A fitting description.
Although they were inside a strange, enclosed space, that didn't stop everyone from sensing the changes one after another. The "commotion" was simply too great.
It wasn't physical weightlessness, but something more like a spiritual sense of disorientation, as though they were being swallowed by eternal darkness.
All in all, Su Gao's metaphor had been quite apt. The fact that no one had objected long after she said it proved as much.
Then came a suffocating silence. The seemingly endless descent was undoubtedly a tremendous test of their will. Lord Stos even seemed to be repeatedly weighing the necessity of resorting to his last measure.
"Can you hear that?"
Amid the oppressive atmosphere, A Kai suddenly lifted his head. Looking at the others with some uncertainty, he asked cautiously.
"I can, but it's very faint."
He clearly wasn't the first to hear it. Aiko had already let out a small breath, showing that she'd sensed it too.
It was a sound, and seemed to be singing.
It wasn't exactly melodious, more like someone humming almost inaudibly through their nose, but it carried remarkably well.
So much so that even the wooden boat—which suppressed the senses of Second Order superhumans—couldn't block it at all. Before long, it was echoing through the vessel.
Strange, but it didn't seem like a bad thing. At least something had finally changed.
Without hiding her reaction, Aiko looked toward Stos beside her. His expression seemed to have eased a little, too.
"What is that now?"
But before they could discuss it further, she suddenly cried out.
The singing continued, but at some point the "descent" abruptly stopped, as if the wooden boat had passed through a terrifying vortex and reached the seafloor with a hard landing.
Though the scenery on this seafloor