Kyle let go of his hammer and adapted his speed to the speed of the approaching Planet.
The Metal Elemental and the Planet were both coming closer.
Moments later, he hit the surface of the approaching Planet.
Despite his best efforts, his recovering bones broke again.
BANG!
Kyle's impact scattered the weaker pieces of ore, which he quickly pocketed and resummoned behind him.
He dug deeper into the core.
That was his only chance at survival!
One second after he started digging, the Planet hit the Metal Elemental.
That was when the ore in front of Kyle rushed towards him at incredible speed.
He wouldn't survive such an impact.
BANG!
He got hit, but somehow, he was still alive.
That was when Kyle realized what was happening.
'The Metal Elemental is breaking down the Metal Energy, weakening the metal!' he thought.
What was rushing past him was just a dense wave of Metal Energy.
But at the same time, the wall that was the Metal Elemental behind him started to approach rapidly.
Kyle dug deeper into the Planet.
He didn't want to find out what would happen if he actually touched the Metal Elemental.
Right now, he was just a tiny ant crawling through the Metal Elemental's salad.
If the ant touched the Metal Elemental, it would notice that Kyle was there.
At that point, nothing could save him anymore.
While Kyle was shooting deeper into the metal core, the metallic tendrils of the Metal Elemental surrounded the metal core like an octopus surrounded its prey.
The Planet was rapidly being consumed.
Kyle was shooting deeper into the core at full speed, but he might as well be standing still.
The speed at which the Planet was shooting past and through him was tens of times faster.
If this thing were still made of solid metal instead of scattered Metal Energy, Kyle would have been turned into nothing.
As Kyle kept shooting forward, he gathered as much of the scattered Metal Energy as possible.
He didn't know what he could use it for, but it was better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
The Space Energy around him intensified.
'Just a bit more!' Kyle thought with urgency.
At that point, he also noticed the intense gravity.
This was a big Planet, and it had a big and powerful Gravity Core.
Kyle's speed increased even more as the Gravity Core pulled him closer.
He desperately gathered more and more of the Metal Energy.
The Space Energy was getting stronger. The Metal Elemental was coming closer.
Kyle gritted his teeth.
And then, he felt a pull.
The rapidly moving walls became illusory as images of stationary walls appeared.
Kyle realized what was happening and stopped moving.
The Metal Elemental reached him in an instant, but he simply passed through its body.
He was being transported to the Main Dimension!
For just a moment, Kyle felt relief, but that feeling was quickly replaced with more terror.
His body was suddenly being compressed!
He knew what was happening.
Within an instant, he released a big chunk of Metal Energy from his Soul Space.
The Metal Energy rapidly entered the solid metal around him, which strengthened the walls.
And then…
It was over.
Space had stabilized.
Nothing was moving anymore.
He was fully back in the Main Dimension.
Sadly…
Kyle's bones were creaking under the immense pressure he was under.
He was completely surrounded by powerful metal, which he had strengthened.
Well, in the Elemental Dimension, he was deep inside the metal core of the new Planet.
So, the Supreme World had sent him to the same place in the Main Dimension.
Right now, Kyle was buried close to the Gravity Core of the new Planet, and he was surrounded by incredibly powerful chunks of ore.
The reason he had strengthened the ore around him was that he needed to offload the pressure.
If Kyle had materialized just like that, all the mass above him would use him as support, which would kill him.
By strengthening the ore around him, the mass above him would use the "walls" as support instead of him.
In essence, Kyle had made a body-sized hole deep inside the metal core.
But now, he was confronted with the next problem.
The gravity was constantly squishing his body, and the recovery speed of his Biological Energy was barely faster than its consumption.
Even more, Kyle's range of movement was as big as a brick in a brick wall.
He was a stone.
He was part of the Metal Core.
The metal around him had been strengthened to levels that he couldn't influence.
The pressure was immense.
The gravity was immense.
The constriction was immense.
Kyle tried his best to move, but there was no way.
It was impossible.
Eventually, he gave up.
Slowly, his emotions calmed down.
'At least, I survived,' he thought.
Silence.
No sounds.
Nothing around him moved.
There were no vibrations.
Everything was just solid.
'What now?' he thought. 'How do I get out of this?'
Kyle's perception stretched to his communicator.
'No reception,' he thought with annoyance. 'They said the communicator's signal can penetrate through thousands of kilometers of solid metal! What is this bullshit?!'
The Array of Stars hadn't lied.
The communicator could do that.
However, while it could still receive a signal through thousands of kilometers of solid metal…
It couldn't do the same through 250,000 kilometers of metal.
Yes, Kyle was stuck at this depth.
'My communicator has no signal, which means I'm considered dead,' he thought. 'That means they won't send someone to rescue me.'
'Also, how are they supposed to even find me?'
'This sucks.'
'Guess I'm stuck.'
'What are my options?'
'Well, maybe I can do something with the Metal Energy in my Soul Space?'
Kyle looked into his Soul Space.
Yet, there was no Metal Energy.
There was just metal.
'Ah, fuck!' he thought. 'The Metal Energy I absorbed was the equivalent of solid pieces of metal ore from the other Planets. The other pieces were pulled into my Soul Space, and the other pieces absorbed the Metal Energy!'
As Kyle looked at his filled Soul Space, he saw metals of incredible power.
The majority of his Soul Space was filled with kinds of metal that couldn't be damaged by even True Crushers.
'Great, I'm rich,' Kyle thought sarcastically. 'Just sucks that I can't do anything with my riches.'
'I'm fucking entombed here. Literally buried alive.'
'Is this how all these crazy cavers felt when they died in some narrow tunnel?'
'I mean, kinda, probably. The only difference is that they need air, food, and water. I don't need any of that.'
'I can survive just fine.'
'And I got another 1,800 years or so of surviving to do.'
'Unless I can become a True Crusher. Then, I have 8,800 years of being buried alive left.'
'Awesome, love it.'
Kyle just waited, trying to find a solution.
His perception wandered in boredom and resignation.
And then, he found something, and hope returned to him.
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