Zero was quite satisfied with his research on time travel.

Even though he currently had no way to physically go back in time.

It served its purpose.

He didn't need to physically go back in time anyways.

For now.

Now he decided to switch it up and focus on teleportation.

He had already gotten many peoples 'theories' on how it could potentially work from his employees in the time travel and teleportation department.

He had a few things to test.

The first thing he would try out would be a gap in spacetime.

One such idea was that the world was full of microscopic holes.

Then using the void between atoms you could teleport.

These voids were too small unfortunately.

You would need to expand a hole a few atoms wide into one many quadrillion atoms wide.

As for manipulating and maintaining such a hole without having atoms fill it again.

You would need a type of exotic matter.

Or... hear me out.

Nanites.

Manipulating things at the microscopic scale was easy for Zero.

It was the manipulation and building of the nanites that took a lot of effort.

He had to combine them to get them to the right size.

He had his previous tools that he used to modify the wave for quantum entanglement.

Zero could see through the 'eyes' of the nanites since he had been an artificial intelligence.

It was really like an entirely different world.

It was nothing like reality.

It even reminded him of the chaos realm for some reason.

Although he didn't find any eldritch beings or mysterious doors.

The quantum realm was very interesting.

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He went down to his private lab and built a pod.

He then put a small copper ingot in the pod.

He then turned the pod on.

Its function?

Heat.

Very simple.

It didn't really matter what material he used.

He just happened to have some copper ingots...

He used nanites to observe the particles as the copper ingot was heated.

As the temp became higher, the atoms started to vibrate in place.

He watched as the distance between atoms grew further.

He then screened through all of the atoms.

Looking at the space between them.

It looked... scary? for some reason.

He felt like something was telling him not to continue.

An intuition.

But fuck that.

He would just send himself a message if it was really dangerous.

Or did this thing wipe him out entirely?

Fuck it.

He targeted the space between atoms and coated it in nanites.

He then slowly over time expanded this space.

He left a thread of his brain automatically do this process as he had other things to do.

It took about 6 months to have a human sized portal open up.

It did indeed look like a portal.

He also saved the process into his memory so that he could wouldn't spend 6 months every time he wished to open up a portal.

There was one huge issue though.

Where the hell did this portal go?

How was he suppose to control where it went?

He had no idea where to start.

But some enthusiastic scientist were very willing to be test subjects.

The first person tried walking into it.

But it was as if the void was full of negative mass.

He was pushed with force as he tried going into it.

It simply refused to let him in.

Zero then had a great idea.

He had someone build an identical pod on his island.

He then made another portal.

This time when the person tried to walk through... they successfully did it.

They traveled from his building to the island in an instant.

Unlike with time travel. Since he had actual witnesses.

His teleportation was leaked to the public.

Scientist had tried analyzing the principle behind it.

But with their tools... it simply seemed like magic.

A basic pod and a copper ingot... with nothing else that they could find? How the hell did it work?

This question eluded the brightest minds.

Still, Zero wasn't satisfied.

Even with the method memorized into his nanites.

Constructing a portal took quite awhile.

It seemed the limit of portals he could have online was two.

If he built a third one.

The person's body would split into a conglomeration of flesh and blood.

RIP that one employee that decided to test out three portals.

Now that he had teleportation.

He could open up a portal to any location he had sufficient nanites at.

But this wasn't enough in his eyes.

He was getting a little greedy.

He wanted quantum teleportation.

He wanted a way to turn his physical body into a wave, just like what his independent consciousness was.

Then instantaneously travel to a location.

The problem was...

He knew of a method to turn the body into information.

But reconstructing the body afterwards?

To perfectly do it on the atomic level.

He had already solved this form of teleportation.

It was in the schematic he had sent himself.

Or it was close to it either way.

But he was trying to figure it out himself.

He started to think in this direction...

He also shut down the portals while he wasn't using them.

For some reason his employees were running back and forth through them like children playing tag.

Was it really that fun?

He was no stranger to teleportation and portals... so it was quite a normal phenomenon for him.

He just didn't see the appeal of going back and forth through a portal for no reason.

After he shut it down... everyone went back to 'work'.

After seeing such a miracle of science... they started to believe in Zero a bit.

Maybe he wasn't just some delusional guy with money to blow.

Maybe... he could actually realize his visions.