Only a second later, Grey saw the entire world plunge into darkness.
The air in front of them twisted violently, as though reality itself was being wrung like wet cloth. Then, without warning, a massive spatial tear ripped open in the void before them.
Within that jagged crack, something appeared.
A pupil.
A huge, vertical pupil.
It was a sickly yellow, shaped like the slit of some ancient reptile or amphibian, and it radiated a faint greenish-black glow that seemed to corrode the very space around it.
The moment the eye opened,
It looked at Grey.
And everything went wrong.
In that instant, Grey felt as though an endless tide of corrosive substance had been forcefully poured into his body. It wasn't just pain, it was invasion. Something alien, something filthy, something utterly wrong was spreading through his flesh.
His body began to swell unnaturally.
His skin stretched.
Then it tore.
