Forma snapped his fingers and a brand was put on Zero's soul.
"With this you have the highest authority. You now have the permit required to enter any time stream."
"Thanks. I'll cya later."
"You're leaving already?"
"I have no time to waste."
"You spent thousands of years with me though..."
"I have an ability called 'time skip'. It passed for me in an instant."
"..."
"Farewell Forma, may you also leave this book!"
"Farewell..."
Zero vanished.
He then appeared by a time stream.
Law enforcement asked for his I.D
Once he showed it to them their attitude flipped.
"Sorry sir, just following protocol. You are free to visit any stream you want."
Zero walked past the officers and cupped his hands.
He picked up some water from a stream and drunk it.
From the taste, he could understand what type of universe it was.
"A world of wizards? That could be fun. I wonder how different it'll be from Owtz's System."
[ECHO]: Analyzing book
[ECHO]: "Time Walker"
[ECHO]: 3: Chapter 6: Wizard World
Zero jumped into the stream.
He saw millions of lines and felt like he was traveling through a tunnel.
"I see... the world is massive. It is similar to the world of cultivation I visited."
"It may even be bigger."
Zero appeared in the wilderness.
He used his independent consciousness to try to find a signal.
"I see... technology has not developed to a modern state yet. Or they simply use magic."
Zero could leave the time stream and appear later in history.
But he felt like a less developed run could be interesting.
He had done the whole modern thing not too long ago.
Zero floated down to the ground and began to go for a stroll.
He walked for a few months in one direction.
As he was growing bored, he ran into a village.
A kid ran up to him.
Zero decided to try out a spell...
This was a wizard world supposedly.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Comprehend Language", Level: 2, Type: Target, Element: Mana, Cost: 600, Desc: "Learn the language of the target."}
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Nothing happened.
"I guess I have no foundation in this world. The runes are likely different then the ones I have memorized. I lack templates and a knife in my soul. So it would be ridiculous for my spells to work. "
Zero smirked.
"Let's change that."
He modified his soul on a whim.
Inscribing 11520 runes on it in a instant.
He didn't bother to make a chain to pierce the soul.
It wasn't necessary.
He could directly manipulate the layers either way.
He noticed a few things different right off the bat.
This environment didn't have a matrix over it.
This wasn't a problem for him though...
Since his law Paradox could substitute all energy sources.
In other words... he could use all of his previous spells.
He cast 'Comprehend Language' on the kid.
It worked!
The energy was converted directly from his law Paradox.
"Mister... why are your eyes two different colors?"
Zero said:
"Because it reminds me of when I had the eyes of an original incarnation."
"Original Incarnation?"
"It is a being which makes up the fabric of reality."
"I don't understand..."
Zero shook his head.
He then said:
"Wanna see a magic trick?"
"Magic trick? Are you a wizard?"
"Sure."
Zero snapped his fingers and tried to use one of the spells he had learnt a long time ago.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Light Familiar", Level: 1, Type: Pet, Element: Light, Cost: 200, Desc: "Summon a light pet that'll follow you around until it runs out of mana."}
Zero used his law 'Paradox' to power the spell.
A bird made of light appeared and danced around the boy.
"Whoooaa... can I keep it?"
"Sure."
"Thank you sir!"
The kid ran back to his parents.
The familiar followed him.
The parents looked at Zero and walked up to him.
"Are you sure he can keep something so important?"
"Oh yea... it's fine."
The father took out a few coppers and handed them to Zero.
"It's the least we could do."
Zero was currently broke funnily enough.
He could create sources... there wasn't anything that could stop him from pulling money out of thin air.
He appreciated the gesture, so he took the money anyways.
He then bid them farewell and walked around the village.
He saw a stall selling fried fish.
"How much for a stick?"
"One copper."
Zero handed the old women a copper and she handed him a fish on a stick.
Zero took a bite.
Compared to drinking the soul of an overgod.
It was lacking to say the least.
"That tasted horrible."
The lady frowned and then told Zero to leave.
"Fine."
Zero continued his walk around the village.
"This is a pretty nice place. Very calm."
"Maybe I should establish my base here."
Zero tried to manipulate his nanites to saturate this village.
But he realized.
"Oh no... my nanites."
Zero had made this body out of information.
His Mysterious Presence kept him compatible with this universe.
But his nanites were incompatible for now.
He would need to recreate them.
"I suppose I'll have to use my spells."
[ECHO]: {Name: "Soul Search", Level: 1, Type: Target, Element: Mana, Cost: Varies, Desc: "Search the soul of the target."}
He searched a random person who had happened to pass by.
The person hadn't left their village besides going out to hunt for their entire lives.
Needless to say... he got barely any information at all from searching this persons soul.
So Zero went around looking for the most expensive looking huts.
He eventually found a home made out of bricks.
He walked through the walls as if they didn't exist and caught a fat man in the middle of his supper.
The man nearly jumped out of his skin upon seeing Zero.
"I swear I'll pay the money back! I just need more time... please don't kill me!"
Zero didn't bother asking questions.
He scanned this mans soul and found an interesting conspiracy.
This village would be raided in a few months if the man in front of him didn't pay off his copious amounts of gambling debt.
Zero learned where their casino was at.
He didn't feel like seeing such a peaceful village burned to the ground.
He was also passively building chapters just from doing things.
So why not have a little bit of fun?
[ECHO]: {Name: "Disguise Illusion", Level: 2, Type: Target, Element: Mana, Cost: 400, Desc: "Put a disguise over the target."}
Zero's body morphed taking on the look of the Gabe.
Gabe looked at Zero in horror and shouted.
"Imposter!"
Zero waved his hands.
"Sleep..."
[ECHO]: {Name: "Sleep", Level: 2, Type: Target, Element: Mana, Cost: Varies, Desc: "Puts target to sleep."}
Zero then used the memories of the village head to create an anchor for one of his spells.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Gateway", Level: 5, Type: Area, Element: Mana, Cost: 2500, Desc: "Open up a portal to a location."}
He had created a gateway between this random village in the middle of nowhere to a town.
The towns name was "Aville"
Its population was around 8,000 people.
As for the head villager that owed from gambling.
He owed his debt to the 'Scammers Delight'.
That was the real name of the casino...
Zero had circumvented the guards by making his portal connect to the spot right outside of the casino.
Zero walked through the portal and closed the gateway.