First came a pitch-black corridor, where they could barely see anything except the faintly glowing black floor beneath their feet.
Then they reached the end, and everything brightened.
It was a world that could be grasped at a glance: enormous floating islands and sky islands above, dense fog below. These two elements formed a unique, vast space.
High in the sky, a sun Giant Cat Lamp floated lazily. Its immense radiance illuminated this enormous space. It seemed to float along a fixed orbit, and directly opposite it, at a distance so far it could not possibly be farther, was a moon Giant Cat Lamp. Together, they formed this space's cycle of sun and moon.
But how did this space distinguish sunrise from sunset? How did it sustain such an ecological cycle?
At its very center stood a Giant Cat Tree as huge as a planet. Its roots resembled massive mountain ranges, plunging tens of thousands of meters beneath the dense fog. They were so colossal that they remained visible even through the fog's concealment.
Its height was beyond description—taller than the starry sky itself.
Its canopy blotted out the sky and sun. Even the planet-sized sun Giant Cat and moon Giant Cat looked like tiny fruits growing upon that tree.
The moon and sun Giant Cats revolved around this immense Giant Cat Tree.
Around the tree, tens of thousands of islands, each roughly the size of Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island, floated in the sky. They were so tiny, like fireflies upon this tree.
Even larger islands hung from the giant tree like fruits.
Not a single witch made a sound.
The sheer visual shock left all the witches stunned. It was like seeing Eileen's Witch Gold reserves, which could be measured in [filling the sea], for the first