God Ash: Remnants of the fallen.-Chapter 1154: Sky Diving (1).

The island shuddered again beneath them.

This was not a gentle tremor.

It came as a violent, grinding shake that made the entire island lurch sideways. Cain’s stomach dropped as gravity pulled at his body. For a moment, he thought he would fall, but Steve quickly reached down and grabbed at him.

"Damn. That was close." Steve breathed a sigh of relief.

"Move!" Cain shouted as he struggled to his feet and began sprinting toward where Lyos was panicking, flapping his wings erratically.

Steve didn’t need to be told twice. The researcher clutched his helmet tight and ran, his usual composure completely abandoned in favor of the pure desire to not die.

Pudding had already disappeared back into the {Beastmaster’s Subspace}, its panic overriding everything else. That alone told Cain how bad this was. Pudding had survived in some of the most hostile environments imaginable, and even the creature knew it had to fleez even if it had to abandon itself master in the process.

Above them, the other formation loomed closer. It was massive, easily twice the size of the island they were standing on, and its descent seemed to be accelerating as well. If such a thing were to have happened on the old Urbus, it would bring about a world ending cataclysm, plunging most of the living beings in it into a mass extinction crisis.

But that didn’t matter at the moment because the two rocks would collide in less than a minute.

Lyos spread his wings, ready for takeoff. Cain vaulted onto the Amphithere’s back, barely maintaining his grip as another shudder ran through the island. Steve scrambled up behind him, nearly dropping his satchel in the process.

"Go go go!" Cain urged.

The Argent Amphithere launched into the air just as the first chunks of rock began breaking off from their island. The destabilization was spreading fast, cracks racing across the surface like lightning. Entire sections of stone crumbled away, falling towards the ground below and others falling into the void above.

It was a terrifying thing to witness.

Lyos banked hard, wings beating frantically to gain altitude. But the energy currents around them had gone completely haywire. The impending collision was disrupting everything, creating violent eddies and streams where there had been relatively calm air moments before.

A wave of Chaos Ether slammed into them from the side. Lyos shrieked and tumbled, completely losing orientation for a heart-stopping moment. Cain felt his grip slip, his weakened body unable to maintain purchase on the serpent’s scales.

Then Steve grabbed the back of his robes, yanking him back into position. "I’ve got you!"

"Thanks!" Cain channeled wind-attribute mana, creating a barrier around them. It wouldn’t stop the Chaos Ether completely, but it would at least dampen the worst effects.

Above, their island finally gave up the ghost. The entire formation split down the middle, with a sound like a thousand bolts of thunder rumbling, both halves tumbling in different directions. Even further above, the larger rock continued its inexorable descent.

The collision happened with a sound like the universe breaking.

Even from a hundred meters away, the shockwave was tremendous. The two islands impacted at an angle, grinding against each other with forces that should have been impossible. Stone shattered. Energy exploded outward in visible waves. And suddenly the air was filled with debris, chunks of rock ranging from fist-sized to house-sized, all of them moving fast.

The amount of energy released at ince was terrifying.

Fortunately, most of the debris fell towards the void above, as well as the energy.

However, a decent portion still fell towards the ground.

"Dodge!" Cain shouted. Lyos was already moving, serpentine body twisting through the air in impossible ways with a sharp hiss.

A large stone pillar the size of a skyscraper shot past them, close enough that Cain could have reached out and touched it. Another came from below, and Lyos dove to avoid it, wings tucked tight.

More debris fell, with more whirlpools of rampant, violent energy swelling and blooming all around them. The entire area had become a deathtrap of flying stone and chaotic power.

Cain drew on his metal-attribute mana, forming golden shields in the air around them.

A chunk of rock came screaming toward them, too large to dodge. Cain set three shields together

They overlapped into one another, forming a strong defensive formation that radiated golden light. The stone exploded into smaller fragments against the defense making it so that Lyos could navigate between the rocks ahead.

Another rock came careening down. He summoned more shields. The constructs shattered on impact, but they served their purpose, providing grace against the falling field of debris and energy blasts.

Steve stretched his arms forward and began summoning more shields together with Cain, improving their defensive capabilities.

"Left!" Steve called out, pointing to the left.

Cain looked and saw what Steve had spotted. There was a relatively clear corridor between two major energy streams. It was narrow, maybe twenty feet wide, and it was closing fast as the streams shifted.

"Lyos, you see it?"

The Amphithere hissed and adjusted course, accelerating hard. They shot toward the gap, debris still flying all around them.

Fifteen feet from the corridor, a massive slab of stone tumbled into their path. No time to go around or destroy it.

Cain made a split-second decision.

In that moment, he activated {Spatial Jump}.

Reality distorted and hiccupped. One moment they were on a collision course with several tons of rock. The next they were thirty feet ahead, having bypassed the obstacle entirely through short-range teleportation.

Cain huffed deeply, wiping the sweat that slid down his brows.

It was a split second decision, but it was essentially the difference between life and death.

They plunged into the corridor, energy streams roaring on either side. Lyos kept his flight path perfectly centered, not daring to drift even a few inches in either direction.

Behind them, more rocks collided. The cascade effect was spreading, destabilizing other rock formation in the area. Cain could see distant islands beginning to tumble, their orbits disrupted by the initial collision.

This entire section of the Graveyard was coming apart.