Inside the cramped capsule, the red warning lights of "Protocol 0" began to strobe, casting long, bloody shadows. Arthur's heart rate was calm, but he was manually surging his Qi to trick the sensors into thinking he was panicking.
"The trick to surviving an explosion," Arthur whispered, his hands hovering over the internal core of the anti-matter jade, "is to ensure the energy has a direction. A bomb is just power without a vector. I will give it a target."
He activated D-3 (The Void).
Instead of fighting the anti-matter, he began to "tune" his own Void Core to the same frequency as the jade. It was like matching the vibration of two tuning forks. As the Jade plates began to glow with a blinding, unstable white light, Arthur didn't shield himself. He opened his meridians wide.
He began to wrap the internal explosion in a Dimensional Shell. Using the principles of Vector Reversal, he focused 99% of the coming blast downward, into the base of the capsule.
In the command center, Dr. Thorne saw the readings spike. "He's trying to absorb it? Fool. You can't contain anti-matter with Spirit Qi." She pressed the manual override. "Goodbye, Pendragon."
BOOM.
The capsule didn't just explode; it became a Linar Singularity. To the observers on the surface, it looked like a small sun had ignited at the bottom of the ocean. But for Arthur, it was a kick from a god.
The anti-matter energy, channeled through Arthur's Void Core, transformed from a destructive wave into a Piercing Spear. The capsule was propelled forward at Mach speeds through the water, not as metal, but as a streak of grey lightning.
The pressure of the ocean (Rank 6 level) was nothing compared to the thrust of an anti-matter explosion (Rank 10 level). Arthur used the blast to punch a hole through the localized space-time fabric, aiming straight for the heart of the Abyssal Rift.