MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 364 Dream Raiders and the Flower of End-of-Life Care
In the endless expanse of time and space, a grand war continues.

Tiga opened his eyes again.

His body was once again reshaped by the light flowing from endless space and time.

However, the battle was far too long, and deep within His consciousness lay the weariness and confusion accumulated from endless cycles of reincarnation.

This certainly doesn't mean that Tiga couldn't persevere.

At this point, modifying one's own consciousness or completely changing one's life structure would be far too easy for the Land of Light.

They just don't want to forget.

I don't want to forget the pain, sorrow, emotion, and hope that they felt in each cycle of reincarnation, in each struggle, in each time and space, in each possibility, which were similar yet different.

They always remember it.

Remember that feeling of being moved, and let that anger fill your heart.

Beyond the endless expanse of time and space, the warriors of the Land of Light, like precisely operating instruments, constantly adjusted their resonance frequencies, bombarding the ever-twisting and shifting "body" of the Golden Dragon of Time and Space with boundless light.

Even today, this endless light, even if it is just a single point, will reshape vast galaxies of universes after touching the Dragon of Time and Space and falling into time and space. At the same time, it will interfere with the past and the future, making repeated corrections and direct confrontations to the time and space repeatedly painted by the physiological phenomena of the Golden Dragon of Time and Space.

Even though, supported by some hidden darkness, the Time-Space Golden Dragon repeatedly and endlessly unleashes power equal to or even surpassing that of others, the battles of the Land of Light are not meaningless.

The light that continuously spills across time and space is like a virus and a vaccine, or like the dragon-slaying nail used to kill dragon veins in myths and legends.

Every battle and modification is an attempt—an attempt to invade and control the life structure of the spacetime golden dragon.

If this continues, the severed limbs of the Time-Space Golden Dragon will be severed from the main body, gradually controlled, and become part of the Land of Light. They may even become a completely new multiverse community operating under the will of the Land of Light.

“No…” After Tiga returned once again and inherited the legacy of all his predecessors, he sensed an unusual intrusion.

His thoughts exploded within the public thought network of the Land of Light. "Our attack... its effectiveness is waning; something is interfering with us!"

At the same time, the Land of Light's offensive was readjusted, even though it would cause the slight advantages accumulated so far to vanish in the increasingly escalating battlefield. The Land of Light did it without hesitation.

Thus, a seemingly insignificant anomaly was discovered within the endlessly iterative and changing life structure information of the Time-Space Golden Dragon.

It wasn't that the Time-Space Golden Dragon had any hidden tricks up its sleeve, but rather that something deeper within its body had changed.

The original chaotic and disordered activities of the Time-Space Golden Dragon, which were almost purely natural phenomena, seemed to have been injected with a kind of... cold directionality starting from that anomaly point!
"An anomaly-like siphon detected!" Within the spacetime of the Spacetime Golden Dragon, in the observer department with its specialized spacetime senses, Kirino Makio's voice transmitted outwards.

His voice was filled with unprecedented urgency: "It did not come from the physical form of the Time-Space Golden Dragon that we see, but from a far more distant space-time, beyond which the Time-Space Golden Dragon has never been activated or manifested. It was invaded by some kind of superdimensional channel that has invaded our battle lines!"

"Their target is the 'possibility bubble' created by the shockwaves from our war with the Golden Dragon!"

These 'conduits' are invisible and intangible, almost part of the Time-Space Golden Dragon itself. They are a phenomenon of its internal physiological activity 'travel' that allows for replication and information interaction between different times and spaces.

However, at this moment, these 'ducts' are showing abnormalities.

They no longer silently maintained the phenomenon of time travel, maintaining the balance between good and evil, but began to mutate!

In that mysterious place beyond time and space, Tiga, sensing something amiss, cast his gaze across the realm of time and space. He saw that a part of the Time-Space Golden Dragon's body seemed to be beginning to shrink? Transform?

The balance between good and evil... No! It's not a balance between good and evil, but a balance between beauty and despair, which is gradually becoming unbalanced!

The 'conduit' is precisely stealing those "future timeline branches" that contain strong emotions and hopes amidst the fierce battle between the two sides and the endless possibilities that burst forth in time and space—those "bubbles of possibility."

These timeline branches are not special, at least not at the macroscopic cosmic level.

They are merely moments of pure bliss that intelligent life forms can experience and reach during their most fortunate times, as they grow freely and through countless timelines.

That might simply be a moment when a musician performs a masterpiece that has been sung throughout the ages.

Perhaps it's a father, strolling happily with his wife and children in a garden at sunset.

Perhaps, it was simply the moment when a scientist, after pouring his heart and soul into his research, finally achieved a breakthrough.

The chances of these possibilities coming true are extremely small. In this vast and boundless space-time, in that endless timeline of division and merging, for ordinary lives, those most beautiful possibilities are almost nothing more than a dream and a luxury.

A dream that, in this lifetime, can perhaps only be reached in dreams, a dream that is difficult to achieve no matter how hard one tries.

This is simply a thief, a thief who steals other people's dreams!

Furthermore, even if these tiny fragments of possibility are not special at the level of the macrocosm, they are extremely important to life.

Even if the chances of achieving it are extremely slim, the beautiful possibilities have been stolen, the dreams have been stolen, and life is left with only bad and mediocre possibilities.

Ultraman Tiga could see the painter whose dreams had been stolen. Due to the blows of poverty in his childhood, he was forced to give up his love of painting and choose to take up arms and go to the battlefield. Until he was old and weak and wandered the streets, clutching his arm that ached from the wind and rain, begging passersby for some food to fill his stomach. But when he saw children leaving innocent graffiti on the wall, he recalled his own childhood, and a tear slowly rolled down his cheek...

Tiga can see his father, whose dreams were stolen, who, as a teenager, made a decision to go to the big city alone because of the hardships of life, looking at the girl he loved. It wasn't until many years later, when he returned to his hometown after achieving success, that he realized, in a daze, that the girl he loved had already married someone else...

Tiga can see that in the branches of timeline after time, the beauty of achieving one's dreams may no longer exist, leaving only pain and mediocrity.

"You bastard! You stole other people's dreams, what kind of monster are you?!"

"We must pinpoint the source!" Tiga grabbed the tentacle that was devouring all hope and crushed it.

The Land of Light's possibility detection network operates with unprecedented precision, tracing back along the direction from which countless superdimensional conduits absorb wonderful possibilities.

They penetrated layer after layer of spacetime barriers, ultimately pointing to an anomalous region that exhibited an "absolute stillness" in all dimensions.

That's not a universe, not even a space.

It's practically a "specimen" that was forcibly cut off from the matrix of the multiverse and preserved with the most exquisite dreams.

The flow of time within it is infinitely close to zero, and everything is frozen in a false, eternally perfect moment.

This kind of "beauty" is not naturally generated; it is too pure, too singular, rejecting all negative emotions and uncertainties, as if it has undergone extreme purification and filtering.

Tiga, from above time and space, reached out his hand. Daigo then materialized in the light and personally led an elite squad through layers of time barriers, forcibly invading the interior of the "Silent Zone."

This is a beautiful paradise in ruins.

Nothing but beauty, without a trace of pain or despair.

Countless fragmented "beautiful moments" were forcibly pieced together to form a sparkling "amber".

Daigo could see that this place almost gathered all the timelines, planets, races, and types of life that the Land of Light could reach in the multiverse.

Daigo saw children of the human race in them.

Within the amber of time and space, children are forever laughing, the sky is forever rainbow-colored, there is no pain, no sorrow, no conflict, and no... future.

Fragmented time and space have neither past nor future, like a video clip that has been cut out, and after it ends, it resumes and starts all over again.

Everything was frozen in a near-illusory, eternally perfect moment.

Daigo fell silent. He stared into the seemingly endless depths of the "giant amber," gritted his teeth, and slowly uttered a name: "The extradimensional being—Giranbo!"

"Other dimensions" is a very strange existence. As early as when the Land of Light began its initial journey into the multiverse, it was detected among countless civilizations.

The other dimension is a very strange existence. Compared to the normal universe and dimensions, the name 'other dimension' is strange enough.

Since it is an 'other' dimension, it is naturally a place that differs from the normal dimension in some way.

However, normally, a person from a different country would never tell others that they are a foreigner, just as they would refer to their own country as a foreign country.

However, all the clues about other dimensions and otherworldly beings that were captured in the Land of Light, as well as their self-identification and public statements, were all about other dimensions.

Among the residual information detected by the Land of Light in the histories of various timelines, extradimensional beings are an evil entity that possesses immense malice towards conventional life forms. They use various means to spread extreme emotions such as anger, sadness, and despair to different civilizations and individuals, and seem to take pleasure in doing so.

Wherever it goes, it spreads endless negative emotions, plunging a civilization or race into suffering.

After discovering this bastard, the Land of Light naturally tried to track down and stop it, but found that it was nowhere to be found. The so-called extradimensional beings seemed to have appeared out of thin air. Even if they traced history, they could only find their residual projections.

After discovering the Time-Space Golden Dragon, the Land of Light initially believed that the extradimensional beings might also be a product of some kind of "white blood cells" within the Time-Space Golden Dragon, used to accelerate the balance.

However, it was later discovered that this was not the case. By searching through the remaining records in history, the Land of Light found that the power of the Time-Space Golden Dragon was also repelling people from other dimensions. In the time travel phenomenon caused by their physiological reactions, regardless of good or evil, those time travelers with various powers would often inadvertently attack and interfere with the actions of people from other dimensions.

Daigo and the Land of Light team could see countless extradimensional beings, including Kiranbo, as well as other types of extradimensional beings, constantly moving in and out of this extradimensional space like busy worker bees.

They carefully "licked" and "collected" those hopeful "possibility bubbles" and beautiful dreams that were shaken out from the struggle between the Golden Dragon and the Land of Light in the multiverse, and then transported and filled them into this "silent zone," this "other dimension," to maintain its false eternity.

They are simply dream predators, collectors, and escapists.

"What?!" After the Land of Light's team invaded, the extradimensional beings also noticed the anomaly. "Intruders!"

At that very moment, frozen in the endless and wonderful possibilities of another dimension, almost reaching the limit of what life can reach, the warriors of the other dimension, carrying the mission of protecting the other dimension, leaped out from that solidified amber of time and space.

Their numbers are endless, encompassing almost all races, even... "Invaders, please leave this place!" A gigantic, galactic humanoid, its body composed of galaxies, gazes at the Land of Light team. This is Daigo in a certain beautiful possibility.

"You wretched people from the dark world, we will never allow this beautiful other dimension to be defiled by you!" Embodying boundless compassion, the giant of golden light looked at the Squad of Light with pitying and sorrowful eyes—this was Daigo.

"I'm sorry... please leave. We don't want to fight you, as that would attract the attention of the Time-Space Dragon." Daigo, looking tired and apologetic, gently shook his head.

In the Land of Light squad, every warrior can see their own reflection among the endless stream of otherworldly beings—one after another, those who are moving towards other wonderful possibilities and possessing power almost equal to or even greater than their own.

The two sides are currently in a standoff.

This has nothing to do with right or wrong, because those from another dimension also want to protect their world and safeguard their dreams.

……

In this alternate dimension that will never be born, yet will never perish, the two sides stand in confrontation, remaining silent for a long time.

“I understand…” In the group, Daigo looked at everything constructed by this beautiful dream and murmured to himself, a bitter feeling spreading in his heart.

If the Spacetime Golden Dragon can be considered an immune device for the multiverse, its continuous activity is maintaining the stability of the multiverse.

So……

The activities of the Time-Space Golden Dragon are a form of 'chemotherapy,' which brings painful side effects (time travel phenomena).

The Kiranbo family discovered how to steal the uncontaminated healthy cells (a promising possibility) produced during chemotherapy, and then build themselves a sterile incubator, isolating them from the painful reality!

"Other dimension" is a giant tumor that escapes the golden dragon of time and space and all the suffering of the real universe.

This is not a universe, nor a spacetime, but a collection of solidified, beautiful possibilities that has never been born and will never be destroyed.

There is no cause, nor is there an effect.

These wonderful possibilities do not require any specific past to support them, nor any doomed future to support them.

It simply exists here in a beautiful way.

Just as humans have never actually needed a happy life.

The happiness that comes from a happy life is something that can actually be copied and pasted.

Human happiness, in essence, is nothing more than hormones such as dopamine and serotonin. A slight disturbance to the nervous system can bring unparalleled happiness to humans.

The other dimension does not participate in the cycle of birth and death of the universe. It simply absorbs the dreams of intelligent life and the beautiful possibilities that intelligent life can reach, maintaining its own eternal "beauty" that requires no cause or process and goes straight to the result.

After a long silence, Daigo faced the otherworldly beings before him, among whom were familiar faces: Daigo, Rena, Sawai, Shinjo…

Looking at all those faces he had seen and those he had never seen before, these people reached the pinnacle of their beautiful dreams filled with endless smiles.

Daigo reached out towards a beautiful possibility falling beside him and patted the head of a child whose smile had frozen.

That was also Daigo, a Daigo frozen in the joy and laughter of childhood.

Feeling the texture in his hands, feeling the joy and happiness, he whispered, "The Land of Light cannot allow the existence of another dimension."

"It will steal the hope of the multiverse as nourishment. If this escapism becomes the norm, all civilizations and all races will one day have all their dreams and all their beauty drained away."

"At that time, our multiverse will be devoid of any beautiful possibilities due to the loss of hope, leaving only endless, inexplicable pain and despair..."

"But so what?" Among the extradimensional warriors, one looked directly into Daigo's eyes and replied, "As you already know, in this cruel universe, in order to maintain the stability of spacetime, the physiological phenomenon of the Stone Dragon itself is endlessly causing good and evil to clash, repeatedly erasing the good and evil that are heading towards extremes."

"In this phenomenon, people's dreams can never be truly realized, and will forever become redundant data at the bottom of spacetime through repeated erasures."

One of the extradimensional beings, Daigo, gazed back at his own piece of time-space amber, the piece of his beautiful dream. Looking at his wife and children, whose lives seemed almost frozen in time, their smiles radiant as if they could last forever, a flicker of loss crossed his eyes. He spoke in a low voice, "We just wanted to protect our little happiness, just wanted to temporarily step away from the conflict between good and evil..."

The squad from the Land of Light looked at the familiar extradimensional beings in silence. They were indeed trying to fight against the Time-Space Golden Dragon, trying to figure out the phenomenon behind the fight that forced it to act.

They may be soldiers who went to the battlefield for a better future.

However, the Land of Light has no right to force those who want to escape the battlefield to re-enter it.

It was just a diplomatic meeting that took place on site.

The Land of Light signed a diplomatic agreement with the Other Dimension, demanding that the people of the Other Dimension be prohibited from entering the spacetimes involved by the Land of Light to absorb dreams and thus interfere with the battle until the war between the Land of Light and the Golden Dragon of Time ends. Otherwise, the Land of Light will immediately launch a war against the Other Dimension.

The extradimensional being agreed, saying only, "We may be deserters, but we just want to temporarily escape the battlefield."

"In the distant future, a future so distant that it is unreachable, we will also be forced to return."

"Perhaps we have never truly escaped the cycle of good and evil..."

The brief diplomatic meeting with the extradimensional beings ended abruptly.

However, perhaps judging the behavior of the extradimensional beings venturing into the battlefield to extract their dreams as an "extreme" threat to the time structure, the enormous eyes of the Time-Space Golden Dragon turned towards the extradimensional world.

There was no warning, no hostility, only a pure, natural physiological response.

The golden dragon merely swayed its "tail fin" slightly—a massive torrent composed of countless civilizations and lives, and the most desperate and darkest fragments of history.

In an instant, the structure of the other dimension was disrupted, causing a tremendous upheaval.

The endless dream amber began to waver. This dreamlike collection of beauty, which had never been born and had never been destroyed, seemed to be swept into the void of time and space from this moment on, heading towards its deserved extinction.

Even though they dislike those escapees in other dimensions who are eternally immersed in beauty and happiness, the Land of Light does not want them to be destroyed for the time being.

This might be a backup plan. If a major accident occurs during the war, perhaps some of the Land of Light's remaining forces can be preserved by using the other dimension, just like some of the beings the Land of Light has seen among the other-dimensional beings.

However, the vast and boundless torrent, created purely from the most desperate and darkest possibilities, was almost unstoppable, and all the attacks of the Land of Light could only temporarily slow it down.

However, even so, even as the other dimension began to crumble, the people of the other dimension, apart from the dream witch Kiranbo who was still drawing dreams from distant times and transporting them back to the other dimension, did not take any action.

Because, mutation and rebirth!
The fragments of darkness and despair gathered in the Golden Dragon of Time and Space are like the opposite of another dimension, where countless despairing time and space begin to bloom with countless enchanting and beautiful flowers—the flowers of Qijiela!

Their petals unfurl, releasing a torrent of possibilities overflowing with all that is beautiful.
This is almost the purest form of beauty, precisely covering those civilizations struggling and on the verge of despair during the Golden Dragon of Time and Space activities.

While Tiga was battling against the torrent of despair, he witnessed scenes unfolding in these different timelines.

A civilization on the verge of being swallowed by a stellar helium flash, a civilization facing ecological catastrophe, a civilization facing a biochemical crisis, a civilization facing a dimensional attack...

One after another, civilizations and races entered the most desperate and darkest possible realms, and as they stepped into despair and darkness, beautiful flowers bloomed around them.

The fragrance of Zigelana, filled with all things beautiful, permeated their consciousness.

In an instant, all the despair and fear born from the cold and painful reality vanished, replaced by an ultimate and unquestionable bliss.

They "saw" their new home, "felt" eternal peace, and "saw" everything that was theoretically impossible for them to reach—the most beautiful and happiest things.

Just like the care a patient receives before death.

In that torrent of darkness and despair, civilizations and races found ultimate satisfaction in a collective, tranquil ecstasy, abandoning all efforts to escape and technological struggles, quietly and blissfully awaiting their final destruction.

These alluring and beautiful flowers are soothing, they are making those civilizations... happily accept their demise!

“No,” Tiga’s voice rang out calmly, he saw something deeper, “It’s not ‘appeasement,’ it’s ‘displacement’!”

He saw that the happiness that emerged from the flowers of Zigera, amidst despair and pain, was not out of thin air, but rather slowly overflowing from a distant and unknowable place along some kind of superdimensional channel.

That's still another dimension!
The attack of the Time-Space Dragon was thus calmed down, and the Other Dimension and Qi Jiela also slowly retreated.

Zigela and the other dimension are one!

They are two ports of the same system!

One is responsible for constantly stealing beauty, and the other is constantly releasing beauty. Like a pool that is both draining and pumping water at the same time, they maintain a delicate dynamic balance and together sustain the continuation of this 'tumor' that escapes reality.

Tiga took a deep look at the other dimension that was gradually disappearing from the observation of the Land of Light.

As the warriors from another dimension said, they were only temporarily fleeing the battlefield.

Just as borrowing energy from a vast ocean of vacuum energy requires repayment, the repayment period is nowhere in sight.

People from other dimensions draw beautiful dreams from the endless multiverse, and after countless ages, they return those beautiful dreams...

In other words, in that other dimension, after enjoying endless beauty within that dreamlike amber where time seemed to stand still, one day...

One day, when all their beautiful experiences are exhausted, what awaits them will be an equal and endless despair and darkness...

(End of this chapter)