Chapter 1029: State Of The Void
Alice glanced toward the horizon, her fingers brushing lightly against the earring.Suyin had warned her about the device’s durability, and the thought of it breaking during transport wasn’t sothing she intended to risk.Precautions were necessary.A barrier ca first.
She adjusted the trigger cast, setting it to activate whenever anything approached the earring. To test it, she picked up a pebble and brought it close. The mont it neared her ear, a do shimred into place around the device, intercepting it.
The barrier wasn’t static. It rotated, deflecting the pebble away before it could make contact.
Once the preparations were done, Alice gave her body a stretch.
"How will we be moving? Are you just making portals?" Elias asked curiously.
He knew that using the Void could allow one to cross large gaps in re monts. However, those are usually limited to one-person-sized portals that quickly shut afterwards. Shuttling through portals rapidly was... risky, to say the least.
A grin appeared on Alice’s face.
"Oh, don’t worry about it. I have it covered," Alice reassured before turning to Lab, who was standing by, waiting for her orders.
Once again, Alice was reminded that a Lord was acting as her assistant while she still had an agreent with Faust.
"Lab, can you tell
roughly which direction the capital is in? We don’t need to take any routes. Just a straight line will do."
It had been a while since Alice had last used this thod of transport, so she needed to make sure everything was still okay, especially with the worry that the Void might have been destabilised by Nyer.
Closing her eyes for a mont, Lab pointed towards the right.
"If you travel straight right for around a day or so, you should reach the capital," Lab replied.
"I see... so... maybe a few minutes? Maybe an hour if I’m rusty," Alice mumbled.
Hearing this, Elias imdiately sat up, his brain slowly processing what Alice had just said and the issues that might possibly arise with movent that fast.
But most of all, how the hell they were even supposed to go that fast in the first place.
Moving through the Void didn’t skip distance. You still had to travel the required distance.
He didn’t know about the others, but he was certain he could not travel that distance in an hour.
He simply wasn’t prepared for such a journey.
Creating a blood knife along with two mirrors, Alice had the knife shift between the two reflections as a smile appeared on her face.
There was a slight delay, but everything else should work like normal.
"An... hour? Do you perhaps have a mount that will help close the distance, Lady Alice?" Lab creased her brows.
Even as a Lord, travelling that far would take her several hours, never mind what Alice had suggested. The only reason Faust could even travel as far as he wanted was because of his authority as a Lord.
Sothing that he modified to help with travel rather than combat.
And yet... Alice had a thod to shorten that journey down?
"A mount won’t be able to fly that fast. Unless maybe a Lord-level one focused on speed," Alice shrugged.
"The thod we’re using is a little... special. Sothing I made myself." Alice gave her body a final stretch before looking at the area around them. She wanted to make sure she had plenty of space to work with.
Hearing that Alice made this thod herself, Lab’s interest was piqued.
And based on what she was saying... taking an hour only happens if she’s rusty? Which naturally suggests that this was a thod she made much earlier.
What kind of travel thod could a Hunter with less than five Sigils have that surpassed the speed of Lords?
Lab didn’t know, and Alice wasn’t preparing anything extensive either.
"I only have one question. How safe is it?" Elias asked with a slight worry on his face.
Alice paused. She tilted her head and thought about it. If they had a clear path and didn’t crash into anything, it should be relatively fine. Though... if anything were to get in their way...
"It should be relatively fine as long as nothing jumps in front of us. Then maybe we might feel a slight bump," Alice shrugged.
This did little to soothe Elias’s worries.
With all her tests completed, Alice turned to Elias and Lab. She reached into her pouch and pulled out a hat she hadn’t used in a long ti.
"Ahem~"
She cleared her throat.
"This is your captain now speaking. Please hold onto your personal belongings and grab onto the railings~ We will be departing soon."
Elias and Lab tilted their heads.
Behind them, tal railings appeared with safety belts waiting to be buckled.
"Please direct your attention to
for important safety information." Alice gave them a slight bow.
"Fasten your belt by inserting the tal tip into the buckle. Tighten by pulling on the belt. At no point should you release the belt during this journey. You have been warned."
"However, in the event you wish to remove the belt, simply lift the tal flap on the buckle. This aircraft has no ergency doors. If the structure does collapse, may luck be on your side."
Elias blinked.
Aircraft? No ergency doors? May luck be on his side???
"Thus far, the survival rate has been 100%. We work hard to maintain those rates. Weather conditions are a little unstable with a high chance of spatial distortion and turbulence. Please hold on tight and await further instructions should such events occur."
"Please ensure all personal belongings are secured. Any loose items may be lost to the void and will not be recovered."
"In the event of... dismbernt, please remain calm. Assistance will be provided once available."
By this point, Elias was already regretting the fact that he fastened the belt.
He looked for the tal flap to undo it and yet...
There was nothing.
Alice had lded the belt into a solid piece.
Looking up, he saw the grin on her face.
Clapping her hands together, blood and tal expanded around them before consolidating into an orb. Windows were created, with a barrier manifesting around the orb itself.
Once they were flung into the Void, this should give them a rather good view of the realm.
"We should be reaching our destination in less than an hour. During this ti, I hope you have a pleasant journey."
Before Elias could even voice his complaints, Alice slamd her palm down as Tiamat’s wings unfurled from her back.
Feeling the energy bursting out of Alice’s body, Lab instinctively grabbed onto the railings as her survival instincts kicked in.
Beneath them, a crack into the Void was torn open as a wall of energy slamd into the orb, punting it through the realm.
"ARGHHH!!!!" Elias let out a cry as he felt as though his organs were about to jump out of his mouth. Even Lab paled as her grip nearly crushed the railing she was holding onto.
"YAHOOO~" Alice simply laughed as tethers shot out before anchoring down.
She clenched her fist.
Now that her power had grown significantly, she could launch the orb through the Void at greater speeds.
*BANG!!!
An explosion erupted behind them as they were launched forward. Alice modified the railings into actual seats, with Lab and Elias being pressed against them due to the speed.
Lab held back her scream as she didn’t expect such a drastic shift in speed.
"Aren’t you enjoying yourself—" Alice was about to tease the duo when she suddenly froze.
The words were stuck in her throat as the world beyond the orb revealed itself.
The Void.
Or at least... that’s what she believed she was looking at. Yet compared to before, it had changed far too much. Mutated. Like an infection spreading across the body.
Dark veins spread through the realm. So far into the distance, so close up. Countless expanding veins filled the sky, so splitting into branches while others joined up to form large nets.
Alice creased her brows, her frown deepened, and she slowed down the orb.
Looking down at her hand, she could feel another energy stirring in her body.
Nightmare energy.
There were still Void beasts floating around, but they weren’t unscathed. Several of them were showing... mutations that matched the monsters Alice saw in the Nightmare.
Strange fog clinging onto their wounds as they struggled to hold themselves back.
So cried out in pain while others simply decayed on floating islands, their flesh rotting and peeling back to reveal a writhing mass of darkness.
Where their blood touched, the infestation would spread. A fleshy garden blossoming upon stone.
Alice wanted to say sothing, but... what was there to say?
She already knew that the Void had been partially taken over thanks to the information she received earlier, but...
Seeing it for herself, with her own eyes, was different from hearing about it.
Only when she saw all of this did she finally realise how dire everything had beco.
Hell, if it wasn’t for the mory device, would she even know what she was looking at?
Alice clenched her fist.
Based on initial estimations... it was safe to say that almost fifty percent of the Void had been taken over thus far. Otherwise, how else could she explain the current state of this realm?
[Alice...] Cayla was worried.
’I know. But eting up with Allura is our priority for now. Trust that Renna has this covered.’ Alice closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
She only had one question right now. And that was why Feris was fine with things reaching this point.
Wasn’t she the Lady of the Void?
Or did this realm, her ho, an so little to her? Alice doubted it.
’Just trust in Renna.’ She convinced herself and continued through the Void.
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