At this moment, darkness swallowed everything without any sound or sense of direction, and for a brief instant, Night Guardian King Nell felt as if he had been expelled from reality itself.
But then, 'Thud…' His feet touched solid ground, and a dim circular glow briefly illuminated the darkness beneath him as an intricate runic circle spread across the ground like a blooming mechanical flower.
However, the moment the teleportation completed, the circle collapsed instantly as every rune shattered into fragments of dim light before fading completely as if they had never existed.
At the same moment, the dark crystalline shard in Nell's hand began to crumble. The layered spatial inscriptions etched across it flickered one last time before the entire object disintegrated into fine gray dust that scattered into nothingness, leaving no trace.
Nell lowered his hand slowly as his deep blue eyes scanned the darkness around him. His breathing was slightly uneven.
"…That was close."
