Endless Journey: Infinite Realms 339 Being a hoarder can help you out sometimes!

[Blue Alex]: "Once an Esper reaches the Star Esper level, they can attempt to fuse their consciousness with the consciousness of a World. If it succeeds, that Star Esper's mental power and Esper Ability will experience an evolution, which will improve the overall power of that Esper."

[Alex]: "Ha?"
[Blue Alex]: "In your case, if you successfully fuse your consciousness with the consciousness of a world, your Esper Power will most likely gain a power that is equivalent to Sixth Stage."

[White Alex]: "Congratulations to you Alex. Blue Alex just gave you the best option for you…"
These two Alex(s) started to give Alex congratulatory claps, as if they were already assured of Alex's victory.
But instead of acting happy, Alex's face slowly turned red as he seemed to be suddenly enraged.
[Alex]: "Hey wait! Just hold up you two! I ain't agreeing with this s**t that you are suggesting to me!"

Alex could hardly believe his ears after he heard what Blue Alex just said.
After all, this guy just mentioned words related to consciousness and fusion.
No matter which way Alex looked at it, these two words appearing together is not a good sign!

[Blue Alex]: "You seem to be in discomfort. Are you experiencing any psychological problems?
[White Alex]: "You seem troubled Alex. Do you have any problems with Blue Alex's suggestion?"

[Alex]: "You're asking me if I have any problems? Of course I have problems with his suggestion!"

Before Blue Alex could explain himself, Alex pointed his finger at Blue Alex as he said,
[Alex]: "You just said that I must fuse my consciousness with world! You just said that! Do you even know how ridiculous is that?"

[Blue Alex]: "Alex, I assure you-"

[Alex]: "You know that the consciousness of a World is something that is beyond my power, and yet you want me to actually fuse with one? Are you high right now?"

[White Alex]: "Alex-"
Before White Alex could explain himself, Alex turned to face him, as he started to go on a full-blown rage mode.
[Alex]: "Oh I am so pissed right now! I thought Blue Alex will give me a good advice… but you actually gave me the c**ppiest one here! Argh! Why did I even allow you to talk! It's just a f**king waste of time!"
[Blue Alex]: "…"
[White Alex]: "…"
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Alex's anger right now can be said to be justified, as Alex knows everything about Worlds and their consciousness.
With all the experiences that Emperor Litch had with conquering with numerous Worlds, knowledge about the consciousness of Worlds were already widespread.
Even someone like Alex, who were kept in a lab before as a clone, also have some knowledge about this.

Contrary to the popular belief, Worlds are not just chunks of inorganic, non-living objects.
They actually have their own consciousness too, which can allow a World to think and act like a living being.
This fact is somewhat hard to believe, but Alex had already seen evidence of this back when he was still at the Undying Empire.

Surprisingly, as more and more of these 'conscious' worlds were discovered, some unique rules about the existence of these consciousness were also discovered.
As a rule of thumb, it was accepted that only Worlds that support living beings develop their consciousness.
From all the worlds that Emperor Litch conquered, it was observed that only the Worlds with living beings in them exhibit signs of awareness.
As for the Worlds that have no signs of living beings residing on them, their consciousness are always non-existent.

There are no special exceptions, as all the worlds encountered by the Undying Empire all follow this rule.
This phenomenon of a World's consciousness being correlated with the existence of living beings is still an unfathomable issue until today, which had been the cause of numerous debates.
But aside from this rule, there was another thing that had been observed regarding a World's consciousness.

And it was that the strength of a World's consciousness can also vary.
The more living beings are there in a World, the stronger the consciousness of that World will be.
Not only that, but the 'stronger' these living beings are, the stronger the consciousness of that World will be too.
This means that a World with a massive amount of living beings will have a stronger consciousness compared to a World with lesser amount of living beings.
And if a World was inhabited by Magicians, that World's consciousness will be visibly mightier compared to a World only inhabited normal humans.
To anyone who hears about these facts for the first time, they will naturally get scared at first since living in a World that can think is somewhat scary.

And they should be scared, as a World with consciousness can exert control over its whole body.

Any physical or chemical phenomena that is happening on the body of a conscious World can be controlled by it.
Not only that, but the Laws related to power suppression can also be manipulated by a conscious world easily. This means that if a World had wanted it, it can choose to suppress all kinds of supernatural powers inside its range.
Of course a World has to have an extremely strong consciousness in order to do this kind of suppression.
With these kind of scenarios available for a conscious World, the prospect of living in another World, much less invading it, seems to be less feasible now.

Fortunately, there are times when conscious Worlds go to 'sleep'.
This 'sleep', in simpler terms, equates to a World shutting down any of its thoughts.
It was also not known why Worlds have to even 'sleep', although some say that it could be because conscious Worlds are trying to conserve their strength.

What makes a sleeping World unique was the fact that once a World is asleep, it will be almost impossible to wake them up by force.

A sleeping world will only wake up when it wanted to, and it will also sleep when it preferred to do so.
This kind of sleeping behavior was what had allowed Emperor Litch to easily conquer numerous Worlds. He mostly chose to only invade sleeping Worlds, which allowed him to easily assimilate them with his Empire.
Of course there could be a chance that some of these conquered World's will wake up in the future, however Alex does not care about that anymore.

After all, Alex was more worried about Blue Alex's suggestion to him.

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[Alex]: "Blue Alex… let me ask you a question. Where are we right now?
[Blue Alex]: "We are in a World that is inhabited by Immortals and TimeMasters."
[Alex]: "Exactly. Now, what did you just suggest to me earlier?"

[Blue Alex]: "I suggested to you to fuse your consciousness with the consciousness of a world."

[Alex]: "Okay, now analyze those words that you just said. Now, do you know what I am worried about here?
[Blue Alex]: "…"
After seeing that Blue Alex was keeping silent now, Alex let out a shout as he glared at him angrily.
[Alex]: "Blue Alex! This f**king world is inhabited by Immortals and TImeMasters! If you look at it that way, you should easily realize that the consciousness of this world is extremely powerful! Do you understand the difficulty of what you want me to do? You want me to fuse with the consciousness of this world! Do you want me to die, huh? You… you actually had the gall to offer that s**ty advice to me!"

[Blue Alex]: "…"
[White Alex]: "…"
[Alex]: "Blue Alex… if I were in Earth right now, then maybe I can attempt to fuse my consciousness there. After all, Earth can only support normal, unpowered beings. But here in this world? No! I can't do it! It's just as simple as that!"

[Blue Alex]: "…"
[White Alex]: ".."
[Alex]: "Ha… ha… ha… Okay, now do you have any better suggestions compared to consciousness fusion? I need to find the best way to get stronger right now!
But instead of following his demand, Blue Alex and White Alex did something that had managed to flabbergast Alex.
[White Alex]: "Hahahaha! Hahahaha! Hahahaha!"
[Blue Alex]: "You are becoming good at humor already, Alex. I applaud you for that."
To Alex's surprise, instead of doing productive work, Blue Alex and White Alex actually started laughing at him!

[Alex]:"Oi! Why are you laughing at me? Is there anything funny from what I said?"

[White Alex]: "Alex… I thought highly of you before. But right now… I can only laugh at your sheer stupidity."
[Blue Alex]: "Your memory circuits seemed to be fried, Alex. That could be the reason for your behavior today."
Needless to say, the enraged Alex was rendered confused by the sudden change in attitude of Blue Alex and White Alex.

[Alex]: "Hah? What the hell are you two talking about?"
[White Alex]: "Alex, after Blue Alex gave his suggestion to you, you immediately shut it down, because you knew that you can't fuse your consciousness with the world that we are in now, right?"
[Alex]: "Y-yeah."

[White Alex]: "You are right for thinking that way. However, that is where you are wrong too."
[Alex]: "What?"

[White Alex]: "Alex, do you really think that this World is the only World where you can fuse your consciousness with?"

[Alex]: "Hah? Of course this is the only World that I can choose! After all, this is the only conscious world near me!"

[White Alex]: "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Alex, right there is your mistake."

[Alex]: "Wait… are you telling me that there is another World out there that I can fuse my consciousness with?"

[White Alex]: "Yes, there is indeed another World out there that can be the perfect recipient of your consciousness fusion…"

[Alex]: "Where? Where is it? I need to see it right now?"

[White Alex]: "Sigh… Alex, that World is already accessible to you. You don't even need to leave your house to see it."

[Alex]: "???"
White Alex seemed to look more and more disappointed as he saw Alex's increasing confusion. Even Blue Alex, who was quiet all this time, let out a snort as he shook his head.

In the end, White Alex could only let out a sigh as he decided to end this conversation already.

[White Alex]: "Alex, isn't there a World that is already in your possession? More specifically, inside Alina's Storage…"
After White Alex said these words, Alex, whose eyes were narrowed in confusion, suddenly widened as he understood what White Alex was referring to.
[Alex]: "No way! Is that even allowed?"

[White Alex]: "Why is it not allowed? Even if the Esper World is just a powerful computer simulation, it is still a world that supports living beings inside it…"
[Alex]: "!!!"

This is the point that Blue Alex had been trying to drive to Alex since earlier.

The Esper World, which was the first world that Alex had visited, can also be the target of Alex's consciousness fusion!

Chapter end

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