What fell from the sky was pitch-black mud that bubbled like boiling water. But unlike the Black Mud that had previously drifted through the volcano as tangible despair, filling anyone who carelessly touched it with remnants of lamentation and fear, burning them and finally driving them mad, the Black Mud clustering behind the girl possessed an uncanny vitality.
It easily melted the embryonic universe formed from the powers of Roland and Mara, two manifestations of Humanity's Evil, rapidly spreading and contesting Mara's Principle of Love and Desire bit by bit to reclaim sovereignty.
"Impossible!"
Mara's expression changed at the sight. She could not understand what had happened at all, but now that she had matured, she could obtain whatever knowledge she wanted from the boundless domain. Thus, she soon recognized the nature of the Black Mud opposing her.
Just as Roland's shadows could still be burned by the Flame of Corruption, this manifested Black Mud was particularly effective against space.
It was the soil of creation that nurtured life, the primordial substance of the Sea of Life, the Primordial Chaos capable of differentiation and realizing omnipotence.
Like Imaginary Number Space, this concept could not be perceived, but it undeniably existed. Using it as a foundation, one could even reproduce the ancient legends of earth mother goddesses creating the land, transforming the corroded space into an initial Imaginary Number Space, then rewriting it into the world the user desired to replace the original reality.
The only consolation was that, although this unexpected development was rather humiliating, Mara could still understand its principles.
"This should be the second one's Authority, the Womb of a Hundred Beasts. Sajyou Manaka, why can you control it?"
Slowly descending, the girl whose smile was as warm and radiant as the morning sun gently landed between Mara