Everyone nodded in understanding.
"Then, let's move out."
Mist opened a passage leading to the interdimension.
The twelve-member team entered one by one, disappearing into the blurred rift.
Guanlan prayed in the network, "I hope they return safely."
"They will," Niu said. "Because they aren't fighting alone; the entire network is backing them."
The environment of the interdimension was stranger than imagined.
There were no clear spatial concepts here; up, down, left, and right all lost their meaning.
Time also became blurred, making it impossible to know whether a second or an hour had passed.
The only thing that could be relied upon was Mist's guidance.
It was in its element in this environment, easily identifying directions.
"The first target... is over there..." Mist pointed toward a deeper dark area.
"It's absorbing... the residual energy in the rifts... preparing for the dark era..."
The team approached cautiously.
Soon, they "saw" the first Epoch Predator.
It was a constantly shifting shadow without a fixed form, radiating only pure hunger outward.
The space around it was distorted and eroded by its very presence.
"Such a strong aura..." Su said in a low voice. "This one probably has Fifth-Dimensional Apex strength."
"Are we really going to provoke it?"
"Even if we don't provoke it, we have to make it uncomfortable," Lin Ye said.
He signaled the others to prepare, then launched the first harassment.
The Power of the Ultrareal quietly extended, changing the spatial definition around that mass of shadow.
"The energy here isn't food, it's poison."
The definition took effect, and the energy the shadow had just absorbed suddenly turned into a corrosive substance.
The shadow fluctuated violently, emitting a silent roar.
It began searching around for the attackers.
But under Mist's lead, the team had already relocated to another position.
"It