Crunch!
Crack!
A series of dull sounds of rocks colliding suddenly rang out. They were not loud, and mixed into the rumbling tremors, they were not very noticeable.
Marco, lying on the dirt slope, pricked up his ears. After listening carefully, he asked, "Did you hear some unusual collision sounds?"
"Collision sounds?"
Benn Beckman and the others froze for a moment, then pricked up their ears and listened carefully as well.
Crunch!
Crack!
Muffled collision sounds seemed to whisper from deep underground, reaching everyone's ears through the rumbling vibrations.
"There really are!" Benn Beckman said.
"I heard them too!" Kashi added.
"So did we!" The others nodded as well, then all looked toward Marco.
"What is it?" Marco asked in confusion, startled by their stares.
"Nothing!" Everyone shook their heads in disappointment. They had thought Marco had noticed something unusual, but he had merely heard some strange collision sounds.
Given the current situation, they would not find any kind of collision sound surprising.
Even though they still did not understand why the tremors had continued for so long.
After all, it did not help their current predicament in the slightest.
So they were not very concerned.
Crack!
At that moment, the small dirt slope suddenly shook, then slowly rose into the air beneath everyone's astonished gazes.
"What's happening?" Everyone stared at the scene in confusion, grabbing tightly onto nearby rocks to keep themselves from falling.
Crack!
Bang!
...!
All kinds of collision sounds suddenly rang out in succession. Then massive boulders flew out of the sea one after another, soaring into the sky like countless birds returning to their nests.
"These are..." Momonosuke stared in disbelief at the somewhat familiar Great Land masses flying past him.
"That's right!"
"Those are the enormous rocks and chunks of land thrown out when