If one had not experienced it firsthand, no amount of verbal description could truly convey what crystal translocation felt like.
The sensation of one's entire body gradually breaking apart, then being reassembled, was simply too strange.
This time, Velen and the three Draenei exarchs experienced crystal translocation for themselves.
When they found themselves appearing beneath a new Crystal Tower in a beam of light, both Neri and Akama felt uneasy all over, as if they were no longer themselves.
That was hardly surprising.
Within the crystal's beam, every part of their bodies had been broken down into particles, then reconstructed at the other end of the Crystal Tower as though by 3D printing. Anyone experiencing that for the first time would find it chilling.
Only an engineer so devoted to learning as Hataaru, and a knowledgeable, deep-minded sage like Velen, could remain outwardly calm—or even look genuinely intrigued.
"So, we've already arrived in Auchindoun?"
After looking around, Velen asked the Draenei technician guarding the Crystal Tower beside him.
"Yes, this is Auchindoun... Y-you're Prophet Velen!? You actually came to Auchindoun in person!!"
The Draenei technician had merely been answering routinely, but once he recognized the man before him, he was stunned.
As the Path of Balance gradually gained recognition among Auchindoun's soldiers and civilians, the Draenei had finally stopped blindly worshipping Velen. They had also come to realize that this great prophet was not a perfect leader. His appeasement policies had indeed been flawed in certain respects and had brought the Draenei no small amount of trouble.
Even so, the people of Auchindoun had not completely rejected Velen.
The philosophy of the Path of Balance accommodated both Light and Shadow. It did not support the black-and-white binary view, acknowledging that gray existed in the world—after all, black and white made