The speed accelerated dramatically as he progressed deeper. What had started as manageable velocity increased exponentially until the environment became a blur of motion.
His Sovereignty could barely keep pace with the required reactions. He pushed his perception to its absolute limits just to anticipate the next deadly turn.
Then disaster struck. A particularly violent twist came too quickly for him to fully compensate. His trajectory veered slightly off course by mere inches.
But inches were catastrophic in this environment! His existence briefly exited the stable zone and made contact with the murky instability surrounding the pathway.
Immediately, his THE Barrier of Hunger buzzed with maximum intensity to protect him. The protective field flared brilliantly as it intercepted the unraveling force that would have collapsed his existence instantly.
New prompts appeared with critical urgency.
|BARRIER INTEGRITY CRITICAL|
