Chapter 2750: Truly a Lot
"Alright, I'm going back to train Sonzei since Rean got that excuse to enter the Leviathan's Dimensional Realm," Roan spoke. "I need to make that thing win his battle."
Rean nodded, and he also teleported everyone else away. In the end, only Romario, Rean, and Kentucky reappeared outside of the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm. Rana stayed inside to follow Hamarlia and Turen since those two hadn't seen her in a very long time.
"Dad, you have been building a good relationship with the Leviathans, that I understood," Rean continued. "But why exactly? It is not like you don't have a plan, right? What do you intend to do to take away the Fragment?"
Romario confirmed Rean's suspicions. "Indeed, I've been working on a plan. Come with me."
Finally, they entered Romario's room, the one Julianada had destroyed the door a while ago. Inside, Rean saw a globe of Spatial Power while countless Circuitry Formations Runes surrounded it. The room itself seemed to be filled with some kind of Spatial Formation as well. Although it looked small from the outside, the room itself was actually enormous due to that formation.
Rean approached that globe of Spatial Laws and noticed some thing like. "Hum? Is this the Mirror Sea?"
Romario nodded. "Yes. But if you do this..." Romario then moved his hands, and the images inside swapped. Now, you could see a miniature of the Leviathan's Dimensional Realm inside. "Oh!" Rean was impressed. Sure enough, his father knew a lot about Circuitry Formations. Romario's use of the runes was even better than Rean's own. They resembled the Circuitry Runes he saw back in the Ruins of the Stars instead. "Quite a tool to observe everything."
"Impressive," Rean watched the flow of energy. "Usually, the Fragments are the source of power of all phenomena they cause. This one is different, though. It doesn't have the power to cause the phenomena itself. Instead, it absorbs the outside world's Divine Energy to feed itself, and the result is the Mirror Sea, and this separated Dimensional Realm with another Mirror Sea."
"Exactly," Romario agreed with him. "Over time, it gave birth to that natural formation outside as well, sealing this world. Well, you destroyed one of the Islands, so it isn't sealed anymore. In any case, it is obvious the problem, right?"
"Yes," Rean understood where Romario was coming from. "The concentration of energy around the fragment is so powerful that we have absolutely no hope of getting anywhere near the Fragment. The Coral Tree itself is the core of the Dimensional Realm and the Fragment is integrated into it. If we want the fragment, we need to get rid of the Dimensional Realm itself, which sustains the Coral and the Fragment."
"So you truly understood," Romario was satisfied. "In that case, you also know the fastest way to get this over with, right?"
Rean sighed in response. "Pretty much the same thing I did to destroy one of the fourteen Islands outside. If I completely cut out the Mirror Sea from the Divine Energy of the world... the Dimensional Realm will collapse on its own."
Yet, Rean noticed something. "Wait, since you know it, how come you haven't done it already? You didn't seem to care about the Minokawas back in the Floating Islands of Time when you tried to take the Fragment away. You knew it would have destroyed everything there."
Romario shrugged. "The scale was completely different. The Minokawas and the other Demon Beasts around were, after all, very few. You wouldn't find more than a few tens of thousands of living beings there. The Floating Islands of Time was a very hard environment that few could call home, after all. Besides, I believed the strong Minokawas would be able to take away their race before everything truly collapsed. However, if I destroy this Dimensional Realm, we will be talking about hundreds of billions of lives. You saw it yourself. This Dimensional Realm is huge, and it has been around for a very, very long time."
Romario sighed. "I went around one day and tried to count more or less how many living beings we have here. There is no doubt that there are at least 650 billion living beings in this Dimensional Realm."
Rean's expression changed after hearing that. "Indeed, that is truly a lot."