After merging with this wisp of chaotic power, Vernis returned to the [Dream Pearl].
Within it lay an independent interstitial world where dreams and reality alternated.
At this moment, the gray light gate slowly closed within the fortress's central hall.
The spatial ripples subsided into silence.
Zong Shen stood before the main control console carved from [Eternal Silence Star Marrow].
His gaze swept over the ice crystal guards standing solemnly around him.
The dome of the nearby hall soared high above.
Countless thick energy conduits clung to and intertwined along the walls like the roots of giant trees.
Dim blue and silver-white Rune light flickered between them.
Meanwhile, Ice Soul's consciousness echoed through the structure, gradually transforming into the steady streams of data flowing across the main control console's panel.
"Time to go back."
He murmured softly, lightly tapping the Rune groove on the throne's armrest with a finger.
Chaotic divine power flowed from his fingertips into the control node like a docile stream.
In an instant, the colossal dormant body of [Eternal Frost's Wrath Fortress] seemed to let out a deep hum.
The tens of thousands of antigravity Rune arrays beneath it lit up one by one.
Dark blue energy vortices began spinning faster.
Within the dozens of massive ring-shaped structures at the rear sides—the [Spatial Jump Engine Array]—countless complex streams of spatial coordinate calculations surged like a river of stars.
There was no earth-shattering roar.
The void within dozens of kilometers around the fortress suddenly began collapsing inward and warping.
All light was pulled into strange arcs.
Then, in the next instant, the war fortress—with its enormous base and its overall appearance like a savage mountain forged from steel and magic—vanished along with the warped spatial field around it.
Within a few seconds, they disappeared from where they