"The ground… If the black portals up there are sucking them to pass through the portals, then why are there lots of rubbles flying in this region?"
William was sure the gravitational force wasn't any weaker than other places. If it changed, then it'd be much fiercer.
William was sure there was something wrong up there. If not for his inability to secure his life, he'd prefer to go up there and inspect things on his own.
He had no other option but to look for any clue at the ground, inside the tunnel they were digging and running through. As he kept looking, he finally found things that didn't add up.
He knew they were digging hard and fast, and they were going deeper. But for a reason, things didn't look as if they were getting away from the surface, closer to the core of this world.
He knew the distance between the surface and the core was very huge, but at least they'd feel more heat the deeper they dug. Lava was gushing out in copious amounts, and yet he felt like the temperature in the tunnel wasn't affected by this lava. If anything, he could feel the cold breeze of fresh air from time to time. And that was quite bizarre.
The second weird thing wasn't related to the tunnel itself, but things that appeared from the holes created by the falling of parts of the tunnel.
As they crossed places, the tunnel parts would lose lots of support. It was expected for these to fall, yet William noticed a weird light, silver blue in colour, flashing from the world above.
He asked Sloth about this, and the latter shook his head in negligence. He even scouted the outer world many times to make sure there wasn't such a thing there.
The third thing William noticed was a weird hum. It wasn't like a heart beating, not like pulsating veins, but like someone humming a song, or saying a prayer or something.
He tried to come up with any of these little clues but failed. Not until Sloth said something casually, cursing after getting his spirit sense crushed again.
"Damn that gravity! It presses over my spirit sense like a mountain is falling over me or something!"
"Pressing!" William instantly picked the valuable clue Sloth mentioned without even realising its worth. And the latter nodded, lost in cursing and healing his recently acquired wounds.
"Every time I spread my sense outside, and something pressured me like it carries the weight of the world there!"
"This happen every time? Didn't you say gravity sucks your sense and crushes it?" William's face kept turning serious, giving Sloth a hint that he was saying something truly important without realising it.
"Well… That was at first, but many hours before, it changed," he paused, feeling like what he was saying was indeed something important, "yes, it changed all of sudden, just after we crossed that damn groove."
"What groove?" The more Sloth spoke, the more valuable intel he said, making William want to squeeze his dry out of what he knew.
"That groove, the one that expanded in a semi-circular way…" Sloth paused, as William's eyes shone in realisation. "What did you get? Hurry up, tell me!"
"Why? You kept such valuable information hidden all this time, leaving me puzzled for no reason!" William rolled his eyes, but his mind was roaring on full cylinders.
The ground didn't feel what it should be, there were weird lights coming from the holes, not to mention the rubbles and rocks that filled the entire place… And now there was this groove thing and the pressing not suction force that prevailed up there.
All of this pointed towards one thing; this was a grand formation. And from the few evidence he had, he knew this was something meant to absorb spirit power from the entire zone, pressing it over the central place, to nourish something.
"Wait for me here," if it was pressing force, then it wasn't that big of a problem to William. Before any would say anything to stop him, he already dashed away, heading towards one of the far away holes that got created after that part of the tunnel fell.
"William!" Ibra and Berry shouted, before many others followed. Ibra wanted to go out there and join him, while Berry was deadly worried already over him.
Yet William didn't stop despite hearing them. He went towards the nearest hole, storing all the attacks he could, before dashing straight upwards.
The moment he went through the hole, he saw the flashes of light he saw before. Yet this time he saw where exactly it came from.
"A platform?!" This was something that seemed a bit solid, taking the form of a ground, formed out of a special type of ore, one that emanated such lights on the ground.
When he passed through this hole, he ended up on the surface. There the lights vanished, and a crushing force that wanted to tear down his body, force him to kneel, exerted over him.
"F*ck off!" he shouted in defiance, while releasing his stacked attacks. He didn't stack that much as the distance wasn't that long. But it was enough to negate and counter the crushing force.
As the pressure over him got relieved, he started to dash again, then releasing his attacks the moment the pressure returned. Fighting against such oppressive force was much easier than trying to fight against a gravitational one.
During all this, he started to take a better look at this part of the world. "It's indeed a platform, one with a grand tower in the middle… Damn! This is the Black Tower!!!"
In front of William, the entire ground got reformed. He expected to see the same scene of devastation and destruction, the same scenes he saw when he was out of this place.
The ground was littered with holes and ruins before, but now it was weirdly smooth, as if it was the surface of a mirror or something.
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