It could be a different dimension, too. I've done my share of traveling, and this place feels different from anywhere else I've been in my world. [Reminds him of his first time at the Temporal Crossroads, but if that place was brimming with volatile mana, then this one here sure feels... stifled.] There's supposed to be portals involved, though. Spontaneous warping on this scale is something even the Great Spirits should be incapable of. [He does know one with the ability to dimension hop, but this is too much, even for Muzet.]

Yeah, if you don't count the part where I saw a strange city first. A voice was whispering about 'becoming perfect', and just when I thought I must be hallucinating, the surroundings changed again into this village. [...Man, hearing himself organizing things out loud is really hammering home how freaky and tiring this ordeal's quickly become. Dipping a hand into his lab coat pocket through habit, he fishes out a smartphone--]