The first pale light of dawn appeared on the horizon, its rays piercing the faint morning mist and glinting off the coarse chains that connected the archipelago of floating islands.
RUMBLE—
The massive chains slowly tightened, pulling the individual floating islands together to form one enormous landmass.
At the same time, several Elders with the air of transcendent sages arrived, treading upon the clouds. With a simultaneous wave of their hands, the mountains and rivers across the entire Celestial Lock Floating Island trembled violently. At the island's center, the ground cracked open, and a vast, disc-shaped dueling arena shot up from the earth like a bamboo shoot.
