Chapter 541: with translation of chapter title

NO．124：Integrated Universe / Merged Universe

bgm：cornfieldchase

The universe beyond the universe, the box beyond the box.

At the center of the GBN game lobby, it displays in eight directions, sometimes showing the battlefield scene inside the room, sometimes the post-battle settlement screen, sometimes the floating large light screen displaying the room list.

Unnoticed, a room became vacant.

It was not closed by clearing the instance, nor disbanded by the host leaving midway.

That vacant room was like a void, hanging there for over ten seconds without being filled by a newly opened room slot.

After existing for over a minute, players finally noticed its abnormality, and even those who were forcibly ejected from the room, the "victims", loudly reported to the GM.

But before that, a certain 'Golden's End' had obviously achieved their goal.

As the DG cells kept invading, assimilating, and proliferating, causing the server's processing to grow ever slower, until the moment when it triggered overload together with the game rules maintained before it—

The Big Bang, destroying everything yet also giving birth to the origin of all things, was reenacted in a game's instance room.

Time lost its meaning, the world lost its meaning.

At the bottom of gravity where all boundaries had vanished together, the demon, its eyes blood-red from oppression by the DG cells, finally greeted a blurry figure.

"You… came……"

By now, it's impossible to tell whether the weakness and hallucination are due to the simulated bodily sensation, or whether one still lacks the 'permission' to truly see the other; Aomo gazed at that blurry figure, roughly the same height as Suzi from an irresponsible visual estimate, still unable to make out the other's face.

But fortunately, one could still hear a faint……

The other's voice.

"Once again expressing 'thanks'…… 'Observer', having done so……"

Is that the extent?

That voice remained intermittent as before, lacking strength, causing the demon's drooping gaze to show a bit of fatigue.

But even so, being able to meet counts as completing the verification of the experiment's first goal.

Next is the second goal.

"No need… to be like this…… my companions, perhaps, don't quite understand…… but you… should understand……"

His voice was also intermittent, seeming unqualified to complain about the other.

This mental burden, heavier than the Alaya consciousness, stems from the erosion of the DG cells.

GBN is merely a game, and only an R16 one at that; it won't easily give out images of dismemberment or extreme gore, nor will it render people unconscious or cause sudden death.

At most, it might cause a fever.

But this does not mean that playing the game allows one to rest easy.

Don't forget, this game has always emphasized presence and immersion.

For this, they even add details to the cockpit in every update; even the mental burden under states like Burst Seed, Disc Eye, and opening Alaya are simulated to some extent to serve as an alternative 'difficulty threshold division'.

In that case, it's time to get to know the DG cells.

DG cells (dgcells), full name 'DevilGundamCells', i. e., 'Devil Gundam Cells', are the metal cells released by the ultimate mechanical life form JDG-009X Devil Gundam, from *Mobile Fighter G Gundam*.

Whether biological or mechanical, once invaded by the DG cells, they become part of it; Aomo chose it precisely because he valued this point, which can simulate Devil Zero's infinite self-evolution ability to devour everything.

But there's no denying that this stuff is the most dangerous and sinister material in the Gundam IP's generations of worldviews.

Compared to countless materials and systems that resemble god‑like or super‑type, only this inflicts the most intense and thorough harm on the pilot—direct brain infection is irredeemable, reducing one to a slave of machinery.

This also matches Devil Zero's devouring and assimilation of the pilot's consciousness.

To high‑copy, one must also high‑copy the side effects; that is the true spirit of research (x). Aomo initially insisted on that, then ended up with a fever and was sent to the hospital.

That's just a fever; GBN is ultimately just a game.

And it is a legal game.

It's not a background so extreme as to let 100,000 players go mad in a tower‑prison game; naturally it wouldn't go that far, so the Devil Gundam line has always appeared as enemy units, but there is also room for players to use them.

But using them is rather unpleasant.

Especially after you let the DG cells devour enough data (in the game, both the mechs and the essence of life are data), the possibility of losing control becomes obviously increased.

It's enough to raise your body temperature as well.

But — this is also the most promising and strongest material that GBN can allow.

Its powerful nature can even overcome version updates, allowing one person to knock down the whole damn world!

Aomo understands this very well.

This is an opportunity provided for mad‑dog‑style players: to obtain what kind of power, one must pay what kind of price, which is quite reasonable.

But Aomo isn't keen on the mad‑dog style, so he abandoned this route long ago, leaving only the model and data behind, gathering dust.

But sometimes, people inevitably have to voluntarily do something.

To achieve a miracle, one must make oneself worthy of it.

For this, he pilots this thing, offering it as a sacrifice into the furnace called Power.

This furnace was forged by him at age 16.

For the boy who sought robots, fervor, courage, and love, even after his dim ending, he still helped his 19‑year‑old self, in order to reclaim another life and God's love for her.

Pour in will, pour in hope, becoming the sole star in the darkness.

twinklestar/shining star

In the guise of a Devil, releasing a passion greater than love, igniting the flame of life, and this will become a beacon for them to transcend time and space.

And such burning also makes his devil‑like game model now show a bit of running out of fuel, the light sputtering.

But the dark viper still firmly grips the last moonlight.

He said, 'His companions perhaps don't understand,' besides having distrust about whether the other would survive, he also meant that Suzi, crimson, and Morrison, who had already been sent out, had previously obstructed him.

The mental burden imposed by high‑copying Devil Zero far exceeds their expectations, but for Aomo, all of this has been anticipated from start to finish.

After all, he had long anticipated that the server would be upgraded, and he had also increased the model's parameters across the board.

He believed even more that his 19‑year‑old self would surely do better than his 16‑year‑old self.

As for that, the other party will understand.

Because she, too, had come, risking another failure, risking another dissipation.

Arriving in itself was the other party's likewise all‑out effort, and the final result was a state like an ICU mixer for both sides.

"Understanding… reached the care of the 'star', again expressed… 'thanks', letting me come to… the 'universe'."

One whose form was so faint it seemed a gust of wind would make it vanish, and whose speech was as intermittent as a bad signal.

One leaned seated in a cockpit already filled with metal and pipes, with several pipes pierced into his body—clearly the posture of a demon, eerie and terrifying, his gaze and words both weak and listless.

"Ah… a trivial matter… no, what should be said now… isn't this. To make a long story short, I ask, you answer—this… is important!"

It's hard to imagine that the Steel Devil God he was piloting had just been tearing the universe apart, emitting rays of almost pure light‑power and blazing flames from its chest.

At this moment his eyes glowed hot, his sharp teeth opening and closing, his fearsome appearance unchanged.

"Understood."

"……" In a daze, Aomo even thought he heard the sound of Bourbon, but the sharp pain, more than the drowsiness, brought him back to himself.

Time was short, whether hers or his.

"First… most important… what is your name?"

The second target the experiment needed to verify was precisely why he had come, and he had indeed heard a response.

Without intermittent interference, a clear name.

"neouniverse."

New Universe.

This chapter contains the lyrics of two songs.

Gundam Creator: Re: Start, namely the second‑season ED of the GPN‑related anime original: 《twinkle》.

God Devil Death Fight Caesar's op 《God Devil Appear!! 》.

Moreover, the former is also a song that fits very well with the nurturing plotline whose title prototype is New Universe.

Furthermore, the chapter title of 122 is also lyrics; the friend mentioned in this chapter recognized it, the song title being 《Guardian God-theguardian》.

And this chapter's title is the name of the concluding event in the New Universe nurturing.

——Using a song‑recommendation segment to replace the trivial cold‑knowledge popularization.

——Until we meet again.

(End of chapter)