Seeing the system''s prompt sh in front of his face was a big surprise for Alex.
That was perhaps thest thing he was expecting to see in a moment like this, but since it asked, or rather told, him to step into the pir of light, he must have somehow identally activated something good.
''Is this a way up to the ind?''
His thoughts instantly drew towards his goal of making it up to the floating ind thousands of kilometres above him.
And while he didn''t know exactly where he was located, he knew that he was underneath it at least.
But what he failed to realise was that he was right underneath the centre of the floating ind…
And with his stomp out of frustration, he had inadvertently activated a mechanism to bring forth this pir of light!
With his frustration almostpletely reced with curiosity and confusion, Alex did just as the system told him to and made his way over to the pir of light.
''What''s so special about this?''
But before listeningpletely to the system''s words, he wanted to test it out for a bit.
He ced his hand in the pir of light, yet he felt nothing special going on from it.
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It was like he had just waved his hand in the empty air in front of him.
If he did it with his eyes closed, he wouldn''t be able to tell the difference between his hand in the pir of light and out.
''Seems like whatever the system wants to happen will only start once I enter the pir of light with my whole body.''
Alex was naturally drawn to this conclusion with the small test he had just conducted.
And since there wasn''t much else he could do, he decided that it was time to step inside.
Step.
Step.
With just two steps forward, his whole body entered the pir of light.
"..."
But contrary to his expectations, nothing particrly special happened for Alex.
It was just like when he ced only his hand inside the pir of light.
He literally felt nothing change.
Confused, he took a step back outside of it.
But when he stepped back out and opened his eyes, squinting because the change from an environment so bright to one with much less light, he was extremely surprised.
The environment around him hadpletely changed!
It now looked exactly like the first floating ind he had been transported to when he entered the Primordial Expanse!
"I''m on the ind!"
Just like he had hoped, he had somehow been transported to the floating ind, thousands of kilometres above him, in mere moments.
But there was one gimmick to it that made him very curious.
It was almost the exact same as when Principal Farnes had transported him and Mira back and forth between Mars and Earth!
The teleportation felt the exact same, as he felt no changes at all on both asions.
Alex suspected that the mechanism used to transport him up, and presumably back down from the floating ind, was made by someone at or near the same level as Principal Farnes!
This just added a whole newyer of mystery to this whole area of the Primordial Expanse he was in, but he had to push such thoughts to the back of his mind for now.
Because something very rming caught his attention.
While he couldn''t sense it with his spatial perception, which he was used to by now, he could sense Mira''s aura nearby!
And it wasn''t just a faint aura, it was the aura of a powerful awakened going in for a killing blow!
''Is she in some kind of trouble!?''
Alex started darting in the direction he felt the auraing from, practically gliding across the environment as he ignored each and every obstacle that hindered his path.
In just 10 seconds, he arrived at the location he felt Mira''s auraing from.
But when he looked around, he didn''t see a single sign of a living person in the area, let alone any sign of Mira.
Closing his eyes, Alex focused even harder on the aura, trying to determine the exact location.
''She''s below!''
With some more concentration, Alex found that the aura was actuallying from this location, it was just that Mira wasn''t on the surface of the ind like him.
She was somewhere underground!
With no time to go searching for a cave entrance nearby to try and find Mira, Alex decided to take a much more brute force-like approach.
Taking Virtue''s Edge out of his spatial storage, he assumed a shing stance.
"Hyahh!"
He hacked directly downwards, aiming for the ground beneath his feet.
Rumble!
Crack!
The ground started to rumble as it was cleaved apart by Alex''s strike, sending a crack over 50 metres long shattering across thendscape.
But more importantly, it was over 100 metres deep.
Mira''s aura came from around 110 metres below him, so he was getting closer and closer to finding her!
He jumped down into the chasm he had created, and at the same moment, he felt another aura re up, one that wasbating against Mira''s own aura.
''Another human!''
It was an aura he didn''t recognise, but it was clear that it came from another awakened.
It didn''t take a fool to tell that it was from another prodigy who had been sucked into this circumstance as well.
But Alex was confused and concerned by the fact that this aura seemed to contain some malice towards Mira!
This only increased the intensity with which he wanted to reach her.
With a much weaker cleave, he shed at the ground once again, bridging the final gap of 10 metres between him and Mira.
Thud!
The moment he broke through the ceiling of the cave, he jumped right in,nding on the ground with great intensity as he made his entrance.
His arrivalpletely disrupted the battle that was going on inside, startling both parties that were about to engage each other in a life and death fight!
"Alex!?"
Both parties simultaneously called out his name in shock, jaws hanging wide as they never in a million years expected to see him popping out from the ceiling!