Chapter 118 - 118

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"Almost nothing, but I will need a sample from each of you to tailor the illusion's parameters specifically to your signatures."

"Will there be shots?" the girl asked with concern.

"No, a hair will suffice. Or any other particle from your reality. Preferably from yourselves, but that's not strictly necessary. After that, I will enchant an individual amulet for each of you. When you return to your realities, you just take them off."

"Oka-a-ay," they looked at me suspiciously again. Well, yes, an incomprehensible shady guy wants "some particle" of a young girl, maybe even a child. Damn Japanese with their fetishes; they think I'm a pervert again.

Nevertheless, a small lock of hair was cut for me. The Piglet took off his glove and chewed off a piece of a fingernail (eww), and the Noir Detective, as befits Noir, dramatically slashed his palm and poured out a whole glass of blood. White... like milk. And it was... very Noir.

Plus, I now had samples of new genomes from other universes to study.

And no, my maneuver was not a trick to obtain samples of representatives from other universes; I simply combined the useful with the useful.

I really needed to build an illusion that would cover the "unnatural" emanations for this dimension and at the same time not interfere with the goals of those illusions themselves.

And, of course, I simply couldn't miss such a wonderful opportunity to study the mechanism of other universes, with all those capes flapping without wind.

Here we have a pure conceptual impact on another reality, when you literally bend it to the laws of your own! It's just wow!

Not every God can repeat this, and here, simple mutants, and at best, from the upper tier of "average."

There is something to think about, because all three were genuinely shards of another existence, but so stable and adaptive that not only did they not annihilate on the spot, but they also retained viability, having fallen into a reality with different laws of physics, where in principle they cannot exist.

That is, reality, of course, tried to get rid of them as foreign bodies, but normally they should have simply been atomized into quarks.

I have a spark of divine essence in me, left from the real Loki along with his magic and other powers, so my survival is explainable, but these three have absolutely nothing in common with divinity, they have no more magic than an ordinary mortal.

In short, while I was boiling my brains trying to comprehend how all this works, and in the process "shamanizing" over small amulet-medallions that would be anchors for illusions (the construction of which still had to be adjusted to two universes at once, assembling a new configuration for each of the three cases), the night managed to fall and a good half of it passed.

Moreover, the option to create a universal spell structure that would be perceived as native by both environments involved in the process turned out to be possible only for Noir Parker.

Already on Peni, the difference between the basic laws of realities turned out to be so great that the cumbersomeness of a single spell pattern was such that one could barely hold it consciously, let alone embed it in an amulet.

There's no point even talking about the Pig, he was a walking absurdity even for the most primitive volitional magic.

As a result, I had to synchronize the work of two spells for two different environments, but applied to only one medium.

Sounds simple, but in reality, it's like building a dual-core processor from scratch, where one core works on binary logic and the second on ternary.

Peni, meanwhile, was studying the archives of the local Parker. It's not enough just to log into the system; you also need to find the necessary information in it.

And this is not so simple, especially if there is a lot of data. A folder named "villainous plans of villainous villains" might exist in Spider-Ham's universe, but here the whole background could be scattered by personalities, projects, districts-regions, dates... who knows how the guy decided to catalog his personal data storage?

Considering that a child, and a girl at that, was digging into it, the curious nose was poked everywhere and anywhere, regardless of whether we needed it or not.

Peni just couldn't tear herself away from reading, stumbling upon some story of heroism, she's a girl, and here brutal guys are fighting, often with photo and video materials.

And I wasn't opposed to it, but when I sorted out the amulets, I still had to take the situation into my own hands, because the child got carried away, and we have business to do…

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We met the morning in the same basement, slightly more informed and understanding what had happened, but a bit disheveled and dazed.

MJ turned off all phones and kept us company in studying Peter's documentation.

Not to say that she was practically useful, Noir Peter was much better here, although he only occasionally inserted comments, reading from the screen behind our backs, but hey!

Even if there was a literal Spider-Ham among us, there were no such pigs among us to chase away a woman who had lost her husband and wanted to help find his killer.

And then we finally found exactly what we needed, and I was genuinely stunned... just like the young Miss Parker from the anime.

"I can't believe it, making this on such a primitive resource base? This Olivia Octavius is a genius!"

The girl enthusiastically projected a whole palette of rainbow colors of "tension" and "awe" around her body.

"Uh-huh," I nodded laconically, carefully reading the blueprints and the theory created by the local Doctor Octopus.

Yes, the local Doctor Octopus was a woman. And also a spitting image of Sybill Trelawney from the Harry Potter movies, if drawn rather than photographed.

And that was creepy, yes...

But I didn't care.

At all.

Because all this paled in comparison to her creation. Her creation is just some kind of madness. Brilliant, but madness.

Even Stark can take a back seat! To move from ordinary string theory to the practical expression of inter-universal coordinates and the discovery of physical principles for tearing the fabric of reality, and then also be able to embody it in metal... I don't know if the installation will work in another universe built on different principles, but I could definitely adjust the device itself to the reality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

And all the effects generated by it looked completely reproducible, just as the general theory of operation was perceived as very plausible.

Speaking of the final results of the whole complex's operation... This crap, called a collider in the documentation but having absolutely nothing in common with a real collider, was something like a harpoon gun, if you can put it that way. It opened a tear in another universe, pulled in the target-victim, and that's it.

And the tear, being small, simply tiny against the background of even a single planet, instantly closed itself.

True, with such a configuration, I already saw that parasitic radiation upon recoil could shift the target in space-time, but only slightly.

Besides, the shifted person would still fall into the framework of a time loop, and until crossing the reverse point, could not influence the universe in any way.

Rather, all his attempts were already taken into account by the chain of events and led exactly to the desired result. Yeah, oh this temporal theory, but whatever, let's not talk about sad things.

And from the non-sad things, we had an installation that, for a couple of moments, generated a piece of its own universe in an alien universe, kidnapped the victim, and transported them to its coordinates.

Little green men and other inhabitants of the planet Nibiru approve. It consumed energy like crazy, of course, but those are details, as are the scatter and temporal displacement. Moreover...

"So, sending us back home is entirely possible," I finished reading the documentation obtained by Peter.

Even for me, it took about seven hours to fully comprehend what and how Octavius had created, and that was just the device. I studied the general theory, its proofs, and clarifications for another five.

In short, it was already another evening.

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