Lind evaluated the remaining ships and confird they could not fly them again across the Void Ocean. They would need far more repairs to hold the numbers of people as well as be effective weapons.
Thus he cannibalized the worst while Sun and other Master Tiers traversed the Southern Continent for so quick top ups.
There were no more deep reserves to pull on but so treasures and resources had matured or appeared in the handful of years they had been fighting. The Immortals left in charge were not strong enough to do more than annotate their condition.
It was far from what he needed to rebuild them, yet it was enough to do sothing a bit crude.
Teleportation required 2 fixed array points or a network of them to safely traverse great distances in the shortest ti. The farther you shot for, the more resources it took.
It was a simple system when it ca down to it but took thousands if not millions of years to build up.
Tearing through space was only possible when a cultivator was strong enough to overco the stability of the realm. Spatial Laws and Daos made relative space stable. To circumvent it required mastering or grasping the fundantals of space to allow relatively short hops.
Compared to teleportation arrays, it was far more stressful on the cultivator as they had to constantly fight to keep the tear open but after so practice, it beca easy. Still, it would take years to cross a distance a teleportation array could do in an instant.
Lind had confird part of that was a ntal limit a cultivator imposed on themselves. The concepts of space-ti and physics were alien to most cultivators. Even when a reincarnator no doubt tried to pass on the knowledge, they underestimated the experience of cultivation.
It felt like a connection to Heaven and Earth was far more visceral than the theoretical concepts of science. The old Earth grasp of the world was taken for granted when cultivators could literally replicate natural effects by their will alone and enough power!
There was a ti, however, when neither such thod worked for mass transit. Teleportation arrays were still being built or improved upon.
The most ancient but inaccurate thod were Grand Spatial Channel arrays.
It created a temporary but powerful distortion in space that allowed for travel over great distances. It had several severe limitations. The chief among them being it had to be in a straight line.
It could not be networked with other channels nor sustained for a very long ti. The main issue it had was abandoned because once the array was used, it had to be built again!
It was consud in its use! If you were inside when that happened, you could be tossed out randomly along the route. Worse, you might get tossed into the Grand Void!
Lind knew all that but it was the only solution he could use in ti.
They could not waste more years traveling back in their lack of vessels.
He had Annabelle and other experts help him lay the groundwork for the array. The major anchors had to be made of strong materials and they had just enough for them. The issue was the rest of it.
They did not have enough for the secondary or support arrays. A hybrid result was needed.
Lind was leading another team on that front. Combining weavings and arrays were tricky at the best of tis but the crude nature actually worked in their favor.
They were complenting the main function which was far easier than performing the function with the arrays. Still, it would be delicate work.
Once activated, massive amounts of power would flow through all of it to keep it open. Lind estimated it would only last a few days at best. He hoped that would be long enough.
It was not like tearing through space where a bridge was made, it literally carved out a channel to shorten distance only.
"If not for the dark destination, I wish we could do more of this, Lind." Annabelle suddenly spoke up. Her hair was tied neatly up into a bun and her robes were less ornate to allow for more freedom of movent.
Her azure and golden skin sparkled under the midday sun. The humans, demons, aether children, and Elentals all working with them were within ear shot but Lind did not care.
He smiled and nodded at her. Her gawatt smile made him feel motivated even more. Others nearby felt like it was in very bad taste to be discussing such flirtatious things for solemn work but others appreciated the reminder there was more than the war they had been enshed in the last few years.
The work took months but considering it was normally a work of years, another aspect that made them fall into disuse, it was record ti.
Lind and Annabelle recovered to their peak condition as the army gathered. They were still billions but compared to before, they were at least a third or more smaller. The loss of life was not small!
He had noted that those faction elites had seed to suffer unexpectedly more. It was likely any allied force or those nearby had kept their eyes peeled for abandonnt.
It made him sigh but they all still ca. The shoreline was just in range but he did not want to risk damaging the foundation of the intent seed. The pair stood at different positions.
Annabelle was at the lead in the west while he was at the support in the south. Normally, it would take a full team to use the Grand Spatial Channel array, yet they were the only 2 there.
No one else could work with them, really. They were too far outside the norm in formations and weaving respectively.
Annabelle lit up and the world seed to sing as her delicate hands moved. She beca the Goddess of Illusions at that mont and any doubters felt it all fall away.
Heaven and Earth moved with her as if it had awaited her command. The title God or Goddess was never taken, it could only be granted. Thus, they were even more rare than Divine Lords.
The fact a newly minted Divine Lord was her husband only added to her awe. Her hair was not even a single strand out of place as it luxuriously flew behind her. Her pristine white robes seed the only possible attire for her.
Lind watched until all the main plates lit up with power. He then breathed erald fire. His golden sigils traces instantly touched on the foundational array.
Where Annabelle was a figure of reverence and awe, Lind was like the bestial guardian of legends that worked at the Goddess' protection. Its power was on par with hers but all knew Lind was far more dangerous than that ancient legend.
The weavings seamlessly supplied the energy the main formation needed. The lines of light connected and lifted from the ground.
The circle array floated and grew in size. The air distorted until the center fractured but unlike tearing through space or a teleportation array, it fell inward.
If anything, it resembled the Gateways the 2nd layer if the Celestial Fields had created to overco the Corruption that broke the teleportation networks.
The collapse fell into midair. It actually tunneled into it until it stabilized into a channel of space. Lind flared his aura. It acted as the signal.
Ships, people, and even flying artifacts were used to go. They would function normally inside until they erged on the other side. Annabelle and Lind focused on controlling the array.
It was not done reaching the destination yet. The one advantage was that it could be entered before it was completed. In fact, it was recomnded.
The internal pressure of the cultivators' aura would act as a stabilizer. It truly was crude. Yet, that crudeness served them well now.
Ti beca aningless to Annabelle and Lind. They focused only on feeding the array and controlling it. Annabelle was fairing better in that regard.
The main function was fairly simple, just straining due to its size and distance. Lind, on the other hand, felt like he did not have enough limbs! Even with his hair thrown in, he was acting like a whole team!
He had to split his attention between power regulation, stabilizing the spatial distortion, making sure the progress of the channel did not destabilize as it progressed. Those main things aside, he had to also keep the array stable as well!
It took him all his lifeti of experiences to hold on as it felt like trying to hold water in his bare hands. It kept wanting to slip away but his deft mind held it.
Sweat poured down his body like a river. His gray robes were soaked clean through and beca like lead weights on his body. He held until finally, he felt the channel connect!
It had reached the end of the journey!
A lot of pressure vanished for him as the Grand Spatial Channel settled. He nearly collapsed right there but held on as Annabelle also visibly relaxed. The hard part was over.
They checked and ensured the gathering arrays began to collect power to sustain the stabilized channel. Even as they looked, the array began to burn. It really was going to destroy itself as the records said!
Lind noticed all the army was gone. Based on his last sensations, they were easily over halfway there in days! The pair of them downed elixirs and pills as they saw the result of their work.
The channel looked like a frad opening. It was a solid violet and white, almost like stone. The dark swirling energy was settling into the walls of the channel.
Lind smiled and turned to Annabelle. He held out his arm as they both flew inside. The battlefront awaited, true, but they had made sothing together like the old days. It was a good mory and it was what they fought for.
Now it was ti to see what awaiting on the otherside.
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