"Sovereign Subjugation."
The moment Caius spoke, I braced myself for something dramatic—an explosion of energy, a violent surge of mana, something that would shake the ground or distort the air.
But nothing like that happened.
Instead, the world… shifted.
There was no sound to it. No visible transition. One moment I was standing on the wall of his settlement, and the next—
Everything was gone.
Replaced.
I found myself standing in a blank expanse of pure white that stretched endlessly in every direction. There were no walls, no sky, no ground in the conventional sense—just a flat, seamless plane beneath my feet and an endless void above and around me, all of it the same uniform color, with no shadows, no horizon, and no sense of distance.
It felt… wrong.
Not unstable.
But controlled.
