Using new skills to solve problems

He then removed the space barrier around his room, before heading into the pocket garden. Hopefully, with his improved comprehension of space-time and the other origin elements, he could find out what was wrong with the dimension.

Upon entering, the garden was still already at sunset. Xander appeared and greeted the sprites and magic beasts, who, after his 2-year counseling of them, had a much closer feeling with Xander. The other 4 sprites and the magic beast he contracted have not stayed inside the garden, ever since he realized that something seemed wrong. He had placed them in the contract space within his body, where they had been staying for the past day. Except for Fae, the four sprites, Mary, Marie, Sam, and Pan, had their origins stored in the pocket dimension safely.

Upon finishing his greetings, he returned to the place where he had seen the time sprite attempting to be formed. He then activated [Divine Eyes] allowing him to see the whole space as the structured pocket space with a semi-independent system, with the nodes, lines, and shapes forming the structure of the whole thing. He began to scrutinize every inch of the pocket space, leaving no stone unturned.

It took him 2 years to completely carefully scrutinize and process the entire 10 million square kilometers of land and water, but it bore him some preliminary findings concerning the problem he had discovered before:

- The Chaos element in the ordered system seems to be manipulated by something.

- There were traces of spatial distortions and time distortions and all kinds of distortions.

- The rules were now becoming more and more jumbled up and screwed up.

It was as if something was causing the known ordered system inside the pocket space go wild...Xander gasped, before utilizing his powers again to completely seal the pocket space, not only using space elements, but also Order, Chaos, yin-yang, and life-death elements.

He then forced every single living and sentient being to fall into a deep sleep, a sleep they can never wake up from until I required them to do so. He got all the non-sentient plants and metals, covering them with the origin elements, and then chucking them into the spatial storage he had. Of course, he ensured there were no traces of problems in these plants. At the same time, he reversed the time flow to match that of the outside world, before leaving the pocket space.

Although it was a waste, it seems his previous enemy managed to survive and destroy his own pocket garden.

Yes, Xander was talking about the moving, runic writing that was probably a lifeform. Who knows where it came from, even he couldn't understand it.

It's possible that a portion of it wasn't destroyed and was able to latch on him during the time he either died or destroyed the ruin, managing to infect this garden of his, since it was the first pocket space he had entered after fighting and destroying the ruins.

He'll have to check his spatial storage and the laboratory. If both are infected, he'll just destroy them and rebuild another one easily.

After all, he did gain another 10% of space-time comprehension. And oh boy, did that make his life easier. The power of space-time truly is horrifying and interesting.

Not only has the limit of his space abilities increased to 1/2 of the universe's size, but all his space-based spells and abilities have also gained quite a powerful upgrade. Although he could create half the size of the universe, he needed to have enough space elements available to do so and capable of fighting against the universe's will. Another issue would be the time before space collapses on its own. Creation magic is much harder to fight the universal will for than destruction, hence most of its destructive spells improved without increased repercussions. This was probably why there was a severe restriction in the advanced spell that he created, [Garden of Eden].

Currently, his Advanced rank space spells would be able to contend with a Mythic, except some of his spells that have a limitation, his Legendary rank space spells would be able to contend against Demigods, his mythic space spells would have the same power as Divine rank spells, and so on. Not only did their strength increase, but so did the magnitude of the spell. The area for [Space Crush] For example, can now cover up to 1,000 light-years, the same goes for its other spells that have an 'area of effect'.

He can now create impossible spatial pocket configurations to exist. He could create a Mobius strip, for example, wherein there is only one possible side to travel to; a space pocket bigger than the space pocket it was placed in, or even a space that has no end horizon, meaning it continuously expands or it loops back.

He could also create a pocket space that contains a solar system, almost similar to his [Origin Universe] but without the presence of life, if he wanted to, but it seemed too much work. Maybe in the future when his abilities improve and he can do it much, much easier and faster.

At the same time, his capability to break spaces increased to a new level: all spaces, no matter what they were constructed from, composed of, as long as they weren't made up of Void elements: He could easily escape the area, without triggering any elemental fluctuations from other elements.

[Absolute Space (sealed, 20% unlocked)]: Space becomes a multi-dimensional drawing for you. Everything is formed by points, lines, and shapes, the very foundation of space, and it is very easy for you to manipulate these points, lines, and shapes, adding, modifying, or even destroying these variables. Multi-dimensional traveling within the ordered system you are located in is done through a simple thought, and creating a growing dimension would be no problem. One can also create void holes out of the ordered system and into the Great Void, and sneaking into other ordered systems is also possible. The limitations of your control over space are the limitations of your own imagination and knowledge of space. Space breeds order, and order brings all things into place.

Time comprehension was a bit different. Although he could clearly see up to an eon in the past, he could stably see up to 250 million years into the future for the target person. However, he still cannot clearly see his own future. He can, however, see the future of other time clones of himself.

He could also control the river of time of the ordered system up to a certain extent, specifically 25% of it, meaning he could summon it and manipulate the changes by forcibly removing or adding something to the river, undetectable to anyone and anything, even to the ordered system, within the period of time of an eon for past and future, with the future one being more unstable past 250 million years.

His influence over the timelines of other beings have also increased in terms of ability: he could completely summon their alternate timeline bodies and abilities, and replace the current person in battle, before defeating them, eradicating both the alternate timeline and the original target.

So, if he fights a Divine cultivator, he would just need to delay for a few seconds to search for a time clone that is a mundane or mortal, copy it, replace the target's current state with that copied time clone, and then kill him/her/it. However, the time it lasts depends on the strength of the target.

For Divine class cultivators, the effect stays for 30 seconds. For demigods, it was 30 minutes. For mythic magicians, it can be up to 3 months. For those at Legendary and below, it can be permanent until Xander removes it.

At the same time, all his time-based spells improved in power, similar to the improvement of the space-based spells. There were qualitative changes, such as [Temporal Replication] working on biological, non-sentient beings now. Not only that, he just had to recall the item or object being replicated and it would be replicated by the spell automatically. Meaning, he only needed the target physically in contact with it or within view for replication to occur.

His other spells with aspects of time in it also increased in chaotic, destructive force. [Absolute Time] also changed, a new sentence appearing in the end.

[Absolute Time (sealed, 20% unlocked)]: Nothing can go against the flow of time; this can affect non-living and living beings, targeting their characteristics, ranging from, but not limited to:

Intrinsic characteristics (molecular and quantum structures, temperature, sharpness, clarity, thickness, roughness, concentration, spatial arrangement, etc.)

Biological functions (Age, memories, digestion, regeneration, cell division, tissue and organ formation, etc.) and

Extraneous functions (such as magic cultivation, ability to do magic, affinity towards the elements, etc.), causing them to slow, stop, or accelerate permanently, as long as their comprehension of the time element is lower than the caster, and the strength of the target is below the caster. Time brings chaos, it brings change, it brings uncertainty. It can push everything into frenzied reality of possibilities or drain everything into deathly stillness of order at its extreme.

Xander realized that both space and time represented order and chaos respectively. He can boldly assume that spells combining the two elements (space and order, time and chaos, space and chaos, time and order) would produce a much more powerful impact than that of space-time alone.

Last but not least, the combined understanding of space-time elements brought a breakthrough.

Reaching 20% comprehension improved space-time unity, technically allowing him to fight off the will of the universe as soon as he reached Legendary Stage. It seems to be a benchmark of some sort.

Heck, he could leave this universe and transfer to a different one if he gets bored. However, it requires him to survive in the Great Void first, where there are multiple universes abound.

Not only that, creating larger living pocket dimensions that can last for centuries became possible; creating the same sized pocket garden? It would last for 1 tera second or 31,600 years before requiring Xander to reinforce the ordered system it has.

However, with his current comprehension and ability, he still wasn't able to create a stable, growing pocket space that is semi-independent from the ordered system. This was because of the fundamental fact that the Void element is needed to grow ordered systems and pocket spaces with their own ordered systems.

Creating smaller pocket spaces, like 100 square meters where life can be stored? They would last for 3.15 zettaseconds, or 100 trillion years, nearly infinite for mortals and divine stage beings. 1000 square meters? 3.15 exaseconds, or 100 billion years, give or take.

He could create a pendant for mom and a metal wrist bangle for dad, giving them living pocket spaces. However, to create living spaces, Xander must use [Origin Universe] alongside the spell he had, [Pocket Dimension], to establish the ordered system.

So yeah, technically, with the improvement of his forte, Xander was quite confident to resolve this; however, he wasn't completely sure that he could stop the runic writing from escaping or breaking off another fragment.