But most terrifying of all, the Lord of Nothingness had made the sun his primary target.
"Without light, your hope will be utterly extinguished!" the Lord of Nothingness roared, wrapping dozens of his thickest tentacles directly around the sun's surface.
The sun was the energy core of the Solar System. If it went out, the entire Solar System would fall into lifeless silence. The Lord of Nothingness knew this well, so he poured all his malice into that star.
Black spots began appearing on the sun's surface wherever the tentacles coiled around it. These were not ordinary sunspots, but "wounds" inflicted on the star's surface by void power. The void began seeping through these wounds into the sun, disrupting its nuclear fusion reactions.
Under the corrosive influence of void power, the black spots expanded rapidly, growing from a few thousand kilometers across to tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands... The sun's light dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"No... the sun can't go out..." Countless people on Earth gazed up at the sky, watching the star that gave life its light and warmth slowly die.
The temperature of the sun's surface began to drop, and its once-blazing corona grew dim. The interference of the void destabilized its nuclear fusion reactions. In some regions, the reactions stopped altogether, creating "dead zones."
Earth felt the change immediately.
Global temperatures began plummeting, and the ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctic began spreading toward the middle latitudes. The oceans began freezing over, first near the poles, then in temperate waters, until even the seas near the equator began to solidify.
"The temperature has dropped ten degrees... no, twenty..." Meteorologists stared in horror at the readings on their instruments. "If this continues, Earth will become a ball of ice within