********* [Billion PoV]
The transfer happened without warning.
One moment the three of us were still standing beneath the skies of Oriel while the next the entire world folded away like a distant illusion, space collapsing inward around our vision before everything suddenly opened again into an entirely different place.
Blue sky.
That was the first thing I noticed.
An endless clear blue sky stretched in every direction above us while thick white clouds drifted beneath our feet like an ocean, so vast that even mountains could have disappeared within them unnoticed. The air felt strangely calm here, and scattered across the open sky stood enormous structures built from crimson stone and gold-veined marble, floating peacefully above the clouds.
Bridges stretched between them without visible support while giant banners carrying unfamiliar symbols drifted softly in the wind.
"This…" Knight muttered quietly beside me, "is a treasury?"
"It looks more like heaven," Lyrate replied.
