Lu Cang and Kumiloni floated in the dark space. Just minutes earlier, they had been surrounded by deep, pitch-black, viscous seawater.
Now, however, the space around them seemed frighteningly vast.
A gigantic sphere hung before them.
Just by sensing it, he could tell it was a planet.
But it wasn't a vibrant planet like Earth. It was a lifeless, barren world covered only in dry soil.
"Where are we?" Lu Cang asked Ansu in his mind.
Ansu replied dismissively, "Where else?"
"This is the Sea Abyss, the bottom of the ocean, and one of the Three Great Abysses."
"The Three Great Abysses?"
Lu Cang had heard of the Abyss. He'd heard that it was bottomless and home to countless monsters.
"That's right. This is the Sea Abyss, and you're on its first layer."
Lu Cang recalled the past.
When he had explored the Secret Sea, he seemed to have received a few hints from Secret Origin.
But the message back then had said he'd entered "the Ocean's Lair—the Second Layer of the Sea Abyss."
That was where he'd encountered the creature whose Death Date was 19,999 years away.
"What kind of danger is here? Why aren't there any monsters?"
As he asked, Lu Cang gazed toward the fate of the future and drew Fate cards to divine what lay ahead.
He was already getting closer and closer to Earth.
At his top speed, he estimated he'd reach it in less than an hour.
The closer he got, the more cautious he became.
The divination still gave him three Death cards.
Even after drawing again, he still got three White of Death and Destruction cards.
Ansu said, "Why aren't there any monsters?"
"Heh, good question..."
While Ansu chuckled, Lu Cang had already gleaned a very ominous answer from his thoughts.
"Weak