Chaos Heir

Chapter 1520: Separate dimension

As unclear as that explanation continued to be, Khan finally began to make some sense of it.

That understanding had nothing to do with the data on the holographic screen or the vague answers that had reached Khan’s ears. It mostly came from his element, specifically its sensitivity to the world’s entropy.

Khan had boasted about breaking fate, but his statement wasn’t literal. He mainly meant defying the odds, especially since his power couldn’t directly affect something that didn’t exactly exist.

However, reality was something different altogether. While ethereal, Khan did feel its existence through his sensitivity to the world’s entropy, at least vaguely. He couldn’t really affect it at his current level. The idea never crossed his mind, either, but he knew it was more real than the concept of fate.

Adding everything Khan knew about the True Chaos and his companions’ abilities to the equation led to a clearer but shocking conclusion. The Scarlet Eyes could be everywhere and nowhere simultaneously because they existed in a dimensional layer beyond the universe’s boundaries.

The idea sounded insane, and Khan felt crazy considering it, but it strangely made sense and fit many aspects of the True Chaos that had remained unclear until now.

The world behind the darker-than-black ellipses had always felt too distant and unreachable for reasons that apparently had nothing to do with actual space. It wasn’t a gap that involved meters or kilometers. The issue was about measurements connected to the very fabric of reality.

The True Chaos’ ability to appear everywhere also sounded more reasonable in that unreasonable hypothesis now.

Since the Scarlet Eyes existed beyond the universe, they didn’t technically teleport through it. They just exited their home world in specific locations of what Khan and the allied front perceived as reality.

That was also why the black cloud didn’t head directly for Coravis after the destruction of the Nak’s home world.

That would have been the normal thing to do since Coravis was the allied front’s closest occupied location. However, the Scarlet Eyes abided by a different concept of distance. They didn’t travel through the universe. They went back to their home world before stepping into everyone else’s reality.

Ultimately, that even explained why the True Chaos’ God had yet to make an official appearance. Just like the Thilku Emperor’s existence was almost too much to bear for most environments, that God was probably too heavy for reality itself.

Of course, those conclusions were still in the realm of hypotheses. Besides, they were quite problematic. They would mean that the allied front’s enemy was a being so powerful it could create its home in a different layer of reality.

Even worse, the True Chaos’ God could be that different layer of reality himself, acting as a separate universe that played by his own rules.

"So, like," Khan eventually spoke, wanting to confirm he had understood correctly. "The True Chaos owns a whole different universe?"

Khan’s casual tone didn’t imply lack of concern, the opposite, actually. He had always known his opponent was a superior being, but learning about that entire separate universe would mean he had underestimated the size of the True Chaos’ forces.

Luckily, Abraham was quick to reassure Khan.

"It’s a pocket universe," Abraham explained, "Not an endless one. It’s more accurate to say it’s a separate dimension attached and bound to our reality."

That was welcome news, but Khan couldn’t feel reassured just yet.

"Do we know how big it is?" Khan asked.

"Our best approximations put it between a single planet and several solar systems," The Fuveall scientist responded, feeling the need to say something since he had yet to speak on the matter.

That approximation was far from precise, but it ultimately reassured Khan. It seemed there was a limit to how big the Scarlet Eyes’ army could be, and the response also hinted at something else.

Despite existing on a different layer of reality, the allied front’s scientific division had been able to study that pocket universe, at least superficially. It was something those experts could see and find, meaning they might devise a way to enter it.

"Can we invade?" Khan questioned, disregarding any superficial detail to get to the core of the issue.

The scientists exchanged a serious look. Meanwhile, data scrolled to no end inside the tall sphere’s enneagram. No one rejected Khan’s question, but a positive answer didn’t arrive, either.

"It’s theoretically possible, my Prince," Garret eventually confirmed.

"What are the caveats?" Khan asked, understanding that the mission wasn’t as simple as it sounded.

"We can’t open passages to this separate dimension wherever and whenever we want, my Prince," Abraham explained. "This place is technically nowhere. We can’t reach it on our own."

The explanation made sense, but Khan waited for its continuation. After all, he had yet to hear the theoretically possible part.

"However," Abraham continued. "We can make use of the trail the True Chaos left behind to reopen the passages it created. More precisely, you can, my Prince."

"Me?" Khan wondered.

"This has nothing to do with power levels or elements," Garret made sure to mention to avoid insulting the Thilku and their leader. "Your experience in the Nak’s home world simply made you the closest being to the type of existence the True Chaos’ God is."

Of course, Garret hadn’t studied that God. He was speaking about the True Chaos itself, which the mana had planned for Khan to surpass. Khan had refused that offer, but his energy had still followed that path, at least partially.

Still, Khan didn’t immediately delve into that clearly troublesome aspect of the mission. Something else in the explanation had caught his attention, and his hunches told him it would be even more problematic.

"You talked about reopening passages and following trails," Khan said. "I’m guessing we are on the clock, aren’t we?"

"You are correct, my Prince," Garret confirmed. "These trails also are the sole reason why we have been able to discover so much, but they won’t exist for much longer."

"We calculated we have another week, my Prince," Abraham added. "If we don’t exploit this opportunity, we’ll have to wait for the True Chaos to invade our universe again and leave new trails."