Chapter 209: Frame per Existence of Time

The two legendary figures now reanimated as undeads conversed as if they didn't murdered a mountain full of vampires and devils, though these people will soon wake up again due to the sand of time that Aerendil can only delay as much as possible, if Eris didn't purposely increased the output of her sand of time, then the pile of corpse in front of him will not wake up anytime soon.

_That being the case, I wonder why Sophia didn't create something that can stop the reanimation sequence of the vampires and devils...._

These past hours, Sophia seems to be busy as she didn't even visited the battlefields of her subordinates nor made some grand entry inside the palace of Eris, which puzzled Aerendil, though soon, he found out the reason why, for in front of him, the 4th dimension suddenly got ripped apart and a whole rim of bond paper with a lot of almost nonsensical equations that seem to be from a very tedious effort of deriving a formula of something so complicated that even the brilliant mind of Sophia needed a paper to calculate appeared, which piqued the curiosity of Aerendil, however, a command is written at the very front of the rim of papers, causing the curiosity in the heart of Aerendil to be replaced with shock.

And if the former smartest man in the world is shocked, everyone is, for in the parchment is a command that says: In this manuscript is the derivation for the formula of the unit of measurement allotted for the quantification of time, it's now denoted as frame per time's existence, well, in summary, it's the unit that measure the existence of time and how does it go as a particle and a wave, rather than another unit of measure... it's very hard to explain, think of it like Frames per second that's used in paper animation, but it measures the frame of time's existence... anyway, you have to create a magic circle version of that, load it with mana and throw it upwards Thanatos right after you unseal it, good luck.

Aerendil stood there gob smacked, though of course, his promise with his mother made him do his job, though somehow, it doesn't feel that bad to lose to someone who can create a formula to explain the existence of time anymore.

[Sophia's POV]

_Phew..._

Upon exiting the chambers of Midori, I can't help but put my masterful finger in my mouth for a bit, that's because I have realized that there is still some time before the destined fight and defeat of mine against Eris, hey, this is all part of my plan, and not because I found Midori's dazed face to be particularly captivating, causing me to shove more fingers in several of her lower holes.

Nope, not at all.

Anyway, as I entered the 4th dimension and went to one of the forests of Valentine, I started to walk slowly and couldn't help but sigh.

_Is it really okay to just use "brute force" on Midori to make her forget her budding inferiority complex? I even have to disturb her sleep because of this..._

I sighed again, even though I am admittedly manipulative and narcissistic who will blame anyone other myself for all the things that's definitely my fault, I also have a conscience, specially if it's those people I care about of course, I already shove things inside her, so it's natural to care about Midori, alright? Also, it's not like I need to project Shiro's face into Midori's; I am already above and beyond compared to him.

If I was the incubus, I would surely be able to use my freaky pheromones to save my ass from imminent beating.

Such were my thoughts as I leisurely traversed the forest towards the meeting place of me and Eris, there is still 10 minutes before the deadline, so I am not quite in the hurry to go and experience my very first technical failure in my second life, though I have to remind you that this fight will not be the flashiest fight I have undertaken, worse it might be the most boring, so you all better not shit on my head just because of it or I might preemptively use my male form on your moms, alright?

In any case, after 10 minutes of trekking, I finally saw, just in time, a woman with long hair that cascades down at the middle of her back, and despite my revamped height, she stood tall, towering over me, though from what I can remember, she was definitely taller than Arachne in her spider form, so it seems like Eris have used either time or her vampire abilities to change her height at will. But in any case, the dictator of time has this slender waist that might seem to break the moment I hoist it up a little with force, despite her height, that just a whole shoulder lower than Lady Dimitrescu.

She's wearing a black dress, and with her back still in my full view, she slowly turned her blood-red eyes, gleaming with anger and elation, towards me. What even did I do to you to give me that look?

"You have failed."

Eris proclaimed, in which, I'm quite shocked, for the moment she uttered such words, my whole body froze in place as several small, grain-sized pocket watches started to crawl from my feet up, from that moment on, my thoughts started to blur out uncontrollably despite me using all of my brain power to suppress this dizzying felling, yet, I looked at the woman in front of me who have, at some point in our short time of interaction have already faced me with her honka bazzongkas in front of me.

I stepped and stepped, again and again until I was able to look at her, yet, despite my effort to fight the sealing of time itself, I was bombarded with a lot of system notifications that gives me a plethora of warnings about my increasingly weakening abilities, the only one that's not deactivated is [Guide] due to me concealing him from the depths of my bottomless mind, and also because he is a unique skill made by a god and not by the system.

[Waning! All affinity with any type of magic that can be used by individual [Sophia Demiurge] has been sealed, as well as all of her mana, immediate action is required!]

[Warning! All of the body fortification received by individual [Sophia Demiurge] alongside all of her movements except the involuntary actions of organs has been sealed, immediate action is required!]

[Warning! All connections of individual [Sophia Demiurge] from the hivemind, as well as her subordinates have been sealed. Immediate action is required!]

[Warning! All of the unique skills of individual [Sophia Demiurge] have been sealed, immediate action is required!}

One by one, one after another, at the same time, all of my abilities given by the system was made to stop working by the sands of time that's already enveloping me from top to bottom, and boy, I am helpless to even try to break free from it, as to why I can still talk, that's because I have a soul created by a god, and no time can destroy a god's creation, well, that being said, in order for the time loop to not continue regressing people, all gods have to be resurrected and/or reentered the planet for the war of gods to properly happen and for this event to come by and make them have a chance to destroy the time loop through me.

Well, Eris probably doesn't know anything about this or only knows the gods have to return part, from what I can see, she's not very intelligent and load fucks of dark magic is being inserted in her mind daily by... well, you know who that is.

As I was thinking such things and being a blabbermouth despite my physical body being a literal hyper realistic statue, [Guide], in the form of a spider that flickers on and off in a place, within my mind (probably) that's enveloped in perpetual darkness, spoke.

"So, my only role is to jolt your mind and atomic magic awake? Nothing else...? Are... you sure this will work? I know these two are the only ones that can be woken up due to how they are either new or just part of your base ability, but still..."

I looked at the spider beside me and couldn't help but shake my head.

"In all honesty, this is the most inflexible and long winded plan I have to make... from what I have predicted and saw so far, all of the predictions of [Perfect simulation], everything is going as I predicted... but to say I'm sure this would work... is something even my ego can't answer, all that I can say is that this plan have absolutely no margin of error, so the universe will be destroyed, alongside the undeads if it failed."

I sighed, this is the second time I have felt so unconfident of my plans, also, apparently, the god of undeads can escape the shard of the undead core on top of my palace alongside me, his strongest mortal as well as the prophet if that is to happen, which annoys me the fuck out.

But what can I say, I can't go around biting the hands of the one who feeds me, I just have to project him to Eris and make her go to inexplicable positions if I succeed in a full-blown revenge.

Thinking of that, there is one crucial question that I have to tackle.

_Is Eris Darkbringer flexible?_

[3rd Person POV]

"As expected, she can only be sealed."

Oblivious of the nefarious thoughts of Sophia against Eris, the dictator of time looked at the woman who have willed herself to be completely sealed in front of her and is now just a step away from grabbing, what Eris speculated as her waist with the way her hands are positioned, which made Eris felt conflicted and reassess just how much love does Sophia have for women for her final, unrequited wish is to have a feel in her curvaceous figure.

Well of course, the dictator of time doesn't care fore such things, not to mention her limited experience on such matters, thus she only shook her head, and while not moving an inch from her position, she looked down at the frozen Sophia, her expression calm, though in her rather indifferent tone came a tinge of someone being impressed.

"You sure are impressive compared to the previous Sophias, those... are mediocre, they are rash, or too self-sacrificing, unlike you who somehow, someway, managed to be someone who can and would grab anything that fancied your eyes but still be smart enough to be able to inorganically reproduce all of the scenes of the time loop, evading the natural purging ability of the loop... You are the first Sophia to be able to think of something so simple yet astronomically hard to do... and what's more? You can do it without having to suppress all of your desires, somehow fully exploiting the blindsides of the time loop without the system's help."

Eris sighed, and as she did so, she slowly turned back, not being wary of the now sealed Sophia at all, after all, for her, this moment has happened again and again and never in her continued existence did a sealed version of Sophia, be it a former nun, a former heist master, a botanist, a beggar, psychiatrist, a marriage scammer or even now, a former youngest doctor of physics wasn't able to even break a strand of hair out of such a predicament.

After all, this is the inevitable end of the journey of Sophia Demiurge, and only when Sophia didn't willingly confronted her can such an outcome avoided, but, like Sophia said, this is a "reasonable development" form the part of the time loop and not adhering to it will cause on a purge derived by the loop itself.

And even if it's not, the compassion and the drive to save the undeads, the world, and the universe will not allow any of the Sophias to use her personal connection with Siginarugan to escape the planet.

Such is the flaw of all Sophia Demiurge, and at this flaw, Eris capitalized.

"Well, despite all of your shortcomings, I found you too dangerous to exist while the last restart sequence is about to start, so I have to silence you early than the exact moment you were supposed to perish... and I was right, even now, time is somehow unable to erode your body into that of rapidly wilting person... in short, in this failure, you have your own overcompetence to blame..."

"... Well, it's not like you can hear me, anyway."

After saying so much of her intentions, Eris went silent, alongside it, her surroundings, from things as tall as trees of time immemorial into the tiniest, most irrelevant of microorganisms halted any of their movement, they didn't get petrified, but their time, their own "frame per existence" have disappeared, alongside such spectacle is a blue veil of light that started to surround Eris with her own body as the center.

Her pupils also started to morph, turning into multiple, seemingly competing pocket watches the same size as her pupils.

[Restart]