The area shrouded by the Angel Level Relic, Darkness Domain, did not merely cause people to fall asleep and be forgotten. This darkness was trying to melt and devour everything around it, until all tangible and intangible things became part of the darkness.
Thus, the earth had turned black, while the trees and wild grass became increasingly strange and twisted. Everything seemed to have acquired the ability to absorb light. Even space itself had been affected by the all-enveloping darkness, becoming somewhat distorted.
It was as though parts of space had been dissolved by darkness, causing distant, disconnected locations to become linked. One wrong step might send someone somewhere unknown.
This distortion had not occurred on a large scale, and space as a whole remained normal. Shade had only become wary because his Core Ling Rune, Spacetime, reacted when he nearly took a wrong step.
If he truly became lost in a place like this, even Shade would likely struggle to find the right path again. After all, he only had the thaumaturgy Sense Time, not the high-ring thaumaturgy Sense Space, known as the nemesis of "getting lost."
The demon Servant of Secrets lurked within the darkness. Around the outskirts of Darkness Domain, these one-eyed, robed demons were spread out rather evenly, held back by the Divine Ritual the Church had set up around the perimeter to prevent them from spreading more darkness outside.
Within the domain, the relic's power also affected Shade's powerful soul perception. Coupled with his limited vision, only five minutes after setting out, he ran headlong into a Servant of Secrets lunging at him from the darkness. Its vision in the dark was exceptionally sharp.
But Shade was fully prepared this time. He fastened the seal onto the Moonbeam Greatsword and faced the enemy with both