Chapter 1142: Success?
Huff, huff~
A continuous surge of internal energy flowed within Lin Rui as he focused his gaze on the Magic Cube before him. In order to create a Portal large enough for the Spaceship to pass through, Lin Rui needed to expend unimaginable amounts of energy.
If he hadn't recently upgraded his Training Technique and experienced a qualitative change in his internal energy, he wouldn't have had the confidence to open such a massive Portal.
"It's about ready..." Lin Rui calmly muttered as the deep Azure internal energy radiance above his head enveloped the blue light of the Magic Cube within.
Swoosh!
Then, a beam of light radiated from Lin Rui's chest, forming a depiction of the cosmic starry sky— his communication device used to contact Star-Lord. While Lin Rui was preparing to initiate the Portal, Star-Lord sent another distress signal, along with precise coordinates of his location in the cosmos.
"I hope it's accurate enough...," Lin Rui murmured, his gaze sweeping over the cosmic depiction with light points.
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz!
"Alright... let's do it!!"
With a mighty roar, Lin Rui forcefully channeled all of his internal energy through his arms into the Magic Cube above. The Magic Cube, now receiving such an influx of energy, vibrated intensely within the Azure light, and the blue energy radiance it emitted rapidly intensified.
Boom!
With a deafening sound, the spatial energy within the Magic Cube erupted instantaneously, breaking through the shroud of deep Azure internal energy and shooting upwards into the sky.
After ascending to a height of about five hundred meters, the blue spatial energy beam exploded violently. Consequently, the previously stable space was torn open by the burst of spatial energy, forming a massive spatial rift.
Swish, Swish, Swish!
As the stable space tore open into a massive rift, a powerful suction force emanated from the fissure, causing the calm environment to descend into turmoil. The sudden change in pressure created swirling vortexes in the surrounding air, akin to a gigantic sieve.
"Not enough! It's still not big enough!!" Lin Rui, who was constantly injecting internal energy into the magic, stared at the expanding spatial rift in the sky, which had stopped growing at several dozen meters wide.
Pū Pū Pū!
Subsequently, muffled sounds echoed rapidly from within Lin Rui's body. These sounds were a result of Lin Rui pushing his physical limits to unleash bursts of internal energy.
More deep Azure internal energy surged out of Lin Rui's body, flooding into the Magic Cube. Stimulated by this influx of internal energy, the blue spatial energy beam emitted by the Magic Cube became even more dazzling.
With the continuous strengthening of the spatial energy, the torn spatial rift continued to widen. In no time, what was initially a crack several meters long and wide had transformed into Portal dozens of meters wide and long.
On the other side of this Portal lay an endless universe— dark, yet brimming with immeasurable and powerful energy.
"That should be enough..." Lin Rui mumbled, whether to himself or to J.A.R.V.I.S, it wasn't clear. After murmuring, he quietly closed his eyes.
Huff~
At the moment the Portal formed, Lin Rui's internal energy was fully depleted, and his entire body had surpassed its limits, rendering him almost unconscious. Finally, his raised hands grew limp, and his body descended softly, plummeting downwards.
As Lin Rui lost consciousness and fell, the Magic Cube, which had been hovering above him, also tumbled down, following him.
Rumbling!
Swoosh!
Just as Lin Rui plummeted downward, the Spaceship that had been stationed below suddenly shot upwards like a released arrow. J.A.R.V.I.S seized the opportunity. However, at this point, Lin Rui was on a direct collision course with the Spaceship's path.
The impending impact was unavoidable given Lin Rui's current condition. Furthermore, the Spaceship, which was already accelerating, couldn't slow down at this point and was headed directly toward Lin Rui.
However, just as Lin Rui was about to collide with the front windshield of the Spaceship, a silver Portal suddenly materialized beneath him. Lin Rui, along with the nearby Magic Cube, plunged into it.
Once Lin Rui was transported away, the Portal vanished instantly. Simultaneously, the Spaceship, just as the Portal disappeared, hurtled forward and plunged straight into the contracting Portal in midair.
Rumbling!
As the Spaceship charged into the Portal, which was now being compressed due to the pressure of normal space, the gate swiftly shrank and vanished under the strain. It took a significant amount of time after the Portal vanished for the airflow in the region to return to normal.
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Back on Earth, as Lin Rui and his team assembled and commandeered the fully functional Spaceship, charging into the Portal, in a distant expanse of space, countless light-years away from Earth, the Star-Lord's Spaceship named 'Milano' zigzagged, desperately evading the pursuit.
Behind the Milano, a vast swath of dark mist closed in rapidly, as if it would engulf the Spaceship in the next instant. Needless to say, that dark mist was Dormammu.
Whoosh!
In yet another nimble maneuver, narrowly avoiding the onslaught of the pursuing dark mist, the Milano's engines had been pushed to their limits. Inside the Milano, Rocket, and Star-Lord were steering the spaceship with tense expressions.
Behind them, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, and the now-adolescent Groot were all tightly strapped into their seats, jostling with the ship's wild maneuvers.
"Star-Lord! It's all your fault! Why did you have to mess with this big guy? We can't escape now!!" Amidst their extreme maneuvering to evade danger, Rocket managed to shout amidst the chaos.
The Milano and Dormammu were supposed to approach the Nine Realms Star Domain from two separate directions and should not have encountered each other before reaching Earth.
However, when they had gotten close enough, the Milano detected a superpowered entity ahead. As the universe's coolest star thief, Star-Lord decided to check it out, hoping for some loot. Little did he know, they were now in quite a predicament.
"Me? How could it be my fault? It's coming after us to have a little snack! Probably hasn't eaten in centuries! It's not afraid that we might not agree with the menu!" Star-Lord retorted defiantly to Rocket's shout.
Bang!
"Enough bickering now! Focus on finding a way out!! This creature is unlike any we've encountered before; I think it's even stronger than my father!"
After Star-Lord's shout, an alarm clock struck him on the head. Following this, Gamora's voice echoed from the rear of the ship.
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