Voyage

"Hey, you're finally awake."

Linsey regained consciousness.

He felt a swaying motion beneath him, as if he were sitting in a carriage.

However, when he fully regained consciousness, he found that he was not in a snow-covered forest.

Linsey is lying on a small boat.

An elderly man dressed in gray cloth sat down beside him, holding a Yew Staff in his arms.

And he had just noticed that he had woken up and greeted him.

He was a knight sitting at the bow of the ship.

The small boat was powered by the oars being rocked by the other person.

--not simple.

A thought flashed through Linsey's mind.

In theory, the person controlling the oars would sit in the middle of the boat or near the stern.

This allows for effective control of the ship while ensuring stability.

Sitting at the bow of the ship is a very challenging job.

Linsey blinked, paused for two seconds, and then nodded his thanks to the knight in front of him.

"Woke up."

"Also, thank you for your previous rescue efforts."

The people on the small boat came from the Courtyard in the Forest.

Bo Gong, which fled Black Mountain, kept its promise.

He informed his companions in the other world of the news, and the rescue team immediately set off.

Their original goal.

Perhaps it's to rescue the perceiver whose body has been possessed by the Dragon Beast.

However, the final result was that Linsey was saved.

Before they met, Linsey was still unwilling to give up and wanted to explore her surroundings in search of Red's whereabouts.

As a result, it was discovered by several Revivalist.

Severely injured, he was in extremely poor condition, so he decisively gave up the fight and tried to escape with the help of two Snow Wolf.

In a critical situation that was on the verge of collapse.

These awakened beings, who landed in the ruins of Black Mountain, discovered the fleeing Linsey and rescued him from the Revivalist.

Exhausted, Linsey fell into a coma.

I only just slowly woke up from the ship, and I don't even know what time it is:

"Can you tell me how long I slept?"

The knight at the bow gave a reassuring smile:

"It's only half a day."

After finding the answer, the knight noticed Linsey looking around at the water.

Before the other party could ask any questions, he took the initiative to explain, "The number of Living Corpse exceeds our original estimate, and most of them have escaped to the Black Mountain World. It is probably difficult for just a few of us to handle them."

"So whether it's clearing the ruins of that city or the subsequent extermination of the Living Corpse, we need to go back and gather manpower."

We're heading to the Courtyard in the Forest.

Linsey understood the situation, but also had some doubts. "Bo Gong also knew about the situation here. Didn't he give you accurate information when he went back?"

"The information is correct." The knight shook his head with a wry smile, "But we think his description is a bit too outlandish, so we plan to verify it first."

"In terms of facts, Bo Gong is right..."

As they were talking, Linsey sat up from the boat.

The knight originally wanted to elaborate further on the tremendous changes that had taken place in Black Mountain.

But his senses were quite sharp, and he noticed Linsey's weakness as she sat up:

"By the way, your name is Linsey?"

Linsey nodded in agreement:

"That's right."

The Cavaliers were very concerned about Linsey's condition. "Linsey, if you are really tired, you can continue to rest."

Linsey shook her head. "I have no problems now. Ask me anything you want to ask."

"Then I won't stand on ceremony." After confirming that Linsey could answer, the Knight continued, "First of all, what I want to know is naturally the reason why Black Mountain became like this."

The knight looked behind him.

Even though we've been here for half a day, the collapse of a Mountain Peak is still unbelievable.

"The Dragon Beast is fighting a Seventh Stage enemy."

Sitting in the middle of the small boat, Linsey began to describe the experience in detail. "They fought to the death, and the final result is as you can see: the entire Mountain Peak was reduced to ruins, and the Dragon Beast also died here."

The knight pressed further, "Could you elaborate on the situation of those who fought the Dragon Beast?"

"Bo Gong should have told you about our ordeal," Linsey reminded him, "That's the guy who sniped at us from underground."

"He can slip into the shadows, instantly move his position, and emit a terrifying mist that can pull people into the Dark World."

Listening to Linsey's description.

The knight frowned, clearly realizing the troublesome nature of the Dark Abyss, and even more puzzled by the other party's profession.

Among the enemies he had encountered, there seemed to be none like this.

After hearing Linsey's explanation, before the knight could ask any further questions, the old man who had remained silent suddenly spoke up:

"He is an awakened one of the Absolute Darkness Element."

"The Living Corpse of the Black Mountain World were probably created by him."

As soon as the old man spoke, the knight's attitude became extremely respectful. "Lord Ke Saiwei Lait, I don't seem to have heard of the Path of the Awakener of Absolute Darkness?"

The old man explained calmly, "Absolute Darkness is one of the three major schools of the Chaos Abyss."

"They once threatened the entire universe, and were therefore completely annihilated, eventually being forgotten in history."

"..."

The knight looked somewhat bewildered.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the great waterfall is just ahead!"

Just then, a young man from another small boat called out to them, "Lord Ke Saiwei Lait, please prepare a spell!"

Rumble—

Amid the calls of the young people, the sound of rushing water came from afar.

Linsey turned her head to look.

The roaring river abruptly stopped ahead, then rushed downstream.

—This is a large waterfall.

Linsey recalled a passage from the Expedition Team's logbook.

Following the great waterfall upstream, we broke through the Courtyard in the Forest and arrived in a new world. Facing us was a snow-capped mountain, and the great waterfall connecting the two worlds was formed by its melting snow.

The Great Falls is what connects the two worlds! To get to the Black Mountain World from the other side, you must go upstream, and to return from here, you naturally...

"Are we going to go down to the bottom of the waterfall?"

Rumble—

The sound of the flowing water grew louder and louder, and the rushing waves propelled the small boat forward at high speed.

In the blink of an eye.

The waterfall cascading down is right there.

But after the small boat crossed the boundary, it did not fall straight down due to gravity.

Instead, it moved smoothly downwards along the vertical water surface!

It felt as if inertia and gravity were ignored, and the body was moving directly in a vertical plane! Linsey suddenly turned her head.

Although he was seriously injured, his ability to sense the Essence had not disappeared.

At that very moment, Linsey noticed a subtle fluctuation of Essence emanating from the old man beside her.

What kind of ability is this? Manipulating gravity?

"Oh right, I haven't introduced myself yet."

The knight at the bow noticed Linsey's movements.

He laughed heartily and enthusiastically introduced Linsey: "Lord Ke Saiwei Lait is a great wizard of the Seventh Stage and a guardian of the border."

Then, the knight pointed to himself. "As for me, I am a Law Knight."

"You can just call me Han Si Ke."