Kamen Rider Evolution

The stable timeline is like the main trunk of a big tree, and the branches of the tree extend in all directions from the trunk.

These branches grew rapidly like a waterfall, submerging the original stable timeline in a blink of an eye.

They were entangled with each other, and finally formed a spiral ball of light that swirled together, with the front and rear ends desperately extending to both sides. It was simply an irregular tangle.

The stable timeline also changed from emitting a soft and warm light from yellow to the orange-red of the setting sun, as if it was on fire.

It was not known whether Jiang Xia was hallucinating or not, but as he looked at the ball of red light, he actually heard a thudding sound, as if someone was hitting a drum with a heavy hammer.

"The history of the Knights lost its creator and began to grow wildly in all directions, which not only caused the official history to become a mess, but also caused the original resources to be almost exhausted due to the rapid splitting of parallel worlds. Finally, due to the plunder of resources, the different Knight Universes launched wars, which led to the collapse of all universes."

Jiang Xia stroked his chin, looking at the timeline in front of him that was constantly vibrating and had almost become a small sun that was constantly expanding, and said: "In the end, it should cause a big explosion that sweeps across all parallel universes. The power of the explosion should be thousands of times more powerful than the Big Bang of the universe."

"By then everyone will be dead, Kamen Rider will no longer exist, and we will have to restart the world."

"No, even restarting the world won't save it. Everything in time and space will vanish into thin air. It's complete annihilation." Jiang Xia looked at Oma Zi-O, "Am I right? This should be the final outcome of the future of the Kamen Rider universe."

“That’s right, especially the word 'future' is used very accurately.” Oma Zi-O stretched out his hand and wiped it lightly.

The timeline of the expanding sun, which had just been twisted into a distortion, quickly separated as if time was flowing backwards, and retreated back to the shape of a ray.

However, this ray is still curved, and the number of branching timelines split out is not so many, and it remains within a controllable range.

Not to mention causing an explosion, they rarely even come into contact with each other. Although they will split into more over time, it is not now.

The Knight Universe has not yet gone to war over resource issues, and it has been quite a long time since the explosion of the universe.

"Most of what you said is correct, but there is a very small part that is different." Oma Zi-O said as he twisted the stable timeline to its current correct state.

The appearance just now was just a simulation he made using his own ability to control time. If the time really came and there was only one way left, which was to close his eyes and wait for death, there would be no need to summon Jiang Xia to this world.

"I want to know what you mean by a very small part. My perception tells me that the Knight Universe did collapse and explode because of the war." Jiang Xia asked after thinking for a few seconds.

"This is the result of the collapse of the universe, not the cause." Oma Zi-O said, "Kamen Rider will never invade other universes due to resource problems. Even if they know that the world is about to be destroyed, they will not do so because it will sacrifice others."

"The knights in the Decade world didn't think that way. In the end, they fought each other to death for their own world." Jiang Xia spread his hands, "In the end, they even attacked Kadoya Kazushi. In the end, they were resurrected because Kazushi Kazushi remembered them."

“Ahem, you just have to choke me, don’t you?” Oma Zi-O coughed, “In the end, they still chose to help and unite against the outside world. Let’s not talk about this anymore. Let me tell you where you are wrong.”

At this moment he didn't look like an old man, but more like a child.

"Just kidding, next tell me where I went wrong." Jiang Xia stopped joking and became serious.

"It was not their intention to make the Kamen Riders fight each other, but because they were manipulated and became weapons of war to plunder resources." When Oma Zi-O said this again, his tone suddenly became as hard as cast iron.

"Could it be that who controls them?" Jiang Xia narrowed his eyes, and he thought of a scene that was originally written in the knight's setting.

"You're right. If we just keep branching different timelines, it will be much easier, because the power of Oma can take away the entire history of the Knights." Oma Zi-O described the terrifying power of his ability, "In this way, the branched timelines will eventually merge with the stable timeline. As long as they are not separated, these timelines will merge forever."

"I see. This is just like the situation where Oma Zi-O ruled until 2068. Knight History Collection." Jiang Xia nodded.

The twenty knights of the Heisei era can all be integrated into one planet, and this is only the most basic attraction ability of the power of Oma for the knight universe.

Even with the power of Oma Zi-O, he can directly release his attraction to the world of knights, and even strengthen it exponentially, making the aggregation between the worlds even stronger. This is the underlying logic of the power of Oma to seize the history of knights.

Even if a hundred different timelines were split, Oma Zi-O would only have a hundred more knight dials. He would just become stronger and stronger, after all, he could automatically obtain the dials just by sitting.

The split timeline may be a very difficult thing for others, but it is an advantage for Oma Zi-O, because he is the Zi-O, the king of time.

But it is obvious that this approach is not feasible.

"I can no longer do this because the history of these split knights is problematic. This is another very important impact of Shotaro Ishimori's death."

Oma Zi-O paused for a few seconds before continuing, "We call this effect alienation."

"I see." With Jiang Xia's current ability, he only needs a little bit of relevant information to deduce the truth and the shortcomings.

"You just said that the world I experienced and the world summoned by Swartz have a fundamental connection. So that's how it is.

"It's not because the power of the Aurora Veil and the Time Royal Family distorted history and created an alien, but because of the loss of Shotaro Ishimori, the possibility of the hero defeating the villain disappeared, and Kamen Rider lost the favor of fate."

Jiang Xia figured it out. The so-called alien world is actually a world where the villains win.

This is a world created by the combination of the power of the Time Royal Family and the Dimension Wall, which controls the important elements that constitute the world, time and space.

But such an alien world is inherently very fragile. Even the time that flows in it is only a few seconds. It repeats itself over and over again, with no future.

The Eternal Memory plus another twenty-five T2 memories can destroy the alien world.

What Oma Zi-O is talking about now, the world becoming alienated, is completely different.

When an author writes a heroic story, most of the protagonists have a very good ending after the battle.

For example: becoming successful, getting married and having children, traveling around, opening a restaurant, becoming a journalist...

The most common thing is to return to one's own ordinary life and no longer use one's own power.

There are only a very small number of heroic works in which the protagonist and the villain die together, leaving behind a very peaceful world where everyone lives and works in peace and contentment until the next hero is born.

The story of Kamen Rider has both, with bad endings like mutual destruction and good endings, and most of them are good endings without the sword.

But even the worst ending will never happen. The strongest, fiercest, and most ruthless villain will win, kill the Kamen Rider who fights for justice, and then pin the protagonist's family and friends to the ground, and finally achieve the goal of ruling the world.

This is the most basic ending for a heroic story, a fixed framework, and the embodiment of the author's pen.

But now the author is dead, and the story's framework has gone off the rails.

There is no such thing as justice always prevailing in this world. On the contrary, the possibility of justice always prevailing is almost zero.

There are some things that you just can't reach no matter how hard you try, that's reality.

So this almost zero possibility is embodied in the current stable timeline, which is the only possibility for the knight to win the final victory.

Most of the other almost infinite branching timelines are about the villain winning in the end.

He lost the halo of the protagonist, lost the deus ex machina, abandoned fantasy and returned to reality.

The underlying logic that justice must prevail has been destroyed, leading to the current situation.

Ultimately, it’s not a question of splitting into parallel worlds, but rather the story running wild and out of the author’s control.

Faced with the simultaneous alienation of endless worlds, even Oma Zi-O seems to be helpless.

"That's right. This is the dilemma we're in. There's no way to integrate the power of Oma because after integration it will affect the only 'Knight's Official History'. If it's not integrated, the final result will only be destruction." Oma Zi-O nodded.

"I think I understand the solution. As you said, the worlds will eventually become entangled and explode. So, we just need to destroy these branching times. This is the simplest solution."

A trace of determination flashed in Jiang Xia's eyes. "Although the knight has lost justice, but Tokiwa Sougo, you will be born with the power of the devil. All you need to do is destroy time and space. You are the ability you already possess."

"Don't tell me that as a demon king, you would be soft-hearted about destroying a timeline. In terms of the number of people, a branch timeline only has about 7 billion people. 7 billion is nothing in the universe. But if the villain wins, the population should drop sharply. Let's assume that there are 3 billion of them. The remaining people will be taken away for transformation, the knights will be brainwashed, and finally invade other worlds. At this time, destroying them is the best option."

When Jiang Xia was talking about this plan, Oma Zi-O just sighed softly without any objection or interruption.

"You've done it, right? How much has been destroyed?" Jiang Xia suddenly asked.

Chapter 598 Tokiwa Sougo

"This is a very bloody road. Although the end of the story is directed in the wrong direction, Tokiwa Sougo will still be born. Although Tokiwa Sougo is not born to be a king, he will definitely become a king, even if it is just Tokiwa Sougo who is separated from the stable timeline." After sighing, Oma Zi-O began to narrate the history of Tokiwa Sougo.

"These branches are no different from the original timeline. We just gave them different labels. You are right. I did take action to destroy the world in an attempt to maintain the stability of the universe."

"You regard the killing of Sougo Tokiwa in the parallel world as your own behavior. Is this really okay?" Jiang Xia asked after hearing Oma Zi-O admit it.

The Oma Zi-O that appears in front of Jiang Xia now has not destroyed the timeline. The one who keeps destroying time and space is another Oma Zi-O from a parallel world.

"We are all Tokiwa Sougo. We share memories and parallel consciousness through the power of Oma. What the other Tokiwa Sougo does is equivalent to what I do. Because of the power of Oma, we are different from other people's parallel isotopes." Oma Zi-O said.

"There are two ways to save the current timeline. One is very simple, which is to use the power of the demon to continuously cause slaughter. No matter how many branches the original timeline splits into, no matter the final outcome of the story, and no matter whether the knight can defeat the enemy, they will all be erased, just like clearing unsightly branches from a tree trunk."

Oma Zi-O stared into Jiang Xia's eyes and said very seriously:

"After I awakened to become Oma Zi-O and learned the truth about the world, the killing began. For me, destroying a timeline is as easy as moving my fingers, because no one can resist the power of Oma. When I began to destroy the world indiscriminately, for the humans in the destroyed world, Oma Zi-O was the most ferocious and evil demon king in the legend."

"Yes, he is indeed the most brutal demon king." Jiang Xia agreed with this description.

This is what the most vicious and evil devil would do, the purest 86 version of the old devil.

If Jiang Xia were asked to guess the demon king's awakening experience, it was obviously a very bumpy awakening road, and the pain he suffered might not be able to be told to outsiders.

It may be a hundred times more difficult than the little devil in TV.

There is a high probability that Tokiwa Jun'ichirō, who was called Shuki and raised Tokiwa Sougo since he was a child in that world and respected Tokiwa Sougo's dream of becoming king, died in front of him.

There are no Gates and Tsukuyomi in this line either, so when Sougo Tokiwa learns that his great-uncle's death was caused by the branch timeline, he will indeed choose to take the route of world destruction.

"Whether it's the righteous Kamen Riders, the evil monsters, or even humans themselves, all of them will be destroyed by my coming." Oma Zi-O said.

"At that time, the branch timelines were already showing signs of converging, and the situation was much more serious than it is now. However, through this method of saving the world by killing, the timelines returned to stability over a long period of time. Those branch timelines that had just split off and were in their infancy were eliminated by 'me' as soon as they were born."

"The number of humans who have died at his hands is probably too numerous to count." Jiang Xia sighed.

Do you remember how many slices of bread you have eaten in your life?

When killing becomes a habit, numbers no longer matter.

If you multiply the number of people on Earth by the number of worlds destroyed, and you get the total number of people killed, the result would probably be more than the grains of sand in the Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world.

"This is the price of choosing this path. Although this method curbs the split of the timeline, it is only temporary. No matter how many timelines I can destroy, it is limited after all. I can't regain energy by killing enemies like you can. I will also get tired." Oma Zi-O said while looking at Jiang Xia.

Although they are born with the nearly invincible power of the Demonic Force, they cannot become stronger through killing, and will even consume themselves in the process of destroying the timeline.

Although destroying a timeline consumes as little power as a drop of water in the ocean for Oma Zi-O in his prime, it is still consumed in the end.

"I understand. The timeline is infinitely divided. This action is like dividing an infinite number by an unimaginably large number. No matter how large this number is, the result is still infinite." Jiang Xia nodded.

The world-destroying Oma Zi-O mentioned just now is the one he met in the Dragon Knight World. It is even a weak version of Oma Zi-O that needs to use the Mirror World as a medium to influence the outside world.

He said that he destroyed countless time and space and wiped out countless worlds. Now it seems that he was telling the truth.

No wonder he hesitated to speak at the time and even said that Jiang Xia should make the same choice or something. He must be referring to the issue of timeline.

"Not only that, as my power faded, I could no longer destroy the world with very little consumption like I did in the beginning, and the annihilation of life was no longer thorough. Many people escaped from this universe through the Aurora Curtain and science before the countdown to the destruction of the world ended." Oma Zi-O continued talking about another thing he had experienced.

"Let me guess, these people who survived by chance recorded their experiences after traveling through the world and told the humans in other worlds. They united all their forces and prepared themselves to go to war with the devil who would destroy the world and save the world." Jiang Xia thought for a while and said.

"The hatred of world destruction cannot be dissipated with time. These survivors gradually gathered together because of hatred and sense of justice, and formed a huge organization spanning multiple worlds. The members of this organization are all top figures from different worlds. Even I am amazed by their combined strength."

Oma Zi-O's eyes were lost in thought, as if he was recalling a scene from his memory:

"Using only Oma Zi-O's battle data, they created a mass-produced version of the Time Drive, a lower-tier version of the Oma Drive. They also imitated the properties of Oma's power to fuse the world, creating a blank dial capable of carrying the history of the Knights, and the Time Demon Machine, which can freely travel across time and space."

"The Knight Dial can preserve power, which allows them to take away the power of the Knights of this world in advance before the world is destroyed by Oma Zi-O, leaving seeds for resistance."

"Wait, this massive organization that spans the world you're talking about, isn't it... the Historical Administration? The organization Woz belongs to."

When Jiang Xia heard about the huge organization that could span multiple worlds, his first reaction was Shocker and Consortium X.

But after hearing what they developed, Shocker and Consortium X were completely unworthy.

The time drive and the blank dial are not something that Shocker and Consortium X can get hold of.

The blank dial can be used to forcibly take away the power of any knight except the Zi-O series. This is far more advanced than the technology of Foundation X.

However, after hearing that this was reverse researched based on the data of the power of demons, Jiang Xia was certain that it was true. Even the power of demons could be analyzed, so the technology they possessed was truly incredible.

“The original name wasn’t this, but it was unified later.” Oma Zi-O nodded.

"What was the result of the war launched by the History Administration and Oma Zi-O who was unable to exert his full strength?" Jiang Xia was a little curious. This was indeed an unsolved mystery.

"How can a mere History Administration Bureau possibly deal with me?" Oma Zi-O snorted coldly, his words sounding extremely domineering.

This is the same as the expression and demeanor of Swartz who taunted him for gaining the ability of the alien Decade and planning to fight against Tokiwa Sougo, and he ignored them all.

“In that battle, the History Administration was almost destroyed, and all the resistance forces that gathered together were almost wiped out, but…” Oma Zi-O was hesitant to speak.

"But?" Jiang Xia was puzzled. "Are there any unexpected situations? Wasn't he crippled?"

"Well, when the History Administration was on the verge of collapse, they discovered another 'me', an 'me' whose intelligence, wisdom, strength, and even physical form had degenerated to almost nothing due to exhausting its own power." Oma Zi-O said.

"I know that Oma Zi-O gets stronger as he gets older. If he uses his power excessively, he will degenerate from an old man into a child, or even lose his memory and not even remember who he is. Is there anything more serious?" Jiang Xia asked.

"Yes, when strength, intelligence, wisdom, and even physical form all disappear due to exhaustion, what remains is 'me' as weak as a baby," said Oma Zi-O.

"Oma Zi-O degenerated from a white-haired old man into a baby? Doesn't that mean he lost everything?" Jiang Xia's eyes showed astonishment. "One destroyed countless worlds before degenerating into a child, but what did the other Tokiwa Sougo do?"

"Wait, the History Management Bureau got a baby named Tokiwa Sougo? No way?" Jiang Xia suddenly thought of something.

"Yes, it's exactly as you thought. After picking up this baby, the crippled History Administration conducted research on Oma Zi-O and confirmed that his identity was Tokiwa Sougo himself."

"They gave the power of time they had researched back to the baby, allowing him to grow up again as Tokiwa Sougo. In this way, this picked up baby grew up to become the director of the History Management Bureau, Tokiwa Sougo." Oma Zi-O nodded.

"The classic thing is that only I can fight against myself." Jiang Xia expressed his understanding.

What is strong at this time is not the armor but the king himself.

"After growing up again, Tokiwa Sougo lost all his memories. The nearly depleted Oma power in his body was replaced by a replica of the power of time. As a result, he could no longer become Oma Zi-O, but instead became Kamen Rider Barlckxs. However, even so, he still has the ability to be immune to the attacks of the Heisei Riders. This is the Heisei Riders' blessing to Tokiwa Sougo.