An hour passed quickly within the silent working of Relay 5. The once elf laden halls now had the sound of automated drones cleaning, remapping, and rewriting elven-coded interfaces into a distinctly human format that was sharp, efficient, and surprisingly modular.
At the center of the relay's Chaos Gate Bay, the air shimmered weirdly. The gate wasn't exactly active yet, but it hummed with some form of power which made it seem like a pool of stable black water surrounded by a floating circular frame of obsidian-like metal.
Etched into it were runes from both the Universe Will's language and the Chaos Realm's ordering script, a double-verification mechanism necessary for cross-realm teleportation.
Damon stood near the terminal, configuring the jump.
Felicia joined him, a small holo-projector in her hand showing a current sector map.
"Safe Zone 5's base is closer to Safe Zone 13 than Safe Zone 15." She noted aloud.
