The appearance of the rift was very abrupt and Lin Mu couldn’t detect it in time.
By the time he sensed the spatial disturbance, it had already started to manifest.
“Shit!” Lin Mu cursed as he felt the pull of the large rift.
They had seen rifts before, but this was certainly the biggest one they had seen before.
“How is there such a large rift like this? It’s not even a recorded one!” Kunzi exclaimed.
The rift was nearly three hundred meters tall, and was expanding in width. The more it expanded the more sea water was sucked into it. This also caused the ship to be pulled alongside the water.
“REVERSE!” Elder Niji quickly got to work and tried to amend the situation.
He directly controlled the sea water and forced it to flow backwards.
~SHUA~
The ship rose up into the air along with a large wave.
~GUSH~
Unfortunately this didn’t help as they had thought. The rift only kept on increasing size and more sea water was pulled into it.
“I can’t hold it back anymore!” Elder Niji shouted.
Lin Mu spread his spirit sense, trying to see if he could deal with the space itself somehow.
‘Dammit, what kind of a rift is this? The spatial fabric around it has turned into soft cheese.’ Lin Mu discovered.
The spatial fabric was too weak at this moment. Lin Mu reckoned if a strong enough attack hit the general area, it might tear the fabric even more. Not to mention, if Lin Mu used any of his spatial skills, there was a great chance of the entire area collapsing on itself.
“What are the options now… think… coordinates! Yes spatial coordinates!” Lin Mu quickly tried to memorize the area’s space.
He knew there was no way to avoid the rift as of now, but he could still find a way out of they knew the coordinates.
~WHOOSH~
Lin Mu didn’t get much time to do this though, as the ship was soon sucked into the rift.
“Everyone hold on tight!” Lin Mu shouted while doing the same.
Elder Niji heightened his control over the water part of the ship as well, to ensure the Haima members wouldn’t be thrown overboard.
“This won’t be enough…” Lin Mu knew the space would only get more turbulent.
By now the rift was nearly six hundred meters wide, and looked like a giant maw opening up on the sea. Its inside was also grey in color, making it hard to tell where it led to.
‘Considering the high force of this and the weakness of the spatial fabric, there is a great chance for it to be another plane.’ Lin Mu reckoned.
He could at least tell that the rift wasn’t one of those that led them directly to the bottom of the sea.
In just five seconds, the rift devoured the entire ship.
The Haima members as well as the humans screamed in fear. The convicts were sure that their lives would be forfeit soon enough. The environment around them changed quickly upon their entry into the rift. From the dim light of evening, it directly became pitch black, terrifying them to no end.
Lin Mu though still had his spatial perception active so he could ‘see’ the area around him.
“A teleportation channel? No… its too unstable to be one.” Lin Mu could see that the weakness in space had carried over here as well.
While the spatial fabric was weak outside, in here the walls of this tunnel seemed to be weaker too, having holes and tears in it.
In this time, Immortal Taegu used the ship’s arrays to illuminate the area. He was still steering the ship and needed at least some light to figure out where they were going. This allowed the people on the ship to see where they were now.
‘This should be a temporary spatial channel that didn’t stabilize completely…’ Lin Mu saw sea water falling through the ‘cracks’ and holes in the tunnel.
~ROAR~
~CRY~
The people on the ship could even see a few unfortunate aquatic beasts get swept into the holes if the tunnel. And once they fell out, they were shredded into a bloody mist from the chaotic spatial energy outside the tunnel.
This was the most terrifying part of entering the void that many only heard of. But today they were getting to witness it firsthand.
~RUMBLE~
“ARGH!” Immortal Taegu and many others grunted in pain as the ship was rocked hard. “No!” The ship suddenly started to swerve to the side.
“Turn! We’ll fall into the crack!” Head warrior Kulo urged.
“I’m trying! I can’t change the direction. The water is flying into the crack and pulling us along!” Immortal Taegu replied.
Elder Niji tried to control the water directly and change the direction too, but the force of space was simply too strong.
Lin Mu gritted his teeth and raised his right hand.
“MELD!” Lin Mu commanded.
A patch of space that they had just passed by, was ‘gasped’ by Lin Mu at that moment.
“MOVE!” Lin Mu clasped his right hand with his left while pulling at the space.
~THUD~
He was just about to be lifted into air from this force, but then he stopped controlling his body weight.
~CREAK~
The entire ship creaked from the sudden weight being forced onto it.
~RUMBLE~
Lin Mu kept on pulling at the space, slowing down their movement.
“ARGH!” Lin Mu grunted and increased his strength even more.
He was now directly grasping the very space itself, having condensed a part of it using meld.
~GUSH~
But the flow of the water was going diagonally now, making Lin Mu lift into the air again.
“I won’t allow that! Aspect of heaviness!” Lin Mu directly quadrupled the weight of his body, using it as a crude anchor.
“We… Stopped?” Immortal Taegu was stunned.
“HAAA!!!! SHIFT!” Lin Mu gathered all his power in the right hand before pushing away.
~RUSH~
The ship was forcefully diverted from its path!
