Sam closed the notifications and set his eyes on the vast ocean before him. The latter of the two meant little to him, only that he would meet his allies sooner rather than later.

Then he set off, teleporting to the nearest island. Over the next few minutes, he hopped across the various rocky outcroppings, finding nothing of note on them. It was a bit underwhelming, hell, it felt like the second layer of the Tower, which had simply been a System construction, was more interesting. As he continued, though, sights that had been completely unexpected began to invade his field of view. Gargantuan monsters leaping out from the frothing waves.

The nearest of them towered far above Sam's head. It was an odd creature, replete with fur rather than scales. That fur was a bright shade of blue, one that seemed like an abomination to nature itself. Sam frowned. The creature moved quite fast across the wave, but thankfully vanished soon after. At least it hadn't tried to attack him. Though, the power that he could sense off the resident monsters was nothing to him. Most of them were simply early E Rankers, and not especially powerful ones. Sam could have obliterated them simply by breathing. Well, maybe not that easily, but they certainly would not pose much of a challenge.

Day started to turn to night shockingly quickly, so quickly that Sam found himself looking up at the heavens above. He hadn't noticed it before, because of the even distribution of the light, but the sun was moving across the sky so quickly that it was already setting. When he had arrived, the celestial body had been on the opposite side of the sky.

"Where am I?" Sam wondered. "The laws of physics here must be different to my home universe."

As before, he was most likely in another Multiverse. Many of the earlier ones had simply manifested that dimensional removal in the form of the various species of sapients and monsters living there, but this one was far more exotic.

About a minute later, Sam encountered the first major difference, at least on a local level. Gravity reversed as he passed over a long coral reef, his downwards momentum translating into upwards force. It wasn't much of an inconvenience, given that he could simply teleport, but it was still strange to see the sea as the sky, and the now dark night sky as the ocean below. Stars sparkled in the firmament, creating the illusion of depth. It was almost as if he were flying over a different ocean, one without a bottom. Instead, the universe stretched out without end, the milky light of the stars like faraway fish swimming through the depths.

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About a hundred islands later, Sam left the reversed gravity area, finding himself back with the sea in the right place. Continuing to use the islands as reference points, Sam headed into the unknown.

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Night turned to day a dozen more times before he found his destination. A spire of shining alabaster rock, a pillar of marble stretching into the clouds. It was almost a thousand miles wide, and thousands more in height. Such was its scale, that Sam couldn't even see all of it in a single glance.

Thousands of flying ships traversed the skies around the pillar, heading towards various docks jutting from the side of the titanic structure. The entire mountain was covered with buildings. They looked small in comparison to the marble monolith, but they were still far larger than anything Sam might have seen back on Earth.

He continued to teleport, but a few seconds later, a shimmering wall of electric blue energy sprang up before him, and he came to a dead stop.

"Halt." A robotic voice sounded. "You are trespassing in the domain of Elvras Jakanth, Sovereign of the Worldsea."

Sam stood there in the sky, flickering slightly as he maintained his altitude through thousands of teleportations every second. All around him, the wall started to curve inwards, trying to trap him. The force of a powerful Dao pressed down on him. It felt like the raw power of the unchained sea, a tidal wave of force on the conceptual plane. While powerful, though, it was not entirely localized. The current of potency girded the entire force field.

Sam broke through with his own Dao, a spike of scarlet and azure light crashing into the center of the force field. The plane of glassy blue light snapped around the bolt, and Sam teleported through. He could hear the automated voice screeching behind him, but he ignored it in favor of heading towards the city. Once he got there, he would be lost in the mazes of alleyways and supersized buildings.

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