Chapter 2522 This Is It...
?It was just like Aelrie mentioned. Around a week later, Rean and Kentucky were finally able to feel the Spatial Powers of the Chasm weakening in power. Kentucky was the first one, as his race had some higher affinity with Space. Rean followed him a day later, also seeing the difference.
Yet, that wasn't the only thing they noticed. Rean and Kentucky finally felt something different in this barren land around the time they detected the change in the Chasm. There were rubbles, definitely from some construction that had collapsed a long time ago. That caused Rean and Kentucky to once again stop by the Chasm once they found a place near enough for them to talk.
"Kentucky, Aelrie. We aren't going to fly at full speed anymore," Rean warned them. "We don't know what to expect, so we need to be careful. From now on, Kentucky and I will fly at one-tenth of our speed."
Kentucky couldn't be happier. "Great! This place is giving me the creeps more and more. Even if you didn't ask, I would have slowed down as well."
With that decided, they resumed their journey. The rubbles they were seeing weren't that many. There were just one or two pieces now and then, making them wonder where the construction of these rubbles came from.
Yet, days upon days passed, soon turning into over a week. They noticed that the number of rubble increased during this week, now finding four to six pieces now and then. Nonetheless, the constructions they were expecting to see were nowhere.
Finally, another week went by, and Rean began to wonder if asking Kentucky to slow down with him was a good idea. If things continued like that, perhaps they would spend months moving without any significant change.
However, that thought didn't last long. The very next day, Kentucky approached the Chasm, which was the signal for a conversation. They found a point in common before Kentucky used his Divine Energy to talk. "Rean, I was watching the distance from high in the skies. I can barely see several constructions in the distance."
*Argh!*
Suddenly, Aelrie put her hand on her head, feeling a pain piercing her Soul.
Kentucky narrowed his eyes as he noticed something also piercing through his Divine Energy barrier, the same barrier he was using to keep Aelrie in place. He then immediately tightened his grip of Divine Energy around Aelrie. That way, she wouldn't be able to struggle even if she wanted to. "Aelrie, are you okay?"
Aelire nodded while still holding her hand at her head. "Just now... something seemed to try to enter my head. However, I was able to fight it back even though it truly hit me hard."
Kentucky nodded, but he kept his Divine Energy around Aelrie going strong. After all, something seemed to be able to control her back in the Altar event, so who could this is truly Aelrie talking or something else trying to get free from his grasp. "I see..."
Kentucky then looked at Rean on the other side. "Rean, just now, I felt something hitting my Divine Energy barrier right where Aelrie's head is located. I couldn't stop whatever it was, but I managed to weaken it a lot. Alerie seemed to be able to depend on her own after that."
"Something?" Rean asked. "Can you describe? Was it Soul Power?"
Kentucky shook his head. "I don't know. I wasn't expecting anything to hit my barrier in such a weird way, and it only lasted a split second. I couldn't really pay attention to what it was."
"What about you, Aelrie?" Rean asked the victim herself.
"I think it was Soul Power... but it was very, very different from all the Soul Power I felt in my life. If not because there were a few similarities, I wouldn't be able to tell," Aelrie explained. "I think this is it..."