Have you ever seen bubbles in glass?
The birth of a world was a miracle in itself, and beneath a great miracle, there were always smaller ones.
If most worlds were flawless glass, then this world had developed a tiny bubble as it formed.
Nameless looked at the hexahedral crystal and somehow understood where this space had come from. At the same time, he understood what the crystal was.
It was a Space Crystal containing immense energy. Becoming one with it would be tantamount to taking control of this space.
But not everyone could withstand that energy.
The Metal Crab Nameless had slain was actually the first creature to enter this space. After coming in, it had touched the crystal. The immense energy had swollen its body, but the power was too great for its weak soul or will to bear, and it had gone mad.
Under the Space Crystal's influence, its body had become severely deformed. Its appetite had also changed beyond recognition: instead of eating gold and other metals, it ate only the flesh and blood of its own kind.
It was much like the zombies in certain science-fiction stories that reacted only to humans.
What happened next hardly mattered. Nameless had already guessed the rest; the pile of Metal Crab shells told him everything.
"A Special Space?"
Nameless walked up to the Space Crystal and examined it closely.
Perhaps because the Metal Crab had tainted it, a thread of blood-red light lay beneath its azure surface. The thread flickered fitfully, like a burning flame.
Something was wrong.
Nameless narrowed his eyes and used Analysis on the Space Crystal.
Then, with one hand, he summoned a mass of water from the Dream River out of thin air and covered the crystal with it.
The instant he had seen