But while Alex had succeeded at his goal of surviving the fall, that was only the first step in his plan to get off the floating island.
Now, he had to find so way to traverse the thousands of kilotres height between the surface and the other floating island he was trying to get to…
He had managed to co up with an idea of how to get down from then by sheer dumb luck and relying on incredibly dangerous tactics, but he had absolutely zero idea whatsoever on how he was planning on getting back up…
That was the next problem he had to figure out.
But he pushed that to the back of his mind for the ti being, as he had to focus on simply making it there first.
There were still tens of thousands of kilotres between him and the next floating island he was trying to get to, so he started moving imdiately.
***
Piercing attack!
Mira was shocked by the strength of her own attacks as she thrashed and slashed at the beast in front of her.
Her blade drew a brilliant arc, piercing towards the wolf beast that was opposing her.
Slash!
She was using the techniques that had been taught to her in university, the attack, defend and evade stances all coming into good use.
The next mont, she used her waist to exert even more power, using the power of her whole body rather than just the strength of her arms.
The blade in her hands whistled as it pierced through the air towards the wolf.
Slash!
Mira felt the blade pierce through its flesh, and it seed as if the blade in her hands was firmly stuck in the wolf.
But that was only an illusion from when she was weaker.
"Haa!" Mira yanked her hands backwards, and the blade was pulled violently, causing fresh crimson blood to spurt out wildly!
Yelp!
The wolf, now severely wounded, scread miserably.
It turned out that Mira's piercing attack earlier had jamd into the wolf's spine, and when she forcefully pulled the blade back out, it severed the spine completely in half!
The wolf could no longer move its body past its forelegs, only able to crawl miserably as it tried to make a pitiful retreat.
But with only two already damaged legs to support itself, it was far too slow to escape Mira's grasp.
Seeing the wolf trying to escape, Mira's eyes flashed as she delivered one final, fatal blow to its skull.
'Another Variant class beast killed. Only 8 more to go before I can leave this godforsaken place… Though it's unfortunate that it was just a D rank beast like , otherwise I would only be 3 away from completing the requirents.'
"Nice kill!" A voice shouted over to Mira from nearby, praising her loudly.
At that mont, another human figure walked over to her, also covered in traces of blood like Mira.
"Thanks."
Mira replied to Nicholas, who was enthusiastically smiling at her from a few dozen tres away.
This other human figure was Nicholas Stein, another prodigy who had been caught up in this unexpected summoning to the Primordial Expanse.
Mira had been lucky to encounter him on the floating island, as she had originally thought that she was the only unfortunate soul who had been caught up in this, but when she encountered Nicholas, it was like a bright ray of sunshine was blazing down on her.
She wasn't alone in this place anymore!
Still, she was unable to sense Nicholas with her spatial perception either, but she was used to that by this point.
But unbeknownst to her, it seed she didn't recognise Nicholas, as he was actually soone that both she and Alex knew…
"You go and finish the rest of them off, I need a break before we continue."
Mira sat down on a nearby rock as she caught her breath, speaking casually to Nicholas as she redirected her gaze to the wolfpack over a kilotre ahead of them.
Other than the Variant class beast Mira had just felled, there was still a pack of D tier Mutant class wolves that needed to be taken care of.
Mira had just slain their Alpha, so they were already in an incredibly wary state, looking as if they would try and escape any mont.
The fighting between man and wolf continued for another half an hour as Nicholas took down the rest of the wolves while Mira rested and watched from behind.
The sun slowly set, and darkness descended on the floating island as night took over.
"That's the first ti I've co across so many beasts at once since I was forced into this place."
Nicholas comnted, trying to make small talk with Mira.
It was clear that he was trying to beco closer with her, whether to be friends or sothing more, was yet to be determined…
"Those are the first beasts I've seen in days — I've only encountered one other before this, and it was a strong one that nearly killed . This place must be cursed or sothing. There are hardly any beasts whatsoever, and for so reason so of my powers don't work properly here…"
After taking down that pack of wolves, Mira felt her depression surrounding this scenario lighten up a little, as it wasn't so hopeless after all.
But that didn't change the fact that she had spent over a week in this place now, yet she had only killed two variant class beasts, and both of those she found by sheer luck.
Things might look good in the short term, but in the long term things still looked bleak.
'What luck I have to be stranded with Mira! I don't know who did this to us, but they unexpectedly gave a blessing in disguise!'
anwhile, Nicholas was feeling jubilant after coming across Mira.
The two of them had only been accompanying each other for a day now, and at first he was apprehensive.
But when he realised Mira didn't seem to recognise him, an opportunity like no other sprung to his mind.
"Aowuuuuuu!"
However, a sudden howl from afar stunned the duo out of their silence.
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