Although Nameless had to hold down the home base and could not leave lightly, he could shift his attention to the Heavenly Demon Insect and the Deep Sea Apostle at any time. It was almost as if he were accompanying them on their mission.
World 5588.
Lin Renmei and Lucifer arrived outside the Pond Sphere aboard the enormous Heavenly Demon Insect. Both women frowned at the sight of it.
The Pond Sphere looked like a pizza broken into pieces. Great quantities of tomato sauce stretched between the fragments like severed lotus roots still joined by threads, while escaping water molecules had gathered into enormous droplets. Many of those droplets held floating corpses.
"Let's go down. I hope Natami's still alive," Lin Renmei said grimly.
Natami was Bo Chou-Lai'en's son and the main person they had come to rescue.
Of course, if they encountered anyone else in need of rescue along the way, they would help them too. They would not stand by and do nothing.
The two women flew into the shattered atmosphere. A moment later, Lucifer frowned. "Something's wrong with the heat here. It's interfering with my mental scans."
"My Bioforce Field is being affected too," Lin Renmei said.
They exchanged a glance and immediately understood each other: they would stay together, no matter what.
Splitting up under these circumstances would be far too dangerous.
"There are living beings up ahead. Go take a look!"
Nameless's voice suddenly came from the Heavenly Demon Insect, which had been following the two women.
They immediately sped up and spotted several Swamp People making their way toward a mountaintop. A sea of magma already surrounded the foot of the mountain. The Swamp People moved slowly, their swamp mud riddled with cracks. Even if they reached the summit, they would probably have turned