Almost during the teleportation itself, everyone had already felt the terrifying heat.
Once the teleportation was complete, aside from a few individuals, everyone else could only cover their eyes first to avoid being blinded by the sudden burst of light.
When they finally came back to their senses, they were even more speechless at what lay before them. A sun filled their vision. Li had not been wrong to tell everyone to prepare fire-element defensive spells, but would fire-element defenses really be of any use against the thing in front of them?
In truth, everyone was standing on a floating platform. Before them was an enormous crimson sphere covered in lava. Even where patches of land were exposed, those lands gave off an incomparably dazzling golden radiance.
No matter how they looked at it, the sphere was far too massive. From what they could see, its area was conservatively estimated to span at least several hundred kilometers, and that did not even account for the distortion caused by the immense distance.
No matter how they looked at it, its temperature was not something defensive magic could solve. At present, the only path to that enormous sun was a rope bridge on the platform. Everyone understood that, having come this far, there was no longer any way back. If they wanted to return through the magic array they had used earlier, they would have to face those terrifying crystal spirits again.
No one dared face those crystal spirits anymore.
Their only path now was to follow the rope bridge to that enormous sun and search for a way onward. As for anywhere else, honestly, apart from the platform they stood on and that enormous sun, there was nothing else in this place.
After casting another round of fire-defense magic, everyone stepped