Somewhere in the Middle Sector—
In a vast location that resembled an enormous cavern buried deep within the bowels of the earth… a place drowned in darkness, illuminated by nothing but several strange plants whose faint glow was weaker than moonlight just before it vanished beyond the horizon… atop a solid stone seat, ancient and unyielding, its surface eaten away by moisture and infested with moss-like organisms clinging stubbornly to its cracks…
A young man slowly opened his eyes.
"Hmmm?"
The young man's eyes were completely black, devoid of whites, yet laced with red veins spreading chaotically across their surface, as if bloody lightning had struck them and left behind frozen scars of power.
That long–black-haired youth, his hair flowing freely down his back, rested his head casually on his right fist. With an unhurried motion, he raised his left hand and gently waved it through the air—
Whoosh
