Unparalleled Genius, Part 2

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Soon, Dante returned, and the Adam Family gathered around a holographic screen.

"That is a ton of data." Aldrich whistled at the treasure-trove of information within the server.

"I believe it was described to be enough to cover the planet's surface a thousand times over if it was written in size 10 font," Dante said. He isn't sure if that was true, but considering that the universal laws were recorded in form suitable for lesser talented species like humans, he wouldn't be surprised if it was a million times over.

"Do we have a time limit?"

"No, but they'll check up in a couple hours or so. So I said I'll be doing research on maglev weaponry and transformation." Dante looked at his son and daughter-in-law, and added, "You have to help me since I told the others that you'll be my research partners."

"Fuck off, what? Are you serious?" Adamas groaned.

"I shouldn't have been too curious." Ramona sighed.

"You can leave after your son finds what he wants. So a couple hours, give or take."

"One is enough." Aldrich shook his head.

"An hour? Are you sure?" Dante questioned.

"No, a minute."

Before the others could understand what he meant, Aldrich placed a finger on the holographic screen for a moment then removed it to pull out a string of lights that condensed into a marble-sized glowing ball.

"1,000 exabytes of information. This new Technopathy Arcana is not half-bad." Aldrich laughed.

With the Technopathy Arcana he received from the evolution of the Cyberpathy Arcana, he wouldn't have to rely on a software to collect information for him.

On the side, Dante and the other three weren't sure on what to think of Aldrich anymore. The only words that they could describe him with is: an unparalleled genius that no one but himself can hope to understand.

Aldrich integrated with the information. The moment it entered his mind, he began organizing it in his mind palace. This task didn't take too long, as he completed it in under ten seconds.

However, it will take a while for Aldrich to comprehend all of it.

"You are an angel in disguise, old crow. Thank you!" Aldrich exclaimed as he pointed a finger on his grandfather's forehead. "Because of that, I'll bestow you a replica of my Technopathy Arcana?"

"What–" Dante wasn't able to respond as he blanked out.

Shocked, Adamas stammered, "You–! You don't lose your arcanas when you bestow them?!"

"Correct. Most of my arcanas may not be perfect, but my last three arcanas definitely are."

They're his golden fingers, of course.

"Perhaps if I didn't have my Arcana Replication, then I may lose the arcanas I did acquire from plundering if I bestowed them. But since I have the Arcana Replication, I can bestow as many arcanas as I want."

"Even all your innate arcanas?" Ishtar asked, curiously.

"Even if I could, I wouldn't. Those are my tickets to supremacy, if I do such a thing then I would be incredibly foolish." Shaking his head, Aldrich asked them, "Y'all want an arcana?"

"Can I get sixteen arcanas?" Adamas shamelessly requested.

"Not in one sitting. You wouldn't be able to handle that much. Moreover, even if I could produce an infinite amount of arcanas, I wouldn't give out an infinite amount."

As Earth's future Supreme Imperial Godmaster of The Ages, Aldrich must not be too generous even to his blood. While having a variety of useful arcanas is a good thing, it's not like they'll be able to truly master all of those anyway. It's better to be a great master in several things than having some small degree of master over many things.

"Eh, it was worth a shot." Adamas wasn't bothered by it. Aldrich is his son anyway; that fact alone is worth a thousand arcanas, perhaps even a million arcanas.

"What kind of arcana do you want?" Aldrich questioned his father.

"Any insanely destructive one that I could pass off as something I gained from refining the energy within a fragment of a collapsed star?" Adamas inquired.

"Does Neil Red's Radiation Manipulation sound good enough for you, dad?"

"That's actually perfect. I want that."

"And you, mom?" Adamas asked Ramona.

"I want Emre Yilmaz' Energy Absorption, darling," Ramona said, smiling.

Raising a brow at her choice, Aldrich tried to offer a different arcana instead. "Are you sure you don't want the Biological Manipulation or any of the more physical-based arcanas I have? What about the mental-based ones?"

"I'd love to, to be honest. But the Energy Absorption Arcana really speaks to me."

"No take-backs, okay? Good."

Just like how Aldrich bestowed the Technopathy Arcana to his grandfather earlier, his mom and dad are now in a blanked-out kind of state.

"It'll take them about half an hour to fully integrate with their new arcanas. For now though…" Aldrich looked at the flustered Ishtar and sighed once again. He brought her to the couch and placed his hand on her belly.

Sensing the heavy atmosphere in the air, Ishtar's flusteredness slowly disappeared and turned into a worried frown as she stared at Aldrich.

"Is everything alright, Aldrich?" Ishtar asked.

Softly sighing, Aldrich began, "I know you want to give birth to our child, but it is too early to do so."

"What–... Don't… Don't tell me that you want to a–abort our child…?" Ishtar asked, appalled by the idea. Her body trembled and became cold while her breathing became erratic.

Aldrich could smell her despair, it was rather intoxicating.

"You're overthinking, Ishtar." Aldrich pulled Ishtar into a tight and warm embrace. "We'll keep the child, of course. I'll use my Biological Manipulation Arcana to scoop up the fertilized egg or whatever stage it is right now, and return your body to its non-pregnancy."

"R–Really?" Ishar asked joyfully, almost instantly bouncing back from her despairfilled state earlier.

"Of course, I wouldn't lie to you like that. I'll even prove it."

For the next five minutes, Aldrich and Ishtar engaged in a very passionate and intense tongue kissing. In this intimate moment, Ishtar felt every part of her existence being smothered by the overwhelming love of Aldrich.

Ishtar was incredibly aroused. Every part of her was screaming to be ruthlessly ravaged by her unfaithful yet oh so loving husband. Unfortunately for her, her man held arms tightly, making her unable to go and rip his pants off and fucked herself into an inconceivable mess with his inhumane large cock.

As she was merely moments away from cumming, she suddenly lost consciousness and went limp.

Aldrich held her in place as he exited her mouth. Strings made out of their saliva stretched to a fairly long length before he returned to her mouth temporarily to not waste it. It tasted sweet in his mouth.

In a flash, Mao Yi-Ting appeared beside him to convey her findings and give him a box of stuff.

Fortunately, Aldrich didn't impregnate any other woman beside Ishtar in the past eight days. He was relieved.

As the aspiring Supreme Imperial Godmaster of The Ages of this universe, Aldrich only wants strong women to bear his children. Lesser women would have to do more than to just arouse him slightly in order to carry his seed.

Similar to his infinite Arcana Bestowment ability. Just because he can do it, doesn't mean he should do.

"Excellent work, my dear. The others will be gone for two weeks, so here's what I want you to do while they're gone…"

After Mao Yi-Ting left, Aldrich telekinetically took the materials inside the box she left him. The box was full of various materials, but were mostly unrefined metals.

While he didn't order Mao Yi-Ting to get this in her first task, Aldrich did telepathically communicate with her to fetch him these after learning of Ishtar's pregnancy.

Aldrich created a void sphere and stored the materials inside. Then, he wrapped the materials in shimmering clouds of his Dream Manipulation Arcana.

The ball of cloud brightened and began contorting for a few minutes until stopped and revealed a pendant akin to the one Senju Tsunade formerly wore.

This pendant is where he's going to his and Ishtar's unborn child for quite some time until she reaches a power level acceptable enough to carry his seed and give birth to his child.

Not stopping for any rest, , Aldrich proceeded to use his Biological Manipulation Arcana to scoop up their unformed child and seal it inside the mechanism inside the pendant, and then returned Ishtar's body to its pre-conception state.

Aldrich placed the pendant around Ishtar's neck and laid her head on his lap. Now that he regained a bit of his old power and gained a lot of useful information, he could finally begin his path to the apex of this multiverse, etc.

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Through deeper comprehension of the information he acquired, Aldrich concluded that this universe's structure is similar to his origin universe, with a high chance of the rest of the multiverse being the same, while the technology tree wasn't too different from his origin universe either, However, the power system is different, as it was akin to the cultivation novels of his origin universe except nowhere near as restricting.

The power system is composed of multiple stages, but the stages available in the private server were limited to six.

The stages are:

The lowest and weakest level are planetary lifeforms. These lifeforms are the Level 0 flora, fauna, and the common people of Earth to the Level 10 arcanist and direbeast on Earth belong to this category. Planetary lifeforms are binded to the natural laws of their mother planet and are incapable of surviving the vacuum of space for extended periods of time without external help.

The lifespan of a Level 1 to Level 10 Planetary Lifeform is about 1,000 at most on average.

Level 0 planetary life forms like bacteria and sea sponges can live far longer.

Above planetary lifeforms are stellar lifeforms. Stellar life-forms are capable of breaking free from the shackles of their mother planet and are able to survive and traverse the vacuum of space on their own.

The lifespan of a stellar lifeform is about 10,000 years at most on average.

Above stellar life-forms are galactic lifeforms… The lifespan of a galactic lifeform is about 100,000 years at most on average.

Above galactic life-forms are super-clustered lifeforms… The lifespan of a super-clustered lifeform is about 1,000,000 years at most on average.

Above super-clustered lifeforms are perfect three-dimensional lifeforms… The lifespan of a perfect three-dimensional lifeform is about 10,000,000 years at most on average.

Above perfect three-dimensional life-forms are cosmic lifeforms… The lifespan of a cosmic lifeform is about 100,000,000 years at most on average.

However, compared to the numerous information available about the first three stages, the information about the following stages wouldn't even amount to a gigabyte of information combined.

Of course, that couldn't change the fact that Aldrich's going to create the greatest gene arcana absorption technique on Earth.

No, that wouldn't do! Aldrich just won't create a mere gene absorption arcana technique on Earth. Instead, he's going to create the greatest dark bio-energy and dark psionic energy absorption technique in Earth's entire observable universe!

According to the information he acquired, dark bio-energy and dark psionic-energy are two of the many forms of the universe's mysterious and normally invisible dark matter.

Dark bio-energy and dark psionic energy are closely related to the many living beings of the universe; the latter composes the soul while the former strengthens the body.

While dark bio-energy and dark psionic-energy are considered as the perfect energies for self-cultivation, they are difficult to sense on one's own without external help, and those who can naturally sense it at birth belong to the apex races of the universes.

Previously, Aldrich was unable to sense it since he has yet to completely adapt to this universe, but over the past week he has slowly began sensing them and after his arcana trial, he could easily interact with it. He was merely being cautious as he didn't want to start doing things blindly. Now that he is more knowledgeable about this universe, he could now push forward without any worry.

As Aldrich opened his eyes, to find himself standing on a magnificent platform, suspended amidst a breathtaking tableau of countless galaxies that stretched as far as the eye could see. The galaxies seemed to dance and swirl in a mesmerizing cosmic ballet, their ethereal glow illuminating the vast expanse of his mind palace.

Among the galaxies, delicate and intricate strands of luminescent light interwove, forming an intricate tapestry that seemed to bind the very fabric of the universe together. It was as if he was witnessing the intricate threads of existence itself, each strand representing a connection to a realm of knowledge and understanding.

Aldrich smiled at the majesty of his mind palace, the repository of all the wisdom and experiences he had ever amassed. Every thought, every memory, and every fragment of knowledge he had ever encountered resided within these celestial realms.

"It's time to get to work."

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While Aldrich was doing research in his mind palace, the pair of two ultimate arcanists and the transcendent arcanist watched him in another round of shock and astonishment as he absorbed incredible amounts of high-level energy.

"Is that dark bio-energy or dark psionic energy?" Adamas inquired.

Shaking his head, Dante said, "Dark bio-energy is akin to gene arcana while dark psionic energy is reminiscent of normal soul energy. Aldrich is absorbing neither of those, I believe. What he's absorbing is something more chaotic..."

"Do you think we should inform the other transcendent arcanists?" Ramona questioned, hesitantly.

Adamas looked at his father.

Truth to be told, neither Ramona nor Adamas want others to know about their son's capabilities. As selfish as it is, they want to receive the benefits first before anyone else could.

Glancing at them for a moment, Dante responded, "No. Not because I want to monopolize Aldrich's gifts, but because I fear for the safety of any fool who dares to demand anything from him. Aldrich would not hesitate to kill them and turn them into his servants, thus souring his relationship with a lot of people. The ability to sense and absorb dark bio-energy and dark psionic energy the way Aldrich does is something that only those from the overlord factions of the universe is said to be capable of. Adding his incredible line-up of arcanas, you could say that he is the apex of humanity; the most worthy of ruling humanity. In my opinion, we should just wait for when he reaches a certain stage and decides to reveal it to the world."

Adamas and Ramona unreluctantly agreed with Dante's decision. That was what they wanted as well.

Suddenly, Adamas phone rang. He checked the caller and received it. Dante and Ramona initially thought that it was Golden Meadows Arcana Combine calling him, but the words that flowed said otherwise.

"Good morning, Mr. Adam. I am Mei Fang, Aldrich and Ishtar's class adviser. The arcana trials are about to begin in our Lantian Polytechnic Academy, and neither have yet to arrive and aren't answering our calls."

"Oh, right. That's today. Anyway, Aldrich and Ishtar have already finished their arcana trials. Aldrich's arcanas are Eldritch Transformation, Eldritch Entity Creation, a Super Physique Arcana with a 100,000 index on all attributes… No, you heard that correctly. 100,000 index in all attributes… There's more, by the way. Don't be impatient... Yes... Following those three are Soul Mutilation, Mind Destruction, Void Sealing, Power Multiplier, Precognitive Immunity, and Space-Time Concealment, Space-Time Shuffle... That's right. Ten arcanas in total, check it with the arcana organization in charge of the arcana trials... Alright. Ishtar's arcana are Disease Manipulation, Ultimate Regeneration, and Stellar Manipulation... No. I don't care what arcana organization Aldrich and Ishtar chooses, they can send as many invitations as they like…"

After a minute, Adamas hung up the call.

"Good lies," Dante said.

"You don't want Aldrich and Ishtar to join your Golden Meadows Arcana Combine?" Ramona asked.

"It'd be better if they join the Pangu Arcana Combine," Adamas remarked and glanced towards the two. "Perhaps we should request Aldrich to give us methods to become stellar lifeforms."

Stroking her chin, Ramona said, "Do you think he'll teach us how to sense and absorb dark bio-energy and dark psionic energy."

"You underestimate how difficult it is to do that. Let alone I and the other stellar beings, the deceased heroes who were stronger than Emperor Might at one point and Emperor Might himself were unable to do so even with 1269's help. We humans don't have the natural ability to sense such high-level abilities with the lack of certain resources,"

Dante shook his head. "Just wait until Aldrich develops into a true expert and takes over the planet or something."

"Makes sense."

"That's fair."

Adamas and Ramona were about to leave, but a heavy pressure stops them.

"I told the others that I'll be conducting research on more advanced applications of maglev technology, so both of you have to spend a day here with me," Dante said with a hard stare.

"We barely know anything about maglev technology," Adamas retorted.

Ramona didn't say anything but the smile on her face held a different meaning.

"Blame your son then. Otherwise, start learning." Dante gestured to a table with seats before turning to a new holographic screen with a realistic simulation of Earth.

Unfortunately, Adamas and Ramona could not blame their son. Especially Adamas, he really can't.

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