MIGHT AS WELL BE OP

Chapter 1076: Exploring Space-1

Everyone fixed their gaze on Anthony as they awaited a reply; at this moment, the sun, the stars, the moon, the starry night, the beauty of it all, suddenly did not seem too far away anymore.

Anthony simply laid stunned, as he had not expected the discussion to take such a turn; after a moment, he merely smiled and shook his head. Honestly, there was no way he could decline. He could take them there and return within minutes, it was that easy for him, almost trivial, like taking a casual stroll.

”Fine, I will take you all, so stop looking at me with such weird eyes; you are all men,” Anthony spoke as he smiled, still remaining laid back on the aircraft, his tone light.

Tiara seemed to take offence as she spoke, ”Hey, I’m a woman, you know,” she stated, her brows knitting slightly in protest, clearly unwilling to let that remark slide so easily.

”And I’m in a relationship, so all women are men in my eyes,” Anthony countered without missing a beat, his response immediate.

Bryan, Rider, and Bringer immediately shot to their feet, excitement coursing through their veins like wildfire, their earlier composure shattering instantly under the weight of anticipation.

”Let’s go!!!!” Bringer screamed into the night like a child who had just caught Santa red-handed putting Christmas gifts under the tree.

”When do we leave?” Rider asked, his face now bearing a wide, uncontrollable smile, his usual composure replaced by raw eagerness that he made no effort to conceal.

Anthony shook his head as he shifted his position and rose to his feet, since everyone was now practically standing, their energy contagious even to him, ”When do you want to leave?” he asked with a calm, almost teasing tone.

”We aren’t doing anything, so now would be perfect,” Tiara immediately spoke; if she missed this opportunity, she didn’t know when next she would see Anthony, who knew if something would suddenly come up and Anthony would have to leave? It was better to avoid such situations entirely, even though it was probably never going to happen, yet the thought alone made her unwilling to delay.

”I agree,” Bryan immediately backed Tiara’s reply.

”We concur,” the twin Titans spoke up in unison.

”No problem then,” Anthony spoke with a smile.

Bryan seemed to suddenly remember something as he spoke, ”Do we need to prepare anything? Like a space suit or an artefact or something?” he asked curiously.

”You wouldn’t be needing that; even the so-called space suits won’t protect you if you wear them,” Anthony stated with a calm tone, his words carrying an unspoken confidence, ”let’s go, just follow behind me,” he added, then shot off into the sky without wasting a single moment, his body slicing through the air like a streak of light.

The rest did not dare delay; they immediately followed behind Anthony at immense speed, their figures cutting through the atmosphere as though gravity itself had loosened its hold on them, though Anthony had to slow down just to allow them to catch up, his pace far beyond theirs. They tore through the clouds as they continued to fly upwards at their maximum speed, leaving trails of disrupted air in their wake.

Excitement could be seen bubbling within their eyes, bright and uncontainable, but Anthony simply said nothing about it; the last time he had been this excited was when he had left the Blue Planet for the first time, when he had embarked on the journey toward the Starborn Tournament, a memory that flickered briefly in his mind before fading away.

The next moment, Rider, Bringer, Tiara, and Bryan began to slow, their speed decreasing in real time and rapidly, as though the air itself had suddenly become heavier, pressing down on them with an invisible yet heavy force.

”Gravity seems to have become heavier, and it is becoming heavier the more we fly away from the planet’s surface,” Bryan spoke, his tone low as he was losing his consciousness even as he flew, his body trembling slightly under the strain.

”We haven’t even left the planet,” Tiara intoned, her voice strained as she too was on the verge of fainting due to the high gravity and the ridiculous atmospheric pressure that seemed to crush them from all directions.

Anthony simply waved his hand, and instantly, his mana expanded outwards, covering everyone in a dense blue sheen; the moment he did, their consciousness snapped back fully into clarity, the oppressive weight vanishing as though it had never existed.

”You won’t be able to fly beyond this, so I will be controlling the flight from now on,” Anthony stated as he turned to face them, his tone steady.

Although they heard Anthony’s words, their brains did not seem to register them, as their eyes were fixed entirely on Anthony’s mana. The purity, the density, the control, the finesse, everything about it was simply heavenly, beyond anything they had ever witnessed before.

’Even Father’s mana isn’t this pure,’ Bryan thought to himself as his body continued to fly upwards under Anthony’s control, momentarily forgetting that he had been on the verge of losing consciousness just moments ago.

”We are about to leave the planet,” Anthony’s voice came, snapping them out of their thoughts and awe, grounding them back into the present moment.

As they approached the planetary barrier protecting the Blue Planet, under Anthony’s control, they simply phased through it as though it did not exist, passing through an unseen threshold that separated their world from the vast unknown beyond.

The moment Bryan, Rider, Bringer, and Tiara gazed into the galaxy... they simply forgot to breathe. Their eyes were filled with fascination as they marvelled at what lay open before them, an endless expanse that dwarfed all imagination.

Their eyes fell on various planets that seemed to share the same orbit as the Blue Planet, stars, endless stars, littering the space like scattered jewels across a dark canvas; comets streaked across the void, black holes loomed like silent devourers, suns burned with unimaginable intensity, moons drifted in quiet elegance, they saw it all, and yet it still felt like only a fraction of what truly existed.

Anthony stared at them for a moment with a smile; he simply kept silent, as he had already anticipated their fascination, knowing that no words could truly capture what they were witnessing.

”If you want to move around, just will it, and my mana will react to your will, just like how you usually fly or walk,” Anthony spoke with a calm tone, offering them freedom within his control.

The moment those words left his lips, everyone shot outward in various directions as they rushed towards whatever astral body they were most fascinated with, their movements filled with wonder and childlike curiosity.

”Oh my days... I’m standing on a fucking sun!!!” Bringer shouted as he stood in shock, gazing down at the sun that burned with over a million degrees Celsius on the surface alone, yet he felt nothing at all. There was no doubt in his mind, without Anthony’s mana, he would have died before he could even approach it, let alone stand upon it.

Tiara seemed to be more fascinated by the moon; she landed atop it and scooped up a handful of space debris as she stared at it in utter awe, as though she could perceive the very contents, the chemicals and minerals that composed it, her curiosity completely consuming her.

Rider stood on a space rock; around him, various space rocks floated endlessly, far too many for his eyes to contain at once. He simply jumped from one to another like a child on a trampoline, laughter escaping him as he moved freely. He leapt from an asteroid to a comet, then from a comet to a meteor, his wide smile never fading for even a second.

At another side, Bryan stood on a planet’s surface as he simply stared into the planet with awe, his mind overwhelmed by the sheer scale and presence of what lay beneath his feet, as though he were witnessing something sacred.

Anthony did not speak; he simply remained silent and watched, like a father who had taken his children to some grand amusement park or a place beyond their wildest dreams. He only smiled, quietly, genuinely, finding satisfaction not in the spectacle of the cosmos, but in their happiness, which, in that moment, seemed to outshine even the stars themselves.