Chapter 709

The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence. Ritsuka Fujimaru stood silently in place. After a long while, she wiped away her tears, picked up the rings from the ground, and her expression gradually calmed, showing not even a ripple.

Yet this calm appearance felt more like the silence just before a storm.

That's right...

Unacceptable, unacceptable, absolutely unacceptable!!!!

It was simply impossible for Ritsuka Fujimaru to accept such an ending!

There must be some way. Ritsuka Fujimaru looked down at the three rings in her hand, her eyes trembling violently.

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【Archimedes: "Oh? Still putting up a futile resistance at this late stage? Well, that is exactly why humans make so many foolish moves. Ritsuka Fujimaru, just struggle desperately in your despair!"】

【King Altera: "Archimedes... you really make me very displeased!"】

【Nagato: "Reaching this point is already the best arrangement fate could provide. If you are any less sensible, you might not even get an ending like this."】

【Ash: "But just watching your companions disappear before your eyes... it's simply unacceptable! Ritsuka Fujimaru, do your best~ ah!"】

【Gilgamesh: "My chosen person of pleasure, let me see if you can step out of pleasure and defy the predetermined fate, hum-hah-hahahaha!"】

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The moment she put on the rings, Ritsuka Fujimaru clearly felt everything gradually condensing into one.

If left to settle like this, the spirit and soul stored in the rings would integrate with the physical body.

The self-awareness possessed by this body of Ritsuka Fujimaru would likely dissipate like snowflakes...

Once dissipated, she would no longer be her, no longer the her who knew Altera...

The three rings flashed with distinct colors. Ritsuka Fujimaru's eyes trembled violently. So that was it; had Ritsuka Fujimaru's ending been destined all along?

Body, spirit, soul—from the moment they were separated, the fate of this body had already been set.

But... but Altera is different!

She had asked, she had promised, and now she would fulfill it. Altera's ending would absolutely not be like this!

Ritsuka Fujimaru gathered all the remaining consciousness within her body, feeling her spiritrons gradually decomposing, understanding that she was fading away, but she ignored such things entirely.

Utilizing her final bit of consciousness, she frantically gathered information. Faster, faster!

That's right! Ritsuka Fujimaru snapped her eyes open. Archimedes once said that it didn't matter if this world was destroyed; he would move to another observed timeline!

Precisely because of this, Archimedes abandoned the rings here and let Altera destroy them!

Therefore, the Moon Cell must contain this data. Ritsuka Fujimaru read the Moon Cell's database through the complete Authority, searching through the near-infinite amount of information.

In less than two seconds, she found the answer she wanted!

Parallel Transfer, that's it!

A massive amount of information flooded into Ritsuka Fujimaru's mind. She clutched her head in pain. If she were an excellent magus, she might have understood it quickly, but she was someone who couldn't even be called a third-rate magus.

"Select simplification," Ritsuka Fujimaru simplified the information and quickly understood Parallel Transfer.

In other words, it meant transferring to a different possible parallel world in reality, a world slightly different from this one; this was Parallel Transfer.

Then how to achieve the transfer...

In the real world, some actions are physically impossible, but in the non-physical spiritron world, it is a different matter. After all, this is a virtual spiritron world established by observing the information of all things.

The world different from this one can also be regarded as something of equal value and existence.

Of course, that parallel world also has many 'if' worlds, and its lifespan is limited. If all 'ifs' were verified simultaneously, even the Moon Cell would reveal flaws.

Therefore, there exists a location or time that can merge many possibilities into one, turning divergences into official history!

That is the Quantum Record Fixed Band!

The recording location that picks up many 'ifs' and unifies the facts!

Simply put, as long as one hasn't reached that location, before the Quantum Record Fixed Band arrives, moving to a parallel world is not impossible!

"As... as long as I can reach there," the consciousness in Ritsuka Fujimaru's mind dissipated at a terrifying speed, and Ritsuka Fujimaru began to struggle even to speak.

But a joyful smile appeared on her Dead Dead Face. The only... method to save Altera.

And at this moment, the Quantum Record Fixed Band had not yet arrived. The previous fixed band was about a month ago, which seemed to be exactly when she and Archimedes stepped into the unknown territory.

If one could parallel transfer to a world with a different future now, moving to a different possibility at this instant in the entire timeline would be meaningless.

Because there, Altera's self-destruction ending was already destined!

If she wanted to change it, she had to change it fundamentally. She had to go to a location that was just in time, not just parallel transfer to other possibilities, but also vertically move to other time zones to change fate!

... If it were just moving to a parallel world, there would be no problem, but if the element of moving to the past were added, things would change completely...

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【Merlin: "Yes, wanting to return to the Quantum Record Fixed Band to change predetermined events is not... not easy at all. Locking history makes it unchangeable; even if parallel worlds exist, the results of these nodes will be forcibly unified."】

【Loki: "It's like the Time Variance Authority. If there were no Quantum Record Fixed Band, the number of parallel worlds might increase infinitely, eventually leading to excessive time splitting and triggering the collapse of the timeline."】

【The Doctor: "The Quantum Record Fixed Band is the manifestation of humanity's unconsciousness. Each quantum fixed band is like a node; this so-called node is a major event in history, from which new timelines extend infinitely downward."】

【Trisolaran: "A time travel paradox? By fixing historical nodes, it avoids unpredictable influences on history by time travelers."】

【Artoria: "... In other words, the destruction of Britain has already become a node of the Quantum Fixed Band...?"】

【Tezcatlipoca: "That's right. Don't tell me you're still dreaming that Artoria will definitely save Britain? That would be too foolish."】

【Tony Stark: "There is only one way to achieve what you call salvation."】

【Manaka Sajyou: "Prince... no, is it Princess? Lady Artoria, believe me, as long as you persist in such a wish, I will definitely be able to destroy Human Order and reshape the Quantum Record Fixed Band!"】

【Merlin (Female): "That's right, worthy of being a princess connected to the Root. Artoria, that's how things are. Although such a thing would be very, very pleasant~! But Artoria, if you do this, you will definitely become an enemy of humanity~"】

【Madara Uchiha: "Actually, there is another way. Since the Quantum Fixed Band is a manifestation of human unconsciousness, as long as there is a technique powerful enough to control and change everyone's consciousness, the Quantum Fixed Band would also be affected, right?"】

【Tobirama Senju: "... Control all of humanity?! You naturally evil Madara Uchiha!"】

【Aqua: "Since it's so complicated, why can that brat named Ritsuka Fujimaru change that so-called record band? Could it be that she wants to destroy Human Order?"】

【Goetia: "... Idiot, Ritsuka Fujimaru is merely using the Moon Cell's intervention and her own struggle to temporarily keep the timeline that was destined to be pruned within the framework of human history."】

【Goetia: "This process does not completely break the rules of the Quantum Record Band, but rather proves the possibility to the world, making it a special branch of the main timeline."】

Throughout the Myriad Worlds

Looking at the reason given by Goetia on the screen, many viewers nodded in realization.

So that was it; the Quantum Record Fixed Band is the manifestation of the human organism's unconsciousness. It fixes historical nodes through humanity's collective cognition of history, which is... Human Order!

When the history of a parallel world deviates from the main timeline, the Quantum Record Fixed Band prunes it away.

Everyone also further understood the pruning mechanism of that world.

However, even if Ritsuka Fujimaru could return to the Quantum Record Fixed Band to save Altera, it would come at a great cost, right?

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After understanding everything, Ritsuka Fujimaru discovered a shocking fact.

She didn't just want to move to a parallel world; she wanted to move to a parallel world and also move to the past!

Even in a virtual spiritron world without material wear, it would have to bear a massive burden!

With such a huge burden, the spiritron-constructed body responsible for the transfer would likely... no... if she wanted to go against the flow, her physical body would definitely be shattered!

But at this point, how could Ritsuka Fujimaru still care about life or death?

Altera's smile, her gentleness, her firmness, and everything she revealed to her at the end.

Seeking flowers

A gentle and firm smile appeared on Ritsuka Fujimaru's Dead Dead Face.

Altera, all the connections in this life are related to you, so how could I abandon you?

The only thing she considered was whether she could succeed, and how to succeed!

Wanting to return to the past with this body, to make a dashing appearance at a critical moment, to expose all of Archimedes' conspiracies, to contact Altera—none of that was possible...

But! Even so, there must be something that can be transmitted back to the past!

If the physical body cannot bear it, what about memory? Is it possible to transmit the things that have happened so far, the record named Ritsuka Fujimaru!

The Authority sent a positive answer.

That was the smallest action that could change fate, a desperate effort, and also a fatal action that would decide a certain fate.

"Activate," the last shred of consciousness in Ritsuka Fujimaru said.

Fear, numbness, unwillingness—survival is the instinct of life, and from beginning to end, no existence can change that.

Even if one yearns for death, the body will unconsciously have such thoughts.

Why not use the Authority to preserve her last shred of consciousness, why must she defy fate?