Chapter 144: Ocean of Flame
Sunny almost managed to direct his endless fall toward the tiny gap between the remnant conflagrations of the divine flame, but on that incredible scale, even the smallest mistake was bound to take him many kilometers away from the goal.
...A mistake that he had inevitably made, since there were no lessons on navigating eternal voids, especially without any tools except for his own two eyes.
’Damn it!’
Right below him, swiftly approaching, was an ocean of obliterating light, heat, and fire.
The conflagrations themselves were rather small, no larger than a dozen meters in diameter, and chaotically scattered in the void at a considerable distance from one another. Each looked like a furious, undulant orb of dancing white flames.
The space between them, though, was not safe. It was permeated by immolating heat that nothing could withstand... at least nothing Sunny had at his disposal.
As the adamantine wood of the treasure chest started to slowly catch fire, he hesitated, then glanced at the empty darkness of the distant rift in the ocean of light. Whether by accident or by design, there was a point in the field of false stars where no conflagrations remained. A roughly circular breach was torn through them, promising him safe passage.
But how was he supposed to reach it?
If Sunny jumped off the plummeting chest right now, he would probably be able to glide all the way to the rift... the distance was just right. However, he was pretty sure that the Dark Wing would be instantly turned to ash by the terrible heat of the remnant vestiges of the divine flame.