Reincarnated as an Energy with a System

Chapter 1801: Show the Stars

Ning put the spaceship he was in on auto-pilot and left the bridge to go back to his wife and daughter who stayed in one of the rooms.

“Why are there no proper windows?” Ely asked. “I was hoping to see the stars from here.”

“Hmm, give me a second.”

Ning looked around the metal hull of the ship they were in and talked to his system. “Make them invisible, or at least transparent without changing any of the rest of their properties.”

Ning felt no change to his energy levels at all, and yet his words took effect as all metal inside of the spaceship had turned glass-like, completely transparent. The only thing that could still be visible were the various lights that hung around the place, glowing brightly.

Ning snapped his fingers and the lights went out. Now, they were in the middle of space with barely any light at all. The planet they had just left was starting to become smaller than the star it rotated around, so that was the brightest thing they could see from out here.

Both Emma and Ely looked away, toward the rest of the stars.

Ely took a deep breath. “How long it has been since I saw the stars this clearly,” she said in a soft voice.

“I didn’t know it was this bright on the outside,” Emma said.

The mother and daughter sat side by side, watching the pinpricks of light in the otherwise vast darkness. Unlike on the planet, they didn’t twinkle out here as there was no heat wave to distort the incoming light.

Some stars appeared faintly blue in color, while some were red. They were faint enough though that it didn’t make much of a difference to their current sight.

Ning looked at the stars as well and shook his head. “You’re not seeing what I’m seeing,” he said. “Here, take a look.”

With the system’s help, he shared his vision with them. And through it, they saw everything.

Ning had a vision that allowed him to see things even if they weren’t lit up or were too dim to be seen. His eyes could see everything as though they were bright as day, and through that vision, he showed them the real space.

The pinpricks turned bright like glowing embers in the night. The vast darkness grew colorful, iridescent nebulas filling the majority of their vision.

Ning made all of what they saw enlarge at the same time, bringing it closer to their eyes as if they were standing right next to them.

They saw stars with planets revolving around them, nebulas forming giant stars. They saw stars of all colors, blue, yellow, orange, red. They saw stars on the verge of going supernova, and stars that had long since gone supernova.

They saw pulsars, spinning at speeds they could not perceive. They saw neutron stars, dense beyond what they had ever experienced.

They saw the blackness that was the black hole, and the glowing plasma that surrounded it that was the accretion disc.

Ning swiped his hand again, and made everything he had enlarged go back to their regular size, while keeping behind only a few things still enlarged.

He showed them galaxies, hundreds of thousands of them. Ely and Emma looked in all directions, their eyes wide beyond normal.

They had lived for hundreds of thousands of years now, and they had yet to see a sight like this.

“Can… can your inner world never become this big?” Ely asked. “Are we really constrained to the size of a regular solar system?”

“I’m afraid so,” Ning said. “I found the largest space stone I could find. Had I found any larger, I might have been able to make it larger, but they are far too difficult to come around.”

“What if you find one later on that is larger?” Emma asked.

“It isn’t possible for me to continuously keep enlarging my inner world,” Ning said. “I asked my system this before. It’s a sort of restriction for people with a System like mine to not continuously grow our inner world using every single space stone we come across.”

“I see,” Ely said.

“So you can only add a few planets, right?” she asked. “What planet are you going to add?”

“I haven’t really thought about that yet. I don’t want to add just any planet. I want ones that are both unique and have a Will. Only a Will can live forever and continue to be your friend, after all.”

“I just want to have a world I can visit where no one knows who I am, and I don’t know who anyone is,” Emma said with a somber look.

“And I’ll do my best to prepare such a world for you,” Ning said. “I could ask my system to tell me the exact planet that fits our criteria right now, and we can go there.”

“Or, we could go peruse the next dozen or so planets we go to and see if you like any of them.”

Emma thought for a bit. “So… we could either find the right thing right away, or we leave it up to chance, right? I don’t believe you will be taking us to every single planet on the way, right?”

“I need to visit certain planets to take care of various Constellations. We will likely only visit those planets, unless we come across any other that we might want to visit.”

“Hmm, I suppose we can do that,” Emma said. “Let’s rely on luck then.”

Ning smiled. “I must warn you two. It will take us many, many years to reach these planets. This ship is fast, but it will still take in general 10+ years to reach every planet. I have a reason to save energy now, so I can’t open up portals to just any place.”

Emma shrugged. “That’s fine, right mama?”

Ely grinned. “Just more time for us to spend together as a family.”