The world around me blurred as the teleportation stone activated, its familiar pull yanking me from the dungeon floor. My heart pounded in my chest as my vision spun. I braced myself for whatever awaited me in the next stage. The journey was disorienting, like falling through a tunnel of swirling colors and shadows, the pressure building in my head until, suddenly, I landed.
Snow crunched beneath my boots as I staggered forward, trying to catch my breath. The air was colder than before, biting at my skin, and the eerie silence settled in quickly. I glanced up, the landscape slowly coming into focus—a vast tundra, completely covered in snow, with jagged ice spikes that seemed to rise from the earth itself. In the distance, I could see enormous glaciers glowing faintly in the pale light. The sky above was dark, but not with night—thick clouds churned, lit by flashes of green and blue like some kind of strange aurora.
