Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic Chapter 1199 - 651: Abandonment and Change
Previously on Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic...
Though the Radiant Emperor boosted his personal power and the Human Empire's strength via endless resets, attaining overwhelming might, it amounted to nothing!
All his previous struggles now seemed devoid of purpose.
He had once believed the universe's destruction and reset were his unique gifts, his stroke of luck.
Yet now, it appeared as a cruel curse.
Upon grasping the full truth, the Radiant Emperor couldn't help recalling a legendary human hero from Zhendan Mother Star's myths.
The gods cursed that hero to roll a boulder up a hill.
Each time the boulder neared the summit, it tumbled back down, nullifying every ounce of the hero's toil.
The divine punishment doomed him to squander his entire existence in futile, endless repetition.
The Radiant Emperor saw himself in that hero, burdened with a pointless destiny, doomed to endlessly reset the universe amid ceaseless ruin.
In that instant, despair tempted the Radiant Emperor to surrender.
Regardless of his exertions, the Dark Emperor would annihilate the universe during the second subspace tide.
Why persist then? Why not savor the moments before inevitable doom?
In this cosmic reset, the Radiant Emperor refrained from guiding the Human Empire into a massive campaign.
He chose instead to dwell serenely within the Zhendan Mother Star System.
Leveraging the power and tech amassed across numerous resets, he swiftly reshaped the whole Zhendan Mother Star into a blissful utopia, where inhabitants reveled in supreme joy.
The Radiant Emperor's might made shielding a single planet from Subspace Evil God incursions a trivial task.
This round, he emulated a commoner, wed, fathered offspring, and aimed for a mundane existence.
He forsook even his ability to effortlessly obliterate tens of thousands of River Systems, sealing it deep within, truly becoming an everyday human.
Sealed forces encircling the Zhendan Mother Star warded off every hostile threat.
Within the Radiant Emperor's crafted "paradise," days flowed in tranquil bliss.
The Radiant Emperor aged from youth to middle age, then to old age, evolving into a venerable patriarch.
Such an existence was precisely what the Radiant Emperor had yearned for all along.
No amount of resets, no level of supremacy, no brutality toward alien races could erase his core identity as a simple human craving a normal life.
He assumed this serene, joyful routine would endure until the universe's cataclysmic reset tens of thousands of years hence...
But...
Living as a mere mortal amid a bustling family of descendants, betrayal struck him yet again!
Certain offspring, covetous of inheritance, turned traitor against him, sparking deadly strife.
Ultimately, the Radiant Emperor perished in the clash, reduced to a vegetative state on a hospital bed, forever comatose...
Even in mortality, treachery's shadow refused to release him!
Awakening from coma as the Radiant Emperor, he discovered Zhendan Mother Star utterly vanished.
He floated amid the void of dark space, his form radiating cataclysmic destructive energies!
Once more, the Dark Emperor manifested!
This occasion, the Dark Emperor emerged tens of thousands of years ahead of schedule!
The Radiant Emperor scarcely tasted a century of mortal life before the Dark Emperor obliterated him utterly!
The Dark Emperor razed Zhendan Mother Star, eradicated the Radiant Emperor's kin—everything dear to him.
Endless grief and despair engulfed his soul.
Exploiting this vulnerability, the Dark Emperor surged forth, dominating the Radiant Emperor's mind and seizing every shred of his power.
The universe then met its end!
This destruction struck tens of thousands of years prematurely!
The universe reset anew, rousing the Radiant Emperor, yet remnants of prior anguish and shadow lingered in his heart.
Deep within his psyche, the Dark Emperor's influences churned, poised for resurgence.
The Radiant Emperor snapped to alertness, channeling the Power of Radiance to quash them.
He realized surrender was impossible.
He must persist in striving and cherishing life's fleeting joys.
Yielding would invite darkness to exploit weaknesses, hasten its arrival, and shatter all.
Should this recur several times, dreadfully, resets would summon immediate darkness and devastation.
At that point, redemption would prove unattainable, everything lost forever.
Hence, the Radiant Emperor ventured forth once more, launching another epic crusade.
Reconstructing a splendid Human Empire, facing betrayal anew, withering into a solitary desiccated husk for millennia, only for the Dark Emperor to descend, dooming the universe to ruin and reset...
Cycle after cycle of repetition, annihilation upon annihilation.
Despite endless pondering, experimentation, battles, and resistance from the Radiant Emperor.
Fate remained unaltered.
Like the eternal boulder-pusher, the Radiant Emperor could effect no alteration.
No! Certain shifts had occurred!
With each Dark Emperor advent and universal demise, the calamity accelerated progressively.
That instance of the Radiant Emperor's relinquishment truly influenced events.
Thus, in later resets, he refused any hint of indolence.
Yet futility persisted; destiny stood immovable!
Until... the most recent cosmic reset!
There, the Radiant Emperor uncovered the irregularity named Su Yu!
Long ago, the Radiant Emperor had perceived Su Yu's exceptional nature.
Prior cataclysms and resets lacked Su Yu's presence; he materialized inexplicably.
The Radiant Emperor observed Su Yu covertly, offering maximal aid.
Such aid wasn't pure benevolence but engineered foes for Su Yu, denying respite and compelling ceaseless advancement.
Su Yu's relentless combats on desolate Azure Star, amid ceaseless foes, owed to the Radiant Emperor's "efforts."
This stemmed not from malice toward Su Yu, but the Radiant Emperor's grim awareness: the second subspace tide would unleash the Dark Emperor's universal purge, with scant time remaining for Su Yu!
Under the Radiant Emperor's calculated "nurturing," Su Yu unleashed staggering aptitude, swiftly departing the Primordial Universe to explore extragalactic voids.
Still, it fell short!
That modicum of prowess crumbled before the Dark Emperor's annihilating force.
Furthermore, the Radiant Emperor feared Dark Emperor-inflicted ruin would imprint an inescapable "High-dimensional Destiny," dooming eternal recurrence.
Successive resets would merely replay the tragedy.
Su Yu thus possessed a solitary opportunity!
Yet by then, Su Yu had exited the Primordial Universe, evading the Radiant Emperor's sway.
The impending subspace tide loomed perilously near.
Fortuitously, the Radiant Emperor wasn't alone in detecting the anomaly Su Yu.
Other formidable entities within the Primordial Universe had also spotted him.
Following intricate machinations, Su Yu reentered the Primordial Universe, slaying the Supreme Consciousness's final remnant to claim candidacy for God of Objects.
At last, amid the candidacy rite, Su Yu triggered the universe's destruction and reset!
For the first time, it arose not from the Dark Emperor, but from Su Yu himself!
At long last, transformation dawned upon the scenario!