"So, where are you lying now?"
"She" asked with a smile in the darkness.
"Don't scare me at a time like this!"
He was, of course, lying inside that indescribably ancient black coffin. Even with Shade's senses, he could not tell whether this was reality or illusion. But if it was real, that meant his body had also become tens of thousands of meters long.
There was no point in comparing sizes in this world. The size of a soul had never depended on the shape of the flesh.
He tried to rise from the coffin, only to find that he could not move at all. The boundless darkness above seemed ready to crush down upon him at any moment. Worse still, he realized he had not replaced the original "occupant" of the coffin. At this moment, he was sharing it with the other being.
He instinctively restrained the urge to glance at the right side, because he knew that whatever had originally been inside the black coffin was still there. The glow of the God's Radiance on his body was even clearer than during the battle just now, and the reason was obvious: the god was right beside him.
Shade lay on his back in the coffin, unable to control his body, but the "corpse" beside him still retained the ability to move. He tried his best to keep his gaze fixed straight upward. Then a skeletal right hand wearing a glowing Gold Bracelet and Gold Rings extended before him of its own accord.
The bone hand lay open before him, then slowly descended until a single palm completely covered Shade's eyes.
A darkness deeper and more serene than darkness itself appeared. Shade could still clearly sense himself lying in the coffin with his eyes covered by a skeletal