American Comic Dimensional Trading Device

How could Josie possibly agree to that?

“…Don’t misunderstand, child. My predictions were wrong. Margot’s advancement is not complete. So, if you want her to achieve the most perfect transformation, it’s best to let Aristem take her away!” Just as Josie was thinking about how to stop Aristem, Tiamat’s extremely tired voice rang in her mind.

“Useless emotions. If it weren’t for Tiamat’s strong guarantee, this child wouldn’t be worth my time. However, Josie Kahn, Tiamat has already explained your deeds to me. I must say, your existence is of great significance to the existence of this universe… Every god’s existence is extremely precious, even if they are just pseudo-gods! I am now entrusting these seeds of gods to you, hoping that you can make good use of them!” After Tiamat finished speaking, Aristom’s eyes flickered, and he spoke to Josie.

And as he finished speaking, five God Seeds, shining even brighter than the ones Margot had used before, floated from Aristom's hand to Josie's front!

Sensing the almost identical aura emanating from these seeds of the gods to that of Aristem before him, Josie instantly understood that these seeds of the gods were precisely what Aristem had condensed.

This is the seed of the first god... Tiamat was also conceived from these seeds of the gods.

"Is this... considered a transaction?" Josie asked, swallowing hard.

The current situation is completely beyond Josie's expectations!

Arithm is essentially helping to nurture the Celestials himself.

This also means that Josie's ability to connect to other universes has been exposed to Arithm.

Indeed, even Tiamat, and even the Star Soul of Pandora, can sense the aura of another universe, so how could Arithm not sense it?

For beings of Arithm's level, traversing the universe is nothing unusual.

After all, Marvel is a multiverse, and even the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj know this. For someone of Arithmah's level to say he doesn't know it would be utterly ridiculous.

In fact, there is competition between the various Marvel multiverses.

If we can plunder more of the origins of other universes, then our own universe will become more powerful.

However, under normal circumstances, beings of the level of Arithm or other Celestials are simply too conspicuous. If they were to travel to other universes, they would be immediately discovered by the powerful beings of those universes.

The only difference is that the alternate universe that Josie can connect to is completely different from the multiverse that Aristom imagines.

Moreover, the existence of the dimensional trader is obviously higher than that of Aristom, so whether it is Aristom or Tia Amat, they only regard it as Josie's own ability, just like Miss America in Doctor Strange 2, and do not know about the existence of the dimensional trader.

“If that’s what you think… I want you to know one thing: you are a being of this universe!” Arithm replied.

Chapter 344 The Plan Against Ai-chan

Arithm left, and Margot, who had not yet completed her promotion, was also temporarily taken away by him.

According to Aritham, Josie has already laid the foundation for Margot, and all that's left is to make the final push.

Under normal circumstances, the final transformation can be completed in less than half an Earth month.

However, Margot, who has just completed her transformation, will definitely have a lot of problems in controlling her power. After all, the Celestials are too powerful. Even someone like Margot, who takes an unorthodox approach, can still cause enormous damage to Earth with a simple gesture.

Therefore, after Margot completes her advancement, Arithm will arrange for a veteran powerhouse among the Celestials to guide and train her. Once she has mastered her power to a certain extent, she will be allowed to return to Earth on her own.

This timeframe is estimated to be about half an Earth year.

Josie did not object to this, firstly because it was the most appropriate way to handle the situation for both Earth and Margot.

After all, he didn't want Margot to accidentally destroy a city while filming.

On the other hand, at Aristom's level, they are all absolute and unquestionable.

In particular, whether it is Josie's past experiences or the Ancient One's explanation, although the Celestials regard mortals as ants, their existence is more like a group of self-aware cosmic robots. Apart from valuing their own kind, they have almost no extra emotions and almost never lie.

And then there was Tiamat's assurance.

Therefore, Josie doesn't need to worry too much about Margot's safety.

However, after Aristom left, Josie quickly got busy, sending his subordinates to all his close trading partners to help them launch comprehensive space exploration activities.

The goal is to find planets that may have star souls.

So far, apart from Azeroth in the Marvel and Warcraft universes where he is located, and Pandora in the Avatar world where the essence of the Star Soul has just been absorbed, Josie has not discovered the existence of a fourth dimension with a Star Soul.

However, this does not mean that those dimensions do not actually exist.

After all, before this, the Avatar universe was just an ordinary world that Josie believed had little value other than resources.

But now it turns out that even in this seemingly ordinary world, there may be beings similar to Star Souls.

Given this, Josie, who had just obtained five Seeds of the Gods from Arithm, would naturally not let go of any possibility.

This is not just a promise and exchange to Arithm, but also for Josie's own benefit, even if it means Josie has to pay an extremely high price for it.

Because Aristom promised that all five Seeds of the Gods would belong to Josie herself.

Josie can give the weapon to whomever she wants, provided that the "Celestial God" who has been promoted must accept the Celestial Race's ideology and accept the summons when the Celestial Race needs them.

At other times, Josie could lead these gods, who had risen from mortals, to conquer the universe without any problem—as long as they didn't conquer other gods.

However, this cost is really nothing for Josie now; it's mostly just a matter of consuming some routine resources.

The resources consumed can often be replenished gradually by these planes themselves.

However, this is ultimately a long-term task. After all, any universe is too vast. Even beings like the Celestials wouldn't dare claim to know everything about the entire universe. So even with faster-than-light engine technology, finding those extremely rare planets with star souls in the vast universe is many times more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack. Whether it succeeds or not depends entirely on luck.

However, compared to these planes with Star Soul Planets that may never be discovered, there is one plane that Josie can plan extensively.

That was Azeroth, the place Josie had always longed for.

It is now the end of 1960, a full 15 years since the first connection to the Azeroth universe. The little Abidis who was only three years old back then is now an extremely handsome 18-year-old youth, and has been an adult for several years.

Turning 18 is a thing on Earth, but in a magical medieval world like Azeroth, people have already undergone a coming-of-age ceremony at the age of 15.

At just 18 years old, Abidis's title had already surpassed that of his count father, and he was made a marquis by King Terenas of Lordaeron.

This is because Abidis is still too young.

In fact, given the power Abidis currently wields, it wouldn't be a problem for him to be granted the title of Duke or even declare himself king.

Because Abidis's own fiefdom was not actually within the territory of Lordaeron or even the Seven Kingdoms, but rather in Northrend and Kalimdor, which were normally difficult for the Seven Kingdoms to reach.

With Josie's help over the years, Abidis not only continued to engage in maritime trade, but also incorporated a large number of marginalized races struggling to survive in Azeroth into his own people.

For example, Minotaur, Yak people, Vykul people, Walrus people, and so on.

Of course, there are also many human beings who originally lived in some marginal areas and struggled to survive.

Furthermore, numerous cities and fortresses were established in regions such as Borean Tundra and Sholazar Basin in Northrend, and Dustwallow Marsh (Theramore region) and the Barrens (Northern Castle in the game) in Kalimdor.

In order to facilitate his rule, Abidis not only spent a lot of money to hire many high-level mages to build a large number of magical portals in his territories, but also formed an airship force that was originally not expected to appear for decades after the technological breakthroughs of races such as goblins, gnomes, and dwarves—of course, the existence of that airship force was kept secret.

But this is not Abidis's ultimate trump card—with Josie around, how could Abidis not have a spaceship?

Through long-term efforts and management, its official subjects have now reached nearly one million after more than a decade of development.

This is actually a very staggering number in Azeroth.

According to Abidis's statement, based on the official tax and population statistics of the Seven Kingdoms, the total human population of the Eastern Kingdom was less than ten million.

The Kingdom of Alterant, the smallest of the seven kingdoms in terms of both land area and population, has a population of less than one million.

In other words, in terms of population alone, Abidis' territory is no weaker than Alterac's.

Of course, the population of the Seven Kingdoms is entirely composed of pure humans, with at most a very small number of dwarves, gnomes, and high elves mixed in—these three races all have their own kingdoms, and apart from a small number who settle in human kingdoms, most are not considered citizens of the Seven Kingdoms.

Abidis's forces included almost every race, and even the Night Elves, who were extremely rare in Azeroth, were present during a period of great isolation.

There was no other way, because with Josie's help, Abidis had no shortage of what Azeroth lacked most: strategic resources that were most scarce in the medieval world—food!

However, it would be impossible for Abidis, who was so young and impetuous and had already wielded such great power, not to become arrogant.

In fact, over the years, he had considered declaring himself king on the advice of his ministers.

However, after being persuaded by Josie, Abidis eventually gave up the idea.

Not only is everything he has given him by Josie, but in terms of importance, Josie is far more important than his biological parents.

Furthermore, since the attention of his subordinates and most of the beings in Azeroth was still focused on their own small territory in Azeroth, Abidis's gaze had already been set on the Burning Legion, the most feared force in the universe at that time.

After all, many years ago, when Abidis was already fully sensible and had begun developing his privateer fleet.

Josie had already told the other party almost all the secrets she knew about Azeroth and the Warcraft universe.

From the creation of the Titans to the War of the Ancients, from the existence of the Old Gods and the Guardians of Tirisfal, to the opening of the Dark Portal that will arrive in a few years, and so on.

Therefore, for Abidis now, whether or not he is called king is no longer important. After all, even the most powerful elven kingdom in all of Azeroth may not be able to match the military strength and power he currently possesses.

The most important thing is to integrate all the power of Azeroth to deal with future crises.

However, he couldn't be foolish enough to spread these possible future events.

Instead, under the guidance of Josie and some of the "teachers" Josie sent him, he followed the strategy of accumulating grain and delaying the declaration of kingship.

Not only did he not show any arrogance or disloyalty towards Terenas, but he also took the initiative to submit all his territories to the Kingdom of Lordaeron. He even deliberately gave some of the more fertile areas he had occupied to Terenas as direct territories of the kingdom to bolster the power of the Lordaeron royal family.

Terenas was naturally delighted by such “loyalty”.

His lifelong wish was to restore the glory of the ancient Thoradin Empire.

Although the Kingdom of Lordaeron is powerful, it is simply impossible for it to suppress the other six kingdoms on its own.

Especially Kul Tiras, which is isolated overseas; Stromgarde, which has equally strong military power; and Stormwind Kingdom, which is supported by the bloodline of Thoradin.

However, as Abidis's power continued to expand over the years, he saw a glimmer of hope that he could achieve his wish.

Of course, Terenas was not without reservations about Abidis's strength.

However, compared to the other six human kingdoms, Terenas considered the threat posed by Abidis to be negligible.

It's not that Abidis's strength is insufficient.