Knull's Helplessness

Unknown Dimension

Eternity Space

In a rift between dimensions beyond conventional time and space, an endless realm of pure white stretched out.

Its ground lay still as a frozen lake, smooth as a mirror, reflecting the equally pure white sky above.

There was no sound, no wind, no matter. Only eternal, absolute silence and emptiness.

Then that eternal silence broke.

Space warped soundlessly like rippling water, and a dark figure slowly emerged.

He wore menacing armor formed from pure dark energy. Crimson patterns writhed across his chest like living things.

His long, snow-white hair stirred without wind in the motionless space, making his pale face look all the more brooding.

He was the God of Symbiotes, who had parted ways with Xiao Han months ago.

Knull.

He looked around, his scarlet eyes glaring against the pure white world.

He could sense the supreme, impartial laws of the cosmos filling every inch of this place. As an embodiment of darkness, he felt instinctively uncomfortable.

"Eternity."

Knull's low, hoarse voice echoed through the absolute silence, sending ripples across the lake beneath his feet.

"I know you're here. Come out and face me."

No answer came.

Knull frowned slightly. He knew an abstract entity like Eternity would not answer just anyone's summons.

But he had not come to beg. He had come to demand answers.

Without another word, he slowly raised his right hand. Dark energy black enough to swallow stars gathered in his palm.

"If you won't come out," he said, his voice turning cold,

"then I'll just have to... tear your home apart."

Just as his energy was about to erupt, a vast, ethereal voice sounded directly in his mind, as though born from the resonance of a billion universes.

[Why have you come, ancient god of darkness?]

The lake before