(Meanwhile, within the Time Stilled World, Moltherak's Floating Island, Leo's POV)
Leo sat cross-legged at the center of the chamber with his eyes half-closed, as a thin veil of crimson haze slowly unfurled from his body, drifting outward with noticeably more control than the previous attempts, while Moltherak watched him from across the room with the quiet intensity of a teacher who had witnessed his number one student fail at the same stage countless times.
However, unlike his first day trying this method, Leo no longer felt completely blind while trying to sense the fourth dimension.
"I can feel the first wall…."
He murmured, as he sensed the environment around him with a slow, cautious sweep of his aura, maybe hoping that the faint texture he detected earlier had not been his imagination, and to his relief there was indeed a slight disturbance in the air, barely perceptible yet unquestionably real.
