The sensation of crossing the gate was far worse than being dragged into the Origin Realm. Rather than the strange pull of another realm reaching out to pull him in, this felt more like being forcefully shoved through a narrow crack in reality.
Rohan's vision blurred, his stomach lurched, and for a split second it felt as if every bone in his body had been stretched in different directions.
Then it ended.
"Ugh… that was a horrible feeling."
Elane landed right beside him with a similar expression, on the verge of keeling over to vomit the contents of her guts.
Their boots touched solid ground.
A dry, brittle crunch echoed beneath them, alerting them to remain cautious of their surroundings from that instant onwards.
This was nothing like adventuring into the wilderness in the Origin Realm; death here was as real as it came.
