Death... and me

Chapter 2780: Only That

The first thing Soul Gem did when he returned with the others to the Realm of Gods was to help with the communication system. The system Rean created had its own cryptography, but Soul Gem saw it as nothing but a joke. "This kind of coding is truly bad. Take this," He threw several Jade Slips to the experts there. "Have your Formations Masters swap the coding from the one on the Jade Slip. Otherwise, you can be certain that the invaders will be able to intercept all communications with ease."

Gragatou and Himmel had the two main communication system servers in the Realm of Gods, the humanoids' and demon beasts' ones. They quickly arranged for the jade slips to be delivered to the right places. The angels and devils also worked on their own system, but they probably would take a little longer to implement.

"Alright, let's discuss the next steps now," Soul Gem spoke to everyone. "First, immediately share the information of the events that happened in the Grape Vortex to all three higher realms. Everyone must know that things have already started and must prepare, then..."

Back in the Leviathan Dimensional Realm, the Leviathans in the Space-Time and Divinity Realm had noticed how the sense of danger from the surroundings disappeared. After a few days, Romario returned with Vancon and Rean's group. Another meeting of the council was quickly called, and Vancon reported everything that happened. "And this is how everything played out."

Floquei narrowed his eyes while the elders had terrible expressions. "To think our Universe already got so close to being destroyed. You mentioned that the little time the Grape Vortex was there was enough to destabilize the Universe. How bad is it?"

"I don't know," Vancon shook his head. "That was something that guy called Soul Gem said. Nonetheless, I don't think he was lying. He was almost killed just for trying to destroy the Grape Vortex. You have no idea how terrifying the laws and spatial power behind the blade that cut his head was. I was already scared of the Semi-Celestials' powers when I saw them attacking the Grape Vortex. However, the Celestial Realm guy was in a completely different league. Calling myself an ant is already overestimating my power compared to the enemy." Floquei nodded and got up from his seat to speak. "We haven't been preparing for nothing. As agreed with the experts of the center of the Realm of Gods, we are sending most of our fighting force to support the efforts of defense. Since out Sacred Land is located in a quite isolated place in the Realm of Gods, we probably don't have to worry about the fight reaching this place anytime soon, either. Sending out help will only help with it. Anyone has anything to say?"

The elders and high-elders of the Leviathan Race shook their heads. With Vancon, a high- elder and a Peak Stage Divinity Realm Leviathan's words, they knew they had no other choice.

"Very well," Floquei was satisfied with everyone's response. "We will keep only the minimal necessary force behind to protect our land just in case. The rest will set out for the Center of the Realm of Gods tomorrow."

Rean and Romario were not in the meeting. Instead, they returned to their work on the formation that would swap the real and fake Dimensional Realm. Droman and Vigs had stayed behind during the days of the Grape Vortex event, so they advanced the project a little while they worked on both the real and fake realms.

"Master, how's things?" Rean asked Droman inside the Dimensional Realm Replica.

Droman nodded. "You didn't stay out for too long, so things are still pretty much the same. Of course, we placed many more of the Dimensional Beacon Formations, but there is a lot to do still."

Rean didn't mind. "That's good enough. The Dimensional Beacon Formations should already be connecting to the Beacons in the Leviathans' Dimensional Realm. Was there any problem with compatibility or anything?"

Droman pondered a bit and looked at Vigs. "Vigs, did you also feel that the connection between the real and the replica was a little too weak?"

Vigs, as the leader of the Formations Masters group in the Leviathan Realm, nodded. "You noticed it too?" He then looked at Rean. "The connection between the various beacons is established, but there seems to be some interference. I was also wondering if it was only on my side. But, it seems like it is the same for Droman and I."

Romario was also there. "Let's go take a look at one of the Beacon Formations."

Their group quickly flew to the middle of the Mirror Sea inside the Replica. Down at the bottom of the ocean, one could see a massive formation with hundreds of thousands of intricate runes, especially spatial ones.

Romario and Rean approached it with Droman and Vigs and used their Divine Senses to check its state. Not long after, Rean and Romario narrowed their eyes. "Indeed. The beacons are connected, but the signal is too weak."

"It is most likely due to the Universe Foundation Fragment," Droman spoke. "That thing is connected to the entire Dimensional Realm. It will also be teleported away when the swap happens, so it might be causing the interference."

*Zush!*

Suddenly, Rean made Sister Orb appear outside. "Sister Orb, you probably can feel it better with your connection to the Control Orb."

[Okay, let me see.] Sister Orb quickly put her senses into the formation and agreed with Droman's words in the end. [He is right. Since the Formation will also teleport the Fragment away, we had to account for the Fragment's power. Now that the Beacons are connecting between the Real and Replica Dimensional Realms, they are also including the Fragment in their range of operation. It is definitely the Fragment's power that is disrupting things.]

Rean sighed as he scratched the back of his head. "What now? It has to be perfect, or we might destroy both Dimensional Realms at once."

Romario shrugged. "What else? If the signal is too weak between the beacons, we will have to increase their power to make up for the interference. It's just that it will probably add another year or so to our plans."

Rean didn't see another alternative. "We can only go for that."