I'm Here to Take You Home

Beyond the vortex was a deep black.

The Time Stop Zone meant searching for cracks within enclosure; on the Divine Domain side, it meant finding a foothold in nothingness.

Back in the void, Joseph closed his eyes, spread his arms, and felt the omnipresent Rule Turbulence with his eyes shut.

The clock inside his body reactivated, and life began to flow away again.

Joseph felt as if he were a stranded Long-Distance Voyage Airship that had finally returned to its course.

However.

Where was this?

Under normal circumstances, when Feathered Ones entered the Divine Domain, they would be bound by the world's rules and become weak, able to exert only half their strength. But this place had no restrictions at all.

It seemed to be the Border Zone.

Joseph discovered that the Bearded Scholar and The Unawakened had followed him in as well.

He was a little astonished. "How did you get in?"

The Bearded Scholar stroked his long beard. "You got in, so I got in too. Which way do we go next? Master, calculate it first."

Various symbols appeared in The Unawakened's single eye, combining and changing with one another.

It was making deductions.

A moment later, The Unawakened's single eye regained its clarity. "This Monk Scholar failed to see through the mystery."

The Bearded Scholar looked disappointed and turned to Joseph. "Madman, then you'll have to lead the way."

Joseph used his light wings to tie the Leviathan juvenile to his waist.

He looked into the distance. To the east was a vast stretch of glowing red patches, like strange mountains at the end of the void.

It was the Red Void.

To the west, some enormous outline flickered in and out of sight, and it did not seem like a good place to go either.

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