'This…'
Closing my eyes and opening them several tis as the pitch blackness surrounded , I tried to process what just happened to .
'Where is this…?'
I could tell that I was surely not dead nor blind as I could still see my body, it was just that everything else was completely black…
'Where is everyone else…?'
However, the only thing that I could see was myself covered in my 'Dragon Armor', neither Light that was hiding in the bag nor Long that was inside my spatial ring seed to exist or answer my call.
'Not even you…?'
Even as I removed the dragon scales covering the arm that 'Sky' was dormant in, I couldn't see the dragon tattoo any longer as if it wasn't there to begin with.
'No response at all?!'
Most importantly, I didn't get any response as I thought of system commands or even voiced them out, just like everything else so far, it seed as if it didn't exist…
'Is this so sort of strange Corruption Gate…?'
As my eyes seed to have gotten used to the static color of this space, I could finally recognize the structure of a smooth wall that existed on both sides. The ground I was standing on also seed to be a perfect copy of it, just like the roof above my head was.
Looking further ahead, I could see that this was so sort of a cubic shaped corridor, which reminded of the first 'Demon Base' Corruption Gate which I entered, it also had an extrely long corridor that I walked in for several hours to reach the underground hall, there were so differences such as that it wasn't as symtric as this one and didn't have this strange coloring condition, but it seed like a good reference considering this situation.
'This is probably another weird spatial tool that the demons have…'
Though I was slightly disoriented as soon as I entered due to the abnormality of the situation, I managed to finally co to a conclusion once I cald down.
The object that the twin-horned demon crushed was probably a space transportation device that locked on to one's desired target and transported it to a predetermined Corruption Gate. As such, the only one that got transported was since I seed to be his target, which excluded Light, Long, and 'Sky', which is why I was alone here.
As for the system's no-response mode, it might be related to the separation of Long and or there could be sothing special about this Corruption Gate that disallowed from viewing the system screens or hearing its notification. In fact, it wouldn't be weird if the pitch blackness was a side effect of this ability which made parts of my senses go blind.
'That should be it…'
Although I had no way of confirming it, I was probably close to the truth, and either way, there was no use overthinking it, the main priority was to find my way out of here and return to the Dragon Clan to pick up Light and the others.
'Let's speed up.'
Since I couldn't see anything at the end of my long sight, I could already guess that this corridor was much longer than the old one, so I didn't wait before speeding up past the speed of sound to leave this depressing place.
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12 hours later...
'This…'
Thanks to being unable to call out the system panel, I tried using a watch that I bought back at Battle City to judge ti, but for so reason, it was also glitched just like the system, stuck at just before I entered. As such, I could only use my mind to calculate the ti that has passed since I entered this pitch-black space.
However, even then, I couldn't help but doubt whether I was actually mistaken due to the strange properties of this space. After all, I had spent a total of twelve hours going through this corridor without seeing an end to it, and while I did limit my speed to just slightly past Mach 1 to be more battle-ready after two hours or so, that was still over 12,000 kiloters traveled!
Considering my long eyesight, not even seeing anything after that much, ant that I couldn't exist even after a few more hours if I maintained my current speed.
Furthermore, I still couldn't shake off the bad feeling that still remained from the mont the demon made an appearance, it kept telling that sothing was extrely off!
'Just who would make a path as long as this…?'
Not only was the corridor four tis as long as the one that I considered to be extrely long back then, but this obviously wasn't the end of its length…
…
1 day later...
'Is this so sort of a joke?'
By this point, I started wondering if I was stuck on an automatically regenerating loop since I couldn't see the sword marks I left as I moved as it seed like the most logical explanation.
'Or maybe the entrance is through the roof or the ground?'
…
3 days later…
'Is it really just this long…?'
Having spent the last three days checking all sides of the corridor for any abnormality that might be out as well as waiting at several points to observe if the marks I would leave would really change and only ending with both my doubts eliminated from the list of possibilities, I wasn't sure what to think of this anymore…
…
5 days later…
Having no choice but to take a rest after running almost non-stop for ten days, I began contemplating the possibilities I denied at the very beginning.
During the last five days, I simply went all out as I tried every single thought and idea that popped up in my mind as I ran, but they were all useless, making unable to stop thinking of one dangerous possibility…
'Could this place simply be a prison?'
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