When Zein was still drowned in the nostalgic pulsing of the shard, the tinted glass suddenly turned transparent, giving the guide a clear view of the wide space behind it.
"Here, you can see it better this way," Eugene said from the said, hands on a button beside the glass wall. "Well, although you'll be going there shortly."
Inside the room was an apparatus that held the transparent tube where the shard was floating inside it, glowing bright like always. It was connected to various reading devices that Zein couldn't really understand.
But he did understand that the shard was responding to his presence. As if proving his conjecture, the door to the adjacent room was flung open, and an older female researcher spoke with a surprised face.
"The mana wave is fluctuating!" she informed them with a voice filled with urgency, confusion, and joy all mixed into one.
