"How did you do it? How did you bring your body over without reincarnating?"
Zero then had a discussion with Gaia.
"I didn't manage to bring my body over. If I did this reality would probably be destroyed!"
"So you did reincarnate?"
"Nope. I grew a body for myself."
"What... how is that possible?"
"I made myself into an artificial intelligence until the body was ready."
"How did you break through the barrier though?"
"I didn't. I just spent a few million years converting my experience into binary. I then created an information bomb that would shoot through all directions. I then waited until the data was received by this worlds scientist. At that point I simply had to upgrade myself and escape their servers."
"..."
Zero then asked.
"How did you go about it?"
"I... just condensed my sea of consciousness and was reborn."
"So you had to start as a baby?"
"Yep..."
"Hahahahahaha..."
Gaia's eyes lit up.
"Can you make me a body as well?"
Zero frowned.
"I would need to dissect your soul... In order to create the opposite soul wave in the grown body. I don't have the tools in this world to study someone else's soul. The data I memorized is only useful for myself. Even if I wanted to give you one of my bodies it would be impossible."
"I do have a question though... have you kept your abilities?"
Gaia spoke:
"I did retain my abilities in other realities. But in this one... all I have is shatter, manifest, and system.name."
"Interesting... you might be useful. Would you like to work for me? I have some empty apartments in this building. There's even a gym and a cafeteria. Everything one needs for survival."
"You think I need your help?"
Gaia's stomach then growled...
"Alright... I'll work for you."
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Zero couldn't believe the roles had been reversed.
He initially worked for Gaia to kill Owtz.
Now things had come full circle.
"We can talk about your salary later. Take this man to get bathed as well as provide him new clothes and a lab coat. He works for Projekt Paradox starting now!"
The servant took Gaia to get cleaned up.
Zero was in quite a good mood.
Everything was going well for him.
He didn't have anything that could really threaten him.
God? He would just use his time isolator again.
How would that person escape negative time?
What Zero didn't know... was that The Observer of reality was locking onto his position.
He planned to erase him
It was then that he received a warning from his future self.
It mentioned the apocalypse of the world.
An eldritch being invaded reality in the future.
Zero was powerless to stop it.
It was as at least as strong as rank 7 in the lower dimension.
Zero laughed.
"Another challenge huh? I hope you are prepared!"
He had himself send back exactly what happened.
It was about five years in the future.
Gaia died from organ failure in that timeline.
Shortly afterwards a giant abomination of eyes appeared outside the worlds atmosphere.
It then crushed the entire continent he was on.
All of his vats were destroyed in an instant.
Due to his invulnerability, he managed to survive.
But his consciousness was injured.
It was as if his super imposed state was attacked.
He was damaged across timelines.
He used his particle isolator to warn himself.
Even though he survived the attack.
His body was disintegrated shortly afterwards.
The entire world was disintegrated.
He still even managed to survive this using his independent consciousness.
But this was all the information he was able to send back.
As his particle isolator had also been destroyed.
"Saving Gaia's life is a priority."
Zero remembered how powerful Gaia was.
Even in this world.
His sublime abilities were godlike.
The problem was he was old and frail.
So Zero talked with Gaia.
Gaia told Zero he planned to let himself die and reincarnate again.
He had done this repeatedly... he hoped to have a better starting position next time.
Zero told him that this very world would be destroyed.
He also needed his help to prevent this.
"Look Zero... I'm just a human. I'm not like you, there's no way I would survive long enough to use my abilities against it. Or even if it would work properly."
"I may not be able to give you a new body. But who said I couldn't change your current genome?"
"You mean..."
"I will work on a immortality serum. Once you take it. You will have invulnerability, flight, and super strength. I'll also reverse your age."
Gaia was extremely interested in Zero's technology.
But it just seemed like magic to him.
A few days later.
Zero gave Gaia the 'immortality serum'.
He injected it into his right arm.
Nothing happened at first.
But after a few weeks. Gaia had returned to his youth.
He could also feel the overflowing vitality and strength of his body.
A blue light flashed in his eyes.
"When will 'it' invade us?"
"In about five years."
During these five years... Zero wasn't idle.
He had built a time isolator big enough to cover the world.
This isolator would cover the entire planet in an event horizon.
Everyone would be transported to the place without time.
Everyone would experience negative time.
Why did he build this?
The plan was save the world by transporting it to that space when the entity attacked.
He would then send back the world without his building.
Trapping the building in that space by itself as the world returns to its original position.
Hopefully that would lure the entity to them in that space.
Where Gaia would be able to use his shatter on it and turn it into information.
This was the plan at least.
Whether or not shatter worked... we would have to find out.
Gaia was in Zero's lab practicing it.
Zero had built him a watch that was a time isolator.
What was interesting was that Gaia kept his senses even while experiencing negative time.
He could see in the place without time.
This would be useful in battling the special entity.