"Don’t worry about it," Lucas waved her apology off, "I was also careless just now, and as far as unexpected situations go, this is probably about as extre as you can get..."
Saying so, he, along with Christina and Eris all turned to stare at the strange scenery before them.
Without moving her eyes away from the out-of-place sight, Christina asked once more, "I know whatever is happening here is... complicated, but I think it would be best if you at least tried to explain it now."
Lucas frowned, but also agreed that things couldn’t go on like this.
Looking around, the ’beach’ which had suddenly appeared was quite spacious and provided a wide, unobstructed view. The water also appeared to be draining away slowly, probably running down the hill the manor sat on, so it would soon be nothing more than a wet clearing.
Glancing up and still seeing a large number of Spatial Tears swirling about randomly, Lucas figured that this was just about as safe a place as they were going to find.
Keeping his Soul Sense expanded just in case, Lucas did his best to monitor their surroundings before motioning to his big sisters to follow him as he walked towards the ’ocean’, "I’m not sure I can explain everything in a way you’ll be able to understand, but I’ll try. Just keep in mind, all of this is speculating. I’m not certain anything I’m saying is actually the truth."
.....
"So, what you an is, Redwood Town and sowhere else far, far away have beco linked, and pieces of each other are now swapping places every ti one of these... Spatial Tears passes over?" Christina asked with a heavy dose of uncertainty.
Knitting his brow, because this wasn’t exactly what he thought was happening, Lucas wanted to try again, but he was quickly realizing the futility of his attempts to simplify things enough to make it understandable, so he simply nodded, "Well, sothing like that."
For the past 5 minutes, when he wasn’t leading Eris and Christina to dodge one of the Spatial Tears, Lucas had been trying to find a way to explain the phenonon that was happening around them.
Eris had quickly given up trying to understand when Lucas began taking about a ’ruptured space-ti’ leading to ’overlapping spatial coordinates’ and had just decided to nod along.
As for Christina, she was also struggling hard to comprehend what Lucas was talking about as even with all the lessons she had received in the past, everything he was taking about was far, far beyond anything she had dreamt of before.
Just the notion of different places being able to simultaneously exist in the sa space was a concept so foreign to her that it was like she was hearing up was actually down, and right was actually left.
It wasn’t until Lucas made the analogy of the mouth of her Space Bag being like one of the Spatial Tears, separating two different spaces, that Tina sowhat got what he was trying to say.
Of course, this example wasn’t precisely the sa as what was occurring in Lucas’ opinion, but it was good enough for now.
Shortly after the 5-minute mark, Lucas noticed that fewer Spatial Tears were forming than disappearing, a sign he hoped that whatever anomaly had occurred was abating.
Seeing this allowed the young boy to breath a sigh of relief.
It seed that he and his big sisters were going to survive this catastrophe after all; but the less Lucas worried about the imdiate crisis, the more he began to worry about the consequences of this disaster.
What happened to his parents?
Was his Uncle Charles alright?
Just how many people from Redwood Town had been whisked away?
Were the ones who were swallowed by the Spatial Tears alright?
If they were alright, where had they been sent?
If they had been sent to the other side of the world, would he ever be able to see them again?
And most importantly in this mont, what was he supposed to do now?
The only thing Lucas was certain of was that everyone else who had been in the Town Lord’s Manor tonight, from the Body Tempering Realm refugees to the Peak-Rank Spirit Initiate Sir Green, had all vanished.
While running across the newly ford beach, the trio had repeatedly called out, hoping soone, anyone would hear them; but so far, no responses had co back.
This result wasn’t surprising to Lucas, seeing how everything in the Town Lord’s Manor beyond the backroom he and his big sisters had been sleeping in was gone. However, just because he anticipated that being the case, didn’t make it any easier to accept.
The only thing that gave Lucas so hope right now was that they had encountered several other First and Second Order Beasts that were clearly foreign to the South-Western Province of the Rockwell Kingdom, so clearly living creature could survive being sent through the Spatial Tears.
Dad and the others must still be alive, they must be, Lucas refused to believe otherwise.
On the other hand, this ’Spatial Storm’, as Lucas had decided to call it, did explain a number of things, such as where Yuki had co from.
Assuming this was not a one-off phenonon, nearby places being connected to far-flung regions of the planet multiple tis in the past few days was clearly what led to non-native beasts showing up around Redwood Town.
Just as all these distracting thoughts were beginning to overwhelm Lucas, a new Spatial Tear began forming just a few tres away from him.
"Move back!" Lucas hurriedly shouted, drawing both Eris and Tina away from the tear.
All of the Spatial Tears so far had been quite large and moved about randomly, sweeping back and forth across the ground and sky. This ti, however, the tear was quite small, only about 30 tres wide, and it remained relatively still.
Observing this new tear from up close, Lucas suddenly had a dangerous idea.
Signaling for his big sisters to remain still, he began creeping his way closer to the black gash in space, focusing his Soul Sense to try to pierce through it and see what was happening on the other side.
This was a rare opportunity to gain more information, so despite the obvious risks, Lucas felt it was worth it to try to probe this Spatial Tear.
At the very least, he had to find so clue as to where this Spatial Tear led; otherwise, he would have absolutely no clue where to go looking for his family and friends in the future.
Right now, all he knew was that Redwood Town was currently connected to a tropic beach sowhere, but based on so rough estimates he had made earlier this year, Lucas knew that Servist, the planet he was currently living on, was far, far larger than the worlds from the other universe.
In the universe the man Lucas’ inherited mories ca from lived, habitable planets ranged in circumference from around 30,000 km to 60,000 km. Any bigger or smaller and they seed incapable of naturally supporting humanoid life.
There might be exceptions to that rule, but his mysterious benefactor didn’t know of any.
Servist, however, seed to be around 120,000 km in circumference, possibly even bigger!
When he first calculated this, Lucas was stunned, wondering if perhaps the laws of physics he understood weren’t the sa in this universe, especially when it ca to gravity and spatial chanics, but that seed to clash with his other lived experiences. It was sothing he had vowed to look into when he developed better asurent equipnt.
Exploring the wider world was nothing more than a far-off goal to Lucas before today, but now it was a necessity.
What’s more, given just how massive Servist was, if he didn’t gather more information about where his parents and everyone still left in Redwood Town had been sent, there was a good chance he would never be able to find them again.
Lucas wasn’t certain what had happened to his mom or his uncle Charles as they were out in the town on guard duty, but he was sure his dad was now on the other side of this anomaly.
Just thinking about never seeing his father again, and Eris possibly losing her father forever, was enough to push Lucas forward towards the dangerous Spatial Tear.
At first, his efforts proved useless.
Although he could see the tear clearly, what was beyond its event horizon was completely obscured. However, after approaching to within just 10 tres, Lucas felt his Soul Sense begin to pierce through, and so vague details from the other side began to take shape.
Finally seeing so hope, Lucas stepped even closer, getting to within just 5 tres of the Spatial Tear. This was an incredibly dangerous distance, as while the tear was mostly motionless, it wasn’t completely stationary, and there was no guarantee it wouldn’t suddenly surge towards him.
Even so, Lucas felt the risk was worth it at this point, as from what he could make out, the location this particular Spatial Tear was connected to seed to be another beach, overlooking a vast ocean where the sun seed to just be setting.
Wherever this place is, it must be about 6 or 7 ti-zones west of here, Lucas imdiately reasoned.
Using the standard 24-hour clock and the rough diater of the planet, 6 or 7 ti zones ant so 30,000 to 35,000 kilotres of distance, which gave Lucas a basic longitudinal coordinate, though it did nothing to narrow down what latitude it was.
That being said, the very fact that it was a tropical region ant it had to be sowhere south of where Redwood Town was located.
This was a huge gain, one that would make a future search-and-rescue operation at least sowhat feasible.
Of course, such a venture would be astronomically expensive, filled with danger, and extraordinarily difficulty, but Lucas didn’t let that discourage him. As far as he was concerned, as long as he continued to grow stronger, gain more wealth, and increase his status, the day he could launch a long-distance expedition to the other side of the planet would eventually co.
Satisfied for now, Lucas was about to withdraw to safety when his Soul Sense pick up so kind of activity from the other side of the tear. At first, he wasn’t sure what it was, but a few seconds later, he could vaguely make out what sounded like a cry for help, one coming from a familiar sounding voice.
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