"Thud—"
The moment He-El stepped forward, his body spun out of control. As the world whirled before his eyes, he saw an expanse of blue sea and sky—the ocean a vast azure, the heavens boundless, the scenery beautiful.
In that brief instant, having grasped his situation, He-El pressed his feet together and held his palms tightly against his thighs. From his spinning posture in midair, he barely forced himself straight like a pillar and plunged vertically toward the sea.
The icy sea wind scraped He-El's skin until goosebumps rose all over it. With another thud, he plunged three meters into the ocean, his feet going numb as his skin abruptly felt the freezing cold steal away his body heat.
He-El quickly spread his arms and kicked his legs through the water, swimming toward the surface.
The body he had entered in this universe possessed only the strength of an ordinary, healthy adult. There was nothing extraordinary about it, nor was it even a human body pushed to its limits.
Having suddenly fallen into seawater with a temperature difference exceeding fifteen degrees Celsius, he could already feel his blood frantically trying to circulate throughout his body, maintaining his temperature and preventing abnormalities caused by hypothermia.
The pressure of the seawater and the cold against his skin made He-El hear the pounding of his own heart.
'Splash.'
He-El broke through the surface. Seawater soaked his black hair, which clung to his forehead as it streamed down.
He-El swept his dripping hair back with both hands and gazed ahead through slightly blurred vision. Blue sea and blue sky met at the horizon, with nothing else in sight.
"It looks like the situation is even worse than it was in Marvel." He-El's wet black lashes lifted as he narrowed his eyes, lightly paddling with