As Ace experienced the Law of Sin, Eva's foot touched the two-hundred-and-fiftieth stair. The instant she stepped onto it, the pressure of the Law of Emptiness vanished.
For the first time since beginning the ascent, the silence within her mind broke, and Eva stopped.
The stair beneath her was black, yet its surface held the faint reflection of countless stars. They glimmered beneath her feet, scattered across an endless distance. There was no sky above, no ground below, and no horizon to separate one from the other.
She had entered a place that seemed to contain all of space, and a strange sensation spread through her perception.
The stars appeared impossibly far away, yet each one also seemed close enough to touch. Distances shifted whenever she tried to measure them. A single step could stretch into an endless journey, while an entire galaxy might fit within the space between two breaths.
Eva's eyes narrowed as she knew this wasn't the Law of Emptiness anymore.
