As the portal opened, showing the underside of the island, Corvin was still climbing there on the other side. Sen used his hands to pull the climbing Corvin through the portal, and then they were back where Sen had been standing on the ground. Corvin was surprised to find he was still standing in the same place he had left.
Orson looked at Corvin and smiled. "Look who I found."
Corvin looked at him. "Sen. Wow, long time no see."
Sen looked at them. "So let me guess, this was your idea."
And Orson’s "no" fell on deaf ears.
Corvin smiled. "We are a ride or die gang, and besides, Orson never says no, so that’s just how we are."
Orson looked at him, thinking of where he could kick Corvin off the floating island.
Corvin looked back at Sen and asked, "But you, what are you doing here?"
Sen just smiled. "Well, it’s about a weapon."
Orson was still not sure about the weapon Sen was on about.
Corvin just smiled and said, "Remember when I told you about the ranking system of Awakening?"
Orson nodded, recalling them.
"Well, each of the ranks has a tier from one to seven, just like the classes, but we just call them tier one to seven, not color. And a Saint tier seven weapon is hiding in the Temple of the Golden Sun."
Orson looked at Corvin and Sen. "Saint rank?"
"Yeah, Saint rank. The same as your sword."
Orson looked at his ring and asked, "Just how powerful are the rankings?"
Sen just smiled and said, "Whatever your imagination, but bigger. It’s not something you can see until you feel it."
Orson looked down, still thinking. According to them, this world’s ranking is seven, and what exactly is the seventh? Weird enough, his past world was also seven realms to immortality, but still, that just felt like it was a coincidence, so Orson just dropped the thought. Right now, Orson had a goal to reach the first stage of Qi Gathering realm, but his body was not yet ready to enter, and once they took the core Corvin was after, they would have to get back to the mining crew because it was getting late.
Sen looked at them, asking, "What are you guys even after?"
Corvin smiled, saying, "There was a Ravager rank beast in the second island they are after."
Just as Sen looked up with Orson, a crash sounded from one of the islands above. Sen just sighed. "Why don’t I make a portal there and another for you guys to get back home?"
Corvin smiled, agreeing. "Thanks, I would really appreciate it."
Orson looked at Sen’s sword. Orson had a lot of questions, like how the spatial rift Sen was creating works and if there was any side effect, but Sen just smiled, taking another puff of his vape before thinking about the surface of the place he wanted to go. He sliced the air itself, and a small rift opened as a portal appeared showing the second island.
Meanwhile, on one of the top islands, a battle was reaching its peak as Rain moved fast through floating shards of ice that exploded where she had been standing. Rain was dressed in a black and white suit with her katana glowing at her back. As the wolf in front of her turned to ice and exploded, leaving behind a green core, a system notification appeared in front of Rain.
[You have slain the Dark One.]
[Sunless Wolf]
[Class: Emerald Class]
[Rank: Dread]
Rain looked at it before looking back up at Lucas, who was behind her, and sighed. "Rain, we need to take a break. It’s been three hours and we have only been able to clear two islands. We have only cleared six islands so far, and six to go, and with how powerful the Dark Ones are becoming, it may be hard for us to continue."
Rain looked down before resting on the grass on the ground. The fighting was exhausting, and Rain wanted nothing more than to have a cup of her best wine with a bubble bath, but no—as the captain of the Silver Rain clan, she had to investigate. She sighed to herself and said, "We will make our shelter here as well."
Rain looked up at the sky where five suns were shining down on them. Then she asked Lucas a strange question. "Lucas, why has no one ever challenged the Golden Sun Realm?"
Lucas looked at Rain, not knowing that the woman who she called Rain had died in her last mission and that the woman talking with him was not her. But the Lightning Immortal, one of the generals that was killed in the destruction of the Central Plains after her death, had woken up in this body about a year ago, and still it felt unreal to her.
Lucas looked at her and pointed to the sun. "That is because the heart of this breach, its core, is inside the sun. So just reaching it alone is impossible. A rank five human tried and said the floating islands were endless, that you just kept going up and there was no horizon. And also, because when the breach first appeared, it wiped out District 12 as a whole. The people we saw there when we got there are refugees from the previous district. So just think, if that is the power the breach holds, what power will its core also hold?"
Rain just sighed. "Okay, I think I get it."
As a system panel appeared in front of her:
Name: Rain
Astral Rank: Eclipser
Astral Bond Class: Emerald (error: unknown soul is holding this body. Class is still being calculated. Estimated time: 4 years and counting)
Weapon: (expand on this)]
Item: (expand on this)
Astral Ability: (Lightning Control), (Lightning Manifestation), (Lightning Space)
Astral Burden:
Before she could continue reading, Rain looked up and noticed something high in the sky. There was a cloud gathering, which was not strange, but this cloud was different and smaller. It was about the size of the largest sun in the realm, and Rain thought nothing about it and let the matter go before looking at Lucas.
"Tell the crew we are setting up camp here for now."
Before walking away into the distance, Lucas looked at her. His captain was becoming weirder and weirder every time he saw her. He let out a long breath before going to do as he was told.