Chapter 915: Double Seas (2/2)

But now, every advantage Krune had accumulated so far was perfectly suppressed. At present, Krune wasn't even sure if he would revive upon death. He didn't know how much of a suppression now had on him.

'Right, the tablet,' Krune thought as he tried to summon the tablet. Sadly, nothing happened. There wasn't any reaction from the dot in his glabella either. Well, to be honest, he couldn't even sense it now.

Thinking for a moment, Krune tapped his glabella once, noticing that nothing happened. Frowning, he double-tapped it, sighing in relief as something condensed before him, turning into the tablet a second later.

[Layer 3: Double Ocean]

[Total Participants: 341,533]

”That's…” Krune frowned, recalling the crowd in the plains when the entrance to the Sub-Realm opened. Estimating the losses that might have happened in Layer 4, the current number displayed on the tablet should be the total people in the Sub-Realm.

”Wait…Double Ocean… don't tell me.” Recalling the odd feeling he had been having since the start, Krune looked up immediately, cursing aloud, ”Fuck!”

After all, just above him was another layer of water, one that expanded as far and wide as the one he was currently floating on. An ocean on the bottom, and an ocean above him. There was only a gap of three meters between the two ocean surfaces. It was barely anything, making him feel like the sky was pressing down on him.

Moreover, it seemed that gravity was reversed from the mid-point, about 150 centimeters from the ocean surface of either side. Krune then stood up on the Escapist's back as his head and shoulder crossed the mid-point of the air layer, immediately feeling the pull on his body change.

From below his shoulder, he was acted upon by his weight, pulling him down. But above that, he was being pulled up. The sensation his head felt was as if he was standing upside down, a perfect contrast to what his body currently felt. If Krune made a jump now and more than half his body weight crossed to the other side, he would surely plunge into the ocean above. On top of that, his perspective would be reversed.

The ocean above would look normal, while the one he was currently in would look like the sky was covered by water.

In the mid-point of the air layer, someone kept a mirror and made a mirror image of the ocean below. With that, it created two regions.

If Krune wasn't careful while moving and jumped by mistake, he would crash into the ocean flowing overhead. It was a simple layout but established a complex dynamic. A lot had to be considered before one took any action.

”Just like before, I have no idea as to how to obtain any Godly Points. I don't even know how I can use the Godly Points I have accumulated here,” Krune sighed as he muttered, scratching his head as he looked at the tablet.

It was already unresponsive back then when he was able to use Godly Energy. But now, he couldn't even control it using his thought. Krune eventually double-tapped its surface, watching it turn into a dot and disappear into his glabella.

He then repeated the same action, taking out the tablet and retracting it to familiarise himself with the action. Krune looked around, noticing how there wasn't anything within the range of his vision. For as far as he could see, there was only the ocean and the churning waves.

Thankfully, the waves weren't that strong, at most spanning 10 centimeters in height. Nevertheless, the constant shaking was making his stomach feel a bit odd.

Even then, Krune was thankful for the fact the Escapist was present in the scene. If he had retracted it, then he would have no other choice but to swim through the ocean, an action that was bound to tire him out immediately. After all, he wasn't a good swimmer.

Well, to be more exact, he had Spiritual or Godly Energy to use. So, in any action he performed, he could supplement himself with them by activating a couple of suitable techniques. But now, all he could rely on was his incredulously nerfed body.

Without any energy to bank upon, he didn't have much choice in the matter. It was a stroke of luck, but he had been riding the Escapist all along. Which was why it was transported along with him.

Whatever the laws that worked to achieve that, it had sensed that Krune and the Escapist were a single entity. And hence, they were transported as one. Krune tried a couple of times to summon the Pestlor from his subspace, though nothing happened. To add even more insult to injury, his storage rings were no different from metal rings at present.

Krune didn't even have any weapon to defend himself from the threats of the place. He was completely helpless. The Escapist wasn't any different from him. At the very least, it was able to brandish its claws and use its powerful jaw to attack.

There was at least something he could rely on for protection. Though, as a faint wind blew through the place, Krune trembled. His head hurt while he began to sneeze. He hadn't dried himself yet. Not long after that, his face paled as he spotted a shadow move past in the ocean above him.

The shadow was…massive. It was akin to a blue whale in size, an enormous existence to his current mortal form. Even the Escapist, after it was turned into its mortal self, was only two meters in height.

It was thanks to its wingspan of four meters it was able to remain afloat, even with Krune on its back.

”Well...I'll be damned,” Krune muttered helplessly.