The black tide spread in silence.
It was not liquid. It was more like a living void, expanding.
Wherever it passed, the gray earth of the Mirror World vanished as though erased, along with its laws and concepts.
Black blotches had consumed more than half the Silver Moon in the sky. The world's light was fading fast, plunging everything into a despairing gloom.
"Brother..."
Mirror's voice sounded in Dawn's mind, faint as a dying breath.
The outline of her body had grown almost invisible. Countless illusory motes of light peeled away from her, only to be swallowed by the darkness in midair.
This world was dying.
And she was this world.
As Dawn supported his sister, he could clearly feel her life ebbing away with the collapse of the world.
There was nowhere left to retreat.
The darkness that embodied Termination had compressed their last foothold to less than ten meters across.
Dawn raised his head and looked through the gloom at the mountain-sized Petrified Eyeball in the distance.
Valak's Soul-Borer Swarm was pouring from it without end.
Anger surged through him again, but he snuffed it out at once.
Useless.
There was no point getting angry at a manifestation of law that knew only how to devour.
He needed a way to break this deadlock.
A way beyond mortal reach.
Flash Shadow.
His Divinity.
It was speed, Kinetic Energy, and devastating power taken to the extreme.
But that was only its surface.
A wild thought flashed through Dawn's mind.
What was speed, at its core?
Distance traveled in a unit of time.
Then what if his speed surpassed time itself?
What if his movement were no longer bound by the concept of a "unit of time"?
Dawn's breath stopped for an instant.
He no longer watched the darkness closing