I entered the gate after Kanxin.
In a few seconds, I will be in a Taurus, where I will be busy for months. My clones have already planned what I need to do on a week-by-week basis.
For the next three months, I might not be able to get out of my house.
Hun!
I was in my thoughts when I felt the tunnel shaking, and my eyes widened.
A mont later, the shaking got so intense that I unsealed my sealed power and ford the strongest defensive layer around .
Not that it would help if I got flung into a spatial sea.
The spatial travel still scares ; it still gives nightmares.
Whenever I travel, I remain most cautious because, in any danger I face, the space sea remains the only place where my every card is obsolete.
If I got flung into it, I could forget surviving. I will die in an instant.
This ti, I didn't have a protective charm to save last ti till soone like the professor found , luckily. In the vast space sea, the chances of soone finding is more than a billionth in one.
Sotis, I wonder whether it was truly a coincidence.
The shaking of the spatial tunnel got intense by the seconds. It terrified , and my armor lit up brightly to protect against anything dangerous that might co.
I have prepared, despite knowing. How futile the attempts are.
I am strong, but not that strong. I need to be Silver Pri at least to have a 1% chance of survival. I am not; despite all my strength, it isn't close to Silver Pri.
Still, I need to be prepared. I can not simply give up surviving.
The shaking was getting intense by the second, but I didn't notice any cracks appearing in the tunnel, which made sowhat relieved.
However, I understand very well that cracks could form at any second.
It is a matter of pressure. If it reaches beyond what the tunnel can handle, cracks will start forming on it.
I don't know why it is happening; there are hundreds of reasons for it—malfunctions in the gate, disturbance in the spatial sea, a spatial storm, and many other things.
Hun!
I thought that when I sensed sothing, that made my expressions worse.
"Shit!" I cursed.
The connection of the tunnel with the gate had been broken. This ans there is no anchor to the tunnel and no power to power it constantly.
Now, the tunnel is like a leaf in a storm. Going where it is pushed. Once I reach the end of the tunnel, it will push into the spatial sea.
It also didn't have a constant energy source powering it, so it could not protect itself against the spatial sea's pressure like before.
Crack!
It took only a second before I heard the crack. It is not far from away from it.
It is small, not longer than my finger, but this is just a starting. Soon, thousands of them will appear in the tunnel before they shatter it apart.
The only thing that is protecting against the horror of the spatial sea.
Crack Crack Crack!
A mont later, more cracks begin to appear, and by the ti ten seconds pass, hundreds of them are appearing, and more appear every second faster.
I wanted to do sothing and not just watch myself getting close to death every second, but I could not do anything.
I am completely and utterly powerless to do anything.
Still, I tried using my space-tinted energy and forbidden power to deal with the cracks. I was able to heal only one; by the ti I healed, a hundred more appeared.
'Can you help ?' I asked in core, but as usual, there was no reply.
It filled with even greater dread, but I could do nothing against it. Still, I didn't stop what I was doing. My runes moved, trying to heal as many as possible, but a hundred more appeared in that ti.
While I was doing that, I couldn't help but think about Kanxin.
She went inside a mont before into the tunnel. I could not see her, but I am sure she is feeling the sa horror I have.
I took a sharp breath as so of it reached . It is weak, but it tore through my defenses and entered .
A second of lead isn't enough to get to the other side.
Soon, over a thousand cracks appeared and these are cracks, I could see. There are a lot more in this long tunnel.
A few more seconds passed, and things, I fear, began to happen. Raw spatial power begins to leak inside the tunnel through the cracks.
Seee!
I took a sharp breath as so of it reached . It is weak, but it tore through my defenses and entered .
Puch!
I vomited a few seconds later as the spatial energy began to ravage . Not only the physical body but also the soul. It is tearing my soul apart.
"Ahhhhhh….!"
I scread in pain, but nobody helped . Instead, I had more spatial energy inside , making things worse and worse till they reached a critical level.
It has reached so high that I don't know whether I will be able to deal with it.
More is coming inside . I am doing everything I can. Even when many of my clones are turned off, they are connected to the soul if it is damaged heavily. They will stop working.
Of all my clones, only four are working, and not for long. I had just thought that when another one turned off.
My injuries are turning graver by the second, and there is imnse pain. My body wants to turn off to deal with damage, but I am holding back through the sheer will.
I cannot afford to get unconscious. If I did, I would die.
Though I really want to, the pain is too much, and it is getting worse. If I kept going on like this, I wouldn't be able to survive for long.
Not even a minute.
More cracks appeared, and the tunnel had reached edge of shattering when sothing happened.
I noticed the change imdiately, and the cracks stopped spreading a mont later. Instead, they have started healing.
It is getting stabilized.
For a mont, I thought the gate had reconnected with the tunnel, but my clone didn't think so. If it had been the gate reconnecting with the tunnel, the power would have been uniform; it is not.
I sensed around for more data.
Seconds passed, and I reached the end of the tunnel, where I got my answer.
The end of the tunnel isn't the gate but the tunnel. Hundreds, thousands of them, interconnected with each other.
"The web of tunnels," I breathed out through my bloody mouth.
These natural tunnels are connected to each other in a spatial sea, forming a complex network. It is a dangerous network as so lead you sowhere while others throw you into the spatial sea.
I entered the network and moved through it.
Yes, I could move here. I usually do not when I am traveling through the spatial tunnel; I don't want to disturb it, but here, I don't have a choice.
I need to choose the tunnel. If I let the flow take , it might throw into the spatial sea.
So, I moved and used the tunnel; I felt the strongest. I don't care where the tunnel throws . All I care about is getting out of the spatial sea safely; I will deal with the rest later.
I reached the end of the tunnel with three more connecting to it.
Once more, I choose the strongest.
It is hard to move around with the chaos in my body and soul. Staying awake is a challenge every second, but I am doing it for the sake of my survival.
I moved through tunnel after tunnel, choosing the strongest.
Within a minute, I had crossed over ten tunnels and was still moving through them.
I need to reach the end quickly, or I will not be able to see it. The unconsciousness will take soon. I have twenty seconds at most before I reach the obvious unconscious.
I changed to another tunnel, and I could see the end. There are a few more connected to it, but they are weaker than it.
So, I chose it, reaching closer and closer to the light before finally reaching it just when unconsciousness was about to take .
I entered inside, and the oblivion took .
I hope I get thrown into a safe place. I have only one clone active, and it could protect , but I rather prefer a safe place where my clone didn't have to struggle to keep alive.
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