Super God Academy: Kabuto

Lin Yu was like a true passerby, silently traversing and wandering through the vast timeline and parallel worlds of Armor Hero. He witnessed countless battles, encounters, and partings, yet he always felt a sense of detachment and alienation.

"Tsk, how boring..." He slumped onto the sofa in his temporary lodging, staring at the ceiling, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the armrest. Kabuto Zecter hovered silently beside him.

"I miss Pipi Xi a little..." he murmured to himself, the image of He Xi's exquisitely beautiful face with its mischievous smile appearing in his mind. "I wonder what she's doing now, whether she's researching some new gadget with Keisha again, or... whether she misses me even a little bit?"

Kabuto Zecter seemed to sense its master's emotions, gently circling around and emitting an electronic voice: [You can observe key battle points in the current timeline, or explore unknown areas.]

Lin Yu shook his head, still lazily sprawled out: "No, I've seen too many fighting and killing scenes, it's all the same. That old emperor sent me here without telling me why, really..." He looked at Kabuto, "You know what?"

"I don't know, they didn't tell me," Kabuto answered honestly.

"Never mind," Lin Yu finally stood up, patted his clothes, "Since we're just killing time anyway, let's go see that legendary 'righteous yet wicked' General Duanmu."

A colorful light screen unfolded near a ramen shop. Lin Yu went in, ordered a bowl of their signature ramen, and his gaze fell on a somewhat shy young man who was busy between the kitchen and the dining table.

"Looks like I'm a bit early. He hasn't become that legendary armor summoner yet," Lin Yu thought to himself.

After finishing his noodles, he got up to leave. As he passed Duanmu Yan, who was clearing the table, he stopped, a meaningful smile on his face, and said softly, "We'll meet again."

After saying that, he pushed open the door and left. Duanmu Yan watched his retreating figure, scratched his head, and was somewhat puzzled: "What a strange person..." But his busy work made him quickly put this little episode out of his mind.

After a while, just as Lin Yu stepped out of the light screen, he heard a righteous yet somewhat sinister and compelling voice echoing throughout the sewers:

"Found you! Where do you think you're going?"

Lin Yu shook his head helplessly: "This sense of justice... is a bit too strong." He did not intervene immediately, but instead used the light screen to change his position again.

This time, he appeared directly at the edge of the battlefield. He saw Thunder Yatalis's summoner hovering above Duanmu Yan, about to complete its fusion, and finally, he had found the right moment.

"Oh? The energy composition of this summoner is quite unique," Lin Yu's eyes lit up. "Pipi Xi should be very interested in this."

No sooner said than done! Just as Duanmu Yan was about to grab the summoner, Lin Yu appeared like a ghost, snatching it away with ease.

At the same time, a transparent data crystal appeared in his other hand, pressed against the summoner, and began to rapidly replicate its core data and energy structure.

This sudden turn of events stunned both Duanmu Yan and Oukese on the other side.

"It's you?!" Duanmu Yan recognized Lin Yu and immediately shouted, "Give it back to me!"

Lin Yu ignored it, focusing intently on the light flowing across the data crystal. A few seconds later, the copying was complete. He then leisurely toyed with the exquisite summoning device in his hand, commenting, "Quite an interesting thing."

Then, as if he were throwing away an ordinary toy, he casually tossed the summoner back to Duanmu Yan.

"then."

Before Duanmu Yan could even process this bizarre turn of events after catching the summoner, Lin Yu had already reopened the light screen, waved casually, stepped inside, and vanished.

The next moment, Lin Yu appeared on a desolate planet. There was no atmosphere here; as far as the eye could see, there was the vast universe and the distant, dazzling starry sky. Absolute silence enveloped everything. He casually sat on a meteorite, with Kabuto Zecter quietly keeping him company.

The vast starry sky was breathtaking enough to amaze anyone, but Lin Yu's eyes only held a trace of confusion and a slight weariness.

He gazed at the boundless universe, sighed softly, and his words vanished into the vacuum:

"I wonder when this aimless wandering will ever end..."

His journey continues, but somewhere in his heart, he is already thinking about "Pipi Xi" with her long silver hair and ice-blue eyes, and the small courtyard he calls "home".

In the golden imperial palace, the Heavenly Dao, incarnate as the Emperor Warrior, sat serenely on the throne. This time, however, an uninvited guest appeared in the hall—a man clad in a black trench coat, casually seated on a chair formed of condensed light, his aura as deep and unfathomable as an abyss.

His gaze seemed to pierce through countless dimensions, landing on Lin Yu, who was gazing at the stars from a certain planet. He spoke slowly, his voice carrying a majestic, law-like quality, yet also a hint of barely perceptible solemnity:

"The 'seed' within him is sprouting. As he travels and experiences timeline, his power will grow to an extremely terrifying level. That power... may be beyond even his own complete control."

Upon hearing this, the man in black smiled confidently, his gaze as distant as that of the Emperor Warrior, as if he were looking at another version of himself.

"He can do it." The tone was calm yet contained an undeniable conviction. "I believe in myself, and I believe in him. Now, we just need to wait for time to pass, and wait for that crucial moment to arrive."

Emperor Warrior's gaze returned to the man in black, and for the first time, a look of doubt appeared in his unchanging eyes.

"You... are really strange. You all originate from the same essence, yet you present completely different forms. And he is even more peculiar now. The power that has settled within him should not belong to him at this point in time."

The smile on the man in black deepened, but it also carried a hint of complexity and resolve:

"He was our joint decision." He quoted a concept full of Eastern metaphysics: "The Great Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Dao is forty-nine, and man escapes to one. And he is the 'variable' we found, the 'one' that can move everything."

After a moment of silence, the Emperor Warrior, as the maintainer of balance in this universe, spoke again, offering a weighty promise:

"If you need it, I can help you once." This is the maximum intervention that Heaven can make.

However, the man in black shook his head, refusing this help that could change many things. A trace of weariness and unwavering resolve, undiminished even by countless reincarnations, flashed in his eyes:

"It's useless." His voice lowered. "Every time they reach that anchor point of fate, their deaths... no matter how hard we try, they cannot be changed. The most terrifying thing is that we can't even be sure who our real enemy is. Whether in the main world or in countless parallel worlds, this ending seems to be welded shut, unshakable."

He raised his head, his gaze sharpening once more, like a traveler searching for a glimmer of light in a desperate situation:

"We can only reincarnate again and again, traversing countless worlds, searching for that glimmer of hope. Until... we saw 'it' in that seemingly insignificant little world." He didn't explicitly say what "it" was, but it was where hope lay.

"This is a gamble with everything at stake. But I believe that this time, we will win."

Emperor Warrior's gaze swept across the vast, ever-changing universe he protected, carrying a pure curiosity about its unknown ending:

"I really want to see that final answer. Unfortunately, I can't leave here."

The man in black stood up and straightened his trench coat. He once again exuded that unwavering, almost idealistic, powerful aura, and uttered those words that were both his conviction and the source of his strength:

"Need not."

"Grandma always said that as long as I want it, fate will always be on my side!"

As his words fell, his figure began to fade slowly within the golden hall, eventually disappearing completely as if merging into the light. Only Emperor Knight remained, seated alone on his throne, continuing to safeguard the balance of the universe, and serving as a silent witness.