Kyle fled into the distance again, but this time, he was flying upward.
He had bought enough time for Swamp Dragon and Manny to escape.
If they still died, it was not his fault.
He had done his best.
Now, he just needed to escape.
Sadly, that was easier said than done.
As he escaped, he was hit by more lightning bolts, and his condition quickly worsened again.
The newest members of the whale group were Level Ten and Level Eleven Primal Beasts.
Even more, while Kyle was faster than the weaker members, he was not faster than the others.
The more powerful whales split off from the main group as they chased after Kyle.
He wouldn't be able to get away from them.
Kyle gritted his teeth.
'There has to be a way out!'
'There must be a solution!'
'I need something!'
Moments later, Kyle was besieged by only four whales, but those four were much more powerful than the others.
If nothing happened, he would still die.
Kyle's mind was going wild, trying to come up with a solution.
Another volley of lightning bolts was launched at him, but this time, Kyle summoned four of his hammers and threw them at the attacks.
The hammers blocked the lightning bolts, giving him a short moment to regain his Energy Equilibrium.
Then, he got hit by the next volley, and he was in a critical condition again.
Another volley, another four hammers.
'That's it,' Kyle thought. 'I only have one hammer left, and I need that one.'
As Kyle saw the next volley being readied, time seemed to stop.
'I have to try!'
Kyle summoned several pieces of the ores he had gathered on the Planet and combined them.
He allowed his instincts to do the work.
'If this fails, I'm dead!'
Within an instant, he had created a huge shield made of metal and threw it at the distant whales.
The volley hit the shield.
The moment of truth.
BANG!
The shield broke, and the volley's bolts continued…
But they were weakened significantly!
Just now, Kyle had tried to create a Lower Crusher Material by fusing the few Higher Primal Materials he had gathered, and he had managed to succeed!
It still wasn't enough to block everything, but it weakened the attacks so much that he could absorb them without taking damage.
Kyle managed to comprehend the Fragment of Higher Primal Materials.
If he had the time to create the perfect Higher Primal Material, he could have blocked several volleys, but he only had limited materials on hand.
Sure, he could conjure the necessary materials, but that would take weeks.
However, Kyle had recovered enough to deal with another two volleys.
CRACK!
At that moment, Kyle felt like the space around him broke into pieces.
For just an instant, he felt like some kind of force had violently pulled him into a different direction, even though his body hadn't moved at all.
The Elemental Energy in his surroundings multiplied in intensity.
He knew what this meant.
It was time for the coinflip.
'The Dimensional Collapse happened, and even worse, everything collapsed to the Elemental Dimension!'
Suddenly, all the lightning and storms around him vanished, and a wall of fire swallowed him.
Kyle's skin burned into crisps, and his muscles were quickly turning black.
His Biological Energy was focusing on his Aspects of Power to protect them, but that wouldn't work forever.
At the same time, the whales behind Kyle shouted in panic as their bodies also received severe burns.
Their bodies were stronger than Kyle's, but Kyle had the Elemental Dispersion effect of his Complex Law and his Element Absorption ability.
If he had been missing either of these, he would already be dead.
As Kyle absorbed part of the Elemental Energy around him, he realized something, and he wasn't sure if that was a good or a bad thing.
'There is no will in this attack,' Kyle thought. 'That means it's not an attack!'
'This is just the Elemental Dimension!'
The Elemental Dimension basically had no stellar bodies.
No Stars, Planets, or Moons.
Everything was just destroyed, replaced by a wild storm of ethereal forces.
The Planet Kyle was on didn't exist in its normal form in this Dimension.
The storm around the metal core had been completely obliterated by the dense Fire Energy.
There was only the metal core left.
While Kyle was trying to survive, he felt the Space Energy around him intensifying.
Kyle was in the wrong Dimension, and the Supreme World was trying to push him back into the Main Dimension.
But that would take a couple of seconds.
Kyle emptied his Soul Space and surrounded himself with all of the ore he had gathered.
For just a moment, he was no longer surrounded by Fire Energy.
Yet, just two seconds later, the Fire Energy burned through all of the ore around him and reached his body again.
'Hurry up!' Kyle thought.
He wasn't sure if he could survive until the Supreme World sent him to the Main Dimension.
At that moment, Kyle felt his hammer being pulled somewhere.
He didn't know why his hammer was being pulled somewhere, but this gave him a plan.
Kyle made his body as small as possible as his muscles wrapped around the hilt.
The hammer sped up to insane speeds, and if Kyle hadn't had the ability to reduce his physical weight with his Complex Law, the forces of the acceleration would have killed him.
Yet, at the same time, the rapidly moving hammerhead acted like a snowplow of a train.
The Fire Energy in front of him was pushed to the side, weakening its intensity around Kyle's body.
At the same time, Kyle noticed something.
A gigantic wall was coming up behind him.
It was the Planet's metal core!
Yet, he was not traveling towards it.
No, it was traveling to him.
An instant later, the Fire Energy around Kyle vanished.
There was no more Elemental Energy around him.
'Am I back in the Main Dimension?' he thought.
However, the Space Energy around him was still gathering.
No, he was still in the Elemental Dimension.
That was when he noticed why there was no more Elemental Energy around him.
In front of Kyle was another endless wall made of metal.
Yet, the metal that comprised this wall was uniform.
As Kyle saw it, he felt unending Metal Energy coming from it.
He had never felt such dense Energy before!
Then, he knew what was going on.
The reason why there was no Fire Energy around him anymore was that he had entered the domain of something much more powerful.
A Metal Elemental with an unknown Realm.
And right now, Kyle's hammer and the Planet's metal core were being pulled in by the Metal Elemental.
Just like Third Valkyrie had said, when dealing with the Elemental Dimension, one's life was no longer in one's own hands.
It was a Fart! coinflip.
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