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Just as Tanya reached, the silver-robed woman was the second to arrive, and the third was Natalya.

Natalya frowned but accepted that she was the slowest of them all. She only had an edge before because Tanya and the silver-robed woman were battling each other. But she wasn't disheartened because it remained to be seen who was the strongest, especially as she had yet to display her full self-learned fusion arts as well as use Iesha's power.

The three of them made their way on the single pathway displayed to them.

They were in a hall that seemed to be decorated with an ancient variety of furniture that seemed to indicate much time had passed, and the ceiling was covered in shining crystals, glossing and casting a blue light onto the atmosphere. As they walked on the obsidian and azure tiles, they came to realize that this place was spatially locked. They couldn't fly here as there was a restriction placed by an invisible formation.