The nearby rift was twenty minutes from the academy by transit, located in the outer district of Celestial City where the dimensional monitoring stations had flagged the elevated readings the morning the worldwide notice appeared.
By the time Lin Yi arrived, the area around it had been transformed into something between a military staging ground and a festival.
The barrier perimeter established by Celestial City's hunter response authority extended in a wide arc around the rift's location, keeping civilian traffic back. Inside that perimeter, the density of people and equipment was extraordinary. Guild banners were visible from the transit stop, at least six major organizations that Lin Yi recognized from the city's registered guild directory, and several he didn't. Guild teams in coordinated equipment were staged in formations, waiting for authorization from the monitoring authorities or simply watching the rift.
