Rather than waiting another day before beginning preparations, both Nesine and Arthur agreed to move immediately. Considering the severity of the matter, they deemed it necessary to have all five Light Faction sovereigns together first. Nesine was to contact the Wood Elf King Gethras and the Beast King Rhonin Aslan, the current reigning king of the Beastlands numerous tribes, and have them convene in Cyelume post-haste. Arthur was responsible for the Dwarven King Bhelen Durnoch, as Nesine was reasonably sure after several years of interaction with the man that he would ignore her attempts to contact him. After all five rulers and two youths were congregated, Nesine would attempt to contact the Dreamwalker, Norani Llahalor.
While the two rulers got to work with their respective parties, Luca remained in the king's study. This way, he could be ready to leave at a moments notice. Arthur had already asked Athrahel to relay to Elizabeth Tudor that the boy was needed for something of extreme urgency. Luca did not expect that to be enough to assuage her worries, but this matter was too important to spread. The two rulers had to coordinate with their three fellow sovereigns very quickly, and they had decided to meet in Cyelume in no more than three hours.
After about two hours, during which time Luca mostly spent asleep on a couch with a dragonling snuggled up to him, King Arthur came to wake him up. "Come on, we need to get going. The last thing I want to hear is that I managed to show up later than old Bhelen." The trio made their way through the Valarian Palace towards one of the most mysterious places in Valour City, the Atlas Pillar.
While it wasn't an unknown location, it was a place that had been seen by very few people in person. The most well-known information about it was that it was very ancient, as the structure was roughly dated as being well over 5000 years old, and that the Royal Court Mage used part of it as their residence. Players, on the other hand, knew enough to astonish most Royal Court Mages. The Atlas Pillar was one of the few intact relics of the Ancient Elf Empire, built during its early years and constantly improved until the eventual fall of the empire. By the time of the empire's fall, it had become so advanced, so powerful, that it had become one with the ley lines of Andor, meaning it had near-infinite power connected to it at all times. One of its most famous recorded events was during another disaster during the Storm Era, where an enormous meteor dropped from the sky. From the official recordings, it was said to be around 5-6km in diameter. In comparison, the asteroid 3200 Phaeton in Earth's solar system is 5.8km in diameter. The impact of such an asteroid could quite literally remove half of Spain, if not more, from the face of the planet. While nobody really knows what the Atlas Pillar was built for originally, or what it was even named, it was given its current name after a gargantuan amount of energy poured through its structure, lighting up its crystal pipe-like exterior veins before cresting the tower's peak.
From the top of the Atlas Pillar, an equally gigantic hand of energy shot forth to catch the enormous meteor. According to the most magically-attuned witness, a former Archmage of Earth who specialized in ley line research, all of the planet's energy seemed to be operating in an attempt to defend itself from the great projectile. As the great hand gradually brought the meteor to a halt above the volcano the Pillar stood within, it appeared to be absorbing the energy of the meteor to replenish what power it expended to catch it and even gained more than it previously had. Once the energy of the meteor had been fully absorbed, the object itself began to be absorbed via the great hand, being converted entirely into pure energy that then flowed through the planet, bringing stability to some of Andor's more minor disasters during the Storm Era.
Within the Atlas Pillar, in one of its numerous stories, most of which had remained sealed despite all efforts, an ancient array that became known as one of the original teleportation arrays was arranged. The legendary Array Sage Zoroaster had cited it as one of his guiding inspirations for space-related arrays. Again bearing an unknown original name, this array was eventually dictated as the Sovereign Teleportation Array, as its connection with Andor's ley lines via the Atlas Tower made it capable of teleportation to anywhere on Andor. However, most of its functions had been lost with the fall of the Ancient Elves, leaving only its bare minimum capabilities. Still, this was enough for four super-downsized versions to be made. Through no small amount of difficulties, the four smaller versions sacrificed their abilities to teleport to any other teleportation array coordinates in exchange for being the only arrays with two-way teleportation with the Sovereign Teleportation Array.
While Luca's natural curiosity began rattling away in his skull, he suppressed it staunchly. Provided that this attempt to prove his outlandish claim of being a time traveller went well, he'd have plenty of time to explore the Atlas Pillar. Another of his interesting experiences during the 30-some in-game years he played through was spending some of the final three years of the Second Andorian War, as it was called, attempting to research the Atlas Pillar in hopes of using some of what they learned to improve their chances of victory. If not for the fact that they'd lost it during the first wave, what they'd discovered was that the Atlas Pillar could have been a key instrument in defending Andor. After all, it was, at least according to both their recorded history and what could be translated of the Ancient Elf Empire's, the only mortal creation capable of harnessing the entire world's power.