“I sense... something different here,” Kael murmured, his eyes still fixed on the rippling blue portal that had carried him and his team away from that old station steeped in sorrow. “Not echoes from a shattered dimension anymore. This is... more directed. Like a pathway.”“A pathway?” Raka asked, his Cosmic Light beginning to dim as exhaustion settled deeper into his body. “Are you sure it’s not just another energy distortion triggered by your unstable power?”“I’m sure, Raka,” Kael insisted. Then he turned toward Bara. “Bara, you’re the expert when it comes to navigating hidden pathways. Do you feel anything?”Bara furrowed his brow, his mind, accustomed to mapping shadow networks, already turning. “Hmm... there’s something. Very faint. Like an energy current invisible to the naked eye. It’s hard to track.” He looked at Kael. “But if you can feel it, maybe I can follow it. Can you see where it’s leading?”“Yes.” Kael nodded and pointed ahead. “There seems to be... an anomaly up ther