"Damn…" I had, in my excitement, forgotten to check out the gates before devouring the entirety of the high planar galaxies, and the moment I used my consciousness to check…
"Nothing."
At this point, I wasn't even surprised anymore. I'd already suspected something to be up, and this just solidified that thought even more.
For all the gates manned by the Spirit Ascension Sect to have vanished all at once, it wasn't difficult to realize that something was closing any gate I acquired.
"Looks like this is another thing I can't put off for too long anymore." I shook my head. It would seem my vacation was well and truly over as, one after the other, my responsibilities were finally catching up to me.
"Hey… something wrong?" Aunt V came up from behind me, her hands wrapping around my waist as she leaned her head on my back. "You seem tense."
