The temptation to climb the city walls became impossible to resist. Remaining hidden would only delay answers. He moved swiftly through side streets until he reached a stone staircase leading upward.
No guards stopped him. Everyone seemed too occupied with the unfolding disaster. Moments later, he reached the outer battlements. The sight before him stole his breath.
Beyond the city stretched an endless plain, or rather... What had once been a plain. Now it resembled the end of the world. Entire mountains floated hundreds of meters above the earth. Others had been turned upside down.
Rivers no longer followed their natural paths, instead flowing upward into the sky before vanishing among the clouds. Forests burned with blue fire that consumed neither wood nor leaves.
Space itself folded repeatedly across the battlefield. Some regions appeared impossibly distant despite standing only a few kilometers away.
