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Chapter 150 - The Mantis
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Once Tim jumped through the portal, he almost gagged in response to a strictly crimson-colored world that he popped into! It was a universe solely made out of red-ish trees, and plants, and he didn't really know how to feel about that.

“How do these bastards even walk around here? Everything looks identical. I'm going to bump into so many trees, I just know it!” He complained, though afterwards he remembered that he was supposed to be looking for Gustav, because he had leaped into this universe as well.

“Where is that bastard?” He muttered.

After walking for about twenty meters through the crimson world, he started to differentiate one object from the other, just slightly. His eyes were slowly adapting to the almost identical color variations here, but he still wasn’t a big fan of this place nonetheless, because now his eyes were straining more than ever as he tried to make sense of things! He had hoped for this universe to be more fun, but it wasn't fun so far, it was just red.

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