BXBX NOVEL Chapter 465: Rupture [1]
Blood floated like crimson mist in the zero-gravity, dissipating into the chaotic space around him.
"Rughh!" His right arm had already been torn away, and his vision was growing dim from the loss of blood and the immense strain his body was under.
Through the fog of pain, a desperate idea began to form in his mind.
The rupture was a chaotic force of space energy, an element he has a bit of comprehension of.
Clenching his teeth, Zhao Tian focused all of his remaining strength, to concentrate on the rupture\'s chaotic currents, attempting to decipher the patterns within the distortion.
It was like trying to tame a hurricane, but he had no other choice.
His left hand trembled as he raised it, fingers twitching with strain.
"HURGHH!…" he grunted through gritted teeth, his vision narrowing as he forced himself to stay conscious.
With a deep breath, he wove his space energy into the distortion, not to fight against it, but to bend it.
He envisioned the rupture as a rope, its twisted threads pulling him apart.
He is not trying to escape from the rupture, as he knows it is impossible.
What he was doing now was bending the space around him, forcing it to warp and twist in such a way that it wouldn\'t rip him apart.
"Haargh!" he yelled in pain, his voice barely audible over the noise of space ripping apart.
Summoning every ounce of his remaining strength, Zhao Tian focused on the space around him, twisting and folding it with his energy so it wouldn\'t hurt his body.
"Haa.. Haa..." His breathing became labored, every breath he took was a struggle as he manipulated the space energy.
His blood, still dripping from his severed arm, floated in the air around him, the droplets shimmering as they were caught in the gravitational pull of the rupture.
But Zhao Tian ignored the pain, the blood loss, and the exhaustion because he couldn\'t afford to stop now.
Sweat poured down his face, mingling with the blood, but Zhao Tian didn\'t stop.
Because it was working. He was still alive amidst this chaotic space fabric.
The space around him was no longer ripping him apart... it was bending, warping around him, sparing his life for just a few moments longer.
But those moments were fleeting.
As his body slowly gets pulled to the rupture, his gaze trembled in pain \'I.. can\'t escape from the rupture...\'
\'I just need to keep manipulating the space around me, so it won\'t twist my body...\'
A sharp pang of pain rippled through his brain but still, he persisted and his body quickly drifted to the centre of the rupture.
The rupture\'s core was now closer, an impossibly bright point of light in the midst of the chaotic swirl of space debris and energy.
Zhao Tian\'s mind throbbed with pain as the pressure intensified, threatening to break him mentally and physically.
"Haargh!" His muscles trembled uncontrollably, barely able to keep up the manipulation of space energy that was keeping him alive.
*thrissh* *thrishh* The space around him is crumbling into pieces and he felt the space energy getting.
\'I am getting pulled to the center...\'
As his body floated amidst the shattering space, a sudden bright light flashed through his eyes.
Huh? His gaze squinted at the white light and he glanced away.
"What is.. happening."
As the pressure in the center of the rupture increased, Zhao Tian felt his mind getting heavy and a sharp pain jolted through his head.
"Urghh..."
He felt his consciousness slipping away and as his eyes trembled, he closed his eyes letting the rupture pull him in.
*swish* Soon, his body was pulled into the rupture\'s core, swallowed by the blinding white light.
And then, everything went dark.
...
*thrassh* *thrassh* The sound of waves crashing on the shore, combined with the strange crackling of fractured space, echoed around Zhao Tian as he lay on the damp sand.
Cool air blew across his face, carrying the sharp scent of saltwater, and slowly, Zhao Tian\'s eyes fluttered open.
"Urghh..." Opening his eyes, the first thing he felt was the insufferable pain coursing through his right arm.
Clenching his teeth in pain, Zhao Tian\'s gaze fluttered around and saw the morning sky, while half of the sky was fragmented shards of space that were floating around.
\'Where am.. I?\'
Looking at the half-broken sky, Zhao Tian\'s mind was foggy, trying to make sense of this place, and he was totally confused.
He slowly pulled himself into a sitting position, feeling the damp sand cling to his torn clothes and hair.
He looked around at the beach he was in right now and turned his gaze to the endless sea.
Far out into the ocean, the water twisted in impossible ways, as if the very fabric of space was being shredded and huge distortions rippled across the surface, bending light and space.
It\'s like he is in a place.. where space is completely in chaos.
Taking a deep breath to control his thoughts, and his attention shifted back to his arm, blood still dripping from the torn flesh.
Grimacing, he raised his left hand, channeling light energy into his wounds, the soft glow knitting his flesh back together slowly.
His tattered blue shirt and white pants, once clean, were now soaked with blood and sea spray, the fabric clinging to his skin in uncomfortable patches.
A tired sigh escaped his lips as he raised his gaze to look at the shattered sky.
"Where the hell am I? It is... like I am in a world.. totally distorted by space."
He slowly stood up, the pain in his arm easing as the healing process continued. His legs trembled from exhaustion, but he pushed through it, staring at the distorted ocean.
However, at this time, he caught a metallic glint in the corner of his eyes and he quickly turned his head to look at his ark floating on the ocean.
"The ark is still here...?"
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