Epic of Caterpillar

Chapter 2414: Fragmented Dimensional Realm Dungeon

After enhancing Wall\'s defenses, we moved inside of the Dimensional Wall, as that\'s where our friends and family were after all.

It wasn\'t as if we could ignore this, whatever this entire thing was...

RUMBLE!

Space around us was beginning to rapidly distort and grow chaotic, invisible forces began hitting Wall constantly, but she kept herself together thanks to our barrier composed of the combination of powerful space-bending abilities, authorities, and daos.

Until...

BAAAM!

She landed from the skies into the floor beneath, finding herself- and us, within an even stranger landscape than before. It was simply bizarre, as if the fire and ice everywhere wasn\'t weird already.

First of all, the castle was right there in the distance, but the sky had turned deep red, there was red, purple, and black ice covering the lands, and giant lakes of red flames covered it all.

I noticed giant mountains made of this dark ice, and volcanoes constantly pouring purple and black lava. There were also giant trees made of black, purple, or red ice, giving fruits made of purple and red flames.

To the distance, we could see hundreds of strange figures jumping and running, dancing as if they were in a strange trance. They were made of ice and fire but weren\'t like the Elemental Titans we fought before.

[You have entered the {Fragmented Dimensional Realm Dungeon}: {Distorted Palace of Memories That Leads To The Azure Staircase}!]

[To gain the Privilege of climbing the Azure Staircase, you must gather the Three Keys of Memories.]

What the...? What is this? A Dungeon with conditions? Huh?!

However, that wasn\'t even the worst part. As if this place couldn\'t get more distorted, there was something that changed, and that we all noticed upon looking at the sky.

The Blue Moon had a face.

It resembled the face of... a woman, a young woman, well, it wasn\'t really detailed. Like something sculpted out of the ice covering that moon.

It had empty eyes, and a small mouth, a little nose, she was beautiful. However, her expression... there was a deep sadness within her glance.

And her glance, and her sadness, it affected the entire place, it made it colder, and sometimes hotter, it was constantly shifting based in how the moon\'s face changed.

[The {Lonely Azure Moon That Longs For Winter} is glancing at you.]

[She wonders if you will ever come to visit her?]

[She says that she\'s been so lonely... She wants someone to bring her the warmth of company.]

[Will you come bring her company?]

[Will you?]

What? Messages?

Is that Blue Moon a Constellation?!

No way... there\'s just no way, right?

"This is strange..." said Nesiphae. "Are we still in Abyss?!"

"Yes we are..." nodded Zehe. "We never moved to another plane or universe or something... this is just Abyss, but some sort of Realm within it. And... is that a staircase?!"

Suddenly, Zehe realized something, pointing into the distance.

There was a staircase made of blue ice growing all the way to the skies above, reaching the blue moon, it was connected to the ice castle into the distance.

"So it\'s really connected then!" said Brontes. "Should we take those stairs?"

"I don\'t know, we should first rescue the people that\'s been missing, to be honest," I said. "Let\'s follow the presences of those that have gone missing. I can feel Ryo and Nesiphae aren\'t too far away, they might have been trapped in this Realm when they landed on Abyss!" "Right, let\'s go then! Going with Wall is too slow though, should we leave her behind?" Zehe wondered.

"Wall is a moving fortress, she can adapt and move at our speed," I said. "Wall, flying mode." "Yeeeeeees!"

FLASH!

Her entire body transformed as she gained giant stone and metallic wings, and the appearance of a massive phoenix made of stone and blue cosmic flames.

"Follow us!"

"Okaaaaaay!"

After her transformation, we quickly jumped off her and flew at lightning speed where we could sense the presence of Ryo and Amiphossia.

She carried most of our party, but those that I chose to be at the frontlines came at my side. Nesiphae, Rimuru, Brontes, Zehe, Truhan, Celica, Gaby, Lilith, and Altani. Flora was right behind us though, alongside Aura. Lucifer remained close to Wall and so the rest of my family.

It was a dangerous place, so I didn\'t want everyone to go around and walk happy-go-lucky and without problems when they could get eaten by some cosmic horror or whatever.

This place was technically some sort of eldritch realm now, somehow. So we better walk with caution... or well, fly with caution.

"Strange, their presence suddenly... has gotten farther?" wondered Zehe. "Are they moving?" "Yeah I could feel the same thing!" said Nesiphae. "They must be running farther from us!

But why?"

"They\'re probably being chased by monster," said Altani. "Although I can\'t see anything out of the ordinary down there."

"Maybe underground?" Lilith wondered.

"So there are caves in here too? Ugh this place\'s going to get even more complicated isn\'t it?"

Gaby complained.

"I can easily dig them with Authority, leave it to me!" said Lilith.

"Sure, go-ahead Lilith! I\'ll help out as well!" I nodded.

I swung my scythes upwards and then imbued them with cosmic power.

"{Absolute Cosmic Enchantment}!"

FLUOSH!

My two arms quickly absorbed the steel of my armor, transforming into a massive pair of drills with enough power to pierce through space itself.

"RAAAAHHH!"

Lilith roared, transforming into her gigantic stone dragon form, and using her powers to move the earth below and uplift it with tremendous power.

RUMBLE!

At the same time, I used my drills to drill through the ground and destroy everything.

We continued digging down for a couple seconds until...

Crack, crack...!

"Kireina! I can feel some sort of hard ceiling beneath!" said Lilith. "It is tied to some sort ofn/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

spatial membrane... like a room within this realm?"

"A room?!" I wondered. "Okay whatever, let\'s break in anyways!"

Lilith used her massive claws and pierced through this very hard stone, while my drills helped

her out deal tremendous damage until...

Crack... crack...!

CRAAASH!

Blinding white light engulfed us all as we fell through the hole, suddenly realizing we were

falling from the skies?!

"What in the world is going on?!" Lilith gasped.

"Ehh?! We\'re falling! What\'s this?" Zehe asked.

"Woah!" Nesiphae gasped.

"It seems there was more underground what we ever thought! What in the hell?!" asked Gaby.

"Ah! I get it now; this is a Multi-Layered Dimensional Realm!" Lucifer\'s voice echoed behind us. "You\'ve just dug into one of its layers!"

As I saw how Wall followed us and so everyone else, I noticed the landscape beneath.

It was a small island with a busy-looking modern city surrounded by the blue sea and nothing

else.

Lucifer is right, this entire thing is multi-layered.

So there\'s layers to the realms we\'re visiting, even though they\'re all individually small.

But who the hell made such a thing?

...

Wait, I think I have an idea who could have been.

[The {Endless Weaver of Dimensions} smiles.]

[The {Butterfly of Seven Colored Wings} giggles.]

[The {Corrupted King Of All Evil} glances at your direction.]

Huh?

SPLASH!

[The {Boy That Wanders Through Worlds} desires normalcy.]