Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100

Chapter 1991: Lesser Beings!

Only after the devils disappeared did the four Primarchs let out faint sighs.

Arvantos, one of the Primarchs, glanced behind him and said, "You children can come out now."

Max, Damian, Ervin, and the others stepped out from where they had been standing. Their expressions were dark because none of them had missed the conversation between the devils and the Primordials.

"Were those devils?" Orion asked with a frown.

"Are they declaring war on us?" Ervin asked.

Damian’s eyes were cold. "What demands were they talking about?"

The others began asking questions as well, and in only a few breaths, Arvantos was surrounded by the confusion and pressure of the top geniuses.

Only Max and Revona remained silent.

Max was thinking about the sudden appearance of the devils, while Revona watched Arvantos with a calm gaze that suggested she might already know more than the rest of them.

"I will explain everything," Arvantos said. "Give me a moment."

He then turned toward the other three Primarchs.

"I will return after I brief them. It is time they knew the truth."

The other three Primarchs nodded. Soon after, they vanished along with the rest of the Primordials, leaving only Arvantos and the ten geniuses behind.

"Follow me," Arvantos said.

Without waiting for further questions, he turned and walked back into the Primordial Ancestral Domain.

The ten geniuses followed him into a different hall. Unlike the previous chamber where they had been forced to wait without explanation, this hall was solemn and ancient. Strange symbols covered the walls, and a massive star map floated above the center of the room. Countless points of light moved within it, some bright, some dim, and some surrounded by faint crimson marks.

Arvantos stopped beneath the star map and turned to face them.

"What do you all know about the last war between the races?" he asked.

Orion blinked. "Nothing?"

Revona spoke right after him. "That we almost lost."

Rakan frowned as if trying to recall something. "I heard some elders mention that it happened on a planet called Orion, or something like that."

Arvantos nodded slowly. "The last time that war happened, we very nearly lost everything. It shook the entire universe. Both the Divine Realm and the Mortal Realm were pushed to the edge of destruction because of those devils."

He sighed, and for the first time, the ten geniuses saw a trace of exhaustion on the face of a Primarch.

"It was only because of a miracle that the last war ended peacefully."

Max looked at him and asked, "What caused the war? What do the devils actually want from our universe?"

Arvantos looked at Max and smiled faintly.

"That is a good question."

He turned his gaze toward the whole group.

"Before I explain that, I must first tell you something about what exists beyond our universe."

The moment Arvantos said those words, the expressions of the ten geniuses changed.

Beyond their universe.

None of them had ever seriously thought about such a thing before. Some had been born in the Divine Realm, while others had climbed up from the Mortal Realm, but all of them had grown up believing that their universe was the highest stage they could reach.

They knew the Divine Realm was vast beyond imagination, and they knew the Mortal Realm contained countless worlds, but the idea that something existed beyond the universe itself was enough to shake even their powerful minds.

In that instant, every one of them focused fully on Arvantos.

Whatever he was about to say next would not only explain the devils.

It might also change their understanding of the entire world they lived in.

Arvantos looked at the ten geniuses for a moment before he began speaking.

"Our Primordial Race is not the only first race beyond this universe. In fact, apart from us Primordials, there are four other races that exist outside our universe."

The hall fell into silence.

"Four other races..." Orion muttered, his expression slowly changing.

The ten geniuses were visibly shocked. Until this moment, most of them had only known about devils through old records, ancient warnings, and the sudden confrontation they had just witnessed outside the Primordial Ancestral Domain. They had never imagined that beyond their own universe, there were not only devils, but four completely different first races standing on a similar level as the Primordial Race.

Arvantos did not look surprised by their reaction.

To these young geniuses, the Divine Realm was already unimaginably vast. The Mortal Realm below it contained countless worlds, planets, star fields, and civilizations.

For most cultivators, even the Divine Realm alone was too large to fully explore in a lifetime. Yet now, Arvantos had casually told them that their entire universe was not the only one, and that beyond its boundaries existed other universes ruled by other first races.

That truth was enough to overturn the understanding they had carried since birth.

Arvantos continued in a calm but serious voice. "Demons and elves also came from special racial origins, but they are not on the same level as the five first races. Their relationship to those higher races is somewhat similar to the relationship between humans and Primordials. In a certain sense, they are lesser beings."

He did not soften his words at all.

The moment he said this, several geniuses became quiet. Max’s eyes moved slightly, especially because of his connection to the elves through his mother’s side and the Heavenly Luminance Divine Bloodline.

However, he did not interrupt Arvantos. He could tell that Arvantos was not speaking with contempt for the sake of contempt. He was explaining the cosmic hierarchy as the Primordials understood it.

"To put it more clearly," Arvantos said, "demons and elves may be powerful races within certain worlds, realms, and civilizations, but their racial foundation does not place them at the peak of existence. Their strongest members may become terrifying experts, and their bloodlines may possess unique powers, but their origin is still not equal to that of the first races. The first races are different. They were not merely born as inhabitants of a universe. Their existence is tied to the structure, laws, and ancient order beyond ordinary worlds."

The expressions of the ten geniuses became even more serious.