408 407: A Different Dimension


    At the center of a dimension inside of the shattered dimension, a young man with a face and body that could put the beauty and physique of most immortals, gods, sages, and divinities to shamey sprawled on the floor, his body limp and still.


    The only indication of life was the faint rise and fall of his chest.


    The young man was d in gray trousers, gray boots, and a ck t-shirt that had cuts and tears in several ces. His immensely handsome face had dried blood stains along with a few cuts and bruises that were slowly healing with every second that passed.


    Beside the young man was a young woman with ck hair and a beauty that would be considered to be a 7/10 among females that were at her power level.


    The young woman''s condition was simr to that of the young man. Shey sprawled on the floor with her body limp and still. Just like the young man, the only indication of life was the faint rise and fall of her moderately sized chest.


    The femayoung woman was dressed in a skin-tight ck trouser and slightlyrge blue shirt. Besides a few bruises and the bloodied nose that she had, her condition could be considered perfect.


    These two unconscious individuals were Corey and Selene.


    Rustle


    A few seconds went by, and then a faint wind blew across the bodies of Corey and Selene, causing their hairs to flutter slightly.


    Tap


    After the wind, a soft tap resounded. However, Corey and Selene remained unconscious.


    Rustle n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    The wind blew once again, and it was also followed by another soft tap.


    Tap


    "Ugh."


    This time around, a soft groan resounded after the soft tap.


    Corey frowned deeply, and his eyes slowly fluttered open. He grabbed his head with his right hand, and then he ced his left hand on the floor to support himself.


    He groaned once again, and after a few seconds, he exhaled softly. He slowly lowered his right hand, and then he looked around.


    When he did, a stunned expression appeared on his face.


    "Where - the - hell - am - I?"


    Corey slowly said these words with his eyes filled with disbelief and confusion as his deep violet and light blue eyes gazed at his surroundings.


    Corey blinked again, his mind struggling to process the sight before him. He was no longer in the shattered dimension… or was he?


    Instead, he stood on a vast continent that seemed to stretch endlessly in every direction, the horizon barely visible in the distance.


    The ground beneath him was solid, but the material was unlike any stone or earth he had ever seen—dark, almost obsidian-like, with veins of molten energy coursing through it. The surface had a slight, eerie glow, illuminating the path ahead, but it gave off no warmth. It was cold—unnervingly so.


    Above him, the sky—or what passed for a sky—was an endless expanse of deep ckness, a void that stretched endlessly into the unknown. It was as if the entire dimension was hanging in the very fringes of space itself, suspended between worlds. And hanging in that vast darkness weres—massive, looming, and impossibly close.


    Some were rocky, with jagged cliffs and violent storms visible from where he stood, while others were gas giants, swirling with colors of orange, blue, and green, like gigantic marbles floating in the sky.


    asionally, asteroids floated by, somezily drifting, others streaking across the ckness like silent missiles. He could see entire fields of them in the distance, colliding, splitting apart, and forming endless belts of debris.


    Closer to him,rge meteoroids glowed faintly as they streaked across the sky, their fiery tails leaving trails of light that quickly faded into the cold abyss. The space between thes seemed almost alive with these celestial objects—chaotic, violent, yet strangely beautiful.


    Despite the vastness of the dark space above him, Corey felt as if the atmosphere was thin—too thin to befortable. Each breath felt slightlybored, as if the very air wasced with something unnatural, alien, and at the same time… familiar?


    He looked down again, his eyes scanning the continent he stood upon. The terrain was rugged and uneven, with jagged cliffs and deep ravines cutting through thendscape. Massive craters, likely from meteors that had struck the ground, dotted thend, some still smoldering with a faint orange glow. In the far distance, Corey could make out towering mountain ranges that seemed to pierce the dark sky, their peaks lost in the shadows of the loomings above.


    Here and there, enormous chunks of what looked like shattereds or moonsy scattered across thendscape, as if remnants of a forgotten war between celestial bodies. Some hovered a few feet off the ground, defying gravity, rotating slowly in ce. Others jutted from the earth, jagged and broken, towering over thend like ancient monoliths. Strange, glowing symbols were etched into some of therger rocks, pulsing faintly as if with an ancient, forgotten power.


    Corey slowly turned, his gaze taking in the entire scene. It was deste, barren, and silent. The only sound was the faint hum of energy that seemed to resonate from thend itself and the asional rumble of distant meteoroids mming into the.


    The air felt dense with tension, as if the very dimension itself was on the verge of copsing under its own weight. A feeling which Corey rarely felt surfaced in his heart as he stared at all of these- Insignificant.


    Corey felt insignificant in the face of it all. Whatever this ce was, it was not made for mortal beings- it was a realm that existed beyond normalprehension.


    "Where the hell am I?" he muttered again, his voice barely above a whisper.


    His eyes turned to Selene, still lying motionless beside him. The sight of her brought him back to the present, snapping him out of his awe.


    They needed to move—this ce felt wrong, dangerous. It wasn''t just the environment; there was something lurking here, watching, waiting. He could feel it in his bones and soul.


    He stretched out his hand, about to reach out to Selene, but he stopped and his head snapped to the sky above him. His senses picked up on something above him, and it felt... dangerous.


    "As expected, you woke up before her despite you being at a lower level of existencepared to her… But I guess it shouldn''t be surprising since you also have an infinity crystal in you."


    The instant Corey heard these words, his pupils constricted way past its limits.