Chapter 56 : Is Finn Really a Ordinary Person?
Bang!
The heavy doors of the church slammed shut, blocking out the cool evening wind. The sound echoed ominously in the cold, hollow hall.
The dim lighting barely illuminated the vast space. The ceiling stretched high, and above, the hollow framework revealed glimpses of the second-floor corridor. Moonlight filtered through the decayed, crumbling roof, casting eerie shadows along the stone walls.
Stepping onto the rotting wooden boards, Finn moved toward the altar. Rows of wooden chairs sat abandoned before the podium, damp and covered in moss. The whole building reeked of decay, forgotten by time, devoid of any trace of life.
Click...
"This place is... weird."
Jimmy Woo hesitated at the back, his gaze darting around. A sudden gust of cold air made him shudder involuntarily, his skin crawling.
He pulled his coat tighter around himself and muttered, "It didn't look this big from the outside. Why does the space feel... expanded?"
"Because the entrance is a portal to another dimension," Wanda Maximoff said, her expression darkening. "It's similar to Doctor Strange's Mirror Dimension."
"That explains why S.W.O.R.D. couldn't find any leads."
Finn nodded in realization. He had noticed the subtle distortion in time the moment they stepped inside. The flow of time within the church was slightly out of sync with the outside world—a detail imperceptible to ordinary people, but clear to someone trained in magic.