"Could that be the thing sensed by the Heavenly Palace?"
The Grand Marshal flew onward, glancing back as he went.
A black mass of "void" energy followed him like a shadow.
It did not resemble some hideous giant beast, nor was it any kind of life-form.
Yet Black Mist shrouded its entire body.
It was almost...
Almost as if it were a will, a purely mental oppression.
"Several months ago, after finally making a long-distance journey through space, I somehow arrived here..."
"I originally thought I could smoothly find the source of the hidden problem with my body..."
"But who would have thought that the moment I arrived, I would be entangled by this thing..."
"And I have a feeling that this mass of 'void' is the thing that sent out the signal to me!"
"Why did it lure me here? Could it be just to kill me?"
"If it only wanted to kill me, then in my current condition, it should be easy as turning over a hand. Why hasn't it made a move?"
As the Grand Marshal pondered, a sudden realization dawned on him.
"Could it be..."
"That it's trying to make me feel fear and despair?"
He still remembered that when he had first been entangled by it, the Grand Marshal had thought he had encountered an enemy.
So he had immediately attacked with overwhelming force.
But after using every method at his disposal, he had discovered that no matter what attack struck the "void," it vanished like a mud cow entering the sea, unable to stir even the slightest ripple.
The Black Mist seemed to carry a trace of corrosive power. When the edge of the "void" brushed against his body, it instantly left behind one corroded wound after another.
"If it wanted to kill me,