Alister took a deep breath and called out to the system. "Open the Rift."
The system processed his command, and moments later, a golden rift materialized before him, glowing radiantly. The air around it hummed with energy as the tear in reality widened.
Without hesitating, Alister stepped through slowly. As he emerged on the other side, he was greeted by a dark and haunting landscape.
Standing on what seemed like the ruined structure of a skyscraper, Alister gazed down at a ruined city that stretched out before him, bathed in the crimson glow of a massive red moon that hung ominously in the sky. Looking at this, Alister's thoughts raced.
'The moon is red?'
'It wasn't that way back at the megacity...'
'... although I had read books back at the academy that suggested when the apocalypse hit, the Earth grew nearly ten times in mass, and other celestial bodies could be seen around it as well...'