Death… and me

2726  To the Mirror Sea

Hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, another Spatial Gate appeared. From inside, Rean and Kentucky stepped out, followed by Sonzei and Flast-Kufei. It’s just that these two weren’t used to Spatial Gate travel, so they felt a little dizzy.

Sonzei was especially so. Rean covered him with his Divine Energy, but the effects were still quite harsh. Well, Rean simply used his Instant Recovery Skill, and both Flast and Sonzei quickly went back to normal.

Sonzei got up and looked in the distance. Sure enough, they were already right in front of the Mirror Sea. “So fast… No need for Divine Stones or Formations. Sir only waved a hand, and a portal connected to this place in an instant.”

Rean patted his shoulder. “As I said, no need for formalities. Just call me Rean. This ‘sir’ thing makes me feel old.”

Kentucky looked at the Mirror Sea, ignoring their conversation. “What a weird place. There is really a sea floating a few meters above the other.” He then looked up, and he couldn’t see the end of the sea in the air. “And it is quite big. Even my Divine Sense can’t see the end of it.”

Rean agreed with Kentucky. “Indeed. Hey, Sonzei, how big is the Mirror Sea exactly?”

“It depends on where you enter and where you leave it,” Sonzei answered. “If you try to cross it parting and arriving at the two most extreme points, this sea has a total of 4550000 Kilometers between them. Crossing from anywhere else has a smaller distance.”

“At least the size isn’t all that different from the average seas in the Realm of Gods, a little smaller actually.” Rean nodded. “It is far from the biggest ones, though.”

“Smaller than average?” Sonzei and Flast took a deep breath. Just how big were the real ones?

“Well, it is the first time I see one like this guy, though,” Rean also added. “So, you have no idea why it turned out like this, right?”

Sonzei quickly nodded. “Yes. My tribe lives out of this sea, so we know it better than anyone else. Still, we truly can’t tell why it is like this. It feels like Water and Fire as if both sides can’t mix with each other.”

Flast quickly spoke. “In fact, they are indeed like Water and Fire. You can try to take water from one and pour it into the other sea. It will immediately return to the original sea as if pulled by some weird gravity.”

Kentucky immediately flashed to the middle of both seas and used his Divine Energy to take several thousands of liters of the floating sea. He poured it all into the sea on the ground and let it go.

In front of their eyes, all that water didn’t mix with the sea below. Instead, it immediately shot up as if it was in a reverse free fall before splashing into the floating sea again. “That’s quite funny.”

“There is a way to mix them, though,” Sonzei explained. “You just need to bring both waters out of the sea range. At that moment, they will act just like any water and mix together. You can’t feel any difference between them at that point.”

“Hmmm…” Rean nodded. “That means that the effects that created this Mirror Sea were not related to the water itself… probably.”

Kentucky couldn’t help but comment. “It does feel like Yin and Yang, doesn’t it? Or Light and Darkness.”

Rean had the same idea. “Indeed. That was the first thing I thought when I saw you trying to mix the waters. Yin and Yang, Light and Darkness… These things don’t usually mix together. Cases like you, me and Roan are exceptions. This is more within reality. There is a good chance the Fragment is truly here.”

Rean tried to feel the flow of Yin and Yang and the Light and Darkness Elements in the sea. Yet, he couldn’t see anything different. Only when his focus shifted to the laws did he finally see a difference. “The Laws of Light are several times more concentrated in the floating sea.”

“And the Dark Laws are a lot more concentrated in the sea below,” Kentucky completed. He also had the same idea. “There are probably other laws in play, but since we are only proficient in these two laws, we can’t say much about the others,” Rean spoke as he thought about it. “The problem is that it is all pretty well distributed. I can’t really tell which direction to go looking for the Fragment, if it is here at all.”

“The system didn’t say anything?” Kentucky asked. “It usually feels the presence of the Fragments nearby, no?”

“It does,” Rean confirmed. “But so far, it hasn’t said a single word.”

Rean then turned to Sonzei and Flast. “Sonzei, Fafa, let’s go. Show me this sea.”

Fafa’s mouth twitched a little, hearing that weird name again. Yet, she couldn’t really go against such powerful experts’ words. “Yes.”

She quickly changed form, becoming a huge crane with light blue feathers. Sonzei didn’t waste time and jumped on her back. “Sir- I mean, Rean, it is really okay to go on her back? You two seem much faster than us.”

Rean nodded. “Yes, it is better if we follow you instead. If we truly fly around at my speed, you wouldn’t even be able to tell right from left with your cultivation. Besides, if something changed since you last came here, it will be better if you can spot it.”

“Kentucky, you don’t really need to go back to your true form, right? We can totally follow them on our own,” Rean also remarked.

However, Kentucky didn’t want to. “I’m still going with my true form. I’m just too stiff after those breakthroughs. Let me spread my wings a little.”

Kentucky then transformed, returning to his Minokawa form. He didn’t even bother to hide his bloodline, either. It wasn’t like someone would identify his Regal Bloodline in a place like this.

Too bad for Fafa, though. With such an infinitely superior bloodline of another demon bird so close, she felt like an entire mountain was weighing on her entire body. ‘W-What a powerful… bloodline…’

And as always, any Golden Tickets and Stones are welcome. 😉