Death... and me

2721  Integration

Suddenly, the sphere separated into fifteen different parts. One part, in the center, was hundreds of times bigger than the rest. As for the others, they had varying sizes, but not by much. The central piece began to increase in size extremely fast, and so did the other fourteen little spheres around it proportionally. Just like the other processes until now, this one also took a long time, only stopping increasing in size by the fourth day. Everyone who looked in the direction of the center of the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm could not see what became of the central Sphere. It changed into a huge pillar that went from one side of the Dimensional Realm to the other. It was absolutely gigantic. Around it, fourteen spheres continued to orbit around the pillar, but these ones didn't change shape. They continued with their white and dark colors while emitting a strong pressure of Light and Dark Elements and Yin Yang Energies.

This marked the end of the changes in the Dimensional Realm. However, before that pillar and the spheres finished their events, the planet in the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm also increased several times in size. Now, it is over five hundred thousand kilometers in diameter. The Fake Sun followed suit, increasing in size proportionally. However, while the Planet still orbited the Fake Sun, the Sun now orbited the huge pillar in the distance. According to Sister Orb's calculations, the Fake Sun would complete a full round around the pillar in two years and three days. Naturally, the Planet would be the same since it orbited the Fake Sun instead.

The twins looked at that ginormous planet and couldn't help but sigh. "It was already so hard to try to fill our planet when it was small... Now, it is simply impossible unless we dedicate hundreds of years to it or simply start throwing every single thing we find inside," Rean commented.

Roan nodded. "That is fine. It is not like having more space is an issue. Fortunately, everyone was aware that the planet might change one day due to the upgrade, so everything was built with that in mind. The cities and settlements are intact, although they grew further apart from each other."

The twins constantly talked to the people of the Dimensional Realm in these past weeks, making them calm. Well, it was mostly Rean, actually. Roan probably would only make things worse with his personality.

Rean then looked at the pillar in the distance and couldn't help but ask. "Sister Orb, is that some kind of representation of the Universe Foundation Pillar?"

[I believe so. I didn't know the Dimensional Realm would take this form, though,] Sister Orb answered.

"Let's not forget why Soul Gem created this Soul Gem System," Turen suddenly mentioned. He was obviously there with the twins. "Most likely, this has something to do with the fixing of the Universe Foundation Pillar. I can't think about another possibility."

Everyone around nodded. That was the only thing that made sense. "In that case, those fourteen Spheres of Dark and Light Elements and Yin Yang Energy are related to the fourteen fragments we need to find," Luan added.

*Blop!*

The sound of something like a bubble bursting then echoed in their ears. They looked in the direction it came from and soon found the reason. The Spatial Bubble around one of the residents of their planet had disappeared. It was a Stage Four Demon Beast that had been confused all this time, not being able to leave the Bubble. Well, it still didn't have sentience, so it was normal it had been confused until now. Explaining to it what was happening was simply meaningless.

Following that, it was teleported away, and the twins found through their connection with the system that it had reappeared back in the Demon Beast forests. It looked around for a moment and quickly ran away, not that it could hide from the twins' senses, though.

*Blop, blop, blop, blop...*

The same thing started to happen all around, with more and more residents being teleported back to the planet. They all seemed to be sent to places relative to their position when they were initially taken away.

"Seems like everything is about to end," Kentucky commented.

Rean and Roan's parents and companions, friends, etc were soon sent back to the planet as well. Rean quickly used his connection to the Dimensional Realm to contact everyone, assuring everyone that everything was coming back to normal. He also said that he would give a full account of the events later.

In the end, only the twins, Celis, Kentucky, Luan, and Turen, were left floating outside the planet with Sister Orb. They didn't really need the system to help them, so Sister Orb excluded them from the teleportation process.

*Pin!*

[Universal Repairing Mode activated.]

[Universe Foundation Fragments detected: 09]

The Fragments the twins had collected had always been in the center of the Planet. They had become a single fragment after merging with each other. Now, the system took the big fragment, which was instantly sent to the Pillar in the center of the Dimensional Realm.

As soon as the big Fragment made contact, it seemed to merge with that pillar, disappearing inside. Following that, nine spheres of White and Dark Light left the orbit of the Pillar, each one touching the huge pillar at nine different points.

As the twins felt everything, they noticed that those nine points didn't have a smooth surface like the rest of the enormous pillar. All nine points had huge pieces missing, and those lights covered these points exactly.

Slowly, those nine places began to grow back, a process that took several days again. Only after nine days did those nine points get fixed, leaving no mark that had ever been gaps in there. As for the nine spheres of White and Dark Light, they disappeared completely.

*Pin!*

[Integration Process: 64.28%]

[Yin Yang Essence can now be acquired from the Integration Pillar. Additionally, Solar Essence is still available in the Artificial Sun for the hosts to use.]

[Soul Gem Dimensional Realm Upgrade Complete.]

09 of 14 fragments = 64.28%