There was no sensation of weightlessness, no sensation of braking, Gray Fox's Technology was exemplified in these details as if the Cicada Transformation Chamber hadn't operated at all.
However, when the chamber door opened, what appeared before Ash was just a strange, underground palace. The humid air seemed faintly musty, the pure white stone slab pathway seemed integrally molded without any gaps, and the golden dome was dazzling yet not vulgar.
The trial was still a trial, nothing had changed.
But the one who could toast to his hometown and the past with him was no longer there. From then on, all he had left was the distance and tomorrow.
Ash drew his blade and walked straight out of the Cicada Transformation Chamber, stepping on the flooded white stone slab creating ripples of water, charging towards Silver Lamp who had just stepped out of the chamber!
Clang!
