When the blue-green deep-sea glow was completely replaced by the darkness of the rock layers, the speed of the elevator truly increased.
Moments later, the internal structure of the silver-blue tower appeared again outside the crystal wall: the tall bookshelves of the library, the bustling people in the Teleportation Hall, the flames flickering in the Alchemy Laboratory...
These familiar scenes quickly flashed before his eyes, and then the elevator slowly came to a stop, and the crystal doors silently slid open.
Duke stepped out of the elevator, standing in a corridor on a certain level of the Six-Ring Tower headquarters.
Beneath his feet was a shiny silver-blue crystal floor, and above him was an arched ceiling engraved with complex runes. The air was filled with the clean scent unique to the Central Islands, a mix of ozone and old book pages.
