“I don’t really care if you cry~ On the real you should’ve never lied~”
Darkness was present on all sides and only silence reigned within the abyss. The only thing giving it life was the singing of a certain man who was currently falling through it.
‘Damn, I’m so bored.’
Damien had already been falling for what he assumed was at least an hour, but he had yet to reach even something close to the bottom of the abyss.
It wasn’t even that he simply sat still and fell, he actually tried multiple times to accelerate his fall to no avail. He extended his awareness as far down as it could go, only for it to be met with darkness.
He constantly teleported downwards at his full 10-meter range, but as time passed, the speed of his fall had exceeded the distance he could travel with teleportation, making it a futile task.
In the end, Damien had succumbed to boredom and began singing random old songs he had heard in his childhood. He didn’t really listen to music that came out in his own era, but instead listened to the old classics his father and mother would always listen to.
‘2016 was really the golden era of music. The shit they made before I left earth was trash in comparison.’
Damien lamented the fate of the entertainment industry in his time as he fell. When another hour passed, he got bored of even this.
Realizing that his fall wouldn’t end anytime soon, Damien put away all his stray thoughts and assumed a meditative posture in the air.
He didn’t even need to tune out his surroundings for concentration since the abyss was void of noise and light, but he slightly numbed his physical senses so he wouldn’t become too conscientious about the ever-increasing speed at which he fell.
Once he had adjusted his state properly, Damien closed his eyes and began to meditate.
It had been a long time since he sat still and focused on comprehension. Although he wanted to focus on awakening his time affinity, there weren’t enough noticeable time essence fluctuations in the atmosphere for him to do so.
Many hours passed and Damien suddenly felt like he was on the cusp of gaining serious insight. But at that moment, his comprehensive state was interrupted by a large number of growls and roars that came from the surroundings.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ground shook due to the impact of countless heavy footsteps. The tremors spread like shockwaves, abruptly waking Damien up.
‘Damn! I almost had it! Wait, hm?’
He suddenly noticed that he was no longer falling through the abyss. At some point, he had landed on the ground. But there was no impact.
‘Wait, I’m not even on the ground right now. Holy shit!’
He realized that he was actually in a relatively precarious position. His body had become largely incorporeal while he was merging with space during his comprehension, so he hadn’t impacted the ground at all, even though he continued to fall.
Instead, when he reached the ground he had sunk into it. At the moment, he was occupying the same space as the ground itself.
‘This is the same thing I used to amputate Elitra’s legs back then. Luckily I’m still incorporeal, or I would’ve been blasted to meat paste immediately.’
Damien carefully observed the surroundings and spread his awareness.
‘I’m not too deep underground. I should be able to reach the surface with relative ease.’
Damien carefully glided through space. He was like a fish in water, or rather, he was the water itself. It was as if he was one with space, having no physical form to speak of.
As he waded through space, he reached the surface and popped out of the ground. Only at that moment did his concentration break, allowing him to materialize into the physical plane once again.
‘That state must’ve been a residual effect of my comprehension. If I had just been able to gain that spark of insight I felt, I probably could enter and exit that stage consciously. Fuck! Someone just had to come begging for death.’
Damien’s eyes held a bloodthirsty glint. He was truly pissed that his training had been interrupted.
He glared into the darkness around him and felt the approaching beast tide through the tremors of the ground.
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