Shard and Iluna descended through the sloping corridor and finally reached the end, where they saw the blood-red gate.
The metallic gate completely blocked the passage, with two doors on either side clearly depicting the map of the material world, including the New World, the Old Continent, and the Ocean.
The strange red color on the surface of the gate was not paint, but appeared to be the color of the metal itself. Blood continued to seep from the metal, flowing to the ground, and when Shard and Iluna arrived, the ground before the gate was nothing but a pool of blood.
Roots emerged from the passage's walls, embedding into the door, merging metal with tree roots. The root patterns encircled the map of the material world in the center of the door, as though the roots reaching out from the void were peeping into the world described by the map.
