Chapter 151: The Dominion of the Void
The world didn’t just go dark; it ceased to exist. One moment, Kenchi was standing on a sunlit street, surrounded by his new, temporary army. The next, he was floating in an endless, silent, and absolute blackness. The ground was gone, the sky was gone, his army of elves was gone.
’What the hell is this?!’ he thought, his professional calm finally shattering. ’An illusion? A barrier? No... it’s something else.’ He couldn’t feel his own power, couldn’t feel the mana in the air. He was completely cut off, a man screaming in a soundproof room.
Then he saw the eyes.
Two pinpricks of purple starlight, burning in the infinite darkness. They were everywhere and nowhere at once.
"Welcome to my house," Nox’s voice echoed, not in his ears, but directly in his mind. The voice was not human; it was the cold, flat pronouncement of a god.
Kenchi spun around, his massive axe held ready, but there was nothing to see, nothing to fight. He was alone with the voice and the eyes.
"This is my kingdom," the voice continued. "My Territory. And in my kingdom, I am the only law."
The purple eyes flared.
Kenchi felt a pressure, an absolute, crushing weight that slammed him down onto an invisible floor. It wasn’t physical; it was a pressure on his very soul, the sheer, undeniable authority of the monarch of this domain. His knees buckled, and he was forced into a kneeling position, his massive axe feeling as heavy as a mountain.
’He’s... he’s rewriting reality,’ Kenchi realized, a spike of genuine, primal fear, something he hadn’t felt in decades, piercing through his composure. ’This isn’t a skill. This is something else.’
Outside the sphere of blackness, Serian, Vexia, Elisa, and Mela watched from the courthouse balcony as the world went mad. The sphere of pure void that Nox had summoned was massive, easily encompassing a five-block radius. The army of Ashen Elves, the shadow hounds, Elder Theron himself—they were all just... gone, consumed by the silent black hole.
"By the All-Mother," Vexia whispered, her analytical mind failing to find any frame of reference for what she was seeing. "He didn’t just trap them. He moved them. He moved an entire section of the city into his own personal dimension."