|I said you might actually have a chance. Even then, I am not sure, since you are going where I failed, and where all others failed. Let us see.|
...!
With those words in his ears, Noah grasped the gem that had appeared before him.
The moment his hand closed on it, the road changed. The obsidian gold beneath his feet began to wrap around itself, again and again, curling the way a ribbon curls, folding him inside its turns until the spatial dark was gone and there was only the winding path, containing him, carrying him!
|What you just grasped... is a Provenance Crystal. It is the key to where you are going, and it is also the lifeline. THE Aurate Collar of the First Purity gives every candidate a way out.|
|So long as it rests on your existence, you can survive the collapse of your existence in totality. All of it, at once, down to the foundation, and the crystal will hold enough of you together that something walks away afterward.|
