The Extra's Rise - Chapter 19: Prelude to Freshman Ball II

... sland, floating neatly between the Northern and Western continents, like an expensive chess piece placed just out of reach of the real world.

Getting off the island, however, was another matter entirely.

The best, fastest, and most ludicrously expensive method was through the warp gates—an intricate network of spatial pathways connecting major cities across the entire world. A marvel of modern technology, making distances meaningless—so long as you had the money to pay for it.