Chapter 889: Beneath the Crevice

Saul had Ann continue her collection journey, then transformed into a feather and drifted downward.

He didn’t use a faster descent method because Ann’s mention of a bottomless pit concept, combined with the large amounts of inertized black powder in the soil, made Saul act cautiously.

A single Featherfall spell required almost no magic power to maintain.

After descending about a hundred meters, Saul discovered the crevice hadn’t narrowed and was about the same width as when he’d first fallen into the ground.

After descending another hundred meters, he found half a bone monster skeleton in the soil nearby, then directed Little Algae to gnaw out the bones embedded in stone cracks.

Little Algae greatly enjoyed this work and discovered treasure-hunting-like fun in it, so without Saul’s instructions, it carefully searched through both sides of the cliff walls.

Since Saul descended slowly and Little Algae’s mouth was very sharp, it quickly gnawed out several more bone monster remains.

However, Saul soon had no energy to pay attention to Little Algae’s movements.

After descending another five hundred meters, a heart-palpitating sensation suddenly rushed into his brain.

He lowered his head slightly, looking toward his feet.

Below was still complete darkness; the sunlight from above couldn’t reach here at all. And Saul’s mental power still couldn’t probe to the end.

Just as Ann had said, this seemed like a bottomless crevice. Continuing to fall would only result in more falling.

“How could such a deep crevice suddenly appear here? Was this place once attacked by a fourth-rank wizard, or some other reason?”

Regarding what kind of world the Chaos Realm was and what continent it belonged to, Saul had already speculated in his heart.

He suspected this might be the unlucky continent that was directly devoured by the Abyssal Eye back then.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain why this place was filled with black tide pollution throughout the continent – even though it had been inertized into black powder.

If the Chaos Realm was just one continent, then its area was limited, and its depth should also be limited.

If this bottomless crevice really penetrated the entire continent, what was beneath the continent?

And what did this new space represent? Why did Sander’s ancestors possess a key to this place?

Out of caution regarding black tides, Saul had never deliberately explored the truth of the entire Chaos Realm. But now he needed more bone monsters to resist Frim’s pressure, and having found this crevice was a good opportunity to try exploring.

Saul continued descending. He didn’t know how far he had descended.

Due to the darkness and lack of reference objects around him, concepts of time and space began to blur.

Saul didn’t know how long he had been descending when his feet suddenly seemed to step on something.

But in his mental power perception, there should be nothing here.

His body felt like it had reached the bottom, but his mental power didn’t think so.

Should he continue descending or not?

Saul didn’t hesitate. He chose to continue.

Because there was nothing here except some bone remains, which were no longer as important compared to the secrets of this crevice.

He pressed down slightly with his foot, then… couldn’t press through.

He tried using magic power to explore the bottom layer.

Just like in the Maze Corridor, the magic power was absorbed and vanished without a trace.

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“Are the materials of the Maze Corridor the same as here? Or from the same source?”

Saul stopped, then casually sat cross-legged on the ground.

Though it was dark here, though he had descended very, very deep, this was still the Chaos Realm. There were no enemies around, and elemental particles also floated lazily in the air.

Instead, it formed a quiet, safe dark room.

This kind of dark room was very suitable for meditation and for settling down to think.

“Magic power gets absorbed, but mental power can penetrate. So if using soul projection methods, theoretically it should be possible to pass through this barrier layer.”

But Saul wasn’t in a hurry to try.

“This place is filled with black tide pollution after all. Even if it’s inertized, it can’t be treated carelessly. Rashly projecting my soul here wouldn’t be appropriate either. Let me test it first.”

Saul thought of how he had once used fate lines to pass through the right-angled cracks between two corridors in the Maze Corridor, and had even found Stuart secretly imprisoned by Frim inside.

Perhaps here too he could find a crack to let fate lines pass through.

This time, Saul carefully considered the plan’s feasibility and felt it was worth trying. Moreover, fate lines moved faster than soul bodies and could retreat in time if encountering danger.

In the darkness, Saul extended his hand and gently pressed it against the ground where he sat cross-legged.

This ground was smooth and flat, unlike soil, and even stone bricks couldn’t be this smooth.

It was like a layer of glass, or a layer of plastic film.

Saul tried tapping this layer of film with fate lines. Then he felt a sensation like tapping glass with his finger.

He applied slightly more force, but the fate lines still couldn’t penetrate through.

“If it’s a complete barrier layer, my current fate lines probably can’t break through. Are there no cracks?”

Saul extended countless fate lines from both palms, spreading toward the surroundings of the crevice, quickly filling a space of ten meters radius.

“The black powder here will somewhat block mental power’s detection range. Probing further would consume quite a bit.” Saul stood up, deciding to measure the bottom of the crevice with his feet.

The bottom layer of the crevice wasn’t cone-shaped but still a long crack, even with the same width as the upper surface.

This made Saul more certain of his initial thought: this was a completely broken “cookie” that left a gap when trying to close back together.

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Relative to the entire continent’s breadth, this crack less than five meters wide really was like the remaining gap when two halves of a cookie were put back together.

And this film beneath the land was somewhat like… glue used to stick the cookie together!

“Better to be cautious. Don’t tear open the glue and cause more problems in the Chaos Realm.”

Considering the stability of the Chaos Realm continent, Saul didn’t try using violence to break through the barrier beneath his feet. Instead, he walked forward in one direction while constantly probing the bottom with fate lines, searching for possible cracks.

After walking underground for nearly an hour, just as Saul was thinking whether he should go up first to report safety to Ann before continuing his search, one of his fate lines suddenly disappeared partway.

Saul quickly sensed that fate line’s position – it was actually about a meter inside the mountain wall beside him.

There, the barrier had a tiny crack. Very small, probably just pinpoint-sized. Only fate lines’ nearly dead-angle scanning and probing could luckily discover this crack.

“This difficulty is no less than threading a needle with eyes closed! Little Algae, bite through it!”

The crack was pressed by the mountain mass, but fortunately wasn’t too far from Saul, so Little Algae could easily carve out a passage.

After carving out a fist-thick passage, Saul’s mental power could more clearly scan the crack’s condition.

Same as the smooth barrier beneath his feet, below the mountain mass, or rather the continent, there was also a smooth barrier layer. This barrier layer might even cover the entire underside of the Chaos Realm continent.

Saul took a deep breath and carefully extended his perception along the disappeared fate line to explore the world beneath the barrier.

Then, he suddenly opened his eyes wide.

After passing through the crack beneath the crevice, he seemed to have arrived at a boundless universe!

Silent, vast, and surrounded by… twinkling starlight whose distance couldn’t be determined.

(End of Chapter)

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