The atmosphere within the Emperor's palace was almost unbearable.
Over a hundred beings of the darkness of Abyssal and the spiritual realm assembled in a vast chamber that still proved too small to accommodate them.
Tantai Xi's core disagreed with the energy, his Danger sense going ballistic from it. But he'd come all this way for one purpose.
After probbing the residue of the portal in the novice Mystic's dorm room, he had been able to create a twin portal, one whose essence depended on the first one.
The portal had led him into infinite darkness. Try as he might, he couldn't find a way out. It was only after Xavier used his Omni powers that an exit portal formed.
After surviving an ambush of grudelings outside the monolith, he'd easily fought his way through the platform chamber haunted by Swolows and Hell vipers to arrive at the Emperor's palace.
