In the same moment that the pillar of light rose up off of the planet and out into the Vast Expanse, there were three areas on Planet Vast Expanse itself where heart-pounding fluctuations were emanating out.
The first location was a garden that looked like a celestial paradise. In one particular valley was a lake, next to which a young man sat cross-legged, wearing a long golden robe. He looked up, and as he did, his previously ordinary pupils suddenly distorted into oval shapes.
"Yet again someone descends. Is it really so easy for these kids of the younger generation to find the Patriarch's necropolis?!
"If the method for Transcendence were so simple, then after all these countless years, wouldn't there be more than just four or five people who have succeeded?"
