Whoosh! Art Student suddenly appeared in the vacuum of space, floating silently amid endless darkness as faint starlight flickered around him.
He instinctively looked around, a sense of novelty rising within him. This was his first time using dimensional traversal. Everything felt new. This stretch of empty space was so vast and tranquil, as though it had isolated him from everything else.
But upon closer inspection, he discovered that the nearby star systems all seemed extremely distant. Even the closest one appeared to be at least a light-year away.
Art Student's goal was clear—find the Void Dragon fragment. He had no interest in conquering these star systems now, because that was not why he had come.
So, once again following the sensation deep within his heart, he unhesitatingly used dimensional traversal toward the Void Dragon fragment.
Dimensional traversal was vastly different from dimensional jumping.
Dimensional traversal was an innate talent of the C'tan. Without this ability, the galaxy was so boundless that it would have been difficult for the C'tan to reach wherever they wished to go.
Especially when waging a grand war across the entire Milky Way against the Old Ones, who had mastered Webway technology. Without dimensional traversal, travel alone might have taken hundreds, even thousands, of years.
Dimensional jumping, by contrast, resembled a Warp engine. It relied on the power of technology to achieve long-distance travel.
However, using a dimensional jump engine was no easy matter. It required specific conditions to function. One needed to find an ownerless dimension in order to make extended dimensional jumps; otherwise, prolonged dimensional jumping was impossible.
Of course, if a C'tan was willing to allow humans, such weak creatures, to enter its dimension, humans could also perform dimensional jumps.
Art Student began his journey, repeatedly traversing dimensions as he sped toward