But most terrifying of all, the Lord of Nothingness had turned its main target toward the Sun.
"Without light, your hope will be utterly destroyed!" the Lord of Nothingness roared, dozens of its thickest tentacles wrapping directly around the Sun's surface.
As the Energy Core of the Solar System, once the Sun went out, the entire Solar System would fall into deathly silence. The Lord of Nothingness knew this well, so it poured all its malice into this star.
Where the tentacles coiled, black spots began appearing across the Sun's surface. These were not ordinary sunspots, but "wounds" inflicted upon the star by the power of the Void. The Void began seeping into the Sun through those wounds, destroying the star's nuclear fusion reactions.
The black spots rapidly expanded under the erosion of Void power, growing from several thousand kilometers in diameter to tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands... The Sun's light visibly dimmed.
"No... The Sun can't go out..." Countless people on Earth looked up at the sky, watching the star that gave life light and warmth slowly die.
The temperature on the Sun's surface began to drop, and its once-blazing corona dimmed. Its nuclear fusion reactions became unstable under the Void's interference, with some regions ceasing their reactions entirely and becoming "dead zones."
Earth immediately felt the change.
Global temperatures began plunging sharply. Ice sheets from the Arctic and Antarctic started spreading toward the mid-latitudes. The ocean surface began to freeze, first in the waters near the poles, then across temperate seas, until even seawater near the equator began to solidify.
"The temperature has dropped by ten degrees... no, twenty..." Meteorologists stared at the readings on their instruments in horror. "If this continues, Earth will become an ice ball within a week!"
Abnormal auroras appeared in the