Breaking Free at a Cost

Inside the Dark Dimension, boiling Warp Phyrexian Oil spread from its drop point across roughly a third to half of the realm in less than 0.01 seconds, driven by a bomb made from a Planeswalker's Spark.

Countless forms of energy and matter were broken down, absorbed, and reshaped, gradually stabilizing the once-chaotic Wild Magic.

As the largest shattered realm in the Marvel Universe, it had no concept of time, much like the Warp in the Warhammer Universe. Nor did the physical laws of Realspace apply there.

More precisely, it was a dimension governed entirely by supernatural magic.

Its primary energy was dark in nature and could also be called dark matter.

The Dark Dimension had not originally been a single, complete dimension. It had been a jumble of connected pocket dimensions and dimensional fragments.

Dormammu and his sister Umar had been exiled there after committing unforgivable crimes in their original homeland.

The two later joined forces, expanding their territory through constant warfare until countless shattered realms merged into the Dark Dimension as it existed today.

In other words, it was a colossal patchwork realm filled with almost every strange thing imaginable.

Among them were the Mindless Ones, creatures that resembled bizarre humanoid constructs. After Dormammu conquered them, they became inhabitants of the Dark Dimension.

Their red, goggle-like eyes could fire devastating laser beams, while their bodies were immensely strong and highly resistant to both physical and magical attacks.

Now, however, the Warp Phyrexian Oil had Compleated them into something else, and they were slaughtering their former kind.

A vast sea of Warp Phyrexian Oil had formed where those Mindless Ones lived. It spread rapidly, linking the oil nodes scattered throughout the Dark Dimension by the initial explosion until they formed an enormous network.

Whenever creatures of the Dark Dimension tried