At that moment, Ace's perception plunged inward—guided by the currents of the Darkness Force surging through the newly inscribed mirror glyphs. What emerged before him was a sight that stole even his own breath.
It was an endless expanse of space, vast beyond imagining—like standing on the edge of eternity itself.
Above, an immense, swirling vault of darkness stretched on forever. Yet this darkness was not empty: countless pinpricks of starlight shimmered quietly in its depths, drifting like lonely embers caught in a cosmic tide.
Some glowed a faint violet, others a silvery blue, and deeper still, darker stars pulsed with a forbidden, ancient luster.
Far below, there lay what could only be called the Sea of Darkness. An obsidian-black ocean whose surface neither rippled nor reflected light.
Instead, it shimmered with liquid darkness, occasionally releasing slow, silent waves of shadowy mist that coiled upward, dissolving into the star-filled firmament.
