As soon as Aksai touched the runic wall, it felt like reality itself bent around him.
He was yanked into an unknown space, as if he were a piece of fabric getting pulled through a narrow slit.
His body lost all sense of form, turning jelly-like for a split second. His vision blurred, then faded entirely, and with it, any concept of time or space vanished.
Just as quickly as those sensations had taken hold, they disappeared. Suddenly, he found himself standing in the middle of a dense forest.
"Aaah!"
He staggered for a moment, feeling as though his entire body had been wrung out by a pro wrestler—not quite the gentle touch from a beautiful masseuse one might hope for. His head spun, dizziness washing over him like a wave of vertigo.
"These side effects… are more than what I imagined them to be."
