March 7th: Where the Heck Did This Send Me? Is This Still the Astral Express?

At this moment, Screwllum began infiltrating and cracking the Genesis Vortex Core's firewall and thousands of isolation programs. Such an exaggerated number of isolation programs only made Herta and the others more curious.

If it had blocked us here, I would not have cracked it so easily. Now that the decryption is complete, we can infiltrate it.

But before that, allow me to apply protection programs to Ladies Herta and Ruan Mei, so that should you encounter any accidents, you will be able to retreat unscathed.

Screwllum applied protection programs to Herta, Ruan Mei, and his own projection. Only then did the three of them enter Amphoreus through the Genesis Vortex Core.

Meanwhile, within a Simulated Universe resembling an interstice between Paths, March 7th clutched her head and slowly opened her eyes.

"Ugh—so cold... Where is this?"

"Is this still inside the Astral Express?"

March 7th stared around her in shock at the cosmic scenery and the freezing temperature that made her deeply uncomfortable.

Logically speaking, as a Pathstrider with an ice attribute, she should have been highly resistant to cold.

Yet here, she felt a bone-deep chill that made her shudder involuntarily.

But soon, the power of the Paths of Trailblaze and Restraint emerged around her, and the cold sensation gradually faded, making her let out a long breath.

"Mm... It's much better now, but why am I in the vacuum of space and still able to breathe?"

"Could I be dreaming?"

March 7th curiously surveyed her surroundings, but aside from a massive galactic vortex ahead, distant starlight, and a few meteors, there was nothing at all.

Interstice between Paths, image found online

"Mm, no, that's not right! I think Stelle told me that when The Preservation - Cripter glanced at her, she appeared in a place that