Once a minute had passed since the start of the ritual, I finally began feeling some heat.
For the first couple of minutes, it didn't feel too bad. At most, my skin charred slightly.
But after nearly 10 minutes of this, I began to feel something odd.
The heat vanished, and what replaced it was the sensation of my consciousness slowly leaving my body.
I tried to resist it at first, but every passing moment made it much more difficult, until eventually, I felt like I was no longer in my body.
My thoughts were only confirmed when I opened my eyes and realized I was standing in the center of a giant marble temple. It was a few times bigger than the one at the top of the Sun Vampire staircase.
More importantly, I couldn't see the sky outside the temple. There was only pitch-black darkness.
Or that was how it seemed at first. When I began approaching the darkness, I saw a single ray of light shining through.
