The light on Night of No Light began as a single firefly's glow.
But in the absolute darkness of the Shadow Domain, that tiny glimmer was more blinding than the sun had been.
"What the hell is going on?"
Water God's voice broke the dead silence.
"Why's that damn dagger glowing now? Guild leader, is your weapon bugged?"
No one paid any attention to his nonsense.
Every eye was fixed on the dagger that should have devoured all light.
Qin Chuan looked down at the weapon in his right hand.
The light was not clinging to its surface. It was seeping from the very heart of the dagger's material.
An aura of law was awakening within it—one utterly opposed to Night of No Light's Divine Authority over Void, one that represented existence and creation.
Qin Chuan tried to suppress it with his Divine Might.
But the light slipped away like oil on water. His Divine Might poured into the dagger as though into a true void, unable to touch the glowing core at all.
"Warning. High-Dimensional Laws in conflict."
Season Star's electronic voice rang out as streams of data raced across her visor.
"Night of No Light's Concept Negation Divine Authority is being reverse-engineered from within by another Divine Authority of equal standing."
Before she finished speaking, the light flared.
No longer a firefly's glow, it became a pillar of pure white light that shot from the dagger's blade and pierced the heavens of the Shadow Domain.
A vast voice, now free of all rot and madness and filled only with pure Divinity and majesty, echoed through the world along that pillar of light.
"Mortal, what do you think you erased?"
Within the pillar, a humanoid outline of pure light was slowly taking shape.
"You erased only my corrupted shell."