The march up the Origin Lance was a surreal journey through the absolute silence of the cosmos. The dark, freezing void of space was completely pushed back by the localized, perfectly pressurized atmosphere generated by the overlapping domains of the Sun God and the Solar Phoenix. Valeria felt no biting cold and suffered no lack of oxygen. She simply walked up a solid, stable ramp of iridescent planetary magic, leaving the physical gravity of the world entirely behind.
They reached the absolute apex of the light bridge. The massive, jagged hole in the dimensional ceiling of the universe gaped completely open before them.
Valeria took the final step. She crossed the cosmic threshold and officially entered the High Heavens.
