The two scarlet demonic eyes deep within the void trembled violently.
The purple-black tidal surge across the entire Crystal Boundary Rift did not continue forward. Instead, it hung upside down in midair, eerily frozen in place. The raging thunder dragons around Chen Xiao, originally woven from crimson gold and silver-white, crashed head-on into the deeper rhythms of the dimension—only to have the physical foundation sustaining their blaze forcibly stripped away by a higher-order concept. The violent arcs did not even produce the barest energy-annihilation reaction before being brutally suppressed and reduced to dim sparks.
Dormammu's fury did not take the form of an ordinary energy blast. The colossal mouth of black flame, vast enough to cover several star systems, suddenly snapped shut. In its place spread a deathly silence from the deepest reaches of nothingness.
It was neither darkness nor light.
It was an absolute blankness that erased every color, every substance, even concepts themselves.
Wherever the blankness passed, the roiling purple-black crystal sea neither shattered nor burned. It simply ceased to exist.
"Arrogant creation."
A vast, icy will echoed throughout the entire Causal Fold Zone. No emotion could be heard within it, only the indifference of one who controlled the birth and death of dimensions.
"Within this realm I created, I am cause, and I am effect."
"I erase your traces and deny your birth."
"Return to nothingness."
The blankness came crashing down with unreasonable force.
The remaining platinum arcs over Chen Xiao's body instantly went out. Even the Micro-Dimension within him rippled with nearly dissolving transparent waves beneath the wash of that white light.
Inside his sleeve, the Micro Mirror Dimension that had been carefully protected suddenly shook violently.
Kaecilius was completely sprawled on his knees, all ten fingers digging deeply into the illusory floor tiles. His nails