After reaching the maximum level, my "soft rice system" finally arrived.

The presence of the legendary Bone Demon was more symbolic than anything else...

Unlike when the Western Continent aided the Dawn World... there is a clear disparity in resources and power between the two sides...

The Silver Continent currently maintains basic order and society, and the top-tier extraordinary powerhouses are still relatively well-preserved...

Therefore, this is a dialogue between civilizations on a completely equal footing.

Even though both sides share the same goal, there are far too many things involved...

The specific details of the cooperation... the distribution and exchange of benefits... the allocation of the right to speak...

For those in power... every single one of these matters is of paramount importance.

Even the slightest changes can have far-reaching consequences in the future.

Therefore, this meeting is destined to be a long and drawn-out battle...

The leaders of various factions and their think tanks take turns on the stage, creating a constant back-and-forth struggle.

.......

Charles leaned back in his recliner, a glass of dark, bubbly soda bubbling in his hand, a plastic straw inserted into it.

The clamor of the roundtable meeting lingered in his ears... yet had no effect on Charles himself.

Charles has never been particularly interested in matters of rights and interests...

Instead of wasting time arguing with those unscrupulous merchants over a little profit, wouldn't it be better to spend more time in the secondary dimension conducting more arcane experiments and improving more spellbooks?

Even in the past, when it came to diplomatic activities and cooperation negotiations with the Dark Tower, Charles had always avoided them whenever possible.

If it's unavoidable, then find another opportunity to pass it on to Kieran to do...

Xia Er's visit to the Silver Continent was primarily for flexing his muscles and serving as a human telephone line.

As for the specific details of the subsequent tug-of-war...

That's the kind of business that Claude, Augudia, and those imperial experts like the High Priest and Isabella have to worry about...

Nothing to do with him.

Charles took out another bottle of chilled soda from his own private dimension and handed it to Renata, who was also looking bored behind him.

Then, he diverted most of his mental energy from the meeting that sounded utterly boring.

As a true legendary mage, multitasking is one of the most basic abilities.

If someone were to activate their astral vision at this moment, they would discover...

Compared to the barely perceptible mental fluctuations of the other legendary mages attending the meeting...

At this very moment, in the direction where Xia Er was, the originally hazy spiritual ocean had solidified into a tangible form, roaring like a real world.

.......

Waves surged and rippled on the dark sea.

Above the sky, stars, some illusory and some clear, appear and disappear, transforming into a vast sea of ​​twinkling stars.

"The so-called wizard—"

"So-called magic—"

"It is to use fantasy to govern magic and laws..."

"Then, distort reality and reshape nature."

"And the spiritual ocean... is the product of the wizard's soul 'manifesting its imagination.'"

"So...does this also mean...?"

"At the end of magic and arcane arts... after elevating the deepest fantasies of the soul to their ultimate form..."

"The originally illusory spiritual ocean will be reshaped into a real world."

Charles stood silently in his own ocean of consciousness, uttering soft words to himself.

After learning the truth about the path to godhood from Vemus...

In his spare time, Charles also kept thinking...

The wizard's path ahead.

.......

The path to godhood for false gods... is to project themselves into countless worlds, making themselves omnipresent...

In other words, it is about the "self" encroaching upon and occupying "reality".

This is the most common, simplest, and most straightforward path for those with extraordinary abilities...

But... this is not Ciel's path.

However... Ciel did not believe that there was no other way.

"If one day..."

"My spiritual ocean can evolve to be indistinguishable from the real world..."

"To rewrite reality with one's own fantasies...to achieve a true 'realization of fantasy'."

"So...is this another way of 'eroding reality with one's own will'?"

"In a sense, this is the same path taken by false gods..."

"Or rather, this is..."

"The Path to Godhood, unique to wizards."

.......

Charles's mutterings quietly ceased. He lowered his eyes, gazing down at the illusory ocean of consciousness beneath him.

This is the product of the mental landscape manifested from the depths of the soul of an individual named "Charles Eguter".

As the master of this mental world, Charles can completely control every single detail here.

Therefore... Ciel had already sensed it.

If, when one first becomes a legend, one's inner world is like a delicate oil painting...

Although it looks vivid and realistic on the surface, its fake nature can be seen at a glance.

So... after completing the blackbody radiation formula and truly beginning to explore the quantum realm...

His own spiritual ocean underwent another complete transformation...

It's no longer a painting... but rather like a photograph taken with high-precision equipment, filled with many new details and information compared to the previous artificial drawings...

As Xia Er further explored the quantum realm, the amount of information and details that were added were continuously improved and increased.

Judging from its appearance alone... it is almost indistinguishable from reality, achieving a level of realism that can fool even the most discerning eye.

However, as the master of the spiritual ocean... Charles could still clearly feel... the slight incongruity and difference between his spiritual ocean and the real material world.

Ciel himself was not entirely oblivious to these slight differences.

.......

"The world that was like an oil painting before... was a cognitive world, a mental landscape, that I constructed from a macroscopic perspective based on the classic arcane view inherited from the Black Tower."

"And the quantum realm... is my completely new interpretation of the microscopic dimension. This interpretation has filled my world of cognition with countless details."

"However... these two can each explain the macroscopic world and the microscopic world... yet they contradict each other."

"And at this very moment, the final step missing from my spiritual ocean..."

"This should be the method to completely unify the macroscopic and microscopic dimensions, and the classical arcane and quantum realms."

"That is, the so-called 'Grand Unified Field Theory'."

"If we can complete this final step completely..."

"Then my spiritual ocean should also be completely replenished..."

"Perhaps, this could even allow them to interfere with reality and become 'gods' in a certain sense."

.......

Ciel brought his wandering thoughts back...

Currently, he hasn't even fully perfected the field of relativity, and has only made some breakthroughs in the quantum realm; he is still far from understanding the full picture of reality...

"Grand Unified Field Theory"...

This word existed only in imagination, even in his previous life... although progress was made with the discovery of the Higgs boson.

However, even at the moment before Charles's time travel, the "Grand Unified Field Theory" in its true sense had not yet been fully completed, let alone the subsequent "Superstring Theory"...

That step... is still too far away for Charles, and there's no use in being anxious now.

One must walk one step at a time, and eat one bite at a time...

Charles understood this principle.

"That previous 'Ball Lightning' event, thanks to the annihilated 'Sixth Colossus,' gave me a deeper understanding of the life forms of the false gods..."

"And what I need to do next is to use this as a foundation... to perfect a forbidden spell that is even more perfect than 'Ball Lightning,' and might even have the potential to kill a false god."