Alex’s and Mira’s footsteps echoed across the surface of the Primordial Expanse.
As soon as they were finished with their ’business’, they wasted no ti in getting the heck away from those damned floating islands.
Thankfully, there was no need for them to jump off the edge and hope they could teleport down to the ground in ti before they went *Splat!*
Alex simply found the sa location he had arrived at when he was teleported up to this island and replicated the stomp he perford back in his fit of rage on the surface.
And voila!
The pillar of light once again revealed itself to the duo, shocking Mira and leaving Alex with a proud smile like he was the one who had done sothing magical.
The pillar up on the floating island was different though, it had an end.
More specifically, it extended for about 10 tres into the air before ending abruptly.
It was clear that it was intended to take them downwards instead of upwards.
And after stepping into it, Mira finally stepped foot on the surface of the Primordial Expanse for the first ti since she was whisked away to this place against her will!
It was a milestone mont for them both, but it was short lived.
The place was empty, it was much more underwhelming than Mira had expected.
It was only after Alex told her his theory that the floating islands were once on the surface, and what they were seeing now was what was left behind after they were sohow ripped away, did Mira understand why this place was so barren.
Since this was the case, they just picked a direction and started running at full speed.
Well, Mira’s full speed — since Alex would leave her in the dust if he travelled at his full speed.
***
14 days later, the surface of the Primordial Expanse.
"Finally so fucking green!"
Alex couldn’t help but exclaim out loud in joy when he saw the far off imagery that was a lush forest.
He and Mira had been running nearly non stop for the past two weeks, and it was both exhausting and boring for the two of them.
If they didn’t have each other to accompany them, it would have been a real ntal challenge to traverse such an empty world alone.
There were tis where they even doubted whether they’d ever find an end to the infinite grey stoned surface.
But their thoughts were quelled when they reminded themselves and each other that the Primordial Expanse was all one massive piece of land in the realm, so considering they had already experienced the different areas it had to offer in their two previous adventures there, it had to have an end.
"Let’s head over there, maybe we can finally find so beasts to make out way out of here!"
Mira was also just as excited as Alex after seeing the forest far ahead.
They had both yet to et their requirents to rank up, which in turn is also their requirents to leave the Primordial Expanse, since one can only leave after they have ranked up at least once.
It was due to this reason that most awakened never head back to the Primordial Expanse after their first one or two adventures over there.
Ranking up beca harder and harder the higher the ranks got, and unless an unforeseen situation like Mira’s happened, where she was unwillingly thrown into the Primordial Expanse, most awakened would never enter the Primordial expanse when they were at a breakthrough point through tiers.
Entering the Primordial Expanse when you were at E rank, D rank, C rank etc was generally seen as a one way ticket, since a large majority never end up making it back.
Either they would never et their requirents to rank up, hence not being able to leave, or they would die sowhere along the way.
Speaking of requirents, Alex had yet to fully check his.
He was too busy trying to find Mira before, and he didn’t need to check them to know he hadn’t t them, since he had only just reached C- rank.
Since they were about to reach new, unexplored territory for the both of them, Alex decided now would be the ti he would check his rank up requirents.
[Requirents to reach C rank: Kill 1 B rank, Variant class foe.]
"..."
"..."
Alex was left speechless, while Mira looked shell shocked when he repeated his requirents back to her.
’What the fuck!’
His first reaction was to curse the world and everything in it.
What kind of luck was this?
Why him?
Why now, while he was stuck in the Primordial Expanse!
It all made him want to scream, shout and commit all sorts of other violent atrocities.
Even Mira felt the sa for him.
Her requirents were much more ta compared to his.
While at first hers might seem on the sa level of difficulty, they were truly incomparable.
Yes, she had to kill 10 Variant class beings at the sa rank as herself, so D rank.
Or she had to kill 5 Variant class beings above her own rank, so anything from C- rank upwards.
But while 5 Variant class beings of a higher tier might seem harder than killing one such being of a higher tier might seem more unfair, it was actually the opposite.
The jump in strength between C tier and B tier was like scaling a pebble compared to a mountain.
This was all because of the breakthrough to becoming a higher tier being.
Not to ntion that Alex would have to kill sothing at the peak of this tier, which also happened to be Variant class as well…
It all seed too far fetched for him, who was only a C- rank Mutant class.
’Well, the first thing is that I’ll have to reach Variant class before considering anything else…’
But since he was already dealt the bad news, he had to deal with it.
A new goal was already set in his mind.
Variant class!
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