After remembering about beast space and Pixy's unexpected revelation, Ace quickly shifted his focus, and his perception changed into the second layer of the World Space Ring!
Ace was astounded when he saw the murky sky, like roiling, corpse-laden fog pressed flat against a horizon of endless dusk.
The ground was a barren, cracked plain of dark soil, stained in faint, ghostly hues, where even the air felt sluggish and oppressive—as if it were weighed down by centuries of silent resentment.
At the very center rose a single towering ghostly tree. Its bark looked like fossilized bones fused into blackened plates, slick and coldly reflective in places.
Long, twisted branches reached skyward like gnarled, skeletal hands, some ending in tattered, translucent leaves that emitted a pale, silvery mist. From its hollow trunk, strands of ethereal mist leaked out in slow spirals, giving the entire tree an unearthly, haunted aura.
