It felt like a waterslide.
A deadly waterslide where you had zero control of your descent, with the water propelling you through the tunnel with the force of a dump truck…no, a speeding bullet train.
Perhaps, even that was not enough to describe the feeling.
Everything around was a kaleidoscope of colours, with occasional breaks when the scenery beca clear, allowing you to see the sights outside the transparent tunnel.
Then, the speed would pick up again, turning everything back into a blur.
That was how Evan felt as he was yeeted through the spatial tunnel sending him to where not even heaven knew.
He wanted to escape.
A completely normal and rational desire. The spell was cast on him by an enemy he almost killed not too long ago.
Wherever that enemy was planning to send him, it couldn't be anywhere good.
But the million-dollar question was 'Could he escape?'
With BoD, his body was strengthened to the point that the spatial energy pressure couldn't kill him, however, when he tried to hold on to the walls of the tunnel, the pressure intensified and he felt his bones creak under it.
He quickly let go to avoid breaking his arms, switching his approach.
Summoning his sword, he tried to use the World Sunder sarthim combo to destroy the spatial tunnel wall.
But before he could activate the skill, he had a thought.
If he cut open the tunnel and fell out of it, what if where he fell into…was Outer Space?
That was very possible as in one of the monts he braked, Evan was greeted with the scene of a starry sky.
If he fell into Outer Space, he was going to die instantly. The ambient energy concentration of space was sothing he could not resist without preparation.
Cosmic energy radiation might kill him.
As such, he silently returned his blade to his inventory and continued cracking his brain on how he was going to get out of this predicant.
Just as he began brainstorming, the spatial pressure ceased, causing Evan's body to brake. He peered out of the spatial tunnel, and his eyes widened in shock at the sight before him.
Gold.
An enormous golden sothing.
It was incredibly distant—hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lightyears away from his current position in space—yet it was still so MASSIVE.
Surrounding it were hundreds of smaller solar masses, with likely many more hidden behind.
Occasional flashes of crackling light erupted from its surface, leading Evan to realize that what he initially thought was a giant ball of fire was, in fact, sothing else.
'…lightning…the Star of Lightning.'
This was Kayla's original form, a celestial body that looked hundreds of tis larger than the sun on Aidos, despite being thousands of tis further away.
Just before he could say anything about it, the spatial pressure resud and his body was sent hurtling through the tunnel with even more force.
It had only slowed down because he was passing the halfway mark of the Galaxy, and now, he was on the opposite half from where Aidos was.
The sa half of the Galaxy where Gozon was.
It was then that Artemisia's voice suddenly rang out in his ears.
[Evan, I need you to listen to very carefully.]
"Artemisia?! Where are you?!"
[I'm not physically near you. I'm just transmitting my voice through the system.]
Evan wanted to say sothing but Artemisia cut him off and spoke urgently.
[Listen very carefully, we don't have much ti.]
"…"
Artemisia's voice was filled with more emotion than the woman had ever revealed towards him. Filled with overwhelming worry and fear.
[You're currently being spatiotemporally displaced. Fancy words aside, you're being sent to another point in space and ti.]
"So, a Forced Teleportation?"
[More like a Forced Ti Travel.]
"?!"
Evan's body shook when he heard her words. He thought he was being sent to so other place, but to think he was also being sent to another Ti period.
[I don't know where they were initially trying to send you, but thanks to Roselia and Kayla, it's not taking you there but sowhere else.]
Hearing her ntion 'they' and not 'he', Evan narrowed his eyes and asked.
"Artemisia…exactly who cast that spell?"
Although the goddess did not want to answer, she had little choice in this situation if she didn't want to break the paradox.
[Conroe was being manipulated.]
Evan had figured that much. The question was who?
They definitely noticed that Evan had figured out they were behind the scenes, hence why they had controlled Conroe to turn towards him and grin.
'Such bad taste…'
Thinking that, Evan posed the question of 'Who' to Artemisia and the goddess' reply was one he half-expected.
[The god behind Gozon.]
"Fucking knew it."
Artemisia had inford him of this figure's existence, had had stated that they had power on par with her.
However, that person hadn't acted and Evan had relegated this information to the back of his mind, believing he'd only need to focus on them if the Rift broke and the Demons ca in.
Little did he expect them to suddenly act at this juncture to get rid of him.
They also acted last year, sending Demons and gods after Evansen on Earth V, but Evan on Aidos didn't know of this.
"You said that I'm not being sent where they wanted to go? So where am I being sent?"
He quickly asked the very important question, hoping he wasn't going to hear sothing like he was being sent outside the Galaxy.
As if reading his thoughts, Artemisia refuted that.
[First off, you're not being sent outside the Galaxy.]
"I'm pretty sure that doesn't make it any better as last I recall, galaxies were tens of thousands of lightyears in diater."
There were so many places within such a vast distance he could end up.
[The Universe has laws and everything abides by those laws. Space and Ti are no different. I'm not the best at them, but every Deity needs to know spatial manipulation to move across outer space.
With my Basic Ti Authority, I inferred the location you're being sent to.]
Pausing for a second, she continued.
[The location was decided based on certain factors present at the mont the spell was cast.
Energy Factors.
It is sending you to the furthest point in space and ti where all of those Energy factors are closest to each other.
Where all of them are within the sa 'area of space'.]
Artemisia did not give a definite amount of ti, nor did she give a location. She only told him what the spell did, and then began listing the energy factors it absorbed.
[The Book of Lumière's Light and Spatial Law energy.
Your Blessing of Destruction's Destruction Essence.
Frostshade's Icy Energy.
Kayla's Lightning energy.
Both of our Divini-!?]
Artemisia's words cut off abruptly as Evan's body suddenly braked. This ti, the spatial pressure didn't just cease but disappeared completely.
Other tis when he braked, he could feel the spatial pressure was still there but now it wasn't there anymore, so he quickly figured that this 'stop' was different.
"Artemisia?!"
[Ti's up, Evan.]
"What?"
[The Spell is sending you through Space and Ti.
Your stop just now ans that you've reached the end of the spatial tunnel—it's done sending you through Space.
Now, it's about to begin sending you through Ti.]
Her words ca a re second before the empty gap left by the spatial pressure began to be filled with the energy of a different law.
Evan didn't need to be told that this was ti law energy.
As it wrapped around his body, forming a 'coat' around him to obscure him from the correctional laws of the Universe, Artemisia spoke.
[Evan, try your best to prevent anyone you et from finding out you're from the future. Transform your appearance, wear a mask, or conceal your status…do whichever you can.
Don't let them know your na, either. There's soone in particular that you shouldn't let discover you're from the future.]
"Who?"
[You'd realise who it is when you see them.
Anyway, the law of ti in the past would eventually discover you're an anomaly and send you back to the present, but I can't tell you how long that would take.]
For so reason, Evan's brain over focused on a little detail in Artemisia's phrasing.
'She said she can't tell how long; she didn't say she doesn't know how long.'
However, he didn't dwell on it as the goddess continued with an ominous line.
[Until you are discovered by the laws of ti, Evan, please do your best…to survive.]
"?!"
The connection with Artemisia was severed forcefully, and in the next second, the laws of ti swallowed Evan whole.
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