Amidst the heavy tearing sound of a long-unmoved wooden board, the chestnut-brown door slowly opened outward.
The first thing Lumian noticed was the dim light, unlike the darkness typical of the deeper parts of the Underworld, emanating not from golden humanoid streetlamps but from all objects ahead.
He then got a clear view of the exterior.
There lay a cluster of palaces half-sunken into the void, with a majestic main hall, several high towers, and aerial corridors connecting them.
Deeper into the palace complex, the structures seemed to sink further into the void, while those on the periphery stood solidly on a barren wilderness.
Even so, the main hall in the core area towered much higher than the rest of the buildings.
