Between himself and that endless ocean, there was only a fragile dam.
And at this moment, the dam was slowly cracking. Thin trickles of seawater, not even enough to count as spray, flowed from those fissures and became streams beneath his feet. They were not lethal, but the danger was boundless.
Yet faced with the terror of that vast ocean, which seemed capable of crushing the fragile dam and drowning him with a single wave, Gwen's soul trembled instinctively.
It had nothing to do with will or conviction. It was the most primal reaction originating from the soul itself.
The next moment, that instinctive trembling vanished.
Without opening his eyes, Gwen's consciousness had already returned to his body. Feeling the power slowly flowing into him from an unknown dimension, feeling the authority within his body cheering, and feeling the soul closely connected to him, so anxious over this, Gwen knew that he had to succeed.
Even if it was not for the countless lights of that blue planet, just for the one light lit for him among them, he had to succeed!
The instinctive fear and trembling were defeated by resolve. The rock blocking the stream became a mountain, stretching before the cracked dam with the posture of bearing all the pressure alone.
When he opened his eyes, Su, who had been watching Gwen anxiously, discovered that Gwen's eyes were now blank.
Before Su could examine him closely, light bloomed from Gwen's body.
This time, there was no galaxy-like starlight, no revolving river of stars. A plain yet far from weak radiance simply bloomed from Gwen's body.
It was clearly a gentle light, gentler even than the light of spring that brought flourishing life, yet Su, a Fusion Warrior, had to squint and still found it hard to look at