Chapter 1831: A castle in infinity
Book 19 - Setting the world on fire
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There stood a castle—no, a fortress—so vast it could be mistaken for a continent floating in an ocean of cosmic golden plasma so pure and powerful that it stood above any form of energy one could find in the Everstrife Empyrean World.
Its twisted spires rose for countless kilometers, its foundations sank into dimensions beyond the reach of common sense, and its very presence warped the reality around it. But it was the walls that truly unsettled those who beheld them.
They were not made of stone or steel, but something far more alien. Solidified negative psychic force pulsed through them, an amalgam of dread, despair, and disciplined malevolence.
The blackness of the walls wasn’t just absence of light; it devoured all color from the surroundings, as if reality itself recoiled from contact. Streams of psychic pressure radiated outward in rolling waves—so dense, so intense, that any ordinary lifeform exposed to it for more than a few minutes would spiral into irreversible madness.
And yet, for those who walked within, it was different.
To them, the waves of dark energy were warm. Nurturing. Invigorating. Like basking under a nourishing sun designed to feed not only the body but the soul.
There was a paradox woven into the very essence of this place: it was terrifying, yet controlled; monstrous, yet precise. The negative psychic power was not wild or chaotic—it was shaped, chained, and governed by a mind of absolute authority. A being who did not simply master darkness, but embodied its order.