Chapter 504: The Summit of the Celestial Gate, Siblings United

The transition was not a journey through space, but a tearing of reality. One moment, they were aboard the vessel in the vast, churning expanse of the Pacific Ocean; the next, the world dissolved into a nauseating blur of color and sound. When their senses resettled, the salty air of Earth was gone, replaced by an atmosphere thick as tar and reeking of ancient malice. They stood on a floating platform of obsidian rock, suspended in a void. Above them, a sky of bruised purple and swirling black...