Chapter 394: The Seventh World Crossing
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Tolle carried the sleeping Lacus back from the sky and quietly returned to the room, gently placing her on the bed and covering her with a blanket before silently leaving.
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Early the next morning, looking at Miriallia, Lynn Minmay, Ange, Zola, Murrue, Erica, and Yulia sprawled messily around him in deep sleep, Tolle supported his lower back and slowly walked out of the room, feeling that his body was becoming more and more overdrawn. He really needed to give himself a proper break.
At that moment, the system spoke:
"Host, energy replenishment is complete. You may begin world traversal at any time."
Tolle said with relief, "That fast? That's great. I thought I'd have to wait another month. But let me think for a moment first."
He quickly began considering whether he should take Lacus, Miriallia, Erica, Yulia, and the others along to visit another world.
After all, none of them had ever traveled to other worlds before.
But after taking a few steps as if to wake them, Tolle held his lower back again and retreated, abandoning the idea.
If he took them all along, would he really get any rest? He'd probably just get completely drained again.
Better to go alone for about three hundred days. After all, when he came back, only one minute would have passed here—there was no risk of anyone noticing he had left.
Most importantly, he absolutely couldn't bring anyone back with him, especially women. That way, everything would remain perfectly secret.
There would be plenty of chances in the future anyway. Once his authority level increased enough to allow revisiting past worlds, he could always bring them along later.
Decision made—this trip would be a vacation just for himself.
Hopefully this return would give him something really useful for improving his physique. Ideally something like nine times kidney efficiency… or even eight extra kidneys would do.
After finishing this internal struggle, he slipped back into the bathroom. Then he informed Yumi in the ship's core space that he would be leaving for a while and told her not to worry.
Since Tolle and Yumi were soul-linked, she would definitely notice immediately if he left for another world. If she triggered some kind of alert, that would be embarrassing.
After putting on his nano-armor, Tolle said to the system, "System, I'm ready. Begin the traversal."
"Received. Host. World traversal commencing…"
His vision suddenly went black, and in the next instant, he appeared in a world of water.
Looking around at the dim surroundings, Tolle immediately had the nano-armor simulate a searchlight. Seeing freshwater fish swimming nearby, he sighed. "Sigh… this time I spawned at the bottom of a lake. System, isn't this getting more and more ridiculous?"
"Please rest assured, Host. All traversal locations selected by the system are absolutely safe and pose no danger."
Tolle spread his hands helplessly underwater. "Well, I guess this really isn't dangerous. If I'd spawned at the bottom of the sea instead, and wasn't prepared, I might've been crushed by the pressure."
"Let's first see what kind of world this is." He transformed the nano-armor into a diving suit and quickly swam to the surface.
Once he stepped onto land, Tolle looked at the deserted forest around him, then up at the sky.
He suddenly noticed a faint ring-like structure encircling the planet beyond the atmosphere. Activating a high-magnification telescope mode in his nano-armor, he examined it more closely and realized it was a massive orbital structure.
Resting his chin in thought, Tolle muttered, "Looks like this isn't the Space Knight world—then it must be Gundam 00. Only those two worlds have planetary-scale orbital structures like this.
"If I check the current year, I'll know for sure. If it's United Earth Calendar XXX, then it's Space Knight. If it's AD 2XXX, then it's probably Gundam 00."
"Nami, deploy a large number of neo DG-cell-based biomimetic birds and insects. Gather information on where we are and what time period this is."
"Understood, Master. Nami will explore the new world immediately."
Tolle opened the storage space in his left hand, releasing large numbers of neo DG cells that scattered in all directions.
About ten minutes later, Nami reported back with detailed information: the current location was near Lake Inari in Finland, close to the Arctic Circle. In terms of the old Earth, it lay near the border between Finland and the White Bear Nation.
In this world's terms, however, it was near the boundary between the Human Reform League and the Advanced European Union.
That confirmed it—this was definitely the Gundam 00 world. The three major power blocs made it unmistakable.
The Human Reform League, centered on China, the White Bear Nation, Curry Nation, and several Central Asian states.
The Advanced European Union (AEU), led by five major European powers—Eagle Nation, Baguette Nation, Beer Nation, Half-Tooth Nation, and Pasta Nation—along with various African states.
And the Union, consisting mainly of countries across the South American continent, led by Freedom Nation and Maple Leaf Nation, with Cigar Nation and Colombia as auxiliaries.
Because fossil fuels like coal and oil had been exhausted on this Earth, humanity had turned to solar energy as its primary power source.
To achieve this, over half a century, the three major blocs each constructed a 50,000-kilometer orbital elevator, forming a massive solar power generation system that produced semi-perpetual energy.
The Human Reform League's orbital elevator was located near the Solomon Islands.
The AEU's elevator stood west of Lake Victoria on the equator, near Uganda and the Congo region.
The Union's elevator was built near the upper reaches of the Amazon River, close to Cigar Nation and Colombia.
The current date was mid-December, AD 2306.
There were still more than seven months—over two hundred days—before the main storyline began in July, AD 2307.
After confirming the world, Tolle immediately said to the system:
"System, this is the Gundam 00 world."
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