Death... and me
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Frasco confirmed Rean's words. "That's correct. However, they only had a few variants."

"Essence... could it be their races had something to do with the Elements?" Roan asked back.

Frasco looked at Roan with a surprised expression. "Have you dealt with Essence Energy before?"

Roan shrugged his shoulders in response. "Do you really think I would get in contact with such a thing?"

Frasco wondered if Roan was just playing with him or not. In any case, that wasn't his problem. "Is that so? Anyways, you're right. There are different types of essence, and these types determine the Essence Races. To be more specific, there were nine Essence Races."

Frasco mentioned them one by one. "First, there were the mainstream Elemental Essence Races. Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, and Lightning. Within the Essence Races, these were the five most common ones. Of course, their numbers were still extremely low compared to the spirits. Let alone compare it to the humanoids, demon beasts, devils, and angels."

Rean immediately connected with the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm to ask Sister Orb. 'Sister Orb, which element is our World Essence? When I work with it, I don't really feel the presence of any specific element.'

Sister Orb quickly answered. [The World Essence? It's obviously Dark and Light.] Thankfully, she knew what Rean was thinking about. [Don't worry. Essence is still essence, regardless of its origin. The Universe Essence that you first received when you were on Sunkan Planet was basically a more concentrated form of it. The World Essence of the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm is as good as Universe Essence, just not as concentrated. Nevertheless, both are Light and Dark Essences. As for why you couldn't feel their type, that was because your cultivation was too low. You should be able to feel it at the Elemental Space Realm, though.]

Frasco didn't know that Rean was talking to Sister Orb, so he didn't stop his story. "The next ones shouldn't be much of a surprise for Rean, Roan, or Kentucky. I'm obviously talking about Light and Dark Essences. Naturally, they're a rarer Essence Race compared to the five mainstream Essence Races."

Frasco couldn't help but pause a moment as he thought about the past. "Now, these seven Essence Races were definitely strong inside the northeast. If we went into the northeast side and fought them, the odds would be stacked against us. However, it was still possible to beat them. However, the truly, truuuuuly annoying ones were the last two Essence Races. They were also the rarest ones, with only four of their members ever reaching the highest cultivation realm of the Realm of Gods. They were the Time and Space Essence Races."

"So there's also Time and Space Essence in the air?" Fay immediately asked.

Frasco smiled at her and nodded. "There sure is, but the conditions for a Time or Space Essence Being to exist is rarer. Think about the Realm of Gods as a whole. Just the northeast side of it is around a fourth of the total. Now, do you believe if I say there weren't even a million Space or Time Essence Race beings?"

A million might seem like a lot. However, a single city in the Realm of Gods could hold hundreds of millions of spirits, demon beasts, or humanoids. A single country could have who knows how many billions, if not trillions. Then, there were the regions and continents. Until today, the twins still didn't know how many continents there were in the Realm of Gods. It definitely wasn't something as simple as just a few tens of thousands. With that, if one considered just how many living beings existed in total on each of the four sides, a ridiculous number would have to be thought. Even the spirits, which were known for being fewer than the humanoids and demon beasts, definitely had a huge number impossible to count if one took the entire spirit races' territory into consideration.

Putting it all into account, there were less than a million Time and Space Essence Race beings on the entire northeast side. Rean even wondered if there was more than a single Space or Time Essence Race member for each continent of that territory. Perhaps the average number per continent was lower than that.

"That's quite lonely," said Fay as she thought about these two Essence Races.

Frasco nodded when he heard that. "Perhaps. Back during the war, I was still young. However, I had one, just one chance to meet a Time Essence Race member. Of course, I was a nobody during that war against the devils, so that Time Essence Race member wasn't anyone that important within the Essence Races if I could get close to him. In any case, his strength compared to those at the same cultivation level was just absurd. If you ever feel proud about being able to jump a few stages or so to fight someone, please don't be. That Time Essence being would literally trash you in a blink of an eye in the same conditions. It wouldn't be a contest at all. Even today, I think that Time Essence Race guy could jump two realms of power and probably a few more stages on top of that."

Rean and Roan looked at each other after that. To do something at that level, they would definitely need to burn their nascent souls again. And that was just a temporary measure. They would use all of their Nascent Souls' power and then fall straight down to the Core and Soul Fusion Realm after they were over. That Time Essence thing obviously didn't seem to have such an issue.

"That's quite terrifying." Rawor could only wonder what it would be to fight such an existence.

"Hahaha!" Nevertheless, Frasco laughed in the end. "Of course, I'm talking about a fight happening inside the Essence Races' territory. If they came to our side, they wouldn't be anything feared. That's why we never really cared about the Essence Races."

However, Frasco's expression changed the next moment as he sighed. "I just regret that the three races didn't join together sooner to fight the devils. If we had, perhaps the devils wouldn't have conquered the northeast side."