Black seawater crashed against the beach. He Ao descended from the sky, swiftly dodging the spatial rifts around him before landing by the shore.
He looked at the dangerous void rifts and the invisible giant net that had suddenly spread through the sky, missing him because he had moved too fast.
He Ao sighed.
The positioning was off by a little.
He lowered his head and looked at the waters of the Frozen Sea before him.
This time, he had not torn open space himself. Instead, he had directly used the Goddess of Life's spell. The journey had gone smoothly, and he had suffered almost no injuries.
Having someone powerful to rely on sure was nice. It would have been even better if that backer were not constantly pouring contamination into him and liable to drain him dry at any moment.
Steadying himself, He Ao raised his head and looked toward the sky.
Standing on the beach, he could no longer see those chaotic spatial rifts. Yet beneath the rolling dark clouds over the Frozen Sea, blurry reflections of cities hung upside down in the sky, gently rippling.
They were cities from the Main World.
The reflections that had originally existed only within the connection-point space had now seeped out of it.
He Ao took a deep breath, lowered his head, and looked at the Frozen Sea before him.
The black sea surface seemed to reflect the images in the sky as well, rising and falling with the waves.
He did not know what the hidden god's plan was, but it was clearly progressing smoothly.
The two worlds were likely drawing even closer together.
He Ao crouched down and touched the icy seawater with his fingers.
Without Kaila's protection of ice, he could only expose himself to the seawater.
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