[ Host life is in danger ]
[ Legacy Inheritance fatal error detected ]
[ Inheritance Master Protocol activating ]
[ Host is forcefully being pushed deeper into the void ]
Viktor's eyes snapped open.
Black.
Everything was black.
Not darkness—not the absence of light—but 'liquid'. Black liquid stretched endlessly in every direction, smooth as glass, reflecting nothing. It covered the ground beneath him like an infinite mirror, shallow enough that he could see its surface but deep enough that he couldn't see the bottom.
He lurched forward, gasping.
"Haah...!—"
His hands slapped against the liquid, but it didn't splash. Didn't ripple. Just 'existed' there, solid and fluid at the same time, like he was kneeling on frozen water that refused to crack.
"What the—" His voice echoed strangely, distorted, like it was being filtered through layers of silk.
