As unclear as that explanation continued to be, Khan finally began to make so 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 ca from his elent, specifically its sensitivity to the world’s entropy.
Khan had boasted about breaking fate, but his statent wasn’t literal. He mainly ant defying the odds, especially since his power couldn’t directly affect sothing that didn’t exactly exist.
However, reality was sothing 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 dinsional 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 ters or kiloters. The issue was about asurents 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 ho 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 ho 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 ho 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 environnts, 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 an that the allied front’s enemy was a being so powerful it could create its ho 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 an 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 dinsion attached and bound to our reality."
That was welco 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 sothing since he had yet to speak on the matter.
That approximation was far from precise, but it ultimately reassured Khan. It seed there was a limit to how big the Scarlet Eyes’ army could be, and the response also hinted at sothing 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 sothing those experts could see and find, aning 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. anwhile, 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 confird.
"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 dinsion 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."
"?" Khan wondered.
"This has nothing to do with power levels or elents," Garret made sure to ntion to avoid insulting the Thilku and their leader. "Your experience in the Nak’s ho 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 imdiately delve into that clearly troubleso aspect of the mission. Sothing 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 confird. "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."
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