The domain continued expanding outward, seeping through corridors and floors, passing through the outer walls of the Tower of Erudition and spreading into the night sky. Within a radius of nearly a hundred meters, every source of light was swallowed.
The area around the Tower of Erudition, nearly a hundred meters across, became pure darkness. The only light came from the eyeballs.
Every inch of surface the Guardian looked upon began to grow.
Eyeballs squeezed out from gaps between Stone Slabs and shattered crystal fragments, their pupils turning once before fixing on a direction.
They covered the ground and walls, hanging in rows from the ceiling. Pure-black pupils glimmered with cold light in the absolute darkness.
The entire Main Control Room became a living thing still writhing.
K struggled madly beneath those gazes, his liquid body constantly twisting and contracting as he tried to find even a single uncovered corner.
Every surface his fluid passed over stared back at him. Denser Black Eyeballs began pushing up from within his liquid body as well, their coverage growing ever thicker and squeezing away his ability to flow in liquid form.
A distorted tremor came from K's liquid body. He was making sounds with his liquid form, but they were too hoarse to make out. Whether he was crying for help or cursing, there was no way to tell.
He could neither return to human form nor move as liquid.
The Guardian stood where he was as hundreds of eyeballs turned toward K at once.
K was completely pinned down by the densely packed eyeballs across the liquid's surface. The black fluid lost its mobility, changing from a living puddle into a solid black mass covered in eyeballs.
One pupil after another stopped moving and lost its luster. When the final pupil froze,