Despite that improvement, Stan had deliberately stopped cultivating afterward.
Space rippled around Stan and Camilla, but there was none of the violent distortion that usually accompanied powerful spatial techniques. There was no thunderous explosion, no oppressive fluctuation of energy, and no sensation of being dragged through a turbulent spatial passage. Instead, the surrounding space behaved almost naturally, as though reality itself had briefly become flexible beneath Stan's control. The boundaries of the world seemed to fold inward, overlapping for an instant before reconnecting somewhere else. Stan simply stepped forward, and in the next moment, the unfamiliar environment surrounding them vanished, replaced by the familiar interior of his residence.
