The wind shifted faintly around him as he resumed his steps. The endless violet plains stretched out ahead, and in the distance, faint ripples of energy marked the boundary of the core region—the place where the Divine Palace Platform would one day descend.
Before Max could leave the inner region completely, he had one task left—to find the Mirror Lake of Souls, the rumored location where the Lotus of Clear Serenity bloomed. The map that Lord Igris had given him marked the lake faintly along the borders of the inner and core regions.
If his calculations were right, it would take several days to reach it on foot, and that was if he avoided unnecessary battles. But nothing in this domain ever allowed things to be that simple.
The first few days of his journey were deceptively quiet. The terrain of the inner region was strange, constantly shifting between jagged cliffs and stretches of barren ground covered in glowing symbols that pulsed faintly with unknown energy.
