Death… and me

2718 Absorption Time

Rean’s communication badge finally caught the signal of the Communication System. Immediately, Rean opened the news and found out the Semi-Celesitals already started to work. In there, they mentioned how they met some experts from outside the Universe who were trying to sabotage their exploration to get everyone stronger. However, Rean found nothing regarding those experts who escaped. From the looks of it, those three were indeed scouts. The main force was still some time away.

Following that, Rean found a concealed corner and set up a simple detection formation before entering the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm. Obviously, the time there was accelerated, as Roan used his time to recover his soul.

Sometime later, Rean gathered with Roan, Kentucky, Celis, and Sister Orb. Other than them were Turen’s avatar and Luan. “How is it, Roan?”

“I’m pretty much fully recovered,” he answered. “There is still some residual damage, but it should not impede me from training anymore. A few more days and I should be fine. However, there is no need to wait for that long now that I can train.” Celis couldn’t be happier. “Finally! I’ve been holding myself to use the Purple Crystal all this time, waiting for you to recover.” He did spend several months in the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm with the accelerated time, after all.

“So,” Kentucky spoke. “Are we starting now?”

Roan nodded. “That’s the idea. Rean, anything about the invaders?”

“Nothing,” Rean shook his head. “I even called senior Flinyu’s number, trying to get some information from him. However, he said they looked everywhere and couldn’t find experts who tried to sabotage us. I’m not surprised, though. Even if they didn’t come from outside the Universe, finding a Semi-Celesital who is focused on hiding isn’t something easy.”

Luan couldn’t help but ask. “Didn’t the Huban, that Essence Race Semi-Celestial, say that he could feel the presence of the other Semi-Celestials in the Universe? That group that tried to sabotage you had a Semi-Celestial within them, no?”

Rean also remembered that. “Yes, he did. However, he also mentioned it didn’t include the Semi-Celestials of the Vruve Organization when they were in their Dimensional Realm. That said, if even the Vruves can hide their Semi-Celestials, do you think the Semi-Celesitals from much more advanced Universes would have a problem doing the same?”

“I see…” Luan had to admit Rean was right.

“First of all,” Roan added, “this thing about Semi-Celestial feeling each other. Maybe it can only be done with Semi-Celestials of the same Universe. Since that guy was from outside, perhaps our Semi-Celestials can’t feel them anyway.”

[That’s not all,] Sister Orb also spoke her piece. [They might not really be inside our

Universe at the moment but somewhere outside it but near. They could arrive here in our Universe and enter, so why couldn’t they leave as well?]

Everyone agreed with Sister Orb, too.

Roan decided to put those issues aside for now. “Forget them. We definitely don’t have the workforce to search for them, different from the several powers of our Universe. We should focus on our own task, fixing the Universe Foundation Pillar. For that, we need strength. Let’s use the Purple Crystal.”

With that decided, the twins’ group quickly took out that Purple Crystal for them to use. Lolio’s consciousness wasn’t within Roan anymore, but Roan still had a connection with him. That meant he could use and guide others to use the Purple Crystal way better than the experts who used the rest of the Crystal back in the Loporrits Planet.

[How fast do you want it?] Sister Orb asked, positioned to increase the speed of the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm.

They all looked at Celis. No one was better than him to calculate their group’s overall cultivation speed now that he began to comprehend the laws of absorption. “Considering the amount of Divine Origin Energy Cores we have here, we should have enough to reach the Peak of the Divinity Realm if we use a speed of at most 53 times the normal.”

“One day equals to fifty-three outside, uh?” Roan pondered. “We have a lot of people inside that still have low cultivations. If we cultivate with increased speed, time will also pass much faster to them all.”

[Don’t worry,] Sister Orb intervened. [I wasn’t standing still all this time either. I have messed a little bit with the formation, so I can limit the area of effect inside the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm now.]

Rean was happy to hear that. “Well done, Sister Orb!]

Roan nodded. “Sometimes you aren’t completely useless, it seems.”

[I’m not hearing you,] said Sister Orb. [So, should I start?]

“Yes!” Rean and the others touched the Purple Crystal.

Immediately, they followed Roan’s instructions and began to absorb it while using its Chaos laws and Energy to comprehend their own sublaws.

At the same time, Sister Orb activated the formation, creating an area of several tens of kilometers where time began to run at 53 times the speed. Unfortunately, the smaller area didn’t mean a smaller consumption of Divine Origin Energy Cores. That point was still the same as if the entire Dimensional Realm was under that effect. What Sister Orb did was very simple. She made the formation think it was working on the entire Soul Gem Dimensional Realm; it’s just that the Dimensional Realm now only had a few tens of kilometers in its configuration. It was only possible because the formation itself was connected directly to the system. Otherwise, even she couldn’t do much. Well, if Rean was the one to do it, he probably would have done a

much better job. Too bad he didn’t have time for it.

Immediately, the time inside that range accelerated 53 times. Turen didn’t have much to say anyway, so he let the twins’ group do as they wished. As for Luan, he decided to stay in that range, also training and cultivation on his own.

Just like that, an entire year passed in the outside world.

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