Chapter 299 Beatrice’s Situation

Chapter 299 Beatrice's Situation

Dante pondered his next steps and decided it was about time to return to the First Gate. Everything he needed to do within the local universe was mostly done, except some loose ends he had to tie up before then.

The first one was sorting out Beatrice's current state. His darling wife had been the epitome of strength and power when he first crossed over, representing a mountain that he could never cross.

Just to qualify to have sex with her in his base form, Dante had worked tirelessly for months and relied on boosting from technology to be able to bridge the gap.

However, things mostly changed when Portia, her mother, was brought back to life.

You see... Levi had said it pretty clearly before. There is supposed to only be one daughter of heaven at a time, and because the universe will could not predict the power of technology, Portia was able to give birth to Beatrice, who inherited her special powers.

However, Beatrice's were broken because the rules were clear. There can only be one holder of a certain superpower alive at a time in the universe's database. This was not a rule set by the universe will, but by the fabric holding all universes together.

But Beatrice was an anomaly.

Because of her semi-daughter of heaven state, she could partially bypass this rule, right?

That was only half of it.

When Beatrice was a child, she never manifested her powers.

She only manifested the broken abilities AFTER Portia died.

When a person dies, their hold and right to the superpower they have is wiped off. Even if they are resurrected, even using a superpower for resurrection, they come back without the superpower, as seen with Dante's schoolmates.

However, the Nirvana Fire of Phoenix was almighty and tyrannical. Not only did it recreate the body, but it snatched the soul from wherever souls go and even snatched back the superpower and any inherent abilities from wherever they were stored. nOVelB1n

Not only that, but it boosted SDI from 2 times to 10 times depending on the person, the ambient energy, and the circumstance.

That was 9 times to come back from death if any mishap occurred, so it could not be wasted so casually.

Obviously, the simple solution was to tie Beatrice's superpowers to the Centralis Universe since the Eternal Universe was occupied, but that was not possible, at least on paper.

Dante could not contact the will of the home universe to ask for this benefit, and he didn't have any item that could achieve this effect. If there was anything that could do this, it would be the Black Spire, but that required Beatrice to not only register but acquire Spire Points.

Dante tried to cheese his way out by bringing Beatrice to the Centralis Universe through his quantum entanglement ability. Apart from marveling at how low quality this universe was compared to her hometown, even taking Beatrice into the Zero Gate world did not activate her superpowers.

Initially, Beatrice did not want to enter because she knew that Dante's plans for the home universe involved preventing it from being registered on the First Gate until he could beef up its strength.

So if she, with her abnormally high stats entered the portal, it would send her straight to the First Gate like what happened to Dante and ruin everything he built up. However, Dante assured her that he could prevent that and true to his promise, when the side quantum tunnel came to try and drag Beatrice away, Dante simply closed it off with a glance.

Still, it was meaningless in the end since they were not able to achieve their goal.

Even as Dante seemed frustrated, Beatrice simply patted his shoulder.

"Don't take it too seriously babe. I already have a lot of strength, enough to defend myself should anything go wrong."

Beatrice then walked over to sit by Antonia's crib and stuck a finger into it to tease her cute little darling. "Besides, I'm going to spendmost of my time raising Antonia. As for fighting and killing, I've been doing it since I was 7 years old, I'm pretty much tired of it."

What could Dante say to that? Even though he suspected Beatrice was just saying this to reassure him, he did believe that some part of it was true. Beatrice was forced to mature early and seek power to protect her clan, become its stabilizing force and seek revenge.

Now that she had a husband, both her parents, as well as her own child, she was pretty much surrounded by love and family. She was clearly addicted to it and had no intention of going back to the life of struggling and fighting, her only entertainment being browsing the Etranet in between missions to kill or capture.

This was in contrast to Dante who was the opposite, having grown up sheltered by family and shown love throughout, now seeking to act on his ambitions through killing and conquering. It seemed that his connection with Beatrice was even more profound than he thought, being opposite sides of the same coin.

In the end, he could only put it aside for later and make the preparations to travel. Since he would be moving, he had to make sure things were done properly because even if he could come and go as he pleased, neither Portia nor Beatrice could.

Especially in the sense of where exactly he would situate Beatrice. He was not arrogant enough to place his wife and newborn daughter in a place literally called the Wasteland of Death, a place he himself barely survived in.

As such, Dante would have to appear in the base area of the Eternal Universe, where he should have popped up when he was first transported if not for a strange anomaly that he still had not identified up until now.