The ascent up the Solar Forge was a vertical journey through a conceptual furnace. As Ren Hanshin moved past the shattered remnants of the Refraction Bridge, the environment ceased to be a landscape and became an anvil. The slopes of the forge were composed of white marble that had been heated until it possessed the fluidity of silk, flowing in slow, viscous rivers of burning stone toward the liquid sun that pooled at the mountain's base. Every step Ren took required a deliberate exertion of will, his boots sinking into the molten marble as if he were treading through a sea of thick, shining honey.
[Synchronization: 72.0%]
[Level: 115]
[Sovereignty Boundary Detected!]
