"Now is the time, activate the array."
Three ritual magic circles were activated at the same time, emitting a commanding gray glow.
In just a split second, Noland Lee felt as if he were swiftly ascending into the sky, with his destination aimed at the star obscured by the sunlight.
As the gray surface of the star magnified before his eyes, the sunlight and blue sky receded rapidly, and Noland's consciousness arrived in a weightless, strange space.
There was no light source, but Noland could clearly see the mottled stone surfaces making up the ceiling and walls.
A corridor, ten meters wide and ten meters high, stretched straight towards the distant horizon, converging into a tiny point.
Due to weightlessness, Noland floated in mid-air, and after a turn, it became hard to distinguish which stone surface was the floor and which was the ceiling.
Squinting his eyes to scan the nearby walls, Noland's gaze lingered on the protruding stone carving lines.
