Runar sat quietly in the pavilion, his quantum brain chip running thousands of background calculations. Celestia was still cultivating peacefully a short distance away, her unity ring glowing softly.
After finalizing the initial framework, he decided it was time to test the concept on a small scale. He sent a brief, polite message through the contact token Supreme Eternal Scholar had given him during their previous meeting.
A few seconds later, space itself rippled in front of him. A perfectly stable portal opened, its edges shimmering with faint golden light.
*You guys sure are efficient,* Runar thought with a small, inner smile.
He stepped through without hesitation.
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The other side was an empty expanse that stretched across light-years of pure void. There were no stars, no planets, no celestial bodies — just an endless, silent darkness that felt both vast and strangely contained. It was a testing ground created specifically for high-level experiments.
