However, the ruins themselves were more treacherous than they imagined. They encountered a setback before taking the first step.
...
"Boom!"
The Time Wheel Association's expedition team, ready to set off, suddenly heard a thunderous, muffled roar coming from above.
When they looked up, a few members suddenly felt light, their feet left the ground, floating slowly into the sky like balloons.
"Gravity?"
Being professional combatants, with the help of their companions, everyone landed back on the ground and quickly lay flat.
The suction force projected from the ruins above was not over. It intensified as if trying to lift the entire town off the ground:
The ground trembled, cracks opened, asphalt surfaces arched into countless curves, cracks spread out like webs and then shattered into fragments of varying sizes, floating in the air.
