Finally!
It took so much convincing, but Nick had finally done it!
Sadly, he needed to sacrifice two parts of the knowledge repositories to make it happen.
It hadn't been easy to convince Nurse Alice.
Nick took a small machine out of the Sanctuary and threw it to Nurse Alice.
Nurse Alice recognized the machine.
It was a simple database with a transmission interpreter.
"Give me ten years," Nurse Alice said.
Then, Nurse Alice left without a word.
Nick closed the walls of the underground city again and released a deep breath.
'The last piece of the puzzle has been acquired.'
'All the tools I need are at my disposal.'
'Now, I just need to turn my plan into reality.'
'Only ten years.'
Nick went back to the two Shields and worked more with them.
If he had known that he would return to them several times, he would have saved his goodbyes.
Yet, plans changed all the time.
For the next ten years, Nick worked with the two Shields.
Suddenly, a small machine appeared beside the Containment Unit.
It was the database he had handed to Nurse Alice.
Nick took a break and accessed the database.
'So much!' he thought.
The knowledge contained inside the database was more than all the other knowledge repositories combined.
'Even more, the amount of information regarding Zephyx Manipulation is even bigger than the other two.'
At that moment, Nick got a suspicion.
'Nurse Alice knows everything about energy manipulation that the Enlightened Ones had acquired.'
'Yet, she continued to exist for around 20,000 more years.'
'During that time, she probably learned even more about Zephyx Manipulation.'
As Nick kept looking through the database, he noticed several gigantic diagrams.
These diagrams were even more complex than the abilities Nick had received from the Sun.
'Nurse Alice included her own abilities.'
Nurse Alice was essentially teaching Nick all the abilities she owned and more.
This meant that Nick now had access to knowledge about energy manipulation that was even superior to the Enlightened Ones.
After looking at it for a while, Nick found a file with some simple text.
It was a message from Nurse Alice.
'She is willing to go all-in,' he thought.
'She won't be able to help during the final battle since Earth will be covered in Star Energy, but she will help in any way she can.'
Nick took a deep breath.
Then, he started to study everything there was to know about energy manipulation.
The amount of stuff Nick had to learn was tremendous, and the concepts were so complex that even he had issues comprehending them.
Sure, he could repeat what was stated, but he didn't understand what it meant.
'Understanding all of this will take longer than writing it down.'
After looking at the database for a bit, he went to the underground city.
Then, he transferred the knowledge about Pure Energy Manipulation to the Archive, told Samar about it, and left.
Naturally, Aria wasn't here any longer…
Even more, Samar was also slowly approaching the end of her life.
She had less than a hundred years left.
Nick was reminded of the time he had risked everything to get Samar to join him.
That risk had paid off tremendously.
Without her, the underground city wouldn't be where it was today.
So many things could have gone wrong, but thanks to Samar and Aria, they didn't.
After that, Nick went to Deep Core Base and entered the Pure One's Containment Unit.
Since Nurse Alice was outside, one of the knowledge repositories was essentially lost.
Because of that, Nick wanted the Pure One to also learn about Energy Manipulation.
Additionally, the Pure One might be able to help Nick.
Sadly, that second part didn't turn out to be true.
The Pure One was even more helpless in front of these concepts than Nick.
The reason was simple.
The Pure One didn't have any abilities, and he lacked Nick's ability of increased intelligence.
The only thing he could do was to learn everything by heart and just repeat it in case Nick failed and a new Emperor appeared.
The Pure One learned everything by heart within ten years.
Nick had also learned everything by heart, but he was also still in the process of actually understanding the concepts.
Nick left the Containment Unit.
Then, he destroyed the database in his hands.
As soon as that happened, Nurse Alice turned to look in Nick's direction.
She couldn't perceive him right now since he was so far underground and didn't say the Sentence, but she could feel that the database had been destroyed.
A determined expression appeared on Nurse Alice's face.
Then, she gathered a lot of Zephyx.
Meanwhile, Nick waited below the ground.
He was looking at his beams, specifically the one leading to Nurse Alice.
The beam was completely black.
But then, it turned to dark red.
Then, to light red.
In the end, it stopped at a very light red.
Nurse Alice had many abilities, and one of them allowed her to manipulate her own memories.
The message she had left behind told Nick that when he destroyed the database, she would return his strength.
She knew how his ability worked, and she wanted to give Nick the best shot at success.
After all, if Nick failed, she would also die.
Nurse Alice also deleted all her knowledge about Pure Energy and Star Energy Manipulation.
She could have done that sooner, but she wanted to keep her options open.
Since someone else had that knowledge now, she could get rid of it.
The less she knew, the smaller the risk was.
When Nick saw the beam turning into a faint red, his strength returned to a sevenfold increase.
Naturally, Nick had also dealt with the Pure One's memories to the degree that they would give him a sevenfold increase.
More than sevenfold wasn't possible due to the Sun.
'Everything has been set up.'
'Now, I need to grow stronger and actualize my new abilities.'
Nick returned to the two Shields to work with them.
Yet, not even ten years had passed before something happened.
The Maw appeared.
The Champion was finally becoming a level nine Extractor.
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