The instant the Living Tribunal announced the start of the trial, the world around Link vanished.
Wakanda's royal palace, Harley's worried face, Earth's blue arc of light... everything disappeared like an erased pencil drawing, leaving not a trace behind.
He found himself floating in an endless ocean made of light.
This was no dimension he knew, nor was it the Mirror Dimension. There was no up or down, no left or right, no passage of time—only a pure "ocean" composed of countless threads shimmering with faint light.
Where... am I? The Quantum Realm? Or the mental dimension?
Link immediately activated the powers of the four laws in his gauntlet, trying to analyze this place's composition.
The Space Stone could not locate any coordinates, the Time Stone could not sense the flow of time, the Power Stone's energy could not stir so much as a ripple, and the Reality Stone could not create any matter here.
Just then, the Living Tribunal's majestic voice rang out deep within his soul.
"This is the sea of causality."
"Every thread of light that makes up this ocean is a 'fate' you changed with your own hands. Every person you resurrected, every planet you saved, every being you erased left a trace here."
"Your first trial is to endure the full karmic backlash produced by the 'causality' you distorted. If you cannot even bear the consequences of your own actions, what right do you have to define the universe's future?"
The moment his words fell, the entire sea of causality boiled!
Countless threads of light surged toward Link like living things, burrowing into his body and rushing into his soul!
This was neither a physical attack nor an energy blast.
It was a pure, merciless torrent of information and emotion!
Boom—!
Link's mind detonated in