Chapter 82: So Many Difficult Choices
But the thing that worried Jason the most now was how she got here. Was it really that easy for anyone to open a Dimensional Tear?
The system immediately responded.
[Dimensional Tears are a result of a sudden and massive influx of mana in areas that have a weak spatial density. This allows the mana to create a pathway through the primordial expanse for inter-world travel. Dimensional Tears opened through artificial means only last for short periods depending on how much mana was used in creating them, while naturally occurring Dimensional Tears last for longer and eventually evolve into Gates. The Gates can only be closed by reducing the mana density in the area.]
Jason read through the message quickly and he hummed in understanding. Were those what the Gates really were? Jason had always been curious about why the Gates were popping up so often on Earth for the past ten years, and none of the analysts or researchers on Earth were able to give a good explanation for it! But the system’s simple explanation made Jason understand perfectly! Doesn’t this mean that the reason gates were closing down after the superhumans cleared them was because the mana in the Gates had been reduced enough to repair the Dimensional Tear?
[The user is correct. The accumulation of mana within a Gate is drastically reduced after it is cleared, and this allows the Gate to return back to its dormant state.]
Jason nodded along and immediately asked something else. If the princess was capable of opening a tear into this Gate that easily, then how easy would it be for someone else to do the same thing and then reach Earth from here? Does this mean that just anyone can reach Earth if they open a Dimensional Tear?
A response came quickly.
[The system believes that the Princess’ presence in this Gate is a complete coincidence which occurred due to her desperation to get away from her attackers as well as the fact that Earth exists only one Dimensional Leap away from Radagan. Dimensional Tears are location-dependent and no two locations in a world would lead to the same place, so in order for someone else to find this Gate, they will have to go to the exact position where the princess had been and open a new Dimensional Tear. There are no indications that this Gate had been visited in the past, so it is likely that the princess opened the Dimensional Tear without proper planning and happened upon this Gate through sheer coincidence.]
The system was right. The Dragonborn princess, Riyala, had actually been planning on reaching a specific location her father told her about before opening the Dimensional Tear! That location was meant to lead her to a safe area that was only known to her family where she could hide until her father came to get her. But she had to open the Dimensional Tear prematurely and come to this world because she knew that the soldiers would get her before she could reach the actual location.
Jason frowned as he thought over what the system said. If the girl came here by accident, then it was possible that there would be no more enemies showing up for a long time. After all, everyone who knows where she opened the Dimensional Tear is already dead. But what did the system mean when it said Earth was only one Dimensional Leap away from Radagan?
Ding!