Pact of Blood
The Void did not have a horizon.
It was a shifting, claustrophobic expanse of non-Euclidean architecture—a nightmare of floating obsidian monoliths, rivers of liquid starlight, and jagged planes of reality that folded into themselves like origami.
Here, gravity was a suggestion, and the concept of time had long since been shredded into meaningless static.
Vlad stood on a platform of translucent glass, his chest heaving. His armor, once a shimmering, impenetrable barrier of celestial light, was now dull and cracked.