Chapter 771: Fine (1/2)
Luvile narrowed his eyes as he asked.
”But how did you get here after that?”
Soren shrugged his shoulders, responding.
”How else? I tried to force my escape. But with the surrounding space-time laws in chaos, I couldn't aim to a specific point. When I opened a Spatial Gate, I accidentally connected to the Mortal Realm.”
Zugen immediately tried to catch Soren, so he entered the same Spatial Gate. But as everyone knew, coming down from the God Realm to the Mortal Realm had a high price to be paid. The two of them were assaulted by the Mortal Realms' laws, which struck both of them together.
Be it Soren or Zugen, both of them had it worse. They came down without any preparation, so there was nothing to help with the side effects. In the end, Soren's body was destroyed while Zugen got his own Mental Energy Source damaged.
In the middle of the Mortal Realms' spatial storm, they almost lost everything, including most of their spatial rings and things like that. Soren simply had no idea where his Mental Energy source had gone to since it was sealed. Zugen wasn't any better as he fell into the Mortal Realm almost dead as well.
Krune finally understood how the chamber ended in the Kalame Sect. It was simply dragged there through the Spatial Storms. Soren also understood that fact.
”There is one thing I don't understand. What are these Ruins about?”
Soren nodded.
”Zugen didn't give up on trying to finish the job, so he clutched onto me until the very end. Because of that, both of us fell into this Solar System together. However, my Mental Energy Source was sealed while his Source was badly damaged.”
”Wait? Solar System? These Ruins are not located inside any galaxy. We can't see any sun here.”
Soren shook his head.
”There is a sun, but it's hidden by a barrier of fused elements and mental energy that Zugen created. The Ruins you are seeing are surrounding, or better yet, protecting that solar system. Well, there's nothing more than a single planet there, but it's still considered a Solar System.”
”That doesn't make sense. How did this sun end here? And these Ruins? The total amount of materials necessary to create all of this is definitely several times above what a single planet can give.”
Soren shook his head.
”Do you remember what I said? We lost 'almost' everything. But Zugen still had a spatial ring left. That one had nothing else other than his own territory that he always brought with him.”
Krune's group was taken aback as they looked at Luvile. Still, Luvile didn't find it strange.
”How long do you think we lived? The God Realm was enormous, and gods were way too influential. Some simply liked to stay hidden, not caring about anything. Others preferred to do big things like building enormous forces. Zugen wasn't a god, but he was a quasi-god. That level was enough for him to create his own force.”
”In the God Realm, the level of Spatial Rings are several times higher as well, so it wasn't anything hard for a god to bring his territory with himself. Well, that rarely happened, though. After all, moving an entire place into the spatial ring required too many preparations. After all, you had to deal with the living beings inside as well.”
Soren agreed with Luvile.
”We were about to try something crazy as escaping the Four Realms. He thought that perhaps we would really end outside even though he didn't want to. If that really happened, he might not be able to come back anymore, so he brought his territory with him.”
”Well, you can see what happened. We didn't go outside, and he used his territory to surround the only sun he had there. I believe it's not too hard to guess why.”
Krune and the others nodded.
”To protect himself while he recovers.”
Soren nodded.
”That's basically the gist of it.”
Feifei then asked.
”Then, why are you here? Did you two give up on attacking each other to recover your injures together?”
Soren snorted.
”Ha! As if! Different than him, I never cared about building my own force. That being said, I didn't need to move an entire territory with me to start with. Still, that doesn't matter now. Do you remember what I said? My Mental Energy Source got sealed away while his was severely damaged.”
Krune immediately understood where he was coming from.
”I see... Because it was sealed, it wasn't attacked by the Mortal Realm Laws when you two came down. In a certain way, you were lucky that Zugen did that since it protected your soul too.”
Soren was surprised to hear that from Krune.
”Smart! Indeed, with just a sliver of my Mental Energy Source left in my soul, it wasn't targeted. Only my body, which was still a quasi-god's body, got destroyed in the process.”
One must remember that Soren was a god through the Soul Cultivation System, not the Spiritual Energy System.
”Zugen wasn't so lucky, so he immediately used his own territory to protect himself and recover. I simply can't enter that shit at all.”
”Why didn't you ask for the help of others? You could have gone out and gathered a force to deal with it.”
Soren snorted.
”Mortal Realm forces? For what? I'm several times stronger than any Peak Divinity Realm cultivator, and I'm completely powerless against his territory's protection. What could the people and beasts of the Mortal Realm do about it?”