Azur Lane: A Paradox In History

[Chapter 5: Screwing History, All Over Again Pt. 1]

A/N: alright here's the second arc which will reach all the way to the first world war, so expect a lot perspectives in different years and wars both familiar and divergent from the original history, the first chapter however will be focusing entirely on Lucian and the changes he and the others experience in the decade that had followed.

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(3rd POV) (8 years and 6 months later)

"Are the results accurate Raphael?" Lucian asked as he reviews the reports being shown off to him by Raphael, over multiple holographic screens projected over his desk, sitting just a few inches away, he wore the typical research uniform that he often uses, minus the helmet and the armor that he usually wore as a protective gear during his experiments.

He had his office expanded which now stretch over 30 meters wide in diameter, several furniture and some simple miscellaneous things were added to make the room less all white, blank and dull making it a bit more comfortable and vibrant unlike the previous design he had put in place, since he was far too busy with his work and plans to put make on design on his workplace/base.

But since his awareness of his own sons and daughters being sentient, he had to accommodate some changes to the usually white and dull appearance that the base once had, he relegated the designing towards Gabriel and Montana who both are good at this compared to him, who's more focus on technological and scientific advancement, research, development and universal warfare.

Speaking of Montana the young spirit he had created years ago, had been a bright bundle of joy for him, the woman was a serious yet cheerful individual, she had become a beloved sister for Gabriel and brighten things for everyone within the base, her existence had allowed him to unlock the secrets of how his gears work and lead to further massive results and progress in his research and development about his own existence as a spirit.

Due to the success of her creation, it had allowed him to further expand his knowledge and power over the more mystical, esoteric, metaphysical immaterial side of the cosmos and the higher dimensional laws, etc. Which includes the study and creation of the soul itself, a rather complex and highly complicated subject to delve in when he first tried, there were a lot of failures to be expected when performing such task.

He hadn't progress much at first due to how hard it is to try and create a soul, he wasn't going to resort to use immoral methods as he knew that doing so would be pointless and isn't worth the risk being taken, he seen enough movies although possibly not accurate to know just how bad it would be to mess up in making a soul, it can even be corruptive and negative which isn't what he wants.

But since his successful creation of his first ever spirit, a massive burst of knowledge awakened within his mind, enlightening him of a lot of things about the soul and it's workings, thus allowing him to gain better results in giving him the necessary steps to slowly but progressively know how to make a soul, Montana was a unique case that gave him an understanding of her nature and even himself.

His theory that all of the beliefs, wishes, hopes, dreams or the unconscious of many or in this case mankind to greatly influence a concept or something immaterial and give life to it was true or atleast for the most part, all that was needed was the method and necessary materials to act as the catalyst to cause said thing to manifest physically and become a living being walking in reality.

This had lead to the creation of a unique material that he dubbed as Soulium, the same material his gears was made up of or more accurately his entire being is made up of Soulium as he discovered it not too long after Montana creation, he started to mass produce the material so he can find out what more the element can do other than manifesting a concept onto reality as a living being or physical spirit, which also carries powers closely representing the concepts that made up his and Montana existence.