"How truly remarkable, you..."
A voice rose from the heart of the flames, brimming with admiration. "After all these years, this is the first time anyone has made it this far. You actually came all the way here. It couldn't have been easy, could it?"
Who was speaking?
Spider stood bewildered, looking around at the burning flames, the collapsing buildings, the spreading smoke, and itself, seemingly lost.
Where was this?
Who was I?
Where had I come from? Where had I arrived?
No one answered. Only the roar of the flames echoed without end.
Its consciousness seemed to have broken into fragments. For some reason, it was here. Spider instinctively walked forward, chasing something important, something immensely important...
It remembered!
Boom!
A wall came crashing down. In the empty hall, a burning station sign suddenly fell, hit the ground, shattered into pieces, and let out its final wail.
Only a ruined staircase remained, winding upward as though calling to it.
It remembered. It remembered everything.
It had broken free of its shackles. It had ascended into a dragon. It had... it had become free!
Even the unreachable Seal of Shadow Sun was now within arm's reach!
Just a little more. Just this final step!
But why, after charging through the crack in the Seal of Shadow Sun, had it appeared... here?!
"Where is this?!"
After who knew how many years, it spoke with its throat for the first time. Its voice was hoarse, dry, and stumbling.
"By now, since you have managed to reach this place, I imagine you have already guessed... the Seal of Shadow Sun has always had two ends."
The voice came from within the flames, chattering on endlessly. "Trying to search for the Seal of Shadow Sun from the point in time where you are is