Carol Lane's words struck like a bolt of lightning, stunning everyone but Dean Bruce.
Dean had already sensed something was off. In fact, from the moment he entered this strange space—when Borus Kendra couldn't harm Ebner Mondo, when the researchers died silently—he had begun to suspect what was going on.
The eerie silence surrounding Ebner Mondo's death only confirmed Dean's suspicions.
This wasn't a physical space!
It was something else entirely. Ebner Mondo had used the power of the Moon God to pull their souls into this realm. That's why, in their perception, they had suddenly left the underground and found themselves in this bizarre place.
After all, what kind of power could transport so many people from deep beneath the earth to an entirely new space in an instant?
And because everyone here existed as soul forms, death came quietly, without a sound, and everything felt so unnatural.