The Laws clashed so violently that the entire Mirror Dimension flickered like a faulty lightbulb, flashing between the bizarre ruins of a city and an absurd fairy-tale wonderland.
Doctor Strange's breathing grew ragged. He realized that when it came to rewriting reality, the Magic he took such pride in was no match for the red stone. He was an amateur challenging the master of the craft.
If this continued, the Mirror Dimension would collapse first, and he would be too exhausted to stop Link from taking him down.
No! I have to change tactics!
Resolve flashed in Doctor Strange's eyes. He stopped trying to suppress Link with the rules of the Mirror Dimension and made a far riskier choice.
He formed a seal with both hands and thrust them forward!
"Repent in the darkness!"
A powerful spatial force struck Link. This time, it was not meant to tear him apart, but to push him deeper into the Mirror Dimension—toward the boundary of Chaos that lay cut off from the Reality Dimension and bordered the Dark Dimension!
Link flew backward against his will, passing through countless shards of shattered space. The scene before him darkened and twisted, while an air of decay and despair began to spread around him.
An ominous, fathomless purple began to stain the edges of the world.
"Oh? Can't win, so you're exiling me to another dimension?"
Link raised an eyebrow. Far from panicking, he surveyed his surroundings with interest.
This energy... It feels familiar. Ancient, chaotic, and hungry to devour everything...
Just then, a vast, malicious will seemed to reach him from the end of the universe, its voice sounding directly in his mind.
[An... interesting soul... A new toy... brimming with power and the taste of reality...]
[Come into my embrace, little god... I shall