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'Well, it does sound pretty far-fetched, but at least it's not making me angry,' said Chergoa. 'How did Hamish Harundel think all these different dimensions "connected" to each other, exactly?'

"In a 'foundational sense,' was how he put it," said Ibai. "So like, if there's a big rock in our dimension, then every element of that rock might exist simultaneously in its own dimension. He suggested that we therefore live in what he called a 'higher dimension,' and these elemental ones would be considered 'lower dimensions.'"

'Hmm...'

"He also seemed to think it was linked with the use of servant abilities, particularly materialization and transfiguration."

'Wait a minute. Was he trying to argue that servants are actually summoning their material from other dimensions?'

"Yes, I think he was."

'That would be pretty nuts. And also rather difficult to disprove.'

"Ooh, then it must be true!"

'That's not how finding the truth works. But I think you know that, already, don't you?'

"Hehe."

'How dare you tease me.'


Chapter Two Hundred Six: 'The advancing vista...'
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The past few days had been busy for the young Lord Goffe, but not in a particularly abnormal way. Daily meetings and training and overseeing things around Warrenhold--he was starting to realize that this was just how his life was going to be from now on. It probably wasn't going to let up anytime soon.

As he was becoming more accustomed to the routine of it, he was starting to find it slightly easier to squeeze in time for patrols or even for actual leisure--which was a thing he'd almost forgotten how to do. If not for Garovel's insistence that he occasionally take some time to just relax and decompress, Hector probably wouldn't have done it at all.

It helped that the underground hot springs were beginning to take shape. There was still quite a bit of construction left to do on them, but they weren't all flooded anymore, and there were two small but functional areas.