Victor finally allowed the timer to tick down as the Void Emperor markings faded.
The domain collapsed and time resumed its natural rhythm.
Victor stood as the timer reached zero.
His consciousness slipped away.
—
The moment Victor's eyes opened back on earth, he immediately could tell that something was wrong.
His vision was inverted.
The world hung upside down.
For a split second, he thought he had woken mid-fall.
Then he realized, he wasn't falling... he was suspended in mid air.
His body was bound at the ankles, strung upside down on some kind of elongated wooden pole. Thick, vine-like restraints coiled around his legs, pulsating faintly with mana.
He twisted slightly and spotted several other figures hung nearby.
Some were humanoid in form but not humans while some were not at all...
