Susanna Rudolf was dragged into the deep darkness by the eerie Puppet Silk Lines.
She struggled desperately, but to no avail.
No matter how she waved her short knife, she couldn't break free from those terrifying Puppet Silk Lines.
As she was dragged further and further away, the light became fainter and fainter.
Her heart, too, sank deeper into the darkness.
Eventually, she was dragged to a stone pillar carved with strange glyphs.
Dense silk threads poured into her body, draining her life force, her soul, and even wreaking havoc in her being.
The ascension of a high-level Transcendent was as bizarre as a massive steam ecology.
It required a substantial drain of basic Transcendent Characteristics for its foundation.
And all those captured, like her, would become nothing but cold skeletons under the Transcendent Sequence of that soon-to-be-born high-level Transcendent.
Just as Susanna was about to resign herself to despair,
the surrounding silk threads suddenly halted.
