At the end of the light lay utter silence.
The instant they passed through the spatial tunnel, the four were cast into a completely different world. The cold ice floes beneath their feet were gone, replaced by a smooth, jade-white metal floor. The violent jolting stopped, giving way to a strange sense of weightlessness.
"Whoa!"
Naruto landed unsteadily and floated half a meter into the air. He flailed about until he just managed to regain his balance, feeling like a doll with half its stuffing pulled out.
Sasuke furrowed his brow slightly and immediately adjusted the Chakra adhesion beneath his feet, standing firm. He looked around. Reflected in his Rinnegan was a sight that would leave anyone speechless.
They stood on a circular corridor as wide as a plaza. There was no sky overhead, only a huge sphere radiating a gentle white light, like an artificial sun illuminating the entire inner world. Beyond the corridor's railing yawned a vast, bottomless hollow. Countless enormous structures were layered within it, stretching to the limits of sight. Energy conduits shimmering with every color of light wound around the buildings like the veins of giant dragons, forming a grand, frigid vision of a mechanical Divine Realm.
"This place... it's inside the Moon?" Konan braced herself against the wall, barely managing to stay upright. Her face was full of shock. The legends of the Moon Country had never described anything like this.
"The air is thin, and gravity is only about a third of what it was before." Nagato quickly assessed their surroundings. His face remained pale. "Be careful. The energy flow here is very... orderly. So orderly it feels like a trap."
Sasuke's Rinnegan saw deeper. In his vision, the air was filled with invisible threads of energy, crisscrossing throughout the space and forming