The anger of the robed figure was not a sound or a motion; it was a fundamental shift in reality. The air, already charged with the Weaver's chaotic magic, grew heavy, oppressive, and cold. The swirling dust of the figure's form coalesced, no longer a loose, flowing cloud, but a dense, swirling vortex of absolute nothingness, a miniature black hole that consumed the light, the sound, and the very hope from the air around it.It had not come to reclaim its property. It had come to erase its rival.Vorlag, the self-proclaimed god, felt the shift. His triumphant smirk faltered, replaced by a flicker of confusion, then dawning, terrifying realization. The chaotic energy he had been wielding so confidently began to recoil from him, not like a tamed beast, but like a prey animal sensing a superior predator. The power he had absorbed was not his to command; it was simply on loan from the true owner."Mine," a single, dry whisper echoed, not in the air, but in the fabric of existence itself.
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