The message from the tower appeared with its characteristic clean format.
[Please proceed to the designated array center. Place the Primordial Void Heart before you. The merging process will begin upon your readiness.]
Leon read it once, then looked around thinking: what designated place?
His thought stopped completely within the same second.
The arena floor had transformed while he'd been occupied with the reward notifications. A massive black array now covered the entire space—stretching across what must have been several hundred meters of stone floor, filling the arena from wall to wall with intricate geometric patterns and symbols that seemed to absorb the ambient light rather than reflect it.
He stared at it.
