Seconds later, there's another loud crash and explosion as the serpent's downward momentum hits another island's base. Then, another, and another. Before my eyes, a path of destruction is created through the sky. Some of the islands begin to crack and disintegrate even before the monster hits them. The sheer overwhelming pressure of its green aura obliterates everything in sight. I'm held high in the sky in a blue orb of light, like a tiny lightning bug shimmering between the city-sized cyan-colored armored guards on the serpent's back. It doesn't even seem real. The serpent's flight path starts to turn upward, but it takes the destruction of over ten more islands before we begin to angle up into the sky again. Its impossibly long body follows its head, but the downward momentum still takes out a few more entire islands while it turns completely. As the thousands of black trees fall into the endless sky below, I see them all begin to change in color. The green aura in the air gets thicker and thicker, until it begins to mix with light cyan threads of energy. I'm finally able to gauge that we actually are moving as the sky turns lighter and lighter blue. My eyes widen once I begin to see the energy become so dense in the air that it gradually infects the serpent that we're riding on. Its ethereal green body starts to receive cyan threads, creating pathways into the center of its skull. Once the pathways become far too dense for it to handle, the serpent's head abruptly drops down and its body follows. At this maneuver, both of the cyan knights move in unison, manifesting platforms of dense reality-bending energy beneath their feet and marching upward at the same exact rate we were moving before. It looks as if they're carrying me up an invisible staircase in the sky. Before I can conceptualize everything, the green serpent has already turned back and fallen into the depths of the green sky where it can survive in peace. Meanwhile, the air within my blue sphere is unchanged. More hours pass as all of the green divine energy fades away completely, making the atmosphere entirely comprised of cyan strands. Their rhythmic footsteps through the air are silent, but they're eerily consistent and almost machine-like. More hours pass, and the same phenomenon occurs, the air around us starts to change colors again. From a light cyan to a dark blue. The moment the dark blue threads start seeping through the cyan orb I'm trapped in, the guards stop their upward march. Both of them glow brightly, and their spears' auras grow larger and larger, making the blue ball around me grow a much thicker barrier. A few minutes pass as they siphon more and more of their energy into the ball, then eventually the dark blue threads stop seeping through. One of the guards keeps me floating above its spear while the other leaves us, continuing its march upward into the dark blue abyss of even denser divine energy. We wait, and I stare up into the nothingness waiting for the knight to return. It takes over an hour for any movement to appear again, and what I see hurtling my way isn't what I expected to see. The hand of a dark blue giant, with fingers larger than the guard that accompanies me, stretches out from the darkness above. Its dark blue tendrils of energy threaten to tear open holes in this construct as it reaches downward, and it finally gets close enough for me to see the rest of its hand, and part of its forearm, but its head is too far up in the sky for me to see. Not even its elbow or shoulder is visible as they're hundreds, possibly thousands of kilometers away. The cyan knight steps back, leaving me floating in empty space as the giant's dark blue hand comes down toward me. It appears to be moving in slow motion in the sky, but in reality, it's moving extremely quick and this is a difference in perspective. I already learned my lesson in underestimating massive falling objects when I was almost crushed by one of the islands before awakening my orange and yellow core. Seconds pass, but it feels like an eternity. A massive orb of dark blue energy starts to form around the giant's hand, creating a sphere hundreds of kilometers thick. Once it moves downward, the hand moves beneath me, and the massive blue sphere fully forms once I'm inside to create another airtight seal. Before my eyes, the dark blue energy in the dome eats away at all of the cyan aura inside it. The blue threads even eat away at the cyan ball I'm still floating in. It dissolves in seconds, dissipating into the air, and the dark blue threads all move back toward the outer barrier of the sphere completely avoiding me. By the time the sphere inside the giant's palm moves upward, the inside is completely cleared out, it's as clear and divine energy-free as the real world outside in here. Again, as I'm thrust upward by the giant's hand, I don't feel like I'm moving at all. The only way I can tell is the fact that the cyan knight below me disappears like a tiny light that flashes out, and I'm plunged into the darkness of the thick blue aura above. I know I'm moving far faster than the serpent's ride and the two cyan guards by a lot now, however, I can't see past the forearm of this giant, so it's nearly impossible to tell how exactly I'm even moving. To me, it just looks massive arm is raising me into the sky and its main body isn't even moving. In less than a minute, the atmosphere outside of the sphere on the giant's hand drastically changes. It gets darker and darker, and I can tell the air pressure and heat outside are at limits unfathomable for my mortal mind and body to comprehend. Whatever this creature is, and wherever I'm going, is not somewhere many, or possibly any people have gone before. Just as these thoughts come to mind, there's another abrupt change. The dark blue aura of the atmosphere completely ceases. It's visible below me now, and it looks like I've just been thrust through a dark cloud line. The giant's hand lifts me upward, and at the same time, I watch the top of the dark blue dome fade away. There aren't any blue threads up here at all. The sky is completely void of divine energy, all I see is a single speck of purple in the center of my vision as I stare above.