Klaus had just entered the gate when the system's voice sounded in his mind.
[Host, I think this is not an SSS-ranked gate. This is something entirely different from a gate, it is a portal.
"Well, you are late, my dear System," Klaus noted with a smile, a flicker of dark amusement in his eyes.
He had a profound, unshakable confidence in his own ability to adapt to any situation. "I have already entered inside, and any variable won't stop me now."
He had already seen too many variables trying to control his life, so he did not care what came next, as he would pass through everything."
Klaus stepped through the portal. The feeling of reality glitching was jarring to his eyes.
His head spun a bit from the dimensional tear, and a brief moment of disorientation was experienced before reality snapped back into focus.
He appeared on a hard, rocky, but flat platform. The ground beneath his feet seemed cold from the cloudy, sunless environment.
