Duke Frexon seemed as if he was about to leap, the ground beneath him cracked as he exerted strength, but it was at that moment that the technique that Rith talked about happened.
Vacuse's purple eye, the right one, throbbed and lit with a brilliant light. And then, as if the eye was a door to a place completely different, darkness began to spill out.
But this darkness was different. In a blink of an eye, it covered the whole hall, and when it settled, everyone was forced into silence.
The screaming, the shouting, all faded away, and the hall took on a look of black and white, as if all the colors in the world had been washed away.
Duke Frexon paused. He raised his head and looked around him, the pincher that grew by the sides of his mouth opened and closed. "Something is wrong."
Everyone still conscious felt it as well. It was as if they'd been dragged into a place that was not their world. Their eyes went wide as an unspeakable feeling of doom settled on them.
