Ahead lay something like a dark vortex passage, with overlapping spaces that produced endlessly looping turbulence, beginnings, and endings.
Without following the proper method, one would forever remain between entering and exiting, or become trapped somewhere, never able to leave.
"This is the Fifth-Dimensional Prison of the Monitor Domain where we currently exist." The Level Four Chief Administrator stopped the vessel, recalled the transparent ship, and stood with Nix Wutan and He-El amid time and space.
"The Jail! Is Mandrak imprisoned here?" He-El raised his brows and asked.
"Yes, but not only that." The Level Four Chief Administrator said, gazing deeply into the dark vortex passage where space overlapped as he slowly explained:
"This is also called the Phantom Zone, the ghost zone, the borderlands, hyperspace, the Underworld, the land of no return, Zero Zone, Aethyr's mind, and so on."
"The Phantom Zone!" He-El's heart jolted, and he was immensely astonished.
On Krypton, it was the Kryptonian scientist Jor-El who discovered the existence of the Phantom Zone. He-El had also assisted Jor-El in confirming its existence.
The Phantom Zone was an area filled with many secrets and strange phenomena. However, because they knew the situation Krypton was in at the time, neither He-El nor Jor-El had studied it in depth.
Still, they had made use of the Phantom Zone's properties and put it to use for Krypton.
Jor-El had created the Phantom Zone Projector, which could transform living beings into phantom forms and send them into the Phantom Zone.
Lifeforms that entered the Phantom Zone became like living ghosts. They neither aged nor died, needed no food, and could even observe things in the universe. Yet they could not communicate or interact physically, relying only on telepathy.
Because Krypton had no death penalty, criminals who committed crimes on Krypton would