The Space Transposer could help its holder travel to a destination they wished to reach. The Transit Passage it created would stabilize completely once the holder arrived.
And the more firmly the holder focused on their destination, the straighter the road beneath their feet became.
Not only that, but the stronger their resolve, the shorter the road.
It all seemed quite simple.
But the human heart was the hardest thing in the world to fathom. When a wizard carried a Space Transposer through a Transit Passage, where space and time had lost all meaning, and there was no one or anything else by their side, every concept rooted in society fell away. Everything within them would be magnified to the extreme.
Spirituality surged, memories churned, emotions roiled, resolve wavered...
Even the slightest change would make the magic that let the Space Transposer travel through Higher-Dimensional Space produce an extraordinarily winding road.
There probably weren't many wizards in the world as steadfast in their convictions as Anton.
Bella had indeed seen hope. On Mars, she had seen Tom and their child, and the longing for a beautiful future that this inspired could certainly become a powerful source of resolve.
But what about her? People were instinctively drawn to advantage and averse to harm. They feared hardship, worried about what they might lose, and didn't know whether to advance or retreat...
Half a month had passed. She had carried the Space Transposer into the Higher-Dimensional Space Passage, but still hadn't reached her destination.
From the Transit Passage, which had yet to fully take shape, it was clear she was still walking through that channel where up and down, left and right, and even time had no meaning.
Perhaps she might regret it and end up back on the Moon after all that