, save this World..."
However, when he completely saw the person before him clearly, his entire body froze instantly.
Standing in front of him was not that bald Watcher at all, but a black-haired youth with a refined demeanor.
"You... who are you?" Strange rubbed his bloodshot eyes, his voice hoarse and low, "An hallucination? Have I gone mad enough to produce such hallucinations? The entire Universe has been destroyed, and even time no longer exists. How could a living person still walk in?!"
"Relax, Dr. Strange, this is not an hallucination."
Lucas said in a softened tone, "Those dark magics you obtained by devouring demon gods are no different from children playing house in my eyes. The fact that you managed to break the Universe into collapse only shows that you used your power in the wrong direction and your vision is pathetically narrow."
Strange gave a miserable smile, his eyes full of ashes: "Narrow? Say whatever you want... Everything is over. I killed the entire Universe, and everything I did ultimately only traded for an eternal grave."
"What if I said that I can help you bring that woman back?"
Lucas’s sudden sentence, like a thunderbolt, resounded through the dead Universe!
Strange trembled all over, suddenly throwing himself at Lucas’s feet, his hands gripping tightly: "What did you say? You can save Christine?! You can make this World resurrect? No... That’s impossible! The Watcher said that it is an unshakable absolute point in time. If you forcefully break the absolute point, reality will collapse!"
"The Watcher isn’t all that strong to me either. He’s just a peeper squatting in the dark watching a show, not even daring to enter the arena himself."
Lucas sneered: "In three-dimensional and four-dimensional cognition, time absolute points are dead. But above higher dimensions, the so-called absolute point is nothing more than a line segment that can be erased and rewritten at will."
*******************************
Enjoyed the action? Drop a review, fire off a comment, and send those Power Stones rolling! Your support keeps the updates coming fast—let’s keep the momentum going! 🔥