As he spoke, a stream of soul power flowed from Apocalypse's mind into the Black Panther God's realm.
Apocalypse stirred his soul power slightly.
With a whoosh, the black mist within the Soul Realm rapidly transformed.
In the blink of an eye, an African continent appeared within the Soul Realm, larger and more vibrant than the original.
Lush vegetation flourished, and all manner of African savanna animals appeared here and there, as though it were a real world.
Bast's black eyes lit up at the sight.
She had spent thousands upon thousands of years shaping her Soul Realm, yet it contained only a handful of plants.
She had never imagined Apocalypse could casually create an entire continent, complete with such lifelike animals.
But he was not done. Apocalypse continued pouring in his soul power.
The African continent within the Soul Realm kept growing, extending into the surrounding void.
Mountains, rivers, lakes, towering peaks, rare birds, and exotic beasts appeared.
Apocalypse had originally intended to create an Earth, but then he thought of the strange continent that formed the divine realm of Asgard.
With a thought, he sent the Soul Realm's continent stretching outward in a flat expanse.
Before long, it had become a flat continent a million kilometers long and wide, more than three times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Yet the entire Soul Realm remained gloomy and gray, with little light.
Apocalypse remembered that in the original story, the Ancestral Plane had also been gray and dim when Black Panther entered it.
So it had not been Black Panther's choice. The Soul World simply had almost no light.
Apocalypse smiled faintly. A speck of soul light flew out of his mind and into the Void Gate.
Once inside the Soul Realm, that speck of soul light, no