"Where am I?" Max asked coldly as his newly opened eyes moved through the darkness surrounding him.
He did not panic upon finding himself suspended inside a place without ground or sky. His gaze calmly searched the empty space, while the black mist covering his restored form moved against him with every powerful contraction of the new heart inside his chest.
"I see you are finally awake," the creator of the system said with a soft laugh.
Her voice came from every direction, but Max turned before its final echo disappeared. All the enormous eyes that had watched his transformation remained closed except for one pair hidden far within the darkness.
The silver pupils were surrounded by rings of changing color, though their faint glow revealed nothing of the face behind them. They shifted when Max looked directly at them, surprised that he had discovered their location so easily.
"Where am I?" Max demanded again.
