Chapter 219: Pocket Dimension!
The chamber was quiet again after Jax had trained his powers, but he felt very different. Now around him, the Demon King could feel that the very fabric of space around him felt very thin and responsive.
It felt as if reality itself had become aware of who stood at its center. Jax flexed his fingers slowly and the air around him perfectly bent like silk folding under a master’s touch.
"...Yeah," he muttered under his breath with a bit of excitement, "This is different."
He didn’t rush and instead spent a-lot of time understanding these powers, hours, maybe more, flew by in the blink of an eye as Jax sat there.
Time itself blurred slightly as he stood alone within the reinforced chamber, experimenting. At first, it was simple.
He began with small distortions. He extended his hand, and the space in front of him compressed into a tight sphere no larger than a marble.
Then, he released it and the air snapped back into place without a ripple, absolutely perfect recovery with no backlash or instability.
Jax smirked as he saw this, "Very efficient," he muttered.
Next came displacement, he stepped forward, and vanished, reappearing instantly on the other side of the room without any form of delay.
He tilted his head slightly, "...Too easy."
Before, teleportation had been a skill, but now, it came to him like an instinct, barely needing to think before casting the teleportation spell.
Then came the Arcane Law. Jax raised his hand again and mana gathered, and Jax guided this mana like a current.
The mana responded instantly, forming a perfect sphere of condensed energy, dense, stable, and infinitely more refined than anything he had produced before.
Every particle of mana aligned perfectly.
Jax chuckled as he saw it, "Yeah... this is broken."
Hours of experimentation followed as he spent loads of time bending space and refining magic. Reality bent and corrected itself around him again and again as Jax pushed his new understanding further.
And eventually, Jax stopped, not because he couldn’t continue, but because he had what he needed what take a step forward in his plans.
Jax exhaled slowly.
"...Alright."
Now came the real task.
Creating a dimension.
Jax stepped forward into the center of the chamber, closed his eyes, and extended his awareness outward.
Space unfolded before him as multiple layers, endless, overlapping layers of existence, each one separated by invisible boundaries.
Jax reached out, and chose one. A very thin layer that was unclaimed and unused, and then Jax grabbed it.
The moment he did, the room trembled as reality resisted his touch. That was natural, as creating a dimension wasn’t something the world allowed easily.
But Jax didn’t force it, instead deciding to guide it. He used the Arcane Law to stabilize the mana flow and used the Space Law to shape the boundaries.
Slowly and carefully, Jax began to pull at the strings of reality, and a tear formed directly in front of him.
It was small at first, barely visible if he didn’t focus, but then it widened, expanding into a circular rift, its edges shimmering with layered distortions of space and mana.
Jax’s eyes snapped open, golden light burning within them.
"...Hold."
The rift stabilized perfectly as he said that, and he stepped forward, entering the dimension
The world beyond was... empty. A vast, endless expanse of pale light. There was no sky, no ground and no structure. It was all raw, unformed space, waiting for Jax to manipulate it.
Jax stood at its center, his presence the only thing anchoring it, "...Good."
He raised his hand, and began to build. First, he needed to set the foundation. He compressed the lower layer of space, forming a solid surface beneath his feet.
He made it smooth and endlessly durable, and then he expanded outward.
The dimension grew rapidly, by hundreds of meters, then kilometers, a controlled expansion, guided perfectly by his newfound understanding.
Next, the atmosphere.
Jax drew in mana, filtered it and refined it. Using the Arcane Law, he stripped away impurities, shaping the energy into something... purer and cleaner, more concentrated.
Then he released it. The dimension changed instantly. The air filled with a soft, radiant aura.
A fusion of his demonic energy and the refined mana of the Arcane Law.
Jax inhaled once.
"...Yeah."
Even he could feel it.
The effect was immediate.
Subtle.
But powerful.
This place would enhance anyone who entered it.
Even before the pool.
Now, the centerpiece.
Jax extended his hand.
"Divine Luminous Demon Pool."
The system responded instantly.
A pulse of energy erupted in front of him.
And then, it appeared.
A massive pool formed at the center of the dimension. Its structure was elegant.Carved from luminous white stone infused with faint crimson veins, symbolizing the fusion of divine and demonic energy.
The water within shimmered, gold, silver and even crimson.
All shifting together in a mesmerizing, fluid dance. Light rose gently from its surface, casting reflections across the surrounding space.
Jax stepped closer.
Kneeling slightly at the edge. He dipped his fingers into the water. The reaction was immediate, a sense of warmth and purity flowed through his arm instantly, spreading across his body like a gentle current.
"...That’s insane."
Even for him, it worked. He stood again, looking over the dimension.
This was a place where power could be cultivated at an absurd rate.
Jax crossed his arms, thinking.
"...Access control."
He wasn’t about to let just anyone in here. With a thought, he wove a layer of spatial locks into the dimension itself. Only those he allowed would be able to enter.
Anyone else?
They wouldn’t even perceive its existence. Then, he created an entrance. A small, stable portal anchored directly to his private quarters, that was invisible and hidden, but instantly accessible to him.
Jax exhaled slowly.
"...Done."
With that, Jax took one final look at the dimension with a smile and left, deciding to head back to the Faerie Realm now that his work here was done.