"You also know the rules of that place are different from this universe. That universe probably doesn't care whether the same person from different timelines exists in the same era."
Viktor was just being careful with his wording. In reality, the DC universe definitely wasn't that strict.
The people from different timelines, different parallel universes, and all kinds of alternate versions appearing in the same world were extremely common.
Flashpoint Superman and the regular Superman were enough to prove that.
"But the other you, in order to replace you, copied everything about you when the hypertime stream and the timeline of reality intersected, at the moment his soul returned to his body. Right now, the basic particles making up your bodies on the material level are exactly the same. I can't merge your reality with his reality, and besides, that wouldn't match the number of people involved in the original deal."
The blue-glowing being still seems somewhat troubled, even specially separating two tentacles to imitate scratching its head.
Even though it doesn't even have a head at all.
"Who did you make the deal with? Then why don't you ask them!"
Viktor was getting frustrated.
He realized this higher-dimensional being from Invincible seemed a little too strict.
The blue-glowing being fell silent for a moment, seemingly actually listening to Viktor and beginning to communicate with some existence.
A moment later, news arrived that made him overjoyed.
"They agreed, but how are you going to solve the problem with the particle problems?"
Viktor's pupils shrank.
He hadn't expected that there really was some big shot on the DC side involved in his transmigration.
However, now is not the time to care about this.
"Is there any possibility you could help out, like casually giving me some immortality, heat vision, freeze breath, or something..."
He originally wanted to activate the one-time Six Gods' power transformation authority Shazam blessed him with before, but he suddenly thought to trick it into giving him something extra.
The tentacled higher-dimensional being scratches its head again.
"I can't do that."
Viktor's expression fell, and he was just about to shout Shazam, but the tentacles almost used teleportation speed to pull over another blue-glowing being that looked like a disc.
"This can."
It was the very same one from the original story that turned an ancient, ordinary caveman into The Immortal.
These two actually knew each other.
"The difficulty of granting you abilities is very high. Your influence on the material world is much stronger than that of an ordinary person."
When the blue disc spoke, it vibrated from the center outward, as if it were imitating human vocal cords.
"What do you want?"
"Immortality!"
"Making a Viltrumite immortal is impossible."
Viktor was speechless.
Why did that sound like personal bias?
"Then heat vision or freeze breath?"
"That's possible, but your basic organs would change, and your appearance might deviate from your aesthetic taste."
"...What do you think is the best upgrade you can do to me?"
The blue disc rippled for a moment, then answered with actions instead of words.
Three points of light floated out of Viktor's body, and a slight feeling of weakness spread through him.
"You M—"
"Your body once, during an evolution, roughly turned some extra power into evolutionary energy. Even though it slightly changed your basic particles, you were never able to use those pretty good powers."
After restructuring the three points of light, the blue disc sent them back into Viktor's body.
"Your physical abilities will decline somewhat, but I can let you fully understand and use them from now on."
He was stunned as he sensed the three different powers inside his body, and he quickly figured out what they were.
"Magic, divine power, and the authority of discord?"
He suddenly felt that he had been a little disrespectful to the two higher-dimensional beings just now.
After tentatively reciting one of the simple magic spells Rachel previously taught him, watching a flame really ignite at his fingertip, Viktor couldn't help but feel somewhat excited.
Strictly speaking, the enhancement brought by that earlier evolution cannot compare to the enhancement when fighting Doomsday.
If the enhancement from the time Rachel helped stitch his soul together during evolution was worth a few hundred, then the Doomsday one was worth several thousand or even tens of thousands.
Seeing that everything had turned out well, the tentacled higher-dimensional being that casually sent the blue disc away also joyfully sways.
"Before sending you back, there are a few things I must tell you..."
"Wait!"
He suddenly opened his hand to interrupt the other.
Of course, this is only because Viktor saw the other as having a good temper. Otherwise, he would not have interrupted so suddenly.
"Before sending me back, could you simulate those Viltrumites and Viltrum warships from earlier? If not, then at least make me a fake Thragg."
The blue-glowing tentacles seem unable to understand Viktor's change in attitude.
"Didn't you say everything fake has no meaning?"
"It's fine if it's just for blowing off steam. Didn't you say it wouldn't cost much?"
The blue-glowing tentacles fall into silence.
A moment later, Thragg appeared on the spot, glancing around.
This Thragg, who might not even count as truly real, had a kind of truth and falsehood in terms of existence that Viktor simply could not understand.
Inside the force field, Viktor could clearly sense Thragg's solid body, and its presence and pressure felt exactly the same as the Thragg he remembered at the end.
It was precisely because it felt so identical that, when Viktor had seen Nolan earlier, he guessed that all of this was probably fake.
After all, Viktor only knew the real Nolan hadn't been born during this period of time.
But right now, it was clearly the most intense period of the civil war.
Even Thragg had been constantly growing stronger through battles, and he still had to find someone for life-and-death sparring.
Thragg looked at Viktor and frowned.
"You're a Viltrumite?"
A cold smile appeared on Viktor's face.
However, Thragg didn't care about Viktor's attitude.
He just looked around at the surroundings, apparently unable to see the higher-dimensional tentacled being right behind him at all.
Then Thragg seemed to realize the situation a Viltrumite would be in if stranded in space without a ship, and he immediately glared at him in anger.
"Where is this?! Why was I brought here?!"
"You're still thinking about competing to become Regent?"
He cracked his neck, and his body trembled slightly from extreme excitement and bloodthirsty desire for the first time in combat.
"Come, use all your strength, everything you've got, and kill me, and you can go back!"
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