Chapter 302: Dimensional Passageway (2) (2/2)
Most of those spells already reached Skilled Proficiency with the 4-nodes ones reaching the Expert Proficiency.
[Level 5 Support Expert System (99%)]
[Ability: Level 2 Adaptability (75%)]
Consequently, my Mortal Pathway stopped at 99%. It's not that I ran out of Energy to use, I just couldn't absorb more than that.
In a way, I expected that. I am currently cut off from any Source Energy I have adapted to in this place. And this place even has the possibility of having been frozen in time.
Reaching 99% was already a miracle in a way if I closed my eyes on how many tanks filled with Dark Energy I emptied. In my somewhat honest estimation, the amount of Dark Energy I converted and absorbed is equivalent to the first five Zones we raided.
Let's not talk about Adaptability. There's still a ways to go before it will completely fill up. Although I'm also already impatient at how slow it gained another percentage, there's nothing I can do about its slow progress.
I could've continued to grind it even for an additional single percent increase, but I decided to stop once the view in front of me exhibited a change.
A single dot could now be seen in the immeasurable distance. Not only that, the size of the passageway actually widened. If at first, only two people could fit before one could reach the walls of this passageway where a glass-like screen was forbidding me from jumping out, it could now fit at least eight.
With my entire focus fully trained on it, the dot gradually grew in size. The Dark Energy flowed with that dot as the source also grew stronger. If earlier it was just a stream, it became a raging river which filled 3/4 of this passageway, the remaining 1/4 occupied by the stream of Elemental Energy which exited that dot which has now transformed into a tiny hole.
”The Dark World…”
I muttered a little loudly just to refresh my mind. During the inestimable time which I spent in this passageway, I knew that I already talked to myself for more than just ten times. The eerie silence and the endless darkness which I could stare into could possibly drive someone mad. Even with my Adaptability, I was still affected.
Maybe it was just something everyone would experience during the first time traveling through a Dimensional Passageway like this but still… If I can choose to, I will want someone to accompany me on this journey to a new world.
As the tiny hole continued to grow larger, I started feeling some sort of unease.
I took out the Willful Sword, the Totem and the Orbs. I could only do this, preparing to enter combat as soon as I stepped out of this Passageway.
When the hole grew to the size where it could fit a grown adult man, the view of what's outside this Passageway started to be shown.
Contrary to the world's name, the sky in that world isn't as dark. I didn't see it clearly when the screen turned up when I was closing the Portal in the World of Spirits but now, I will not only see it, I will also be standing beneath that sky.
Well, even if it will be just for a split second.
One thing to note though is that the view that the Portal was showing me was also frozen, there's even a creature that was frozen in the sky.
”Was the time really frozen? Was the time I spent inside this Dimensional Passageway would only equate to a split second?”
”If that's the case, why does no one exploiting this place? No. No. It's still hard to conclude that the time was really frozen.”
”Let's think about that later… There's a more pressing issue. Jump back as soon as I got out of the Portal.”
I gripped the Willful Sword in my hand and waited as I slowly approached the huge gaping hole which depicted the scenery outside.
At this moment, my sense of time has started to come back. With every second that passed, it somehow felt like an eternity.
Despite the Adaptability telling me to stay calm and focused, my sweat couldn't help but trickle down my face.
Five meters…
Four meters…
Three meters…
As soon as the tips of my finger touched the surface of the Portal, notifications instantly rang out inside my mind.
[You exited the Dimensional Passageway]
[You have reached your destination: Unlisted Transcendent World> Dark World]
[Ding! You entered another world. Dark World]
[Received +6 Strength, +12 Endurance as World Bonus]
[Will expire upon leaving the world]
[Detected a higher form of Energy]
[Level 2 Dark Energy has already been identified]
[Adapting…]
[The World's Will has detected your presence]
[The World's Will is trying to forcefully summon your consciousness]