"What do you think the element of Darkness represents?" Odeseus's cold voice rang out, steady and sharp.
He paused only for a moment, his abyssal eyes locking onto Alex's gaze before he continued, "And I don't mean the textbook description. Tell me what Darkness is to you."
Alex took a moment to think before answering. "Darkness, to me, is one of the core aspects of reality, a tree with many branches. It encompasses domains such as death, shadow, and the void, while lesser aspects, including decay, fear, and corruption, also fall under it.
"But in my understanding, while Darkness is very versatile, in its purest nature it is a force of absence, strongest when used to destroy or erase things from reality," Alex said carefully.
"You are not wrong, but your understanding is too narrow."
Odeseus leaned forward, his fingers interlaced, hands resting together in a pose that carried both calm and weight. "The famous phrase, you must have heard it in one form or another,"