Dinner (1)

Xander analyzed his options within this past few hours and was left with 3 methods of dealing with his fellow transmigrator.

The first one is elimination. Rather than deal with variables in his proposed long-term plan, he decided to remove them from the very start. He would not only utilize the system to track and identify the writer of the research paper, but also collaborate with the Eta government in 'finding' the target.

Of course, while collaborating, I would give out cues to indicate that this person should be eliminated as it posts a high risk. The only problem with this plan is that I am not sure whether this target is stronger than me, or roughly within the limits of my current power, which is anyone under Legendary. Maybe this other transmigrator has reached Mythic or even Demigod class strength, or even higher!

Another problem is that Xander would step into the world stage too early as Xander Cloverfield, making him the target of several individuals and countries. Goodness, he wasn't even past 10 years of age, and he's being monitored by his own government as a national asset.

The only reason he hasn't been taken by the government was because of his parents' influence, specifically, the clans behind them, and my unwillingness to get in that mess of cesspool known as politics and military.

Xander thought more of it: If I 'accept' to be a 'patriot' of the government, I would lose a lot of my freedom for the sake of eliminating a target that may or may not be successful, because the government may not kill the target. Also, I might be wrong about my initial hypothesis that this was done by a fellow transmigrator, making me waste my time and freedom.

The second option is assimilation. If he finds out the identity of the person who made the paper, Xander would be able to set-up a meeting to increase their ties with one another, creating more karmic threads to one another. Once it reaches to a certain point, he could then use the karmic threads to do surveillance towards the target, and slowly guide his or her actions towards Xander's benefit.

However, there is a potential risk: If the person is actually above the Demigod class, they would be able to detect the artificial movements of their own fate, even if one isn't that well versed in the Life-Death System.

Although weak, it is enough if the enemy is paranoid. More so, if the person is well-versed in the Life-Death system; even at Mythic class, he or she would feel the artificial pullings of karmic threads, allowing them to trace it back to Xander, or do their own modifications, manipulating him instead.

The third option is to not respond at all. Xander could just act like someone in his age in college, not noticing any attempts for him to take a bite towards the identity of the person.

Even if the meat was tantalizing and was being dangled in front of him, he would just act as anyone who doesn't have a stake at this: Confused and nonplussed.

After all, there was a hidden danger to the paper that was just posted: It was possible that he was already being monitored by that person, thinking that he was a transmigrator but still unsure of it, and was scared off by his current background…or maybe the person is not deigned to move at all…

In the end, although the 2nd option was tantalizing, he decided to go for the third option. Not only can he go under the radar undetected, but he could also use this opportunity if there is more than 1 of them present in this planet.

After all, who knows what being others transmigrated into. It could be a newborn space beast, or even another civilization in a far, far away galaxy from Eteria.

He shook his head; he realized that even if he had nearly god-like powers in this universe, at the moment, he is nothing but a defenseless chick, a child holding a massive club, but is incapable of releasing its potential and beyond. What he could do for now is become stronger and deepen his understanding of the Space and Time elements.

Right now, he had actually progressed to 2% total comprehension for the 2 elements yesterday. This was the result of his own comprehension and understanding for the past 5 years. His [Absolute Time (sealed, 2% unlocked)] had also changed. At the same time, another spell appeared in the God Spell slot, named [Absolute Space (sealed)]. There was no information about the spell, however, putting Xander in a bit of a loss.

For the past day, he had been experimenting and researching about his increase in abilities, which seemed to just appear in his mind.

At 2% comprehension of space, beside the fact his travel distance at any time increased from 100,000 kilometers to a staggering 9.461e+14, or 946 trillion kilometers, or 100.002 light years at any given direction, he could also literally scan the whole area in less than a second and transfer to a selected point in that space with no spatial, elemental fluctuations whatsoever.

According to his initial scan yesterday, there were around 1000 exoplanets, planets capable of holding life, present in the area, with the closest one being 25 light years away. He also saw that several of these planets had their own civilizations and different species, some being in the oil era, one even being in the energy era!

However, they haven't developed spaceships capable of surviving the harsh space, with space beasts out and about, as well as other beings. Weirdly, they had different power developments, as some focused on the body, some focused on the soul, some focused on both, or some focused on the external.

Another cool thing he discovered was that it was easier for him to break stable spaces. Although before, it took him around 30-45 seconds to break a very stable space just relying on his absolute dominance over space-time elements, he could now break one in less than 15 seconds, and even break multiple layers of space in less than a minute.

Even if he meet someone who is able to use space-time elements, and attempted to lock the space around Xander, as long as their comprehension of space-time is lower than his, he could easily break out.

At 2% comprehension of time, besides from the time range he could foresee into the past and future increasing by tenfold (from 10,000 to 100,000 years), he could also now create time clones, with their main purpose being simple: Stop him from dying. Yes. Xander has reached the state of immortality and eternal youth. Does that mean he will be forever a 7-year old body? Not exactly.

From this point onward, he could use the multiple versions of him existing in the past, present, and future, affected by factors such as the type of magic he controls, the upbringing, etc. to change his overall body appearance, structure, and function.

He could already just take a peek in the future 3000 years from now where he got the futuristic augmentations without physically transporting himself to the future. So he could, if he wasn't willing, not go to the future anymore. After all, it's a bit messy if he accidentally brought something back or caused a powerhouse to cast their gaze at him.

He could even look further, but the problem was the further down it is, the shorter the view becomes. The most optimal time now was 30,000 years into the future, where it is long enough to survey the situation and gleam information from it, allowing him a brief 10 minutes to view and interact.

Sadly, this time allotment decreases as he progresses further into the future. There wasn't any problem viewing the past up to 100,000 years ago, as they have set into stone and had been recorded for his current timeline.

Also, another set of effect happened, benefiting Xander. With his combined comprehension at 2% of the Space-Time elements, besides making his time acceleration/reversal more stable, space-based spells more powerful and destabilizing, and partially fusing space-time (2%) in an area, creating a budding ordered system, both time and space would rewind whenever he received a critical wound, reversing all damage he had.

The area of time and space reversal was based on half his maximum spatial movement distance, which is within 50 light years. The reversal is automatic, and it affects everyone's memory, returning to the point where he didn't suffer a critical wound. At the same time, all dimensions within the area are affected.

He wasn't sure, however, if those beings in the Divine class or higher would be affected, or would they only feel a sense of deja-vu? Maybe, they could even be exempted from it? How about technologies related to checking time-flow and distortions related to it? Will he be able to hide from it? Xander wasn't able to test these out as he had no test subjects nor the materials to create these technologies to test out his powers.

However, on the issue that even memory is reversed, Xander had a troubling thought: What if the damage wasn't just a physical damage to the present, but also to the past and future? Combining Fate elements into a magic attack, how would he resolve the issue if he received such an attack? At the same time, what if he gets stuck in the situation of fighting an enemy he cannot currently defeat? How should he retreat?

After 10 years of testing, he finally got some results. One way to ensure that Fate-type magic attacks that are combined to magic/physical damage would be reversed or nullified is to separate his life essence doll from the dimension it is in, the weird dimension that Xander named as Dimension-LEO, or Life essence ocean. How is this done? Basically, with the [Absolute Defense], his life essence doll would be in a different dimension than the attack, nullifying any forms of damage, and the dimension is randomized.

A small problem with this modified spell is that karmic threads are able to surpass dimensional differences, albeit they become weaker and slower to react.