Ch 32 – Meeting Between Two Gods

As a flash of white light erupts from his body, Braun's eyes opened wide from his new connection with the fabrics of time, the flow made his mind see everything in a new light once more.

Closing his eyes to take it all in and reorganize his mind once more, the metallic platform below him recedes into a small circular disk that enters his body that suddenly became intangible upon contact with the disk, absorbing it whole like liquid.

Opening his eyes, he points his hands forwards to the air in front of him and with the inner workings of his arm soon shuffles around, a golden liquid erupts from the tip of his index finger to form a golden portal in front of him leading to somewhere unknown.

'It's time to see the future of this world.' Braun thought, walking in the middle of the air through the golden portal, and as he does so, he felt his body passing through a weird membrane, and with a flash, he finds himself in the middle of space right above a certain blue planet.

Glancing down, he looks at Earth a thousand years later into the future, an alternate reality he calculated with the new formula he has for the portal gun that takes in time and other variables compared to before.

'AI, connect to this world's network, move the limiter much higher but can't go past the point of sentience and ASI.' Braun instructs in his mind, and as a multitude of screens presented itself to him, he closes his eyes and watches the history of the whole world get implanted straight into his evolved mind, taking it all in with ease as if the data he was being presented is a mere breeze to him.

'The year 2316, the first boom in the progress of humanity started. A child born with a power that is dubbed Quirk Emperor has the ability to take and give out quirks to anyone else, then in just a few decades, humanity miraculously didn't fuck itself over and has reached a state of peace. The Quirk Emperor has brought humanity to a new level in their understanding of quirks, there we go. Quirks, quirks, let's see here.' Braun thought while all of the data in regards to quirks presented itself to him to exploit.

From humanity maximizing quirk potential by picking certain individuals to mate and produce offsprings that have a powerful quirk. To learning how awakening works and making already powerful quirks much stronger. Eradicating villains, learning how to manipulate time and space, gravity, humanity has reached a level comparable to advance civilizations by fully exploiting their special abilities called quirks.

'Hmm, most if not all of their findings have already been experimented by me, from combining quirks or awakening, I have been doing that since a few days ago. But weirdly enough, they still haven't found definite proof of souls existing nor the existence of reincarnation. But they already conquered the whole solar size universe they are living in.' Braun thought, glancing at the other planets in the distance whose appearance has radically changed, from Mars moving to a different orbit to be habitable, or Jupiter being shrunk down and becoming a version of Earth that is just larger.

This reality could be said where humanity has reached near perfect conditions to prosper and grow, the data of a very advance civilization being given to him without them even noticing considering how they didn't even have an ASI at this point, a Type 2 Civilization typically has a very powerful AI at that point that accelerates a civilization's growth by leaps and bounds, so maybe quirks aren't that beneficial in later stages of development.

Standing in the vacuum of space, his expectations were proven true when multiple humanoid figures suddenly appear around him wearing white skin-tight suits that covers their whole body including their head, their rippling muscles showing through the tight fabric.

"Halt there, we have noticed that you have used unregistered wormhole technology, state your credentials and pay the fine and we would let you off," the man in front of him said, pointing at him while shaking his head in disappointment.

Watching the 4 around him with intrigued eyes, he simply analyzes their whole body through his field and saw how their body is drastically different from a normal human. Ultrafiber muscles, metallic bones, a large surplus of stem cells, and more, clearly showing their body has been altered to a large degree.

After seeing the screen in his peripheral vision flash green, he simply manipulates their brain to forget him and replace their memory with a new one, and after controlling them to go back to the place where they belonged, he was left once more in the middle of space with a bountiful amount of data gathered by his AI.

With a flicker, Braun's body disappears from space and appears right on Earth on the open street where people walk around wearing a one-piece outfit colored white just like the guards from before but after analyzing the suits, it's more for casual civilians to wear and their head is still exposed, with less defense but still enough that it could protect them from most danger in the environment.

Glancing around the city he was in, sky-high buildings surround the open streets with their white metallic walls piercing through the clouds in the sky, floating vehicles such as flying ships were all around the air, teleporters were placed all around the city to allow people move from one place to another, and with quirks, this society is quite different from the usual Type 2 Civilization Braun knows from Rick's memories.

As Braun explores the advance city, he looks at the people around him, each and every one of them that he analyzes has a very powerful quirk that is leagues above the average level back in 21XX.

Noting down some special things about the city, he decides that this was enough data for now and another flicker soon ensues.

In the vacuum of space, a weird scene could be observed as a floating white castle made of stone stays stagnant in the void of space, it doesn't orbit around the sun nor any other celestial bodies, it was as if the castle itself was opposing the grasps of the sun to stay at the same point.

'So, this is where the Quirk Emperor currently resides huh, the God of this society who has brought prosperity and growth to humanity under the guidance and protection of the Illuminati.' Braun thought, appearing directly in front of the gates of the castle while his body becomes invisible, from bending the light around him to making himself invisible through infrared, he has entered a state of nigh-unnoticeability.

Phasing through the gate, he finds himself right inside a flamboyant castle where guards wearing knightly armor walk around with strict movements, shaking his head in disappointment at the ridiculousness of this castle and how inefficient it was, he appears right inside the throne room to finally meet the Quirk Emperor.

And surprise surprise, the being that sits on the golden throne in front of Braun was none other than All for One who has radically changed in appearance, changing from a large tall man with a menacing aura to a man who looks like Jesus, having long brown hair that reaches below his shoulders, a kind gentle aura emanating from his body, an amicable smile plastered on his face while his eyes glowed like the beautiful sea.

"I have been waiting to meet you," AFO said, directly glancing at him straight towards his eyes while Braun remains unperturbed. Disengaging the invisibility field around him, his short figure walks in front of AFO with slow steady steps, the sound of his footsteps making resounding clicks on the ground.

"You don't need to hypnotize me, it's just a futile attempt of control," AFO said, his amicable smile still residing on his face as if everything was under his control.

"Hmm, so you have reincarnated? Or made a fake play once you were killed by All Might or his successor?" Braun said, standing right in front of AFO as two God-like beings have made contact with one another.

"Not quite, I'm not All for One. I'm the will in his quirk that has moved to a new host which is this body right now. After my past personality melds with my new one, I was born. A mix between All for One and Quirk Emperor," the man said while a golden throne manifests right under Braun which he sits down on without any worries.

"So, what do you need me for?" Braun asks, glancing around the room with a blank stare.

"Nothing really, I'm just curious to see you appear from nowhere, I'm not even able to analyze your body or the surrounding area around you as if there is a barrier blocking my quirks to see you. From past, present, and future, it's as if you are invisible to me," AFO said, shrugging his shoulders while Braun nods.

"Oh, well I'll keep that as a trump card against you if we do become enemies though that is unlikely. But I see that you have become quite powerful in the span of a few centuries. But it seems like you hit your maximum potential now huh? You can't mix and match the quirks to be stronger, you have reached the maximum amount of quirks you can handle, and now, you're stuck, stagnant in your own personal growth," Braun said, the secrets of AFO being revealed to him like an open book as AFO looks at him with a raised eyebrow.

"That's why you are trying to develop humanity, so that you yourself could grow stronger and get out of this universe. A poetic tale if I must say so myself, but a futile attempt really with how strong you are right now, not just in absolute strength but mental, emotional, spiritual, and all other bullcrap factors of strength," Braun said, standing up while shaking his head.

"I see, so… You do have the ability to get to other universes, how envious, tell me, how long did it take you to achieve that ability," AFO said, standing up and glancing down at Braun due to their height difference.

"You should just abolish those hopes of multiversal travel, you seem to still have those useless thoughts within you. Infinity means there is a version of you out there that has achieved multiversal travel, or there is a version of All Might where he has accidentally achieved the same thing. You see, infinite realities mean infinite possibilities. As long as it isn't zero, it can happen. As you are right now, your chances aren't zero, so in a few eons or so if you haven't given up at that time, you might have the abysmal chance of achieving multiversal travel," Braun said, a gleam appearing in his eyes that AFO understood.

"And at that point, I would have already been nigh-omnipotent, and seeing that my future self still hasn't interfered with the past… It means my attempts are futile right?" AFO asks the obvious, in response, Braun simply nods his head.

"Sigh, I should have known when to stop. Oh well, can I know if reincarnation is real at least?" AFO asks.

"Yes, reincarnation is real. So, you want me to do it or you do it yourself?" Brauna asks while patting AFO on the back.

"You do it, considering how God might be real, then I might go to hell by committing suicide," AFO said as Braun nods in understanding.

Floating up, he puts his right palm on AFO's head and as both became in sync, AFO simply… died, AFO truly experienced a painless death as his whole body disintegrated into dust by taking away the nuclear forces that helps keep his body together, anything that is made of atoms could be destroyed by Braun with one thought, and this time, his first time exerting that power has killed a god of a whole Type 2 civilization that could reshape planets and bend reality on a whim.

As Braun was left alone in the room, a golden portal appears right in front of him as his business in A-2 has come to a close, his mind becoming more enlightened by conversing with another entity that could be considered near the same level as him and only falls short in other areas such as mental tranquility.

AN: This is 2096 words, you're welcome.

Confused? Well you're simply a smooth brain reader.

Also, I was getting bored with MHA and just want to finish this quick, so big time skip next chapter and also the interlude to one of the overarching plot in this story.

(June 1, 2022 – 189th day of writing)