End of one Chapter (2)

After catching up with my wives, there were still some things that I needed to personally address, mainly the current predicament with the Mercurius, because I have decided to start the plan and finish the man off.

He was already becoming a danger and of course, he viewed me like one as well.

I went to my study as I summoned the Tarot's main consciousness, which was slumbering for a long time because it consumed a lot of its strength recuperating from the continuous attacks of Mercurius.

"I can start... the ritual will take a lot of time to prepare, but one it is done, it should be strong enough to kill Mercurius in one go through the soul connection he had established with you."

I stated to the Tarot, as the main consciousness of the Sefirah-Grade Artifact agreed with me.

The plan I wanted to enact was relatively simple yet complicated at the same time.

In the Shao Universe, there were some trouble that I wanted to take care of, which included killing the Universal Will, which should be around half-step Tier 13 or even some weak Tier 13 in strength.

That was absolutely necessary for Project Universe.

Still, at the same time, I planned to sue the Universal Will of the Shao Universe as the sacrificial material for the sacrifice ritual, which would target Mercurius.

Because Mercurius was technically vulnerable through the soul connection with the Tarot, at the same time, Tarot's main consciousness will use the last of its remaining strength to completely lift the defenses around his soul, which would allow the attack of the ritual to hit him cleanly and unhindered.

This would be essentially killing two birds with one stone.

After closing the conversation with the main consciousness of the Tarot, I went to my laboratory to prepare some things because I wanted to finish some things.

Mercurius was probably alerted by the moment I was woken up that I was well and alive, so hiding it was useless.

After arriving at my laboratory, I called Mercurius through my Holo-Brain, there were some things that we needed to discuss, and not even several seconds after I sent him a call, he had already picked it up.

"So you have already woken up. I thought that with the state of your injuries, the sleep would take at least two hundred years minimally."

He commented casually, as I frowned but understood the sentiment.

If not for me reaching the Tier 12 Annulled, then indeed, I would spend at least two hundred recuperating in hibernation because the toll on my body during the fight was tremendous.

"I was lucky... so straight to the important topics. How have you progressed with it?"

I asked, while Weissmann visibly flinched, but alas, he had no choice on this matter.

In truth, the Dresden Arcanum Empire was not that absolutistically ruled like the Chthonian Empire of the Baator, so there was a little bit of trouble when it came to enforcing the order that the Dresdens would migrate to another Universe.

"Slow... there are stills some Magisters that are thinking that we should search for the Psionic Beacon and destroy it, perhaps hoping that after the destruction of the Psionic Beacon, the situation would be solved, but we are managing. We would be migrating to one of the Magical Universe to which Okhwang provided coordinates."

Indeed, the Arcanists could be a troublesome and stubborn bunch, and I could partially understand that they didn't really wish to leave their home Universe.

They were a faction that was long ago established here as one of the dominant ones, so they didn't wish to leave everything behind to start somewhere anew.

Unfortunately, the chances that Weissmann reached Tier 13 are near zero, especially if he remained in the Astral Boundary. He admitted that he wasn't really interested in pursuing the new paths, but I could see that some parts of his mentality in this aspect had already started cracking.

"It is unknown when something more terrifying from the Endless Void finds its way to the Astral Boundary, but during the time I was asleep, my wives initiated all projects and the Chthonian Empire of the Baator will invest all of its forces to achieve the fastest competition of the Project Universe."

I stated as I could see Weissmann visibly frowning because this meant that the Chthonians would start leaving sooner than initially anticipated. Normally, I planned to initiate the Project Universe after approximately at least several thousand years, but right now...

Five hundred years is the maximum of time I could give it.

Even that was more than we should give it, the skeptical part of me was screaming to not spend more than three hundred years at the Astral Boundary due to the presence of activated Psionic Beacon, but there were so many resources that could be extracted.

"As expected... I think it is time that I started taking care of the affairs of Dresden more seriously."

Weissmann stated that as he cut the call, some significant changes would probably happen in the Dresden Arcanum Empire. Until now, Weissmann only trended his research and didn't care about what was happening in the Empire.

"There is still a lot of work to do..."