The land's uniqueness deepened the closer Noah drew. The silence, the shadows cascading in ripples across the terrain only grew more unfathomable.
As he approached, the entities- some standing, others seated, a few drifting across the obsidian ground, turned to glance at him.
It was the kind of glance that suggested they were waiting.
Waiting to see something.
He met their stares calmly. And he saw them.
Each one bore the unmistakable aura of beings below 1,000 Purity Quotient and Complexity Quotient Source Units—though a few stronger ones hovered closer to 10,000.
Only Nascent Source-Bearers and Harmonized Sourcebound Icons populated this place.
All except one.
A solitary figure stood apart- an elemental humanoid radiating a crimson brilliance.
A Living Thing with the resplendent weight of a Monad.
Yet none of them moved with hostility. Instead, they drifted or sat in composed silence, orbiting the wide, horizontal obsidian wheel at the center of this strange place.
