Space wailed.
It wasn't a sound, but a sharp, tearing sensation that struck directly at the soul. The boundary of the park before me-that invisible wall-rippled like water struck by a stone, the waves growing ever more violent. Colors peeled away, lines collapsed, and the fabric of reality was forcibly warped and torn by a brutal force!
I had done this. I had taken every scrap of power left inside me-the notebook's restless energy, the cold rules left by the Chapter of Binding, and my own will on the verge of collapse-and hurled it all against that spatial barrier like a bomb compressed to its absolute limit!
The notebook in my hand let out a shriek of near ecstasy! It greedily drank in the primal energy of chaos spilling from the rupture in space. The vein patterns on its cover glowed blindingly bright, and the azure ice-crystal mark flashed madly, as though resonating with that power! The shackles groaned under the tremendous impact, cracks spreading across them like a spiderweb!
What was the price? I no longer had time to care. Every inch of muscle, every nerve in my body screamed in agony. Amid the storm of pure energy, my consciousness was a candle in a gale, ready to go out at any moment. Warped, bizarre colors filled my vision. All I could hear was the shriek of shattering space and the notebook's satisfied hiss.
Crack-!
A tremendous crash rang out, as though a universe of glass had shattered!
At last, a huge, irregular opening was torn through the invisible spatial barrier! Beyond it lay no ordinary Vienna street, but a churning void of chaotic colors and geometric fragments!
The Rift Corridor?! Was that what lay beyond the spatial barrier?!
*No! This was even more chaotic than the Rift Corridor,