Alone in his room, Takatsuki was originally going to continue tinkering with the system. The system's tasks had been paused for several days, and no new tasks had refreshed on the second day, or rather, there were still no tasks even now.
The previous daily tasks were gone too, it was even worse than before.
The good news was that the Dungeon Instance's charging progress was increasing by about four percent each day, meaning it would reach one hundred percent in less than a month.
But upon fiddling with it, he found there wasn't much he could do, unless he drew some cards.
Without a source of crystal income, he had no intention of spending crystals on card draws.
So, what he could do was…
"Let's look at the World Bubbles."
Takatsuki had observed the World Bubbles through Heaven's Stairway for a long time before, and finally selected one that looked promising.
And now he was preparing to take a quick stroll there to test his abilities.
Heaven's Stairway extended a hand and placed it on Takatsuki's head. Even though it had transformed into a somewhat different ability, the method of traversing worlds remained the same, by using a clamping action to cross over.
Takatsuki instantly felt himself detach from his original World Bubble and enter a strange space, a world with no up or down, no front or back.
No, not a world, but a place that couldn't even be called space.
Takatsuki realized its true nature…
The Sea of Quanta!
And this scene passed in just an instant. Under the protection of Stand power, Takatsuki quickly traversed the Sea of Quanta and arrived in a new world.
In a place he didn't know…
"My other self, did something just pass by?"
A girl with short black-blue hair opened her sea-blue eyes. She had just felt something flash past in the empty Sea of Quanta.
In the Sea of Quanta, there were countless World Bubbles, but her body had become completely merged with the Sea of Quanta, so even if she entered any World Bubble, she couldn't integrate into it and would just fall back into the Sea of Quanta, like a piece of iron falling into the ocean.
"Seele must have been mistaken, this is the Sea of Quanta."
"Maybe…"
Taking out the diary she had held for an unknown amount of time, she continued her entries. Only by doing this, and talking to her other self, had she managed to persevere until now.
On the other side, Takatsuki naturally didn't know what had just happened. He had arrived in a ruined world.
Everywhere were broken walls and shattered ruins, many places still burning with flames, cities destroyed, roads torn up, and even rivers blocked by huge rocks.
"A ruined world? No, if that were the case, the Imaginary Tree should have severed it and thrown it into the Sea of Quanta."
If a world was completely beyond saving, it would be abandoned by the Imaginary Tree, but Takatsuki had chosen a complete World Bubble that was still on the Imaginary Tree.
"Humans shouldn't be extinct. Let's find someone first."
There was a lot of Honkai Energy in the air, but it wasn't to the extent of the Honkai Eruption. Takatsuki could tell this because he didn't show any symptoms of Honkai sickness.
Switching to Koby's character card, he still hadn't been able to grasp Haki with his main body, just like Nen, and could only use it through the card.
"Over there, then…"
Unleashing his Observation Haki, Takatsuki immediately detected human presences nearby. Although he didn't know the specific situation, where there were people, there were questions to be asked.
He quickened his pace, and soon, he saw a group of humans being chased by Honkai Beasts.
"A Ballista-class Honkai Beast, huh."
Looking at the Honkai Beast chasing a group of people, Takatsuki immediately identified its class. Those being pursued were ordinary people.
He stomped his foot, and the ground was directly dented by Takatsuki's immense strength, while Takatsuki swiftly arrived above the Honkai Beast's head.
"Dragon blast!"
He punched the Honkai Beast on the head, and the enormous blast directly tore it into pieces, making it as dead as could be.
The fleeing crowd saw the Honkai Beast chasing them killed, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Many people, exhausted from the long run, collapsed to the ground as soon as they stopped.
"Thank you, little brother. Are you from Schicksal?"
A middle-aged man, after catching his breath and seeing everyone else exhausted, walked over and thanked Takatsuki.
Do ordinary people in this world all know about Schicksal?
"I'm not from Schicksal. What's the situation here now?"
Hearing that Takatsuki was not from Schicksal, the middle-aged man was visibly disappointed, but still said, "We were originally in the Anti-Entropy shelter in Linhai City, but it was attacked by a Honkai Emperor. The Anti-Entropy people held off the Honkai Beast, and we escaped. There were originally thousands of us..."
Looking at the team of only about a hundred people left, the man's eyes were filled with grief. Evidently, they had lost many people along the way, mostly those who were unable to escape and were caught by Honkai Beasts.
"Little brother, I heard there's a Schicksal shelter up ahead. You'd better come with us quickly. We don't know when that Honkai Emperor will break through the mecha's blockade and come over."
Nodding, Takatsuki didn't refuse. He also wanted to understand the situation of this world.
Before he could move, a huge flame erupted less than a hundred meters away from them.
"Flamescion! Draw your sword!"
A familiar voice sounded, and Takatsuki saw the people around him immediately become excited.
"It's Flamescion! It's Flamescion!"
"Miss Flamescion is here! Great, we're saved!"
Looking at the excited crowd, Takatsuki again found this world strange. Do ordinary people in this world already know about Herrschers? And is Kiana that famous?
As the huge pillar of fire erupted, the obstacles between them and Flamescion were directly melted. Takatsuki saw a figure with a white ponytail standing in front, swinging her sword to deliver the final blow to the Honkai Emperor in front of her.
"Are you all alright?"
After eliminating the Honkai Beast, Flamescion, with just a light leap, arrived in front of the crowd.
Then Takatsuki saw her surrounded by an excited crowd.
"Alright, alright, everyone hurry to the shelter. I've already cleared the Honkai Beasts on this path, but new ones might still come. There's no time to lose."
"Okay, okay! Thank you, Lady Flamescion!"
Watching a group of ordinary people thank Flamescion one by one, and then leave, Takatsuki's expression was a bit strange.
"Why are you still here? If you don't leave, Honkai Beasts will come."
Flamescion saw Takatsuki standing still and asked. She didn't feel any Honkai Energy fluctuations on Takatsuki, thinking he was just an ordinary person.
"Kiana, what's the situation with this world?"
Takatsuki suddenly asked, looking at Flamescion in front of him.