Chapter 103: The Time Lord! Imprisoning the Multiversal Destroyer! DEFEATING THE ENTITY OF INFINITE DIMENSIONS!!!
『 In the turbid seawater, countless skulls stared fixedly at the Doctor with their hollow, pitch-black eyes. The Doctor watched this scene, suffocating, his heart skipping half a beat.
This was a sea of death, a sea of death covered by skeletons.
Fortunately, the Doctor came to his senses in time and swam desperately towards the shore. Standing on the bank, he rejoiced that he had woken up; otherwise, he too would have become a member of this sea of death. 』
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〜Myriad Worlds livestream Chat〜
[ Deadpool (Earth-10005): "Good heavens, how many people had to die for this? They've actually paved the entire seabed." ]
[ Tobirama Senju (Naruto): "Could it be that this place is a cage specifically designed to hold prisoners, and these skulls are the prisoners who were locked inside?" ]
[ Kyubey (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) "It is not impossible. Top races in the universe set up self-destruct mechanisms to prevent intelligence leaks, while other races use certain methods to make them obediently~ speak out in order to obtain certain intelligence." ]
[ Qin Shi Huang⦍Ruler⦎ (Type-Moon): "My Great Qin has a complete penal code that can make criminals obediently spit out the truth. Don't you agree—Fox?" ]
[ Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya (Type-Moon): "…Please, I beg you, do not mention that matter again. I will get—psychological shadows." ]
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〜A Certain Magical Index World〜
Academy City—
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but although Ruiko only glanced at it, she felt that… those skulls all looked so similar…
It was as if they were carved from a single mold. They piled up together, as if telling something to the Doctor, the living one…
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『 The Doctor continued to walk inside. Firewood was burning; the warm flames made the soaked Doctor approach instinctively, but he found a set of clothes exactly identical to his own by the fireplace!
As if discovering something, the Doctor changed his clothes, placed the soaked ones by the fire, and continued forward. He passed through the hall and arrived at a mysterious room.
There were monitors here, as well as mysterious symbols on the floor. A piece of the ground was missing, and arrows pointed towards this location.
"It always approaches me. No matter where I flee, it follows close behind. Why? Why does it follow me?"
At this moment, the sound of Clara's chalk echoed in the Doctor's mind again: Wrong question.
The Doctor sighed, "As expected of the teacher. So, what is the correct question?"
Not why, but what.
The Doctor smiled bitterly. Yes, that monster always dragged its slow footsteps, approaching him step by step. Those monitors on the wall were constantly displaying the monster's perspective!
"Fear. These screens show me the monster's perspective at all times. How far it has walked, how close it is to me, because it wants to make me afraid!"
"To let the back of my neck feel the cold air it exhales. The key lies here. This is its purpose. This is a theater!"
"A play about fear!"
"I am trapped in a fully automated haunted house, a mechanical labyrinth! Designing this deadly puzzle box is just to scare me to death!"
"And I am already trapped inside. This is a treat only found at Christmas!" The Doctor's face revealed a mocking smile! 』
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〜The Boys World〜
Homelander revealed an impatient look.
What is going on with this so-called Time Lord? Is he actually weak to this extent!
Can't he even break through a castle? Is this worthy of being on the list?!
If it were him, he would have destroyed this castle with one kick long ago, and then found the mastermind behind the scenes and killed him eight hundred times!
"Mentally unstable old man."
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『 Suddenly, a vibration came. The Doctor walked carefully forward. Moments later, the Doctor arrived at a desolate garden, which emitted a thick fog.
The Doctor looked around vigilantly. In the center of the garden, there was a patch of fresh soil, and a shovel was placed in front of it.
The Doctor began to talk to himself, "Clara, does someone want me to open this?"
"So, someone wants to tell me that there is something important buried underneath. They want to tell me the first thing."
"This might be a trap. It might be from the person who came before me." The Doctor shouted towards the heights, "I'm not the first prisoner here, right?"
"So many skeletons. I wonder which step they all got wrong." The Doctor knew no one would respond; he said this only to test if the existence planning this conspiracy would change due to his verbal behavior!
The Doctor looked at the ubiquitous monitors. "Such a high tower, yet the monster walks so slowly. What does that mean?"
"…I have one hour!" The Doctor immediately deduced the answer, picked up the shovel, and began to dig with all his might.
Unknowingly, the buzzing of flies was already close at hand, as if the next step was death!
The Doctor hurriedly looked at the monitor!
Fortunately, that ghostly thing hadn't followed him. The Doctor opened the door—both his hearts seemed to stop for an instant.
The Doctor's eyes met those pitch-black, rotting eyes. The Doctor hurriedly braced against the door, while the monster's large hand constantly reached towards him!
Luckily, at the last moment, the Doctor closed the door. For some reason, the monster chose to leave. The Doctor breathed a sigh of relief and chose to continue digging the hole during this time.
As for the monster's exit route? There was only one way to come in and catch him. If the monster left, then…
Although the Doctor was somewhat puzzled, he chose to continue digging the pit. Finally, under the Doctor's continuous efforts, a pit several meters deep appeared. The Doctor wanted to look up at the stars to determine his position, but to his dismay, this was nowhere.
But now, besides the stars, he had another choice!
A hard stone appeared before his eyes. The Doctor wiped away the dirt, only to see a few words written on the stone: I am in Number Twelve!
"Number Twelve… what does this mean?" Before the Doctor could wonder, the next moment, the buzzing of flies suddenly rang out. The Doctor carefully glanced at the sky; there was no hunched, rotting figure.
THE DOCTOR BREATHED A SIGH OF… BANG—!
A giant hand fiercely broke through the soil, and then that rotting Grim Reaper lunged at the Doctor like a prehistoric beast!
Rot and stench filled his nose; THE DOCTOR COULD EVEN SEE THE MAGGOTS CRAWLING IN THOSE EYES!!! 』
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『 Viewers of Myriad Worlds 』
Encore!
The hearts of countless viewers skipped a beat. What on earth is going on with this monster!
It keeps chasing the Doctor, but every time it stops at the critical moment. As the embodiment of death, what exactly does it want to do?
Is there no way to kill or trap it?!
Or is it the embodiment of a concept that can only stop if its conditions are met?
Could it be that this story is about the Doctor living for 4.5 billion years under the pursuit of this monster?!
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『 TARDIS—
The Doctor returned to his Mind Palace again!
"Let's do it again!" The Doctor shouted. He discussed intensely with Clara, and soon he knew why the monster had stopped back then.
Because of the truth!
Only when the Doctor spoke the truth would he get a respite. The Doctor had actually guessed this long ago…
Every time the Doctor spoke the truth, the monster would stop, and he would also get time to breathe. This was also the only way to stop the monster.
That monster could not be bypassed, nor could it be killed.
"This place is designed to make me fear, to be constantly interrogated. It wants more than just the truth; the truth is not enough."
"It wants a confession! I have to tell the truth I've never told before!" The Doctor said in a low voice, "That is the only thing that can make it stop."
But…
Some truths really cannot be spoken aloud… Time returned to reality!
Those large hands were right before his eyes. The Doctor spoke rapidly, "I didn't leave Gallifrey because I was bored! I was lying!"
But the monster's hands still didn't stop. The Doctor realized it wasn't enough!
"It was because of fear! I ran away because I was scared!" The Doctor shouted excitedly, "Is this what you wanted me to say! Is this real enough for you!"
As his voice fell, the monster's hands retracted. The Doctor took the opportunity to climb out of the pit. At this moment, the gears began to turn violently again. It turned out that every time he spoke the truth, these buildings would undergo changes or reset!
And at this moment, the Doctor finally saw his location. It was a giant castle standing on the sea. The gears turned violently, and hollow, terrifying skeletons floated to the water's surface. 』
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〜Myriad Worlds livestream Chat〜
[ Nami (One Piece): "It feels like… the Doctor's mental state is starting to become unstable." ]
[ The Batman Who Laughs (DCEU Earth-12): "Mental instability… Hahahahahahaha! What's wrong with being mentally unstable! Some absolutely beautiful scenes can only be seen by madmen!" ]
[ Li Huowang (Dao of the Bizarre Immortal): "No! You are wrong! As a professional mental patient, I can completely deny your statement! Are the 'beautiful scenes' you talk about referring to piles of indescribable, disgusting filth?!" ]
[ Homelander (The Boys): "Too weak, too weak! I have no interest in watching at all! Why was this old man chosen in the first place!" ]
[ Dalek (Whoniverse): "…Time Lords are never weak!" ]
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〜Whoniverse, ???? Timeline〜
Absolutely unacceptable!
The Daleks, who believed only in destruction and hatred and looked like trash cans, spoke firmly at this moment.
You can say the Time Lords are rotten, but you absolutely cannot say they are weak/noobs!
If you say the Time Lords are weak, then what are they, who have fought the Time Lords countless times?
Moreover, Time Lords have never been weak. In the incredibly distant past, the Doctor had always been the object of their pursuit!
It was just that they later fell from grace.
They once imprisoned Multiverse Destroyers! DEFEATED INFINITE DIMENSIONAL BEINGS!!!
In a past Time War, they launched thousands of planets at fifty times the speed of light to crash into Gallifrey, but they didn't even scratch the surface.
Normal weapons would only be deflected; the world line twisted and deformed in the eleven dimensions where it existed.
They also learned that during non-war periods, Gallifrey was protected by quantum fields and three layers of barriers.
The Transduction Barrier postponed the inevitable, even including the collapse of the universe itself. The Thought Barrier refused passage to anything it did not believe in. The Reflection Barrier countered any method with an equal and opposite idea.
Furthermore, Gallifrey existed within its own time stream.
According to their estimates, even a Quantum Archangel, a multiverse-scale entity that could create billions of universes and timelines in an instant, could not break through its defenses!
This was merely a defense. As for offensive means…
The landscape plane of the Parallel Cannons fired focused neutrino streams, completely annihilating matter at the quantum level. It could devour a planet in a few hours and deplete its atmosphere in nine hours.
The Eye of Harmony, an 11-dimensional matrix containing infinite power, existed as the center of the Web of Time. Described as an "engineered sun," it utilized all the potential energy that never occurred by placing a collapsing star in a state of complete stasis.
And the most dangerous was the terrifying artifact possessing the Ultimate Sanction, a high-complexity multiverse-level weapon with the Doomsday Sapphire!
Its function was to completely destroy reality itself, churning the Higgs boson to the extent that the entire space-time continuum would collapse into Calabi-Yau space. Once that appeared, everything within the entire Time War would be destroyed!
That is to say, the entire multiverse would be destroyed!
This was an existence equivalent to their Reality Bomb. The Dalek even looked forward to it somewhat; if the Reality Bomb and the Ultimate Sanction weapon were used together…
How wonderful that would be~
"So, Time Lords are not weak at all!"
The Dalek narrowed its eye. If it could meet those guys, it would definitely take them to experience Time Lord technology!
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〜Rick and Morty World〜
"Weak? Time Lords, guys who play with time, are weak? Pffthahahahahaha!"
Rick laughed out loud abruptly!
This was truly the funniest joke he had heard in his life.
He glanced at Homelander's name and knew the other party's origin. A garbage superman created by humans… actually saying a multiverse overlord-level existence is weak?
"Shit! Is your brain clogged by superpowers?! Technology! Technology is the path that can thoroughly liberate this infinite universe!"
Moreover, Rick had already vaguely figured out the nature of this castle.
Confession, truth, secrets… Heh, the Citadel of Ricks unconsciously appeared in Rick's mind.
Truly ugly—
He just didn't know what the background of that world was. Who exactly was the Time Lord fighting against, and to what tragic extent, that they would spare no cost just to force out his true secret…
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