"Which island is this friend of yours on?"
Alex continued his questions, practically demanding more information out of the siren.
But by this point, the siren was used to it.
She just pointed in a direction behind Alex, and spoke.
"In that direction. But I don't know how far, I've never visited."
Alex was a little confused for a moment.
'Never visited, how do you never visit-'
But mid thought he realised that she probably communicated long distance through telepathy or something like that.
Alex slowly withdrew his sword from the siren's chest, to her relief.
He felt some aches and bruises across his body, thanks to the fight the two of them had just had, but it was already healing.
His Phoenix Flames really did work wonders.
"You're lucky. You get to live another day."
He spoke to the siren one last time, before he started walking away, heading in the direction the siren had pointed out where the floating island her friend lived on was.
It was only after he widened the distance between himself and the siren so much that neither of them could sense each other, that he picked up the pace and began running as fast and hard as he could in a straight line to his destination.
Alex ran with relentless determination, his feet pounding against the ground as he sprinted across the vast expanse of the floating island.
The landscape blurred past him, a mix of dense forests, rolling hills and open plains all filtering past his eyes, but he made no note of them.
His mind was focused solely on reaching the edge of the island, where the siren had pointed him towards.
The aches and bruises from his earlier fight had already fully healed.
Hours turned into an entire day, with 24 hours passing since he had started running, and still, the edge of the island remained out of sight.
Keeping in mind that Alex was running at his full B tier strength capacity, so this island alone was well over thousands of kilometres long at least!...
The ground beneath him dropped into nothingness, with the surface of the Primordial expanse thousands of kilometres below.
The sheer height made him dizzy for a moment, and he quickly pulled back from the edge, cursing under his breath.
"How the fuck am I supposed to get down from here, let alone make my way up to that island?"
He grumbled, running a hand through his hair in frustration.
The siren had mentioned her friend lived on that distant island, but now it made sense why she never visited in person.
The distance was simply too vast, even for someone who had some ability to fly like her.
Alex sat down on the edge, trying to gather his thoughts.
He had come this far, but now he was faced with an entirely new problem.
He needed to figure a way out to cross the gap, but nothing came to mind.
Even with all his abilities, he couldn't simply fly across tens of thousands of kilometres.
The idea of using his Phoenix Flames as propulsion crossed his mind, but he quickly ruled that out.
That method of propulsion only worked for him out in the depths of space where there was zero gravity.
It would be too weak to work in an environment where there was gravity, probably only able to slow his descent a tiny bit.
But from a height of thousands of kilometres, he would still probably build enough momentum to turn him into a bloody mist when he hit the ground.
"Great... just great."
He muttered, leaning back and staring up at the sky.
The sun had fully set by now, and the deep black night was lit up by the stars.
'Does space even exist in this dimension? Are those stars just an illusion or is there actually more to explore out there?'
Some miscellaneous thoughts crossed his mind as he tried to come up with any idea on what to do, as he currently felt like he was at the biggest roadblock he had ever encountered.
'Wait...'