For a long moment, silence ruled the Verdantia Life Galaxy as Jacob's words still echoed faintly, dissolving into the pulsing emerald haze that hung in the air.
Yet, there was no response, no stirring, no presence; there was simply nothing.
Even his heightened senses, sharpened to perceive the slightest shift of law or space, returned nothing but a suffocating stillness, nor could his Eyes of Judge pick up any abnormality.
Jacob stood motionless, the flaring spectral flames in his hollow eyes dimming as he scanned the fractured horizon.
Because the Infinity Pendant was working just fine, he didn't retreat immediately and wanted to confront whoever it was who had the power to conceal itself in front of him, not to mention Immortika's cryptic sentence was still haunting his mind.
'So, it was nothing?' His thought betrayed unease, 'Tch. Don't tell me that damn book decided to…'
