Sir Awen spoke with mixed emotions:
"Lynn, there's no need to be so pessimistic. Whatever the future holds, nothing is certain yet. If we let ourselves fear every fate that might await us, how are we supposed to keep going?"
Colossus looked straight into Lynn's eyes. In a rare gesture, she reached out her little hand and took his clenched fist.
She was comforting him.
"We won't leave you alone."
Since they had already promised to fight side by side, of course they would live to the end together and see the ending they wanted.
If they truly failed.
Then they would die together.
Because they had never feared death.
At last, Lynn led them through the Sea of Mists into the Main Universe. After warping through space again and again, he finally brought them near the ruins of the Battle of Heaven, where he had once arrived while fleeing that projection of Calamity.
In the silent, lightless void, a spatial rift tore open, and Lynn appeared with the three of them near that shattered star system.
"This is the place."
Lynn warily sensed the presences within this vast cosmos.
"After Aivier and I left the Abyss, I followed the guidance of the lingering consciousness that Great Lord left behind and eventually found this place. But from the looks of it, that projection of Calamity must have left after it lost track of me."
Colossus and the others surveyed their surroundings.
This was an uninhabited stretch of deep space.
There was almost no light anywhere across the vast surrounding expanse. Even the nearest galaxy was an immeasurable distance away.
In the Main Universe, even civilizations capable of interstellar voyages and the God Race would never venture into such dead, silent deep space without a special reason. There was