Galactic knight: Apocalypse system Activated!-Chapter 43: The Other half of the Floating planet

Julian cascaded on the floor like a sack of rocks. His breathing was hard and rough and as he summoned the helmet away, he looked at his surroundings.

Rehul was flat on the floor, breathing hard also.

Julian could see a small expanse of land, something so small he could run to the end of it.

The ground was cracked. Faint lines of light, neon blue and violet, ran through the surface like veins, glowing softly.

The sky?

Not a sky at all.

It was a massive, swirling void. Ink-black, with a cyclone of stars twisting far above, bleeding light in slow, spiraling motions. It looked fake, like the backdrop of a video game that glitched every few seconds. You couldn’t even tell if it was up or down.

In the distance, broken slabs of land floated midair. Some were spinning. Some drifted lazily like dead leaves in space. A few had chunks of what looked like shattered buildings, twisted towers, fallen bridges, a staircase that led to nothing.

And everything... everything... was floating.

Above.

Below.

To the side.

No gravity rules.

No sense.

Just motion.

Even the land they were on tilted slightly every few seconds, like it was trying to remind them it wasn’t permanent.

Wind howled, not from any direction, but everywhere at once. Thin, high-pitched. Like one was belching and screaming at the same time.

Julian rose tiredly to his feet. He was so exhausted he could barely stand.

He looked at Rehul and then around him.

This place seemed unreal.

He had never seen anything like this before. Not even in the dramas Zyros produced.

This was just, he couldn’t say.

Rehul too was on her feet, looking at the twist to all she had ever known.

She had conquered many galaxies and gone to many planets but this was just new. She had never in her life seen something as wonderful and beautiful as this.

Just by standing there, to the both of them. It felt like a blur to reality. An unfazing twist to the eyes.

A shimmering mist hovered in the air. Not fog. Just... particles. Shards of light, floating slowly, brushing against Julian’s skin and dissolving.

He looked up.

Something massive blinked through the void, a glowing orb the size of a mountain, glowing faintly.

By the way it looked, Julian couldn’t say if it had a life of its own. Or if it was watching, studying.

Rehul groaned beside him. She seemed to be stretching her back.

Julian didn’t say anything. He was too busy staring at the edge.

Because right there, just a few meters away, the ground cut off like someone had sliced it with a knife.

And beyond that?

Nothing.

No stars.

No light.

Just pure, endless drop.

The kind of drop that didn’t end.

The kind that sucked your soul out of your body.

Perhaps that was the place that led to the wall galaxy, Julian didn’t know for certain.

It seemed to be though.

Maybe that was where this planet ended, perhaps that was what one stepped into that took one beyond.

Julian looked around again. This would be the perfect place to kiss. To embrace and do some romantic because this was the perfect place for that.

But time wasn’t on their hands and he wasn’t in the mood.

Again, this place was simply picturesque.

A perfect blend of the known and the unknown.

A striking beauty, weird and scary and yet soothing.

"What do we do now," Rehul asked him.

Julian laughed.

"Be happy we survived?"

Rehul crouched and examined the ground, her hand tracing on the glowing line. Each time her hands met it, they would glow the more and shock her a bit.

"Feels like I shouldn’t leave here, you know," Julian said. "Seems I should leave here my whole life."

Rehul smiled.

"You can if you want. But that would mean not being able to eat and..."

Julian chuckled softly.

"I will if I with the person."

Rehul was curious. "Who."

The answer was Luiin, but Julian wouldn’t tell her.

If he was with Luiin he wouldn’t have mind staying here because...

...she was all he could ever ask for.

With her by his side, food wouldn’t be a problem but he bet the orb would grant them their wishes of wanting to eat.

But come to think of it.

The last meal he ate was before he left Seisymy. It had been something light even. Something he ate in a rush as he didn’t want to waste any further time.

So here, hunger would be the least of his problems.

And with the love of his life?

It was perfect.

It was things like this that made one cry, in Julian’s case he might want to shed a tear.

Wanting someone but not being able to have her.

If he had the Galactic Knight powers as he did now, then he would have taken on the commander with ease.

Commander Nethul.

He would forever remember the name.

The only thing that was keeping that name from going extinct at this point was time.

Time!

That was what was keeping the ’brave’ ’Commander Nethul’ from getting his throat slowly slit open.

Julian didn’t know why but at any occasion, he always thought about Rehul and then this bastard of a commander.

He had this strange feeling that soon, he would kill the commander.

It felt nostalgic.

Something that sounded like what a child would think.

Wistful?

No, he knew it would soon become a reality.

He knew it would soon happen.

He still had to reply to Rehul’s question though, the question of ’who’

The question that brought up all this thoughts.

Taking a deep breath, he grinned and said:

"Perhaps you?"

Rehul couldn’t help but blush as she pulled closer and embraced him.

They dabbled with a kiss before Julian turned back and talked to Xea.

Rehul was too engrossed with touching any glowing or pulsing thing she saw to pay notice to what he was doing.

"I don’t see any portal here. How do I summon it," Julian asked.

Xea replied. ’[It should be the glowing orb but I’m not sure. Let me scan around though. I might see something.]’

’Might’

Julian laughed softly, very softly though, so that Rehul wouldn’t see notice and conclude that he was laughing and talking to himself.

"Even though I like this place. I don’t actually want to be here."

Xea decided to tease him.

’[Oh, you don’t want to be in this blissful weird wonder?]’

Julian smiled.

"Not when I have something to do."

Xea continued.

’[I bet with twenty large breasted women you might.]’

Julian smiled. He realized that Xea must have decided he was a flirt. He didn’t mind though, at least he was the one that kept pestering him to indulge to get something in the first place.

He would keep ’indulging’, not indulging in the literal sense since he was the one that wanted to do it.

Julian studied his surroundings for a minute or so, not actually touching anything as he didn’t know what it would bring, he instead simply studied, hands crossed behind his back, awaiting the response of Xea as he wanted to be out of here in minutes.

Finally Xea came on.

’[I have a way to summon the portal.]’

Bingo!