Thousand Fog Mountain, Ninth Peak
As Vaan and the others waited for the dragon lord to return, he started to ponder over the information he had learned.
'If the universe is a bubble of existence, and everything out was Chaos and nothingness, then the Realm Fragments were, in fact, the fragments of that bubble of existence?' Vaan mused.
In other words, the Realm Fragments contained the power of existence.
Realm Fragments were precious because they were filled with mana and could grant new abilities. But they didn't just give any random abilities; they simply unlocked one's innate talent in accordance with their rise in existence level.
'Topaz didn't rise to a higher rank before because the Realm Fragment was full of pure mana; she rose because the power of existence raised her existence level,' Vaan thought.
He seemed to figure out the truth behind the Realm Fragment's properties. That said, there were still parts that he didn't understand.