The hallway to the left ended at a door.
The three stopped in front of it.
Lira withdrew her tracking threads.
"The signal is coming from in there."
"I know," Serah said.
"Can you sense what's on the other side?"
"No." The silver markings pulsed faintly. "Something is blocking the primordial aura in that direction. Like static."
Kai looked at the surface of the door.
The texture was the same as the walls — the material that wasn't Aethon stone, that responded to Qi, that someone had processed from somewhere else.
He extended his hand.
Qi pulsed at the point of contact.
The door opened.
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The first thing they saw was the size.
There was no way to process it gradually — it was too much for the brain to absorb in parts.
The space that opened on the other side of the door was a chamber the size of a small city, with a ceiling so high that the torches illuminating the upper walls were points of light from below.
'Six hundred meters long, perhaps. Width comparable.'
