The dimensional portal stabilized with resonance that made the cathedral's fractured architecture respond with recognition patterns that implied exposure to forces operating beyond anything the Global Lord system had designed its frameworks to accommodate. Selena's blood manipulation had achieved integration with abyssal power sources that transcended normal magical limitations, creating a gateway that connected their current position to dimensional layers that existed beyond system constraints.
Lucas felt his corruption-enhanced consciousness responding with tactical anticipation as he analyzed the portal's manifestation characteristics. The gateway operated through methodologies that incorporated every aspect of dimensional exploitation Selena had refined during centuries of concealment, revealing access to territories that existed beyond the boundaries that constrained normal lord development.
