"The boat is going straight towards the whirlpool! Why aren't they turning?"
"I don't know. But at this rate, we will drown in the water if the boat gets swept into that whirlpool."
"We have already drowned once, and yet we face the sa fate again."
The group of transmigrators, along with so other kids, exclaid as they saw the whirlpool in the distance closing down. They couldn't understand why the people steering the boat hadn't taken any action yet.
But amidst the exclamations of the shocked group, a couple of kids stood out, appearing remarkably calm. They stared at the whirlpool with a serene deanor, their eyes devoid of fear, as if the whirlpool held no threat for them at all.
Orion noticed all of that and thought of sothing before he too forced himself to calm down.
Before long, the boat finally neared the whirlpool, causing it to sway left and right as it continued to move forward.
This caused everyone in the cabin to grab hold of the walls or anything stationary to avoid being thrown around by the swaying of the boat. But it did little to help them. As the boat drew closer to the whirlpool, the frequency and intensity of the swaying increased, making it harder for anyone to maintain their balance.
Even Orion was having a hard ti controlling his body.
'There is no better ti than now to use the curse of Constant Pull.'
Therefore, without much thought, he activated the Curse of Constant Pull, generating a strong gravitational force from below. This instantly halted his swaying, anchoring his body firmly in place.
But at that mont, a kid ca crashing down on him.
"Thud!"
He collided with Orion, who stood like a statue and didn't move even after the collision. However, the sa couldn't be said for the kid who crashed into him; to him, it felt as if he had slamd into a massive boulder rather than a human.
"Ah, sorry," the kid said as he stood up and apologized before quickly grabbing onto sothing for support.
It wasn't just this kid; everyone in the boat was in the sa situation.
Orion couldn't do anything to help them, nor did he want to. He was determined to keep his abilities hidden, even from the other kids. It was his only card that could help him in this situation, and he didn't want to risk exposing it.
***
As the kids in the cabin struggled to maintain their balance amidst the swaying, the boat reached the edge of the whirlpool.
Before anyone could react, the boat was swept into the vortex. It began to revolve around the center of the whirlpool at a wild speed, its path tightening as the shape of the boat grew smaller and smaller, until the boat vanished entirely into the churning waters.
Orion, seemingly the only one left standing in the cabin, watched as waves of water crashed against the window before everything turned blue.
Panic gripped him montarily as he feared the boat had subrged underwater. However, after a tense mont, he realized that no water was seeping in through the door of the cabin.
The door wasn't waterproof; water and wind could pass right through it. So, Orion couldn't comprehend why water wasn't flooding in, especially when he could clearly see nothing but water outside from the window of the boat.
As he wondered about the strange phenona, Orion noticed the scenery outside the window had changed.
The blue water disappeared and was replaced by buildings.
Orion couldn't believe what he was seeing at that mont. Because as far as his eyes could see, only buildings and houses could be seen in the distance, along with trees and small forests.
'How did the boat co here?'
He clearly rembered seeing water outside the window of the boat, but now they appeared to have arrived on land.
This whole situation seed bizarre to him.
At that mont, the door to their cabin opened, and the bald man ca in.
"Get out of the cabin," he said, looking at the kids still lying on the floor of the boat. "We will be leaving soon."
Hearing him, all the kids who were lying down stood up and got ready to leave.
"Follow ," he said as he took the lead and walked out of the cabin.
Orion and the group of kids didn't waste any more ti and followed the bald man from behind.
Appearing out of the cabin, they were surprised to see buildings and houses in the distance, considering they thought they had drowned in the whirlpool.
anwhile, Orion looked at the sky because that's where their boat popped out from, at least according to him. Looking at the sky, he noticed that it was waving unusually, like how water would wave in the ocean.
'So, the boat indeed ca from there.'
He felt that he understood so things, like that the whirlpool their boat had drowned in wasn't an actual whirlpool but a ans of transport, like a portal that would transport the boat here to this place.
After figuring that out, he looked around the area surrounding the boat, and it was then that he noticed that the boat appeared to be flying in the air.
From that viewpoint, he could clearly see the boat going down, and the buildings and houses now appeared more clear to him.
He then noticed the structure of the buildings here was rather strange—strange in the sense that they appeared different from the buildings he had seen on Earth.
Unlike those on Earth, where most buildings were typically four-sided structures like rectangles or squares, or at most, deviations would still adhere to a polygonal shape.
The buildings in this place were the complete opposite. Not a single square or rectangular structure was in sight, which in itself wasn't surprising. What caught Orion off guard was the absence of polygonal shapes altogether. Instead, the buildings took on circular or semi-circular forms, with a wide variety of designs. So resembled waves in water, while others looked like clouds in the sky.
Also, most of the buildings appeared to be blue for so reason.
Witnessing the unique architecture and layout of this place, Orion concluded that the culture and society of the three domains must be vastly different from those of Earth. He speculated that only the Human Federation Realm, from which Runo's team hailed, had the potential for a culture and society similar to that of Earth.
However, he also noticed sothing unsettling about this place as he observed the buildings. There wasn't a single soul in sight, and the entire area seed unnervingly quiet. It was as if all the residents of this place had vanished long ago, leaving only the buildings behind.
As Orion thought about all of this, the boat slowly landed on the ground.
Looking around, Orion saw that there appeared to be a path right next to the boat leading to a gate in the distance.
'That's where they planned to lock us in?'
He didn't know what they had planned for them, but hearing them refer to the group as "manpower" and "stock," Orion couldn't shake the feeling that they were being coerced into so form of labor or servitude.
If things were truly as he suspected, Orion believed there might be sothing he could do to escape. However, if they were indeed confined to a place without freedom of movent, the situation would undoubtedly beco more challenging.
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