Black Spider hung up the communicator, lost in thought. He had already used his future vision to see what was happening on that planet, and what he saw surprised him.
Aiz, Bogeyman, is a psychic, but this guy's power is really strange.
If you told him that that world had been contaminated by the nightmare dimension or that a high-level Nightmare creature was doing this, he would have believed it, but Aiz had nothing nightmare about him, although his connection to that dimension still intrigued Black Spider.
A mutation? An ability?
Who knows, but Black Spider still accepted the mission, with his power, Aiz wouldn't be able to affect him.
The current problem was how to deal with Aiz.
Unlike that civilization, Ringo could control Aiz, his power was based on dreams. Aiz's power could not be contained by normal means because his power passed through the Nightmare dimension, it was like an overlay with reality.
They tried to contain the power that influenced the world, but its power seemed self-aware, upon encountering a barrier, it simply took a different path, straight through the Nightmare dimension.
In the future that Black Spider saw, Aiz didn't have the nightmare gene, but perhaps it was something related to his own soul, his soul could connect to the nightmare directly.
Why? He had no idea. He could affect the soul, but even when he tried to see Aiz's soul, he only saw the connection, not how it was made.
If Black Spider had to explain how his power worked, the closest comparison would be with Cyclops from Marvel.
His eyes opened a portal to a dimension of pure kinetic power, uncontrollable, just open. Aiz was different, when he slept, the part of his brain responsible for closing that door was switched off.
Aiz wasn't a nightmare, so he couldn't actively control it.
A mixture of psychic power and connection to the nightmare dimension generated the current situation, like a conduit, the destroyed souls passed through him first to serve as nourishment for the nightmare dimension, some of the energy remained with Aiz, leading to a situation where he was able to become stronger.
To be honest, Aiz had the air of a protagonist. That sort of situation practically guaranteed at least a moderate amount of luck, not that Black Spider cared, given his own luck, messing with Aiz wouldn't be a major problem.
However, from what Black Spider had seen, if he didn't intervene, Aiz would reach Grade A when most of the planet died. At that point, evolution, connecting him to the nightmare, would have transformed him into a creature of the nightmare, and in the end he would be dragged into the nightmare dimension as a creature from there.
The planet itself would fall into chaos with 97% of the world's population dead, it would take centuries to recover, and the population wouldn't even know what had happened to them, everyone who knew Aiz would have died.
It was an incredible phenomenon, Black Spider was still undecided about what to do with Aiz.
His power to directly project solid beings, in addition to directly affecting the mind, killing in dreams... this guy was a talent.
He could have the Psychic Demogorgon absorb him, or... he could recruit him.
Which one to choose? That is the problem.
Black Spider didn't think Aiz was entirely to blame, he was indeed a victim of a series of factors, but the fact that he was the cause of death for most of the planet was still a question.
If he helped him now, most of the planet would still be spared, but Aiz wouldn't reach Grade A, meaning he still wouldn't have control of his power. However, with Ringo as a nightmare nearby, Aiz's power wouldn't spread so insidiously again.
Aiz's civilization was merely a civilization that had barely entered the stellar scene. If Aiz had been born in Godora, for example, he wouldn't have had this problem, especially with mages nearby, they would have been able to create a permanent solution.
The civilization of Aiz, on the other hand, focused on Pugilists, Psychics, and Espers, with few Mechanics and even fewer mages.
If they had asked Godora for help sooner, they would have been able to handle this as well, but they wanted to use Aiz's power.
In the end, all of civilization suffered because of the decision of those in power.
It was tragic, but could the blame be entirely placed on the "Bogeyman"?
In the version where Black Spider didn't intervene, Aiz disappeared into the Nightmare dimension, it's unknown what would happen to him, but in the version where he did intervene, more problems would arise.
Someone had to be blamed for the deaths on the planet, including ambassadors and merchants from other civilizations, Godora would likely condemn them to prison or death for it, regardless of whether or not they were guilty.
Justice in this situation was completely clouded, justice doesn't always have just one face, nor does it always follow just one path.
Black Spider, of course, could save Aiz, even without his relationship with Godora. If he recruited Aiz, what would Godora and the other civilizations do? Attack Black Spider? Did they want to see their planets crushed the next day by the furious Dragon Emperor?
Of course, there were a large number of restrictions to prevent a Grade S from acting against a civilization recognized by universal civilizations, even a planetary-level civilization was still theoretically protected.
If Ames acted, it meant she could become a criminal, even a Grade S would die if targeted by universal civilizations, even a Star Cluster-level civilization could handle a Grade S, many of them having hidden Grade S Supers.
Sure, if Godora attacked Ames without good reason, nobody would say anything, it was a tricky balance, but Ames was never known for thinking about the consequences.
Everything depended on her mood, if she wanted to kill you, even if there were dozens of other Grade S officers protecting you, she would still advance without hesitation.
That's why Black Spider was still thinking about how to act, he didn't want to cause trouble for the woman.
It was comforting to have a superior like her, but also worrying, because if Ames didn't think things through, her subordinates had to think for her.
Fortunately, he saw the future again and saw that in none of them did Godora demand that he hand over Aiz.
He couldn't see if this would cause any further problems down the line, at least, none of the futures he predicted had, but the possibilities were still endless.
There was another problem as well, Aiz's mentality, after he found out what he had done, the man would fall into depression, even going so far as to want to kill himself.
In the original version, he ended up in the nightmare dimension before waking up, so he didn't know what he did, but what about this time?
Ringo saw the futures, and in most of them, Aiz either killed himself or turned himself in to the authorities on his own initiative, even when he didn't, he looked like a walking empty shell.
The man was broken by what happened.
He wasn't like Ringo, who could ignore something like that, instead, he blamed himself deeply.
Ringo felt an even worse headache.
What to do with Aiz?