51 Continental Drif (1/2)
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From below, an incredibly deep moaning grumble came. It sounded as if some great beast, larger than any leviathan buried under the earth, was rolling over and singing a mournful funeral dirge. Lineir's entire body felt as if it was vibrating and all the bones in his body were grinding together.
”ACK, what is this!” Beside him, the girl was also rolling about, and she was scratching herself.
”It itches!” Lineir, whose face was screwed up by the intensely uncomfortable sensation, saw outside the cave, something strange was happening. He could see a large patch of starry sky and in it the stars appeared to be moving slightly, just barely shifting.
”What, how can all the stars suddenly decide to move!” He shouted and tried to jump to his feet. However, the ground shook and he quickly found himself on his elbows and knees again. Looking outside, he stared for a long time before Mei declared,
”Kiddo... the stars aren't moving at all. It's you that's moving. Look outside.”
Lineir inched carefully towards the cave entrance, making sure to keep some space from the edge, he had no desire to fall off from a sudden shift in the earth. All around, trees were swaying, leaves falling, and magical beasts were chittering madly. Clearly, they too felt the strange deep grinding hum.
”Kiddo... I think your continent has begun to move! If everything around you is traveling with you, but the stars appear to be moving, the only answer is that this continent's foundations have been shaken loose, the whole landmass is now floating freely in the ocean!”
Abruptly, the shaking stopped, but above, it felt like the stars were just barely wobbling. Even with his extraordinary eyesight as a cultivator, he wasn't too sure, but it was as if they were swaying, sashaying across the sky. Mei surmised,
”I believe, somehow, this continent has slid off its foundation, and begun to drift freely, as you can see the stars appear to move, that must be because your continent is floating atop the currents. Where it is going though... I do not know. For an entire continent to move, even the gods would not lightly do such a thing. This plane... something is happening here.”
BANG
From behind, the girl who had been rolling around on the floor, smashed a taloned foot into the rock wall.
”Argh! It itches so bad, what's wrong with this continent!”
Before Lineir's astounded eyes, glowing blue rings of solid light spread all around her body and then shrunk in. Within moments, there was a blinding blue flash, and then she was gone, the crushed rocks the only sign of her presence remaining.
”What?” Lineir scrubbed his eyes, and looked all around the cave.
”Gone? Just like that?”
In the dusty twilight, as the bloody mists of cut throats fell over the fabled battlefields, the white haired man called out,
”I know you're there Dahn, before the demons move again, let's talk.” In front of him, an indistinct figure shrouded in purple mist formed.