The Astral Void Realm.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Massive, dark clouds of primordial energy churned violently in the sky above.
Kael sat cross-legged on the Monarch's Throne, his eyes closed, his breathing perfectly even despite the chaotic maelstrom of mana around him.
"From the boundless dark, I draw my breath. Through the shattered void, I carve my path. I am the Sovereign of the Abyss, and all laws shall bow before my will..."
He chanted the Mantra of the Void Sovereign. With every syllable, his Transcendent Core pulsed, greedily absorbing the dense ambient mana. A massive vortex of purple-black energy swirled around his body, forming a miniature cyclone.
The ten-square-kilometer expanse began to tremble. The dark nebula above churned violently as Kael's mana surged. He had been stuck at the 98% bottleneck for too long. Now, fueled by the abundant mana he had planted and the intense training within the time-dilated realm, the wall finally shattered.
CRACK! BZZZT!
