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The blinding light sears painful trails across your retinas as the spiral tower replays its horrifying movements in endless slow motion.
The moment you step into the Hetero Tower, countless bizarre information floods in like a bursting dam, overwhelming your mind's protective barriers. Intense pain strikes your brain as if high-voltage electricity is coursing from head to toe.
Towering crimson crystals stand within the Hetero Tower, its interior contorting and warping to cast one distorted shadow after another.
Within your consciousness, colossal waves surge, brewing storms in the depths. Your nerves tremble incessantly, orchestrating a symphony of sorrowful wails.
Blood trickles between your clenched teeth as the Punishing Virus concentration spikes uncontrollably. Just as your legs start to give way—
Faintly, you feel a pair of familiar, gentle hands supporting your back.
Commandant...
Then, the projection vanishes as suddenly and silently as it appeared.
Complete silence fills the Hetero Tower, with no sign of any life forms present.
Hmm... Has it appeared already?
Ishmael shows up silently at one side.
Yes... and no.
To be precise, that was a projection she left in your Mind Beacon...
As you speak, jagged crystals grow chaotically, resembling strange amber spreading across the sky, completely encasing your tiny figure within.
Has it already begun...
Then... safe travels, Gray Raven... [player name].
