Chapter 150 Dimensions are Fun
"Is it an enemy?" Alina asked Alex as they readied their bodies.
"I am not sure yet. Let me take a look first." Alex replied as he readied his Electromagnetic Sensing.
Lauren"s father, who looked confused with what Alex was doing now, suddenly paled as he heard the conversation between Alex and Alina.
"Enemy?" Andrew looked like he came out of a torture chamber after hearing what Alina just said. "Are they now coming to kill me? Oh please, I could not be this unlucky!"
Andrew then dived under the table, with his whole body s.h.i.+vering. Anyone looking at him will think that he seems scared out of his mind.
"Calm down old man. We are still not sure about that." Alex replied as he used his power to peak outside the mansion. "Don"t be that wimpy. I thought you will have more spine than that!"
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Once Alex looked outside and used his power to scan their new guest, what he saw made his eye twitch slightly.
"Interesting…" Alex muttered to himself as he observed their guest. "Interesting…"
After seeing their guest, Alex was unable to stop himself from looking back at Alina.
"What, is there a problem?" Alina asked as she saw the look given to her by Alex.
"Well, I think you will be interested with our "guest"." Alex replied as he let out a sigh. "His power… is something that you could be interested in."
"Oh, so he is the one who arrived. Let me deal with him then." Alina replied with an excited expression on his face. "I still have to test out some of the things that I did before."
"I"m sure you will have fun with that." Alex muttered with a hint of amus.e.m.e.nt. "Just… don"t spook that guy a lot."
"I am not sure about not spooking him, but I will try not to overdo it." Alina replied as she started rus.h.i.+ng out of the room.
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During the past few days, Alina"s mood was at its best.
Excluding the things that Alex did, the other things that Alina experienced during the last few days were extremely uplifting to her.
One of those things was related to her Esper Ability.
She was happy with her Esper Ability, as she discovered something new about it.
Before, Alina thought that the peak of her Esper Ability will only be full manipulation of the s.p.a.ce around her.
As it turns out, she was actually mistaken.
There was still something more about her Esper Ability!
This discovery was made by Alina when she achieved Strong s.p.a.ce Manipulation.
When Alina gained the ability to fully manipulate the s.p.a.ce around her, her mind gained a series of information which told her the truth about her Esper Ability.
As it turns out, her Esper Ability was not just manipulation of s.p.a.ce.
Her Esper Ability was actually manipulation of Dimensions themselves!
There are a total of 11 Dimensions in the Universe, with each Dimension progressively more complex than the Dimension before them.
The First Dimension was reserved for objects that only have length. Straight lines are those that reside in this dimension.
The Second Dimension on the other hand was for objects with only width and length. Planar shapes like circles and squares are in this dimension.
The Third Dimension, which beings like Alex and Alina reside in, was for objects with length, width, and height. 3-dimensional objects reside in this Dimension.
The Fourth Dimension will have the same coordinates as the Third Dimension, but there will be an extra coordinate that will make the Fourth Dimension different from the Third Dimension.
Just imagining the Fourth Dimension with the human brain will be impossible, as the human brain was only equipped for the First to Third Dimensions.
This pattern of Dimensions will continue until the Eleventh Dimension.
Now for Alina"s power, she discovered that right now, her power grants her the ability to manipulate the First, Second, and Third Dimensions.
This means that Alina can manipulate anything from the First to Third Dimension.
As long as an object has the dimensions of width, length, or height, Alina can manipulate them all!
Since the s.p.a.ce around Alina was considered to be 3-Dimensional, it was fairly normal for Alina to manipulate this.
This power of hers will obviously work on the First and Second Dimension too, although she was not yet sure on how she could go to these dimensions, as she was residing on the Third Dimension right now…
After making this discovery, she immediately found an extremely important implication from this.
This important implication was the fact that Alina"s Esper Ability can still improve!
If right now, Alina can only manipulate up until the Third Dimension, there is a high chance in the future that Alina can manipulate the Fourth Dimension too!
But for now, Alina has to make do with the Third Dimension.
Right now, Alina can barely sense the Fourth Dimension, as well as the other higher dimensions. But she knew that as long as she stayed with Alex and Asteria, her chance of getting stronger in the future is just plausible.
Once she discovered the true nature of ability, Alina also realized some new applications of her ability.
One application is that Alina can now force a 3-Dimensional object to be 2-Dimensional or even 1-Dimensional!
This means that if she sees an object like an apple, she can make its height disappear, turning it to an apple with only length and width! And if Alina tries it further, she can turn this planar apple into an apple that looks like a line!
She tried using this application on a Refrigerator, and to her delight, she saw the Refrigerator turning as flat as a thin paper, as if it was now 2-Dimensional!
Of course this move took a lot of Mental Power from Alina, and from the looks of it, she can only use this move a few times before her Mental Power gets depleted.
When Alina showed this 2-Dimensional Refrigerator to Alex, she heard him swearing inwardly as if what Alina showed Alex had him extremely terrified.
Alina ignored Alex"s reaction as she continued on experimenting with her Esper Ability.
After some further testing, Alina discovered that with her ability, she can somehow interact with the higher dimensions right now.
But since Alina can only barely sense the dimensions higher than the Third Dimension, it was much harder for her to interact with the higher dimensions.
But with some aid of Higher Dimensional Mathematics, which Asteria, of all people, actually knew, Alina was able to brute force some interactions with the higher Dimensions.
By placing the coordinates of a Three-Dimensional object to the Four Dimension Mathematical Equation, Alina was able to theoretically use her power to force the creation of a Four-Dimensional Object.
One such example was the Tesseract or the Hypercube, which was a Four-Dimensional Cube which Alina forced to exist in the Third Dimension.
Its appearance was entirely unique, and any untrained eyes who sees this cube will be bound to get confused.
That was what exactly happened, as everyone who saw this Tesseract made by Alina were entranced by the cube.
After creating this cube, Alina started treating it like her child, prohibiting others like Alex from touching it.
She was even keeping this cube hidden in her storage right now.
Speaking of her storage, Alina also realized that her storage was also an effect of dimensional manipulation.
More specifically, an extremely large s.p.a.ce was forced to fold by itself multiple times, creating the storage which Alina was using now.
Nonetheless, Alina was thrilled by this discovery, and she used her power to increase the capacity of her storage.
Alina then continued experimenting with her ability, and she only stopped doing these experiments earlier when Alex started ma.s.saging her.
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After having these happy thoughts in her mind, Alina smiled lightly as she observed their dangerous guest.
Alina knew that their guest was no other than Nomad, the strongest teleporter in the World.
There was no doubt that he was Nomad, as only Nomad had the ability to suddenly intrude on the s.p.a.ce around Alina that quickly.
The distortions that Nomad created on the s.p.a.ce around the mansion made Alina sure that he was one talented teleporter.
"This guy treats the s.p.a.ce around him as if he was a fish in the sea." Alina muttered to herself as the distortions that she felt allowed her to deduce Nomad"s teleportation method. "Nomad treats the s.p.a.ce around him as only one ent.i.ty, with all coordinates in that s.p.a.ce equidistant from Nomad. This means that no matter how far a place was, for Nomad, that place will always be near to him. This treatment allows Nomad to go to a far away place instantly, which appears as teleportation to others. He is dangerous indeed…"
This discovery made Alina realize that no matter where they go, Nomad will still be able to reach and attack them.
He"s truly a Pantheon member indeed.
But instead of getting worried with the appearance of Nomad, Alina was instead excited, as the appearance of this Hero made her Esper pride stoked.
"Do you think you are the only one that can treat the s.p.a.ce around you as yours? You underestimate me greatly!" Alina muttered to herself as she decided to give this Nomad a lesson.
Alina was not sure why Nomad was not attacking them now, but she will surely not waste her time watching him. She will start the pre-emptive strike, and she will make sure that Nomad will be unable to escape from here.
Since Nomad treats the s.p.a.ce around him as one ent.i.ty, the easy way to cripple his ability was by isolating him from the s.p.a.ce around him!
For Alina, this was just easy.
"…" Alina closed her eyes in concentration as she sensed the s.p.a.ce around Nomad.
She envisioned a sphere of s.p.a.ce, with Nomad inside this sphere.
Alina made sure that the sphere of s.p.a.ce that she sensed was enough to contain Nomad.
Once she was sure that Nomad was covered by the sphere of s.p.a.ce, Alina gritted her teeth as she started taking control of this s.p.a.ce.
"Hah!" Alina let out a shout as this sphere of s.p.a.ce started rippling all around Nomad.
Before Nomad could make a move, Alina gripped her fists as she folded this sphere of s.p.a.ce.
Instead of destroying the s.p.a.ce around Nomad, what Alina did was to create an endless loop of s.p.a.ce around Nomad.
This loop cut off Nomad from the whole s.p.a.ce, basically confining him to the small amount of s.p.a.ce that Alina looped.
Now, even if Nomad tried to teleport himself, he will always end up inside the looped s.p.a.ce.
"That"s it, I did it." Alina muttered to herself as she saw the desperate attempts by Nomad to escape, which all ended in failure. "I never know if you want to attack us here, but with me capturing you, your plan has already failed."
Alina then slumped down to the floor, as she realized that the creation of the s.p.a.ce loop made her extremely tired.
After all, isolating a chunk of s.p.a.ce from the whole s.p.a.ce was one taxing job, even with Alina"s ability.
"Alex, that guy is all yours now." Alina said as she took some deep breaths to stabilize herself.
"Alina, you really are the best!" Alina heard Alex saying as he reached in to pat her head.
Alina then felt Alex"s lips beside her ear, with his hot breath caressing her cheeks as he whispered,
"Once we are done with this problem, I will give you… a vigorous full-body ma.s.sage. It will be vigorous, that I can a.s.sure you."
Alina was barely able to stop herself from blus.h.i.+ng as Alex picked her up. Alex then carried Alina as they approached the still trapped Nomad.
"Who could have thought that we will capture you this easily?" Alina heard Alex saying as she saw the trademark smirk on his face. "Well, now that we got you here, we will make the most out of it!"
Knowing Alex, Alina was sure that her partner will get the job done here. All that she had to do was to watch and learn.