Corey did not want to admit it, but when he made up his mind to explore the Chained Firmament, he was expecting to see an environment that was either desolate, ruined, dead, horrifying, or otherworldly wrong.
And he could not be blamed for this.
All the times where he was transported to another dimension or a place that was not part of New Earth, he never encountered something normal.
For some strange reason, he always encountered environments that had the touch of an Old One, and since the Chained Firmament was actually a piece of a planet that was most likely here as a result of the Book of Death- an item of an Old One, he expected to see such an environment.
It wouldn't be surprising if the Chained Firmament had become corrupted because of the Book of Death and it became like the Shattered Dimension of the Old Ones or the ruined Virendell.
In fact, if this was what he saw when he got to the top of the Chained Firmament, he would not be caught off-guard at all.
