Surprising the Sect Master

Deep beneath the Lightning Sect's Headquarters, where the endless desert stretched beyond sight and the array created defensive eternal storm raged overhead, Volten sat in absolute stillness.

The chamber was fairly dark, illuminated only by the pulsing arcs of lightning coursing through the underground veins of the sect's leyline formations that managed the power of the storm and all of the power throughout the sect's buildings. 

At the heart of the room stood a single, enigmatic structure—a gate, an archway, a device of some kind—its frame inscribed with runes he had never seen before, radiating an unsettling, but slightly familiar power.

It had been half a year since it was installed by Rlyis and that personal disciple of his that he'd sent away on a series of missions to find his own fighting style.