After Razeal revealed the Dimension Eye, the Sovereign Hall did not return to silence in the normal way. It was a strange silence, heavy with too many different emotions being hidden behind faces that had long been trained to show nothing.
Every World Regent looked at the floating eye with their own thoughts. Some felt greed, not the small ugly greed of ordinary people, but the heavy desire of rulers who understood that possessing such a thing could change the future of entire continents. Some felt fear, because anything that could touch the very structure of dimensions could never be safe. Some felt hope, a hope so sudden and sharp that it almost hurt, because if this object truly could control gates and rifts, then perhaps the endless disaster eating away at the world might finally have a solution.
