As the Dreamplay space contracted, the light where everyone had been standing dimmed, the scenery rapidly faded away, and all around them turned pitch-black. If Mizuki and the distant Ten-Tails Jinchuriki had not been sources of light themselves, and if Sasuke Uchiha and Yukimura's Susanoo, as well as Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzumaki's Sage Mode, had not emitted the glow of energy reactions, they would not have been able to see anything at all...
Of course, there had never been much to see in the void to begin with. Only the turbulent currents of the void, seeming distant yet close in their perceptions, swept past from time to time, leaving them shaken as they constantly searched for a safe place to take shelter.
Fortunately, none of them were frail ordinary people. They could survive in a place like this for a short while.
"Don't let your guard down. Avoid any unknown things you can sense..."
The common sense of the Shinobi World was completely useless here.
The wings behind Mizuki spread wide, wrapping around the others as he shot violently in one direction.
After an unknown amount of time, once they had passed through a terrifying vortex of energy, everything before them suddenly brightened... though it was not truly bright. The Shinobi World was still in the dead of night, and even the moon above was obscured by thick clouds.
Still, compared to the unease brought by the unknown within the void, the material world was far more reassuring.
However...
"Why is there a huge crater here?"
The place where they landed was a bowl-shaped pit hundreds of meters deep. Its bottom was smooth and rounded, utterly unlike anything formed by nature.
"This was probably caused by an enemy's ninjutsu..."
Mizuki gave a dry laugh. He certainly would not tell