Aksai stood in front of the third spatial ripple and pondered for a moment.
Then he raised his hand. Slowly, he reached out and touched the spatial entrance with his bare fingers.
There was no resistance. His hand passed through the ripple as if he was pushing it into still water.
"Hmmm? What in the ...."
Aksai's eyes widened slightly.
The first two times had been different. Back then, he had needed Barrier Breaker talismans of 1st and 2nd Order just to force his way through the entrances. Without them, the space had rejected him completely.
But this time, the barrier accepted him.
Aksai pulled his hand back and looked at it in silence.
"So it's changed," he muttered.
He could feel it clearly. Something in the arrangement left behind by his ancestor had shifted. The moment he stepped into the Core Formation realm, the Myriad Worlds Painting and the Everwood Farmland seemed to have loosened their restrictions.
He had more freedom now. More authority.
