Ren let out a dry breath; this wasn't a lethal trap, just a piece of profoundly ironic historical trivia now.
This simply meant that this specific ruin was chronologically the first.
"This was the first sanctuary we were supposed to discover," he muttered aloud, speaking half to himself. "And it is the absolute last one we managed to breach... We executed the entire sequence backwards."
"Backwards?" Larissa asked, tilting her head.
"The Brain, the other 3 parts of it, absolutely everything else we conquered came chronologically after this. And it turns out, this specific threshold was designed to be the starting line." Ren stared at the now-open doorway, contemplating the ancient knowledge it promised. "We effectively started at the finish line in Light and Shadow and ended at the absolute beginning."
He paused, his mind churning through the implications.
