The global quest's second phase gives each region a countdown to a world-scouring upward pull and explains how sealed stairwell chambers become escape capsules.
Part two begins with Cuba showing thirty minutes. Amayon is going home to wage war on the brother who banished him. Billions of newly present souls and Sheol fire expanded the cast across the entire world.
At each regional zero, every living thing, item, and structure is pulled upward. Crawlers directly beneath an inaccessible stairwell chamber rise with it; when the enclosure contacts the hell portal, its walls teleport away, exposing the stairwell.
Crawlers must strike the stairs during the violent ascent. The operation is fast, imprecise, and still fatal for anyone mispositioned.
A sealed stairwell chamber rising into a red sky portal, walls vanishing as crawlers reach the exposed steps.
Falling Up executes Carl and Prepotente's mass-escape theory worldwide.