“If you can do that, then we will be back before the sun rises,” Lu Bela stated.
“Then let’s go.”
Rudy placed his hand on Lu Bela’s shoulder and teleported to the beach where he had dropped Cassandra and John.
“So this is teleportation…” Lu Bela muttered.
“Why do you look surprised?” Rudy asked. “You have teleporting devices, too, right?”
“Yes, but this is different.”
SIGH!
“Show me the exact location of the castle on the map. I will fly there real quick, teleport back here, and then teleport us both there.”
“Or you can simply take me with you instead of going the extra mile?”
“Did you not hear when I said I will be flying at a speed faster than lightning? I will break my body into a lightning matter. Obviously, your body wouldn’t be able to stand such speed and pressure.”
“That’s true, but I wanted to test the durability of this body. I have used our new skin and flesh prototype, which is five times more delicate yet strong than the previous version. I also had extra functions like self-healing and super metabolism— although I only added that because I assumed Angelica would need that.”
“Let’s talk about this once we reach the castle. Now, show me the precise location.”
Lu Bela entered specific coordinates on her tablet, and a location appeared on the screen. It was an open sea, with no land visible.
“Hey, hey. I can’t see any land. Did the castle also sink already?”
“No, this image is from the satellite. But it only covers a certain diameter of the earth. The rest of the part is considered sea.”
“I don’t think that’s how satellites work. But are you saying that it’s showing a wrong image?” he asked to confirm.
“Yes. You will know once you reach there.”
“Alright.” Rudy cracked his fingers and neck before saying, “You might want to step back. I will be right back.”
Rudy jumped in the air and turned his body into a lightning matter. The matter changed its shape into a lightning bolt as its color changed from red to violet to white.
Rudy penetrated the clouds and went straight into space. Then, he circled around the earth and descended on the coordinates Lu Bela had shown him.
He slowly decreased his speed by changing the lightning’s matter and landed on top of the sea with blue lightning.
However, he didn’t change back to his human form and dived into the sea. His lightning slowly dispersed and automatically turned into flesh and skin.
Rudy saw the submerged island and blew bubbles from his mouth.
“Holy shit. This is not an island… it’s a fucking continent.”
He teleported to Lu Bela and shrugged his shoulders to dry himself clean.
“That took you fifteen seconds.”
“Yeah… I was stuck in traffic.”
He grabbed Lu Bela by her waist and teleported to the castle, but as Lu Bela couldn’t stand on the sea like Rudy, she hugged Rudy to prevent herself from falling into the sea.
“Uhh…” Rudy gazed at the two soft balloons pressing against him.
“You could have found a better spot to teleport to,” Lu Bela remarked.
“Well, I didn’t want to step on the land for some reason. But…” Rudy looked at the castle and said, “It looks great.”
Lu Bela followed Rudy’s gaze and said, “Yeah. Sadly, it will be fully submerged in the sea after a few years.”
“I have a solution to that.”
“You don’t plan to decrease the sea level, right? Because that’s not a solution. If you decrease the sea level, it will cause a drastic change in the earth’s balance.”
“No, I will just increase the mass of land and use it as a base.”
“But…” Lu Bela pondered for a few seconds and asked, “Do you mean you will increase the size of the land?”
“Yeah.”
“Wouldn’t that increase the size of the castle too?”
“No. I will only increase the size of the seabed. Let’s say… I will create a mountain on which the entire continent will stay on.”
“Hmm… do you think that will be able to hold everything?”
“It will.”
“Go ahead and try it.”
“I can’t go until you let go of me.”
“That’s fine. This body had increased lung capacity with low oxygen usage. So even a single breath is enough for the body to work for three minutes… If I take a deep breath, I can manage ten minutes without breathing.”
“It won’t take that long.”
Rudy dipped into the sea and landed on the sea bed.
He pointed his finger at the buildings and structures on the land and asked, “Do I actually need the entire island when I only want the castle?”
Lu Bela opened her mouth to speak something, but she was struggling to speak underwater, so she simply nodded.
‘Well, I do want to explore this dynasty. If I don’t find or see anything meaningful, I will drown everything later— except the castle.’
Rudy went beneath the island to find the actual seabed of the sea, but the island was too big. So Rudy punched the land and made his way to the other side.
‘Got it!’
He placed his one hand on the island and the other on the sea bed.
‘Let’s do this!’
He increased the size of the base and the level of the seabed to raise the island back to the surface of the sea. He lifted the entire island with one hand and tossed it out of the sea.
“….!” Lu Bela, who witnessed everything, couldn’t believe her eyes. She knew how powerful Rudy was as a Lord, but to do something like that was incomprehensible to her.
She swam up to the surface to see what happened to the island, and saw it hovering in the sky.
“Wha…t? How…” She looked at Rudy under the water. Her eyes widened as she realized what was happening.
“No way… he is holding the island— the size of a continent— in the air using telekinesis? And he is focused on creating a surface to land this island on. He is not even paying attention to the island.
If… he can do something like this without showing a sign of struggling… he can crush the earth like a paper ball if he wants. He is… no, everyone in this universe is living at his mercy. If he were to become an Evil Lord… there wouldn’t be any hero to save the universe.”
