Supremacy Games

1953  Communication Through Timelines! II

Still the same universe...

Little Felix was caught lacking again during his sunbathing session by Kronos as he chose the exact same day.

Although he knew that the message would mostly reach Felix if he contacted him while he was in his earliest years, he still went with this approach.

It wasn't like he cared about children, he simply chose what worked before to avoid any unnecessary complications. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

As he gazed at the terrified Felix, Kronos began with his update calmly, 'I have spent billions of years and went through millions of possibilities to help you grow stronger. Yet, each time I help you directly or even indirectly, the universe collapses like my assistance is forbidden in your peculiar project.'

'I can't continue forward unless I know the reason.' Kronos paused as he flooded Felix's brain with information, 'Also, these are the summaries of my attempts.'

'This is all.'

***

A couple of minutes later in the original timeline...

Felix was seen walking in circles in the consciousness space with a bothered look. He had just received the full update package, leaving him with mixed emotions.

He had seen how Kronos had killed his part of the deal. He thought of strategies that even Felix had no clue were possible.

Unfortunately, none of them were allowed by the seven celestial hearts.

"How come the trial fails like I have broken the rules? Kronos still has no idea about the details of the mission, shouldn't this be enough?" He said as he looked at the seven celestial hearts, glowing brightly above his head.

Knowing that he needed to direct the question to them, Felix repeated it by adding a similar context to what Kronos had done.

After all, Felix hadn't truly broken the rules yet since Kronos had done his work inside imaginary timelines following the rules of the universe.

"Assistance from a party with knowledge of the candidate isn't allowed." The celestial hearts replied harmoniously.

"What does that even mean?" Felix frowned, "You previously mentioned that they must know about the mission. Does knowing about my existence include that as well?"

"Yes."

Felix was left speechless, feeling like his hopes and dreams crumbling akin to a leggo building.

"How the hell am I supposed to utilize Kronos when his assistance will always damn me?" Felix sighed in frustration, "Did he have to be that smart and figure me out so soon..."

Felix realized that if he wanted to still utilize Kronos' services, he had to think out of the box. The celestial hearts made it clear that he could receive anyone's help, as long as they had no idea about his mission or identity.

Unlike the three rulers, who were being manipulated, Kronos had concluded that this timeline was false and that the real Felix was using this universe to achieve a goal.

While he didn't know of the goal yet, knowing about Felix was enough in the eyes of the celestial hearts.

After all, in every single plan he devised, he was always there to spoon-feed Felix, which completely negated the nature of the trial.

Not knowing how to carry on, Felix decided to throw himself in the pile of strategies given to him by Kronos.

He hoped he would find some enlightenment to bypass those strict rules.

As for giving up on Kronos altogether? Felix had no intentions of doing this unless the path was completely sealed...He had proved himself to be far more than just an asset.

...

Days went by and then months since Felix's last attempt at the trials. In this period, he completely buried his head in work while paying a visit to his wife and son periodically.

While his son always greeted him with love and tears, showing him that he missed him all the time, Asna was still giving Felix the silent treatment...All Felix could do was apologize and return to his work, still having no desire to bring her in.

Throughout those long hours of nonstop brainstorming and analyzing many ideas, Felix finally found something that might work buried in the millions of Kronos' strategies.

"If this were to succeed, I would have the potential to go all the way to the finish line...If it succeeds, my foundation will be set once and for all..."

Felix took a deep breath as he gazed at the final draft, his hair and beard were all disheveled, making him resemble a mad scientist.

His slightly crazed eyes as he looked at the strategy board showed that he was starting to lose it bit by bit...There was only some much that the human mind could handle.

After spending a couple more hours adding all the needed modifications, Felix sat down with a weary expression and commenced the trials.

"It all depends on you, partner..."

***

The Sixteenth Universe...

Kronos was standing in the same spot, gazing at the same constellation. However, their arrangement was completely different, combining into a new long message.

-Celestial Reincarnation, No Memories.-

'Celestial Reincarnation, No Memories...What is he implying exactly?' Kronos narrowed his eyes at the cryptic message.

He easily figured out the first part of the message as he had named every single strategy before sending them to Felix.

Celestial Reincarnation was one of those complicated strategies, but if it were to succeed, Felix would possess the best possible potential of any being below a celestial.

However, he was having difficulty understanding the 'No Memories' part.

'No memories, no memories, is he speaking about himself or me?' Kronos thought deeply, 'If he was talking about me, is he implying that I must not have any memories while assisting him? '

When he thought like this, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes as the dots instantly clicked in his mind.

'If it's like this, is he talking about my memories of his existence? Is he implying that my memories of his existence cause the collapse of the universe?'

'It's starting to make sense...He has always been trying to receive help from beings within the timeline while making sure they had no idea about his identity, this can only mean receiving help from knowing parties is forbidden.'

After spending billions of years brewing his mind over this situation, his mind only needed the right hint to link all the dots!

'Celestial Reincarnation, no memories, hahaha, I see, I see, from the millions of possibilities, this is truly the only right track. Not bad, truly not bad.'

Kronos chuckled after understanding Felix's entire plan with those simple four words.

'No wonder you have created the infinite mirroring frozen timelines realm. Based on the details of the plan, I can expect a celestial to be born later on and sealed in the imprisonment grounds.'

'You are upholding your part of the plan and expect me to find a way to carry on my part without possessing memories of your existence during it.'

'Well, challenge accepted.' Kronos smirked.

In his original plan of the Celestial Reincarnation, he found a way for Felix to be reincarnated with a celestial core if some conditions were fulfilled!

The first and most important one, Felix needed to have a celestial origin.

While Kronos hadn't sensed any celestial mark in Felix's mortal body, he believed that he might make it happen on the other side.

Second condition, Felix needed to create a whole new mirroring realm with frozen timelines in it that span across the continuity of the entire universe timeframe.

Unlike normal timelines or the multiverse, which carry on continuously simultaneously, Kronos wanted this infinite realm to be frozen in time.

He had already done his tests and understood that if the timelines were all moving at once, the universe would collapse due to Felix.

He was the true anchor and if he existed and lived simultaneously across all timelines, this wouldn't be any different than existing in different universes at the same time.

But, Kronos wanted a mirroring realm like the spirit realm, void realm, quantum realm, the eternal kingdom realm, etc.

Since this was a realm, the moment Felix 'reincarnated' to another timeline, it would be the same as him dying in a game, and when he returned, he picked a much earlier saved spawn point.

The only difference was Felix would return with the memories and knowledge of the last saved point while the game would resume as normal.

In this case, the matter universe was the game and the other realms would remain unaffected by the change in timeline since they were considered as outside of the game system.

In other words, the unigins, the celestials, the spirits, and the quantum citizens would either know about the change or not feel it at all.

But, Kronos understood that it would be too much of a risk if he sent back Felix too far in time. After many errors and failures, he finally decided on the perfect period to be exactly Twenty Years.

This wasn't the only detail as he had sent Felix the best time to seal the celestial and the location of their meeting.

All of this was well prepared and perfected to the last degree as Kronos understood that randomness wasn't allowed in matters related to temporal manipulation.

Now that both of them agreed on a plan at last, it all depended on him to figure out a way to pull it off while possessing no memories of Felix, the plan, the other side, and whatnot!

He had to act completely blindfolded!