"What is it?" said Li. He looked up to Asala with immediate concern and then followed the direction of her serpentine gaze. His senses were currently tuned down because he was not in combat, but even then, nothing truly important should ever slip by him.
"I see," said Li.
Up ahead perhaps twenty hundred meters, the end of the Midpath bridge stood. Twin pillars of obelisk stone stood from each other, carved in with countless light runes that channeled the mighty power of the Midpath from one end to the other.
Beyond it, there lay a gigantified forest. Trees that towered over a hundred meters tall that grew in such clusters they would quickly begin to blot out the sun entirely. This, Li was not surprised about. He had seen it coming from far ahead, of course.
But what he did note was that there seemed to be a ripple in space flowing from the obelisks marking the end of the bridge. A very faint, almost imperceptible ripple.
