Universe's End

"Whose idea was it to put a god forsaken asteroid field inside a volcano?" Zoey groaned for the billionth time.

"Aelia, or Eon, or maybe the universe just hates us," Rory responded as he kicked off from the floating space rock.

The fabled fifth floor of the Deep Chambers, which they had entered several years prior, had not appeared as they had expected.

The fifth floor was essentially a collection of minor 'planets' separated by hundreds, if not thousands, of miles of space, the only thing bridging the distance vast belts of asteroids they had to maneuver and kick off between. It was like a strange mirror of the volcanic region with its floating mountain chains, except even larger.

Larger, and inside one of the aforementioned mountains.

Figure out how that works.

They had already traveled between three of the 'planets', each more like a biosphere, a hundred or so miles across. Based on their progress, they estimated around ten planets total, the end likely being a monster they'd heard referenced by little Jinn of all things, a high-tier-seven floor guardian.

With the endless assault by space monsters that looked like a squid and a sea slug had gotten freaky, they'd been making good progress, with Rory having cracked level seventy-six just the other day.

It wasn't necessarily easy, but it was helped that in an environment of boundless miles of space debris and rocks, Rory was able to spam Dragon's Fall.

Now, technically speaking, it wasn't a true Dragon's Fall as he wasn't actually using projection magic, instead using the near vacuum and lack of gravity to manipulate the asteroids into his signature attack. That itself wouldn't have been much easier, if not for a particular skill that he had absorbed shortly after their foray into the fifth floor of the Deep Chamber.