Chapter 185: Entering Black Hole

Leaving the blazing core of the Sun behind, I steered our open-top convertible back into the quiet vacuum of space. I floored the accelerator, letting the car race along an invisible track of spatial mana toward the outer reaches of the solar system.

We passed Mars in a matter of seconds, watching its rust-red dust plains and its two tiny, irregular moons, Phobos and Deimos, float past our doors.

Next was the Asteroid Belt, where millions of jagged rocks drifted in quiet orbits. I swerved the car through the dense debris field like a slalom course, making Paige laugh as her nine fluffy white fox tails swished across the leather interior, occasionally brushing against my arms and shoulders.

“Up ahead,’ Paige said, pointing with a manicured black nail as her fluffy ears perked up. “The heavyweight champion of gas giants.”

Jupiter towered over us like a gargantuan, swirling marble of brown, orange, and white gas clouds. “We’re going straight through,’ I said, angling the steering wheel downward.

We plunged into Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. There was no solid ground to hit, just thousands of miles of dense, churning hydrogen and helium gas. I targeted the Great Red Spot, a massive storm three times the size of Earth that had been raging for centuries.

The car broke through the upper cloud deck, diving directly into the eye of the storm. Lightning bolts thousands of miles long crackled around our spatial barrier, illuminating Paige’s dark eyes and soft, flushed cheeks. The atmospheric pressure built up to ridiculous levels, but our shield absorbed every bit of force without a shudder.

“How’s the weather down in the storm, Paige?” I called over the roaring winds.

“Sixty percent chance of heavy gas, forty percent chance of getting crushed into liquid metallic hydrogen!” Paige laughed, leaning across the center console to rest her head against my shoulder. Her fluffy tails wrapped comfortably around my waist, keeping her anchored against the turbulence. “Best driving route ever, Seth.”

We burst out the far side of Jupiter, leaving the massive storm behind, and swept past Saturn’s rings, the icy blue atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, and the lonely frozen rock of Pluto. Finally, we crossed the boundary of the heliosphere and shot out of the solar system entirely.

The void outside our solar system was quiet and vast. Countless distant stars glittered in every direction, casting a soft light over the car hood as we glided at speeds that shattered conventional physics.

I took one hand off the steering wheel, resting my arm over the back of Paige’s leather seat. She shifted closer to me, her long silk kimono rustling against the upholstery.

“How does having a physical body actually feel for you?” I asked, looking over at her gorgeous, mature face.

Paige adjusted her silver reading glasses, a genuine smile touching her lips. “It’s strange, Seth. As a system interface, I processed data, statistics, and logical vectors. But sitting here in this physical form… feeling the leather under my legs, the wind in my hair, and the warmth of your arm near my shoulders… it’s completely different. It’s nice.”

“You picked a really good look,” I admitted, giving her fluffy white tails a gentle pat.

Paige purred, a teasing spark returning to her eyes as she leaned her chest against my arm, letting her cleavage press against my side. “Oho? Does my Host find his system companion sexually appealing? I can always slip out of this kimono if you want to test my physical parameters right here in zero gravity.”

I smirked dryly, giving one of her fox ears a teasing tug. “Keep your clothes on, Paige. We’re on a cosmic road trip, not a backseat session.”

“Fufufu~ There’s always later!” she giggled, pressing a quick kiss against my cheek before settling back into her seat with a satisfied swish of her tails.

A few light-years out, we stumbled upon a pulsar.

It was a highly magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron star, spinning hundreds of times per second. Two intense beams of high-energy radiation shot out from its magnetic poles, sweeping across the dark vacuum like a cosmic lighthouse.

I parked the car on a floating spatial platform a few thousand miles away, watching the blue radiation beams slice through space.

“That thing’s core is so dense that a single teaspoon of its matter weighs a billion tons,” Paige noted, leaning her chin on her hand as her tails swished lazily behind her.

“Nature is wild,” I agreed, taking a sip of my cold soda.

After checking out the pulsar, we tracked down a massive, dying supergiant star on the verge of destruction. We arrived just in time.

The star’s core collapsed under its own gravity, triggering a colossal supernova explosion. The star’s outer layers blasted outward in a blinding, expanding shell of blue, purple, and gold light, scattering heavy elements like gold and platinum across light-years of space.

I snapped my fingers, spawning a fresh tub of buttered popcorn between us as we leaned back in the open-top convertible, treating the end of a star like a front-row fireworks festival.

“Happy New Year!” Paige cheered, tossing a handful of popcorn into her mouth and laughing as the cosmic shockwave swept over our spatial shield.

“Definitely better than any city fireworks show back home,” I said with a chuckle, watching the expanding nebula bloom in deep violet hues.

Once the fireworks faded, we headed deeper into the galaxy, searching for our final stop.

It didn’t take long to find one.

Hanging in the dark void a few astronomical units ahead of us was a supermassive black hole.

Even from a distance, the sight was mesmerising. A glowing, swirling accretion disk of superheated gas and matter spun rapidly around a pitch-black sphere of complete darkness. Space around the event horizon was visibly warped, bending light from distant background stars into curved, distorted rings.

I brought the car to a halt, leaning my elbows against the steering wheel as I stared at the gravitational titan.

“That thing looks incredible,” I said softly.

“A true black hole,” Paige agreed, her tone taking on an informative rhythm as she leaned over the car door. “A point of infinite density where mass collapses so thoroughly that not even light can escape its gravitational pull.”

I tilted my head, looking at her profile. “Hey, Paige… is a black hole purely physical, or is there a supernatural element to it?”

Paige turned her head, offering a dry, playful smirk. “It’s both, actually.”

“Explain,” I said, leaning back.

“From a physical perspective, it’s just raw mass collapsing space,” Paige explained, her fluffy tails swishing over my lap. “But from a conceptual and supernatural perspective, a black hole acts as a natural exit vector out of this physical universe.”

“An exit vector?”

“Yep,” Paige said with a nod, adjusting her glasses. “If an entity possesses enough physical and soul density to survive passing through the central singularity without getting torn into fundamental particles, the collapse breaks the physical dimension entirely. The singularity dumps you straight into higher-dimensional space.”

She pointed toward the black center. “From higher-dimensional space, you can freely travel between foreign realms, divine pantheons, or even entirely different universes. Though almost nobody uses this method.”

“Why not?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Because surviving the singularity requires an unbreakable physical structure, and navigating higher-dimensional space requires incredible soul density,” Paige scoffed. “Most gods and higher entities prefer using stabilized inter-realm portals or spatial circles, like the transit nodes in Uruk or Avalon. Diving into a black hole is considered suicidal madness by ninety-nine percent of the cosmos.”

I stared at the glowing accretion disk and the pitch-black void at its center.

A slow, shameless grin spread across my face. I tightened my grip on the leather steering wheel, my blood pumping with excitement.

“Surviving the singularity, huh?” I murmured, my eyes gleaming.

Paige looked at me, her vertical slit pupils widening as she realized what I was thinking. “Wait… Seth, you’re not actually thinking…”

“We’re taking the car through,” I declared, slamming my foot onto the accelerator.

VROOOOM-!!

The black convertible roared, its glowing blue runic channels flaring brightly as it rocketed straight toward the event horizon.

[AHAHAHA!] Paige erupted into delighted, chaotic laughter, throwing her arms into the air as her nine tails whipped through the wind. [YOU ARE INSANE, HOST! I LOVE IT!]

The car crossed the photon sphere and entered the event horizon.

Instantly, the universe behind us warped into a shrinking circle of brilliant light. Time dilation hit us violently, seconds outside stretched into eons, while light bent into swirling rainbows around our open-top car.

Massive gravitational tides tried to pull the car and our bodies apart through extreme spaghettification, but my Origin reality manipulation and Paige’s system authority locked our physical forms in unbreakable symmetry. The crushing pressure simply washed over us like a harmless breeze.

SNAP-!!

Space, time, light, and physical geometry collapsed into a single, infinitesimal point.

For a fraction of a millisecond, everything vanished. Physical laws ceased to function, distance lost meaning, and sound died entirely.

Then the singularity tore wide open.

BOOM-!!

The convertible shot out of the collapse, bursting into a boundless, mind-bending expanse of higher-dimensional space.

The view was utterly wild. We were floating in a multilayered ocean of shifting geometric shapes, streams of pure conceptual light, and infinite glowing filaments connecting countless bubble universes in the abyss.

I brought the car to a slow cruise, resting one hand on the wheel as I took off my dark sunglasses and looked around the higher-dimensional void in awe.

“Man,” I said with a grin, looking over at Paige, whose fox ears were perked up with excitement. “That was one hell of a shortcut.”

“Target successfully reached!” Paige cheered, leaning over to wrap her arms around my neck, her chest pressing against me as she laughed into my ear. “Welcome to the crossroads of the multiverse, Host!”

sorry for no updates. my Grandfather passed away recently and let’s just say I couldn’t write. even this one was in drafts