29 The Perfect Prison (2/2)

When she came back to her senses, she still didn't know what to think.

Looking at the nearby rooftop of the building across the street, she was assaulted by a negligent and crazy idea. And even after a while, it didn't go away. In the end, she succumbed and decided to try it out.

In the next instant, the entire world around her changed. Before her eyes was now her family's inn and her feet onto her neighbor's rooftop!

Flustered, she hastily used another Complex Energy particle to activate her Racial Skill, and instantly returned back to her initial position.

(I-it should be fine. Mother told me that First Level Body Evolution Auras are so small that one has to actively search for it to feel it. Nobody should have 'seen' it yet… probably.)

Only after making sure that the Auras around her hadn't reacted to her movements did she finally heave a sigh of relief.

With that out of her mind, she slowly looked down at her own hand, and muttered in a quivering voice: \”A mutant… a mutant…!\”

Evidently, her Racial Skill wasn't the gorgon's Poison Control Racial Skill but a skill that allowed her to teleport!

The only explanation to it was indeed that she had actually been a mutant all along.

What an incredible and scary discovery it was!

Incredible because of how rare and unlikely mutants were, and scary for this implied that she was the only one of her kind and that her future wouldn't be like how she had thought it would be and was now completely uncertain.

It took her quite a while to calm herself and accept what had just happened.

Eventually, she raised her head and took a good look at the dark clouds in the sky. (If I use this skill wisely, good things will come out of it… definitely.)

She kept staring at the sky hopefully for an undetermined amount of time.

Then, all of a sudden, her body trembled, her eyes widened, and her breathing became ragged!

\”No! No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!\” Shaking her head furiously, she struggled to dismiss the insane idea that had just now popped up in her mind.

\”I said no!\” Fuming, she strode toward the stairs to the fourth floor of the inn.

But it was useless. It was completely useless. The idea was just too preposterous to be shrugged off so easily.

Before reaching the stairs, she stopped and sighed ruefully, head hanging low.

\”Let's hope this doesn't kill me…\” Muttering this, she abruptly vanished.

At an altitude of 315 000 km above sea level, a place devoid of Complex and Mystical Energy.

The first thing Caroline Darrel did after appearing was to hold her breath, and the second was to get utterly amazed.

No painting could possible capture such vastness, complexity, or beauty.

Drifting clouds of varying tones, misty seas, towering mountains, lands of almost every color, and even the floating island of the Scientist's Guild were all part of the scenery Caroline Darrel beheld.

From this place, she could view the entirety of the Continent of Civilized Races.

The Broken Earth Kingdom looked like a giant prairie with hundreds of forests and lakes, and riddled with innumerable 'cracks'. She knew these 'cracks' were immense rivers, and that because of them this kingdom was named 'Broken Earth Kingdom'.

The High Mountain Kingdom, the Monster Human Kingdom, the Shadow Human Kingdom, and the Harpy Kingdom were all clearly differentiated from each other thanks to their unique geographical characteristics.

Even the Dead Land, the Civilized Race War battlefield, was completely within her sight.

Due to how dazed she was, she nearly asphyxiated for being at that height for too long.

She was forced to teleport back to her rooftop in a fluster.

*Pant!* *pant* *pant!* ….

Caroline Darrel gasped for air greedily for almost half a minute.

\”T-that was… absolutely… awesome…\”

When she recovered, she breathed in and held her breath, then teleported again to where she had just been.

This time she didn't look down, but up.

There was only the satellite Blue in her line of sight, but it alone was beautiful enough to accelerate her heartbeats.

There were so many stars, so many there was more light than darkness.

Caroline Darrel only gawked at the sky for a brief period of time before shaking her head. She hadn't come here to do that.

Although she was pretty high, the gravity should still be strong enough to pull her down; but she wasn't falling at all.

There was obviously a reason for that to happen.

Gingerly, she stretched out her hand toward the sky. First, the tips of her fingers disappeared, and then her entire fingers. Caroline Darrel didn't seem surprised at all as her hand slowly vanished. She knew that the cause of this phenomenon was the invisible barrier that covered the entire almost-spherical world.

Caroline Darrel continued inserting her arm into the barrier, and, sensing that nothing was amiss, nodded to herself.

Knowing already that it was safe, she teleported 2 m in front of her.

What she saw next were the satellites White and Red along with countless stars.

It was the sky looked from the other side of the world!

Although she had heard of this before, experiencing it herself was still exhilarant!

Gravity was almost zero around the World Barrier, that's why Caroline Darrel wasn't falling. It was reasonable for this to be the case since at the World Barrier gravity pulled with equal strength from both sides.

Due to this barrier that was to date impossible to bypass–even teleportation didn't work–, the planet Tifitia was often referred to as The Perfect Prison.

Caroline Darrel looked down.

Clouds; and beyond them, a mirror-like ocean that if Caroline Darrel didn't know any better, she would confound it with the sky itself.

Turning her gaze around, she soon found a dome made of raging wind and thick clouds so massive it enclosed an area two times the size of the entire Continent of Civilized Races!

The Forbidden Dark Lands.

After gawking at such beautiful scenery for a couple of seconds, she couldn't hold her breath any longer, so she reluctantly teleported back.

*Pant!* *pant* *pant!* ….

It took her a long while to stabilize her breathing.

(Perhaps, being how I'm now, they'll accept me in their party…) Thinking about how amazing her Racial Skill was, a hopeful light flared in her eyes.