Chapter 48 Anchor Point Between Multiverse

Although he was not very clear about exactly what had happened, Austin suspected that this TamPad had obviously been modified by some powerful existence, otherwise it would not make sense for it to be able to freely traverse different multiverses.

Moreover, Pietro had revealed earlier that when he saw this time controller, he saw a yellow cookie that just laughed at it. If the guess was correct, the yellow cookie Pietro mentioned was none other than the Miss Minutes in front of him, which means the TamPad was in an activated state at that time.

Including the time when he went to President X's secret room and picked up the TamPad with his own hands, this machine was in an activated state, and it even had the power within it to make an 'Across the Macrocosmic Universe'* traverse.

To put it that way then, the question arises - why didn't President X use this machine to traverse when he first obtained it? Or perhaps he didn't know the function of this machine, but Miss Minutes knew, right?

Unless, of course, there was some unknown hidden secret of Miss Minutes at the time.

As for the situation where the previous user of this TamPad was killed by President X, so this thing became President X's spoils of war, Austin felt it was impossible.

Not to mention how powerful an existence capable of transforming a TamPad should be, even if the other party really died in President X's hands, then President X must have acquired the other party's memories. In this case, it would be impossible for President X to not know how to use this machine.

Moreover, when peeking into his own memories, President X was completely immersed in them and unable to extricate himself, so it seems that President X had clearly not experienced any scenes that transcended his thinking.

So thinking about it this way, the identity of the previous owner of this TamPad, as well as why it had appeared in that universe, belonged to the two mountains weighing down on Austin, causing him tremendous pressure.

But now, Austin also did not have the ability to explore secrets at that level. He could only focus his attention on the imminent matters in front of him.

After a moment of silence, Austin asked, "Miss Minutes, I want to know, how does this traversal function work? Can I traverse freely now?"

"Of course you can! Our archive is connected to the mainframe that observes the Sacred Timeline. No matter how many branches the Sacred Timeline has, we can freely traverse to any time node in it," Miss Minutes said very proudly. As she spoke, she conjured up an electronic screen out of thin air, and on the screen was the archive recording the Sacred Timeline and its branches that she had just mentioned.

But the next moment, Miss Minutes's smiling face froze.

"Eh??? Where did the Sacred Timeline go? Why have all the time branch records in the archive disappeared? No, there is still one valid record. This seems to be a record left over from the previous backup data."

"A record left over from the previous backup data?" Austin was stunned for a moment.

"Yes." Miss Minutes nodded. "It should be the anchor point you left behind when you traversed the previous timeline branch, so it remained in the current archive."

Upon hearing the explanation, Austin also understood. This record should be the universe where Pietro was, which was also the parallel universe on the verge of destruction that he had directly traversed to.

"Can I traverse to that world?"

"Of course you can. All recorded timeline branches have anchor points that support traversal. You can traverse by consuming 1% of power." Miss Minutes nodded or rather nodded her body.

"So that means the universe I'm in now is also recorded, and similarly has anchor points that allow traversal?" Austin said somewhat excitedly.

"Yes, the anchor points have been confirmed and information is being uploaded. The information of both timeline branches has been saved to the archive. You can freely traverse between them."

Austin thought of another thing - after all, the TamPad could directly locate Asgard. So he hurriedly asked, "So according to what you said, I can traverse to any location in that universe, not just limited to Earth?"

"It was possible in The previous timeline branch, but not for this universe. Because the archive records need time without the mainframe's observations. Relying solely on this TamPad to record a new timeline branch would take several months, and consume a lot of power."

Miss Minutes blinked and asked back, "Do you want to record the current universe you are in? It would probably consume 43% of power and take 66 days to parse."

"No need." Austin quickly refused. He didn't have that much time to spend on this.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration appeared in Austin's mind, but it was fleeting. When Austin wanted to delve deeper into it, he found that the idea had disappeared. This made Austin a little annoyed that he might have overlooked something very critical.

However, Austin didn't think too much about it either. He asked again, "Since there is a complete record of that universe, can you help me find the location of Asgard in that universe?"

"Alright, please wait a moment." Hearing this, Miss Minutes immediately started taking action. She quickly pulled up the data in the archives and began a rapid search.

Seeing her like this, Austin guessed that she was going to start looking for records from the Big Bang of that universe. Not knowing how long it would take, Austin was about to ask her to stop searching, but to his surprise, just as he was about to speak, Miss Minutes stopped and gave an answer.

"According to the search, no records of a civilization called 'Asgard' were found in that timeline branch."

"How is that possible?!" Austin was a little shocked.

He had thought that maybe Asgard had suffered Ragnarok prematurely, which was why it didn't appear on Earth. But Miss Minutes's record made Austin a little confused.

"What about Kree then?" Austin asked again.

"Please wait a moment." This time, Miss Minutes gave an answer after querying for just a short while, "The 'Kree' civilization and its planet and star system have been detected. Please select a traversal time node."

"Never mind, no need." Austin waved his hand. It seemed his previous guess was correct - that the universe was one without any supernatural energy.

Not only was there no heaven or hell, even extraterrestrial "gods" didn't exist.

However, it wasn't a complete waste either. With science and technology advanced to a certain level, great power could still be attained. Although unable to dabble in magic and the like, obtaining some alien technology was still possible.

But before that, Austin suddenly thought of something.

"Miss Minutes, help me detect the celestial bodies of that universe."

"What kind of celestial body?"

A cold light flashed in Austin's eyes as he sneered coldly,

"A Red Sun."

(End of The Chapter)...To be continued.

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( T/N: Extra

The macrocosm is a complex structure, such as the universe or society, regarded as an entirety. It's another word for the universe or cosmos.

The macrocosm is the world as a whole, with a microcosm being one small part, often mankind, taken as a model of it. For example, the village is a microcosm of the whole country.

The idea of the macrocosm was central to most Greek thought, and especially that of Pythagoras, Plato, and subsequent Neoplatonism.

Macrocosmic means considering any large organized system as a whole, rather than as a group of smaller systems. For example, "He has a macrocosmic view of the world".)

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