Marshall stood silently in front of the expedition party as he took in the scene of newcors crowding the station.
'There's too many people at the station. Soone might take ill advantage of it to sneak inside the lower city.'
This thought crossed his mind after careful consideration.
If an average citizen of the kingdom were to sneak inside the lower city, it would not take long to find and deport them, but a normal person wouldn't do sothing like this, to begin with.
Only a person or devil disguised as a person would have to reason to sneak inside.
Marshall had no intention of letting a devil with a tangible body sneak inside the lower city under his watch.
The potential danger it poses shouldn't be ignored. After all, these types of devils were typically at or above the interdiate grade. They were really, ridiculously strong. A pri example of this would be Morthos.
Besides, the station was not designed to accommodate such a large gathering of people, and the situation needed to be handled swiftly.
"Take them inside."
Subtly, he gave Ilyan a signal, a small nod that conveyed a world of aning.
Ilyan, quick to catch on, returned the nod and took charge.
He began to lead the crowd inside the frontier, his actions calm and controlled, ensuring a smooth transition from the chaotic station to the orderly interior of the lower city.
One by one, the mbers of the expedition party returned ho.
Val absentmindedly followed the group. Although his footsteps were in sync with theirs, his mind was far away.
Thousands of thoughts were swirling in his head. He was trying to unravel the unexpected and significant disparity between the ti in the now-closed lesser dinsion and the main world.
Just what caused it?
As he tried to make sense of it, he went over all the odd and extraordinary events that had transpired in the previous few days. The now-closed lesser dinsion was an anomaly, a deadly and treacherous place that belied its classification. It was a domain where low-level bloodline users stood no chance on their own, and even a small group of such supernatural beings would be decimated.
Speaking from his personal experience, that's just how dangerous it was.
There was also proof.
Many had ventured into the lesser dinsion, but only a pitiful few had managed to return alive. The majority of the expedition t their demise within the re three days it took Val to close the dinsion from the inside.
What did this signify? It was a clear indication that the lesser dinsion, despite its recent formation, was on the brink of evolving.
As he ca to this point, Val's instincts scread at him, telling him that he had narrowly averted a catastrophe. If he had not acted in ti, the dinsion would have transford into a higher dinsion, bringing untold calamity.
Actually, Val was incredibly close to the truth, more than he realized.
In actuality, the dinsion master had been planning ever since it was a dungeon boss. It had collected a vast amount of resources and information before it allowed the dungeon to evolve into a lesser dinsion. It used the resources to quickly increase its strength to the peak of the interdiate level. And then it waited. It knew that the core of corruption grew by eating the world itself. And as it eats the world and its will, it would gain the energy to birth new monsters, expand its domain, and also give birth to heaven and earth treasure.
The very first such treasure would be enough to elevate it to the advanced-level.
Now the strength of the dinsion master didn't affect the dinsion in any way beneficial for humans. Rather, it was the opposite. The stronger the dinsion master, the stronger the lesser dinsion. While the size and age of the dinsion dictated its rank, the strength of the dinsion master determined its true power within that rank!
In a lesser dinsion, accessible only to low-level bloodline users and mid-rank wizards, an advanced-level dinsion master was an insurmountable guardian. The gap between advanced-level beings and everyone below was vast and unbridgeable. Low-level bloodline users could band together to overco interdiate-level adversaries, but advanced-level beings were in a league of their own. They experienced a qualitative change, whereas the lower levels underwent quantitative changes. A single punch from an advanced-level warrior could carry the force of a hundred, maybe even a thousand, lower-level bloodline users, obliterating anything in its path.
The dinsion master was seeking to achieve the strongest level so that its dinsion would beco impossible to destroy.
That way, its dinsion would grow and beco a high-level dinsion!
However, when the treasure appeared, Val ca and killed it. Its army of Ashtines succeeded in retrieving the treasure for it, but it was no longer alive to enjoy it.
Its master plan was foiled and Val saved the world from having another higher dinsion.
Val was extrely intelligent, but in the end, he was a human, not an omniscient all-knowing god.
He could not see the complete picture or grasp the full extent of what had transpired.
However, he did understand that the lesser dinsion was on the verge of evolution, and had he and his allies not intervened within those crucial three days, it would have succeeded and they would have been dood.
And this fact provided the answer to his initial question.
The ti disparity of Higher dinsion was uncategorized. There weren't many higher dinsions. And out of the few that appeared, only one has been closed. And it was said the expedition lasted for 200 years in Eldrich, but for the expedition party that was inside the dungeon, only a few decades had gone by. By the ti, they returned, their friends and families were already dead. So of them lost the will to live and committed suicide. Those who preserved struggled at first but eventually settled into society.
'In essence, the ti disparity in a dinsion on the cusp of evolving into a higher dinsion, or in a higher dinsion itself, is significantly greater than that in an Eldritch dinsion. There is no other way to experience what we experienced. I should share this information with the spirit of the Arcane Library. When it's confird in the future, I will be the first to benefit,' Val thought.
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