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This could potentially be minor or major, depends on your interpretation. Currently Serge is rated as tier 1 for merging all of the universes into a higher-dimensional plane. This kinda sucks, and we should expand on it more.
The second piece of evidence comes from Trigger, where we reach a location known as the Black Omen. The Black Omen has been stated in no uncertain terms in guides and also the game itself to transcend space-time entirely. What this means is just a special form of Acausality, as we don't give higher tiers based off of these statements. This lines up with the fact that the Black Omen exists in every single point in time no matter where you travel to, as it exists beyond the timeline and wouldn't be affected by changes within it.
However, that is just the English version. In the Japanese version, there is a more elaboration on why the Black Omen is what it is.
The left is the official English translation, the middle is the Japanese, and the right is a "more accurate" translation. As you can see, with this statement it pretty blatantly says implies that the reason why the Dark Omen is the way it is, is because it flows across multiple different temporal dimensions.
The translation is accurate because あらゆる means either "all/every", and "時間次元" means 'time dimension' or 'time perspective'. That is where a bit of trickiness comes in, because 'jigen' can mean multiple things. This leads to another weird translation where "をこえてながれている" can mean "flowing over", "flowing and exceeding" or "flowing beyond", "flowing across" depending on what part of the sentence you decide to translate. However, since it specifically mentions 'flow', I would assume that it is talking about the mathematical dimension of time over simply perspectives of time.
Due to the use of "all/every", one would could take from this that the implication is that there are multiple dimensions of time that exist within the world of Chrono. Thus, this would naturally explain why the Black Omen does not change no matter what time period you go to, as it is simply functioning on another axis of time which makes it so that it is immutable.
Thus we have an implication of at least 3 spatial dimensions, and possibly more than one temporal dimension. The default option for this would be Low 1-C. This is because Serge merges and unifies all of time which would include this extra temporal dimension, and also Lavos has been stated to devour all of existence and return it to nothingness multiple times in no uncertain terms.
The Evidence for Multiple Dimensions in Chrono
The current rating for Serge's tier is this statement where it is stated that the universe would be evolving into the next dimension after time is unified. This isn't the strongest evidence due to the fact that it's not entirely clear on what "evolving" means. However, one could supposedly use it as evidence to prove higher-dimensional activity exists within Chrono. As there is a second statement for such a fact.The second piece of evidence comes from Trigger, where we reach a location known as the Black Omen. The Black Omen has been stated in no uncertain terms in guides and also the game itself to transcend space-time entirely. What this means is just a special form of Acausality, as we don't give higher tiers based off of these statements. This lines up with the fact that the Black Omen exists in every single point in time no matter where you travel to, as it exists beyond the timeline and wouldn't be affected by changes within it.
However, that is just the English version. In the Japanese version, there is a more elaboration on why the Black Omen is what it is.
Japanese Translation
In 2008, the Chrono Compendium started a project to translate the original game to make it "more accurate" to what the Japanese was actually saying with little localization involved. This involves directly altering the "transcend space and time" statement to something a little more specific.The left is the official English translation, the middle is the Japanese, and the right is a "more accurate" translation. As you can see, with this statement it pretty blatantly says implies that the reason why the Dark Omen is the way it is, is because it flows across multiple different temporal dimensions.
The translation is accurate because あらゆる means either "all/every", and "時間次元" means 'time dimension' or 'time perspective'. That is where a bit of trickiness comes in, because 'jigen' can mean multiple things. This leads to another weird translation where "をこえてながれている" can mean "flowing over", "flowing and exceeding" or "flowing beyond", "flowing across" depending on what part of the sentence you decide to translate. However, since it specifically mentions 'flow', I would assume that it is talking about the mathematical dimension of time over simply perspectives of time.
Due to the use of "all/every", one would could take from this that the implication is that there are multiple dimensions of time that exist within the world of Chrono. Thus, this would naturally explain why the Black Omen does not change no matter what time period you go to, as it is simply functioning on another axis of time which makes it so that it is immutable.
Thus we have an implication of at least 3 spatial dimensions, and possibly more than one temporal dimension. The default option for this would be Low 1-C. This is because Serge merges and unifies all of time which would include this extra temporal dimension, and also Lavos has been stated to devour all of existence and return it to nothingness multiple times in no uncertain terms.
Conclusion
This leaves us with the following three options. All of which I don't have much of an opinion on.- Completely remove Low 1-C from Serge entirely. One could take these two statements as vague or unclear, and also that "all/every" could just mean it flows through the one (albeit I find that unlikely, as you'd be better of taking dimensions to mean something else here).
- Remove Low 1-C from Serge, and replace it with a "possibly higher" due to the clear implications of extra dimensions. Lavos would also get the same thing.
- Keep Low 1-C on Serge, and change Lavos' 2-A key to Low 1-C. Lavos is capable of devouring all of space and time so an extra temporal axis would also be accounted for in regards to this.
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