Ethan could even see completely different worlds. For example, one world was filled with red fog. He couldn't see what was behind the fog, and some of that fog was even seeping through the spatial rifts.
Ethan could only feel a wave of heat and a strong smell of blood.
Sometimes, the spatial rifts they passed were over a vast green grassland.
Above the grassland, lightning flashed and thunder roared, while countless dead trees stood all around, showing just how powerful the rolling thunder was.
Some were vast expanses of ocean.
Water would surge in through the spatial rifts, but the water that flowed in would quickly disappear into the spatial passage. No one knew where it went.
Ethan even saw a spatial rift with lava flowing out of it.
Fortunately, the Dark Armored Bug didn't get too close to these spatial rifts.
This was probably one of the Dark Armored Bug's abilities. It was extremely familiar with which parts of this spatial passage could be traveled through and which couldn't, avoiding injuring its passenger.
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About ten minutes later, the Dark Armored Bug rapidly vibrated its wings again, and countless air ripples appeared once more.
Ethan suddenly realized that these air fluctuations seemed to be like a signal.
That's right, a signal between spatial gates.
Because every time he opened a Level 3 spatial gate, he could actually sense a slight fluctuation in the air, or rather, a vibration in the aura.
But he had never paid attention to it, thinking that it was simply a change caused by the distortion of space when opening a spatial gate.
Until he rode the Dark Armored Bug through a huge spatial gate and, at the instant another huge spatial gate opened, Ethan suddenly understood.
Perhaps the frequency of this vibration was precisely a signal between gates.
Otherwise, in such a long spatial passage, how would you know where there would be a spatial gate that happened to lead to Demon Tree Branch No. 1123?
Therefore, Ethan guessed that the Dark Armored Bug only knew the approximate locations of the spatial gates.
But it had deeply memorized the frequencies of the spatial gates, allowing it to easily knock open the spatial gate to Demon Tree Branch No. 1123 and enter it.
[Spatial Comprehension +5]
"Hm?"
At the instant Ethan understood the relationship between spatial gates and their frequencies, he suddenly received a system notification.
'Spatial Comprehension?'
Ethan's eyes immediately lit up, and he hurriedly opened his character attribute panel.
He discovered that his character attribute panel really had an additional line for Spatial Comprehension.
[Spatial Comprehension: Level 1 (5/10)]
Although Ethan still didn't know what this spatial attribute was useful for, since there was such an awesome profession as a Space Mage, he figured that an attribute like Spatial Comprehension should be an extremely awesome attribute too.
Whatever it was, he just needed to keep grinding the experience.
Smack!
The beetle entered the spatial gate to Demon Tree Branch No. 1123.
But Ethan's vision still went black. Then he heard the beetle land with a "clack."
Immediately afterward, his vision brightened, and he found himself in a place almost identical to the one he had come from.
A beam of light fell from above, and there was a huge wooden door.
Ethan pushed open the wooden door and walked out.
It was still an identical hall, with the same bar and the same bulletin board. If not for the red-haired woman standing behind the bar, Ethan would almost have thought he had returned to where he started.
"Hmm? A guest?"
The red-haired woman seemed to have not seen a guest in a long time. The moment she saw Ethan appear, her eyes immediately lit up.
But Ethan waved at her and said, "Just passing through. I'm leaving soon."
"Is that so?"
There was some disappointment in the red-haired woman's eyes, but she didn't say anything. She simply lowered her head and continued wiping her glasses, which she had almost polished enough to spark.
The moment Ethan left the hall, he appeared inside the light sphere of the Demon Tree.
Only when Ethan looked at his surroundings from the Demon Tree did he finally confirm that he had arrived at Demon Tree Branch No. 1123.
Because, the scenery outside this Demon Tree was completely different from the scenery around his home.
Outside the Demon Tree was a huge forest of dead trees, and even the soil beneath those dead trees was a brownish-red color, like red-brown earth.
The brownish-red soil looked almost like some kind of disease, as if it would continue spreading.
Even the Demon Tree beneath Ethan's feet seemed to have been affected by the brownish-red soil and had already withered in a small area. If the soil continued spreading, Ethan guessed that this Demon Tree, No. 1123, might soon wither and die as well.
And what was strangest was that Ethan realized he had smelled this scent before, with its smell of blood and scorching heat.
It seemed to be the same smell as the red fog he had smelled while passing through the spatial rifts.
'Could it be that this land has also been contaminated by the red fog?'
Ethan was somewhat puzzled, but he didn't have much time to study the environmental contamination at the moment. He quickly jumped down from the Demon Tree, summoned the stone horse, mounted it, and rode toward the edge of the red earth for about an hour.
Only after he was certain that the Peace Organization wouldn't be able to easily determine where he had come from or where he was going did Ethan walk onto the red earth and begin drawing an alchemy formation.