The vast void was pitch-black, its chill piercing to the bone.
There was nothing before their eyes, yet it felt as though a pair of icy hands gripped every living being that looked into this hollow.
Thin powder wound through the darkness, drifting with a soft rustling friction that sent shivers down the spine, like scream after scream echoing through empty space.
An invisible undercurrent surged. Once, a greedy maw had been here, swallowing everything.
There was no light left in this black space. It had vanished, yet the darkness that had originally occupied this place had vanished as well. It was baffling.
Floating before this "gap," Deathstroke tilted his head and took a deep whiff of the cat's head instead of answering directly.
Had its earlier deduction helped the man narrow down the suspects? The answer was: it had, indeed, narrowed them.
Deathstroke himself knew that Concept Entities could visit each other more easily when two different cosmic environments shared a mutually connected concept, or at least without paying too steep a price.
So how many concepts existed in the Marvel Omniverse? How many concepts in the Megaverse were connected to the outside world? All of that was unknown.
Dream of a Thousand Cats was right. The other party was most likely a Concept Entity, and the concept it represented also existed within this universe. But there were simply too many concepts without entities, and the pool of suspects remained terrifyingly vast.
Even Deathstroke, who possessed powerful control over the 40K system, would not dare claim to understand it completely. Much less those intangible Cosmic Concepts that could neither be seen nor touched.
People dreamed, and only then did they become aware of the existence of the concept of dreams. But what about things beyond the scope of human