System Space.
Hazy radiance drifted and rippled, raising wavelets as it draped time in a gauze like golden candlelight. Starlight with no source blanketed the entire space, colored like roses steeped for ten million years.
Soul Chains and Black Scale each occupied a corner, their surging black mist forming two utterly different domains.
The war had temporarily ceased, but that did not mean it would not return in the future.
Compared to several days ago, both of their black mists had become more solid to varying degrees.
As members of the Endless Divine Court, after receiving the Lord of the End's blessings, their limits had already been fixed.
If they wished to go any further, the only path was to accept another blessing.
But now, cracks had appeared in those shackles, revealing the splendor on the other shore.
The Chains that had bound them fast had been broken, and the invisible fetters had fallen away.
Soul Chains looked at the last Emperor's Astonishment candy in his hand, his expression deeply conflicted. Its effects were beyond question. Aside from the permanent increase in soul strength from the first time, subsequent consumption also brought a slight improvement.
Beyond that, the temporary boost was equally intoxicating.
Yet what was hard to accept was that the candy's flavor was simply impossible to describe.
It was not entirely unbearable; it merely hovered at the very edge of what one could endure. It was far too intense.
After agonizing over it for a long while, he finally made up his mind.
"Hehehe, Soul Chains, if you're not going to eat it, just give it to me." Black Scale sneered, his surging black mist forming a warped face.
Soul Chains merely shot him a cold glance. Casually grabbing a clump of black mist and crushing it tight,