Elio's words echoed in everyone's ears. In the end, Kafka was the first to raise a crucial question:
"Elio, since you saw such an apocalyptic future, doesn't that mean Herta has already developed a Plasma Spark Tower capable of transforming members of other species into giants?"
"Correct. That is exactly what it means." Elio bobbed his feline head.
Silver Wolf set down her game console and adopted a serious expression. "I have Herta's contact information. I can contact her directly and warn her about the dangers of Plasma Spark Tower technology."
Elio shook his head slightly. "You can do that. It will make Herta take the Plasma Spark Tower even more seriously."
"...In fact, within the possible Apocalypse of Harmony I foresaw, Herta always maintained the Plasma Spark Tower extremely well. Had Dr. Primitive not stolen it, the Giant meme would never have spread through the Warp and contaminated every living being in the universe."
A thoughtful expression appeared on Kafka's face. "In other words, Herta already foresaw the dangers of Plasma Spark Tower technology at the beginning of her research."
Silver Wolf voiced the doubt in her heart. "But if Herta foresaw it, she would undoubtedly have protected the Plasma Spark Tower extremely well. Why, then, was Dr. Primitive still able to steal it in the end?"
Elio shook his head. "Herta was absent from that possible future. More precisely, I have never been able to see Herta's thread of destiny."
"In any case, we Stellaron Hunters can warn Herta and encourage her to protect the Plasma Spark Tower more carefully so no other faction can steal it."
"Silver Wolf, I will leave that task to you."
"No problem. Leave it to me."
Silver Wolf patted her chest and readily agreed.
At that moment, Elio remembered something else and spoke seriously. "Right, there is one more thing. Ask Herta whether she has already used the Plasma Spark Tower to create Noah, Zagi, and even Ultraman King."
Upon hearing those three unfamiliar names, Silver Wolf displayed obvious confusion. "Who are Noah, Zagi, and Ultraman King?"
"In the possible future of the Apocalypse of Harmony I saw, they were Herta's creations. They were also powerful beings who stood at the pinnacle of the giant race, existences who even surpassed Emanators."
"Noah, for example, was the first ray of light created by Herta. Once he matured, he could leverage all righteous emotional energy within the Warp... More importantly, that giant scattered his light throughout the cosmos, searching for suitable candidates and saving countless worlds."
"Even when the Apocalypse of Harmony arrived, the Aeon of Finality descended, and the universe was destroyed, the giant called Noah performed exceptionally well. He absorbed the light within the hearts of countless living beings, assumed an entirely new form, and held back the apocalypse for the entire universe for one second."
"It was only one second, but that already placed him beyond an ordinary Emanator and even beyond Silver Wolf LV.999. He came infinitely close to Aeon-level energy."
Silver Wolf's heart trembled upon hearing this, and an expression of utter astonishment appeared on her face:
"Noah, a creation of Herta's technology, will surpass the Invincible Player power granted to me by the player cartridge in the future?!"
"...Is Herta really that absurd?!!"
At that moment, Silver Wolf became utterly convinced that Herta had been telling the truth when she said she had no limits during their previous meeting.
After all, in the future Elio had witnessed, even one of Herta's creations broke through the limits of an Emanator and attained an energy level infinitely close to that of an Aeon. Perhaps the light life-form called Noah had already reached Aeon-level output at that moment.
Yet because Noah had not created a Path, had not become the embodiment of a cosmic concept, and had not achieved the feat of drawing infinite energy from the Imaginary, he had still been unable to save the universe.
Moreover... since Gaia had almost managed to reverse the catastrophe at the moment Finality arrived...
Did that mean the other two names Elio had mentioned would also...
After thinking this far, Silver Wolf earnestly asked Elio whether Zagi and Ultraman King would also cause major events within those possible futures.
Elio nodded. "Whether Noah, Zagi, or Ultraman King, all three were creations of The Herta. Without exception, each of them accomplished great feats during the apocalypse brought by Harmony and Finality."
"As I just said, Noah relied upon his own strength to delay Finality's arrival by one second at the critical point just before it erupted."
"As for Zagi, he was the leader of the future Giants of Darkness. He possessed the ability to endlessly devour negative emotions and could consume fear, dread... to enhance himself."
"When the universe approached Finality, all things in the cosmos felt fear. Zagi seized that opportunity and devoured the fear of all living beings, strengthening his true body and surviving until the second moment after Finality's arrival. He even communicated with the true body of Terminus, who would only be born in the future."
"Of course, Zagi ultimately failed to endure until the third moment after Finality's arrival and died completely."
"Then there was Ultraman King... He was also unprecedentedly powerful during the Apocalypse of Harmony because he was the giant transformed from the Plasma Spark Tower itself."
"Moreover, at some unknown point within that possible future, countless stellar suns throughout the universe had already been transformed into Plasma Spark Towers, all of them ruled by this giant born from the Plasma Spark's spirit!"
"Those Plasma Spark Towers could grant Ultraman King tremendous enhancements and provide him with an unimaginably vast amount of power."
"At that moment, Ultraman King struggled just as Noah did, attempting to use the power of countless stars to shield the universe from Finality's arrival... Yet in the end, he failed completely."
"Of course, at the moment of his death, he had already surpassed the power possessed by Silver Wolf LV.999."
Silver Wolf fell into a profound silence. She had never imagined that, within the possible future Elio had seen, all three of Herta's creations would surpass the pinnacle of Emanators of Elation.
Noah's miraculous light held back Finality for one second, while Zagi relied upon his own body to forcibly endure until the third moment after Finality's arrival.
As for Ultraman King, he could command the power of countless stars. Every one of Herta's creations was monstrously powerful to the absolute extreme.
Silver Wolf even formed a conjecture within her heart.
Perhaps, in the future Elio saw, Herta had already surpassed the limits of an Emanator, reached Aeon-level energy, or even become an Aeon herself.
It was only because Elio could not see through Herta's thread of destiny that he never discovered what kind of Aeon Herta ultimately became.
At the same time, the Soul Gem Silver Wolf carried began flashing violently. It was the dwelling place of αWolf's soul.
The fact that the Soul Gem was flashing so fiercely was more than enough to reveal just how violently αWolf's emotions were fluctuating.