Chapter 493: 493: The Hundred-Year War

Chapter 493: 493: The Hundred-Year War

Chapter 493: The Hundred-Year War

Although the Primordial God managed to find the Dreamweaver's Fortress in no time, in the future timeline, it was not the case now. Time passed fast, and Neji and friends operated from the fortress for years to come, while shaping the Omniverse to their will.

In the swirling chaos that was the War of Omniverses, between this reality woven with threads of destinies both Primordial and Divine, Neji found himself at the heart of this tumultuous change. The years following the victory over Lord Oblivion were a blur of many things.

Just Leveling up by killing wasn't cutting it, so Neji began to train as well. But training for an entity of his caliber was not easy. Each session took years, which thankfully could be managed due to Kimi's Hyperbolic Time Chambers. He would delve into the depths of the Void, sharpening his control over nonexistence, and then another time he'd wield the power of omniversal quasars like a holy sword.

With Kimi's guidance, he earned mastery over the concept of Time too, allowing him to manipulate temporal streams with unprecedented precision. Unlike her, he could pull off huge feats without any need for spells.

The power of omnipotent willpower was incredible like that.

The cosmos served as his sparring partner, allowing him to test out his abilities, and challenging him to push beyond the limits of what was thought possible.

'Each moment of struggle,' Neji would often muse while clashing with entities who can devour hyperverses, 'brings me closer to the Final Boss.'

He'd often not win, but it was easier for him to flee a scene than anyone else. So while he failed to defeat his enemies a few times, he never faced defeat.

The Omniverse War, on the other hand, was constant and never-ending. An ever-present specter that loomed over Neji's desire to keep this possibility of timeline aligned with the other one. He was unsure if anything was aligned at all at this point, even discarding the death of Maestro Myth. He had no framework to follow, so it was all up to luck Luck that he still had plenty.

Still, as much as training alone and finding enemies remotely helped, war times provided an unending supply of strong enemies. So following the plan provided by Contessa Fate, Neji, alongside Kimi and their other allies, became a harbinger of change on the battlefield.

He swept in, he killed opponents, and he left.

Sometimes he'd capture certain enemies if they were compatible with his allies' powers.

They partook in conflicts that shaped the destiny of both realms, their presence tipping the scales in favor of those who were luckybecause Neji didn't discriminate Prime from Cube. If their death would help them, they had no choice but to die.

The Omniversal political landscape trembled at the mention of their names, frontlines crumbled, and adversaries fell before their might. Godmother, Kimi, and Anodi's prowess in combat was unmatched, Fate's strategies and his powers scorched ruins in their wake.

"To forge a path to my peace, I have no choice but to weave through the storm of war," that was his resolution, his resolve unwavering amidst the carnage.

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Nine months after their heartfelt decision, Neji and Lady Life welcomed their son into the Omniverse.

They named him Ra, not only as an homage to the Egyptian deity of the sun, symbolizing the light he brought into their lives but also because Neji remembered Life saying how Ra received his name from the Beings Beyond Omnipotence.

To his surprise, She Beyond Omnipotence reached out to him another time, just to confirm that. "Yeah, name him that. It's cute," she had said. "It's the initials of me and my brother's name. R A."

Neji didn't expect that. He initially thought it was the initials of her first and last name, as he recalled her name was [Raki Amonorthine]. Then, did that mean her brother's name was Amonorthine Raki? Weird name, but sure.

Regardless, to both keep the timelines aligned and to obey the Outer God's cute request, he named his son Ra.

However, joy was dampened with concern, as it became apparent that Ra was unlike other children. This time, he wasn't a Life Golem, but he wasn't much better anyway. His gaze, though filled with innocence, held a void where the spark of a soul should have flickered.

"Void Eclipse!" Neji's voice, laced with the power of emptiness, cut through the chaos, his attack piercing the heart of the Celestial Lord, its enveloping darkness consuming the light of the purple and white entity.

In a desperate bid to change the course of the battle, the Temporal Sentries combined their might, barely stopping the attack, and aimed to ensnare Neji in their final gambit. It was an attack compared to a suicide bombing.

Yet, Neji couldn't look any less bothered. Standing at the confluence of his powers, he was an unstoppable force. With a mere gesture of a finger, he conjured a barrier of blinding luminescence, the brilliance of his Lumomancer abilities repelling the temporal onslaught.

A magnificent temporal explosion unfolded, but Lumomancer's own explosion shrouded it, and the Voidmancer's hunger devoured it.

"Pitiful. This ends now," Neji declared, his voice confident. Unleashing the full spectrum of his powers, Neji transformed into a titanic dragon, bigger than an Archverse, with his wing expanse even beyond that. His titanic dragon jaws widened, and he growled out an attack, "Celestial Dragon's Fury!"

The cosmos itself seemed to heed his call, as a dragon, his scales a mosaic of starlight, he let out a roar of superheated void, something impossible, that echoed the fundamental truths of creation and destruction.

The Celestial Lords had their majestic forms dimmed by the dragon's breath, freezing before its magnificence. The few Temporal Sentries that were still alive, also paused, in front of the conceptual beam that erased reality where it passed, they could do nothing but watch in despair as their unity disintegrated under it.

As the breath subsided, Neji let out a puff of smoke and returned to his humanoid form. He remained a solitary figure amidst the aftermath of his victory. The silence that followed was a mirror of the stunned reactions from all the hidden observers who saw this fight, and Neji let them enjoy it.

The alliance of the Sentries and Lords, was a planned test for him by the other players of the Omniverse, besides the Abstracts. Though this alliance would have proved to be a formidable challenge for anyone else, they were nothing but a mere obstacle on Neji's path.

For a while, everyone avoided Neji and fled on scene.

However, the omniverse was filled with those who are arrogant, so that time didn't last long.

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"Be sure to rest, young master," Kimi would often say when he was going too far with his fights and training, "Remember, our battle is not just for dominion, but for understanding. You need to observe the Primordial's actions, his mindset, and all the other things that make him him. So don't just fight and battle all day, read some history books too."

In the quiet moments between battles, when the sounds of war faded into the background, Neji and Lady Life cherished their time with Ra. They would watch as he played with the energies of creation, his soft smile a balm to their weary spirits. He'd never leave out Kimi from this, of course, as they'd read the zillions of years of omniversal history together.

Years turned into decades, as the destiny and landscape of the Omniverse were irrevocably altered. Neji Hado, a young man once a mere pawn in the cosmic chess game, had become a key player in its unfolding drama as Prima, the First Gamer.

The battles he fought, the alliances he forged, and the love he nurtured were all threads in the grand tapestry of his destiny.

"We are shaping history," Neji reflected, his gaze fixed on the horizon of possibilities that stretched before them. "For Kimi, for Life, for Ra, for myself, and for those girls who are not here with me right now. The time for the Final Battle is near." Neji felt unsure.

And so, amidst the chaos of the cosmos, the wheel of time slowed down when Neji stepped into the 10th decade of his time in the past.

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