The basement they were currently in was also a tiny patch of Mad Earth. Its distortion was reversed gravity. In other words, after entering the basement, one had to stand on its ceiling and fight the Earth Elemental Giant Spirit, which was unaffected by the Mad Earth.
"Then why aren't these building materials affected by the Mad Earth either?"
Because they were part of the distortion itself.
The voice beside her ears spoke softly. Iluna muttered another Tobesk slang phrase to complain about her misfortune, then cautiously moved in the darkness. After confirming that she had no broken bones, she realized she had luckily landed face-down in a gap between the construction debris.
"Looks like I'll have to dig myself out. I should've asked Luvia to divine things in advance. Maybe I could've avoided this bad luck."
Though the collapsed building had directly crushed the basement, the reversed gravity remained. Thus, rather than saying Iluna was lying on the ground, it was more accurate to say she was floating upside down in the gap.
"Thaumaturgy—Echo Tracking."
Iluna closed her eyes and lightly tapped a brick beside her. A few seconds later, the reverberating echoes formed a simple three-dimensional map of the nearby area in her mind.
"My luck isn't too bad. As long as I push this slab aside, I can get out."
She tried moving her body, first attempting to push upward. Then she realized that, in her subconscious, the normal posture still meant pushing downward, making it rather awkward to exert force.
So Iluna pressed both hands against the true ground, raised her feet upward, and kicked at the huge slab pressing down from above in a handstand.
Several thaumaturgies enhanced her strength. Iluna straightened her legs in that inverted posture. As she exerted herself, it actually felt