Everything around me is either black or flooded with the same red light I saw before. Under my feet lies a deep shaft that falls and falls until I lose sight of it.

I walk on top of a surface that might be glass, although I doubt the builders would have used such an unstable material. In an unreachable distance I see white steaming pyramids sitting in the corners of the structure. The landing platform sits amidst some pillars, that are made from the same metal patchwork as the rest. A pillar-lined walkway leads to the hovering orb. And all around me are some small round and steaming lights.

I approach one and I see a flash. A whisper races through my mind, leaving me… with a new word of the Korvax language! I seek the other lights and some of them do just nothing while others teach me new words. What a strange tech!

Then I built up all my courage and walk to the orb.

The sphere itself behaves the same way it did the last time I saw it. Changing its appearance from a smooth sphere to spiky ball and back again. My heart beats faster the closer I get. At the end of the walkway there are two round artifacts on top of small statues. I carefully touch them both and each of them transforms into a warp cell! Between the statues and up a few steps sits a strangely shaped console. My display shows the name Doguaicho convergence, whatever this may be.

I touch the console.

Pyramid shaped pillars rise next to it and at their peaks a glowing white orb appears. And it speaks to me. It speaks words in a language I can’t understand, but something flows into my mind.

It is strangely different than anything I had seen so far. I should be afraid, but an unrelenting force pulls me closer to the heart of the construct. I have to know it! This is a relic of Atlas. It welcomes me. It knows what I am. It promises me true Knowledge. The will burns inside me. I will peak into the structure of causality and comprehend this existence. No matter if it’s real or just an erratic giant illusion, created by a different intelligence.

It seems to ask something of me and I accept.

The sphere pulsates, a red light engulfs me. In my hands I find an Atlas Stone. A small smooth red sphere. Its inside pulsates in a red glow. I take the stone with me and go back to my ship. There is nothing left to do here. I can feel it.

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