Everyone nodded in understanding.
"Then let's go."
Mist opened a passage into the Interdimension.
The twelve team members entered one after another, disappearing into the hazy rift.
Guanlan prayed within the network. "I hope they return safely."
"They will," Niu said. "Because they aren't fighting alone. The entire network is supporting them."
The Interdimension was even stranger than they had imagined.
There was no clear concept of space here. Up, down, left, and right had all lost their meaning.
Time grew hazy too. They could not tell whether a second or an hour had passed.
The only thing they could rely on was Mist's guidance.
It was in its element here, finding its way with ease.
"The first target... is over there..." Mist pointed toward a deeper patch of darkness.
"It's absorbing... residual energy from the rifts... preparing for the dark era..."
The team approached cautiously.
Soon, they "saw" their first Epoch Predator.
It was a constantly shifting mass of shadow, with no fixed form, radiating nothing but pure hunger.
The space around it warped, eroded by its very presence.
"What a powerful aura..." Su whispered. "This one is probably at the peak of the fifth dimension."
"Are we really going to provoke it?"
"Even if we don't provoke it, we have to make things unpleasant for it," Lin Ye said.
He signaled the others to get ready, then launched their first harassment attack.
Hyper-true force extended silently, changing the definition of the space around the shadow.
"The energy here is not food, but poison."
The definition took effect. The energy the shadow had just absorbed suddenly became corrosive.
The shadow convulsed violently, letting out a soundless roar.
It began searching everywhere for its attackers.
But Mist had already led the team to another location.
"It worked!" Three Aspects said